Section: New Software and Platforms

Zooids

Participants : Mathieu Le Goc [correspondant] , Lawrence Kim, Ali Parsaei, Jean-Daniel Fekete, Pierre Dragicevic, Sean Follmer.

Zooids are autonomous robots that handle both display and interaction. We distribute them as an open-source open-hardware platform for developing tabletop swarm interfaces [24]. All information, related content and material can be found at http://www.aviz.fr/swarmui.

Figure 3. Zooids can be held as tokens, manipulated collectively or individually, behave as physical pixels, act as handles and controllers, and can move dynamically under machine control. They are building blocks for a new class of user interface we call swarm user interfaces.