[CHI 2020] RoomShift: Room-scale Dynamic Haptics for VR with Furniture-moving Swarm Robots

[CHI 2020] RoomShift: Room-scale Dynamic Haptics for VR with Furniture-moving Swarm Robots Ryo Suzuki, Hooman Hedayati, Clement Zheng, James Bohn, Daniel Szafir, Ellen Yi-Luen Do, Mark D. Gross, Daniel Leithinger Abstract: RoomShift is a room-scale dynamic haptic environment for virtual reality, using a small swarm of robots that can move furniture. RoomShift consists of nine shape-changing robots: Roombas with mechanical scissor lifts. These robots drive beneath a piece of