Interacting with flying objects has fueled people's imagination throughout history. Over the
past decade, the Human-Drone Interaction (HDI) community has been working towards …

Quadcopters have been used as hovering encountered-type haptic devices in virtual reality.
We suggest that quadcopters can facilitate rich haptic interactions beyond force feedback by …

Force feedback is said to be the next frontier in virtual reality (VR). Recently, with consumers
pushing forward with untethered VR, researchers turned away from solutions based on …

Drones (micro unmanned aerial vehicles) are becoming more prevalent in applications that
bring them into close human spaces. This is made possible in part by clear drone-to-human …

Providing users with a haptic sensation of the hardness and softness of objects in virtual
reality is an open challenge. While physical props and haptic devices help, their haptic …

Impact events, which generate directional forces with extremely short impulse durations and
large force magnitudes, are prevalent in both virtual reality (VR) games and real-world …

Often Virtual Reality (VR) experiences are limited by the design of standard controllers. This
work aims to liberate a VR developer from these limitations in the physical realm to provide …

This paper presents techniques to display 3D illuminations using Flying Light Specks, FLSs.
Each FLS is a miniature (hundreds of micrometers) sized drone with one or more light …

Haptic information significantly improves human awareness of objects in virtual reality. One
way of presenting this information is via encountered-type haptic feedback. An advantage of …

Today's robotic laboratories for drones are housed in a large room. At times, they are the
size of a warehouse. These spaces are typically equipped with permanent devices to …