SwarmHaptics - Haptic Display with Swarm Robots

Explore a groundbreaking conference talk introducing SwarmHaptics, a novel haptic display system utilizing swarm robots. Delve into the design space of this innovative technology, which employs small, wheeled robots to apply haptic patterns on various body parts. Discover example scenarios, including remote social touch applications using the Zooids platform. Gain insights from user perception studies examining emotional responses, urgency, and Human-Robot Interaction metrics based on varying robot numbers, force types, frequencies, and amplitudes. Learn about an elicitation study where participants generated haptic patterns for social touch. Understand how these research findings inform the perception and generation of haptic patterns with SwarmHaptics, advancing the field of abstract, ubiquitous robotic interfaces.