Paper Info
Title
Things that hover: interaction with tiny battery-less robots on desktop
Abstract
This paper presents computationally and physically augmented desktop objects - "Things that hover" - that is capable of moving autonomously on desktop, and discusses about technical mechanisms, future possible interaction styles and applications based on this architecture. A goal of the design is to create self-moving robotic modules on top of a flat surface. Integrating lightweight piezoelectric air-blow actuators and contact-less power providing technology from desktop surface, tiny robots can hover and control the direction of movement without any battery, which illustrates that our approach is practically feasible.
Year
DOI
Venue
2011
10.1145/1979742.1979624
CHI Extended Abstracts
Keywords
Field
DocType
flat surface,augmented desktop object,desktop surface,contact-less power,tiny robot,technical mechanism,tiny battery-less robot,robotic module,lightweight piezoelectric air-blow actuators,future possible interaction style,piezo actuator,surface computing
Architecture,Computer science,Surface computing,Interaction Styles,Human–computer interaction,Battery (electricity),Robot,Actuator,Embedded system
Conference
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
2
0.47
17
Authors
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Takashi Miyaki147241.77
Yong Ding2367.29
Behnam Banitalebi3183.01
M. Beigl42034311.09