Abstract
The BotBar has been developed to respond to the significant challenge of integrating smart technologies and sensor loops with industrial robot arms. The process has focused on the robot as an open design platform, utilized as a nexus for education and collaboration between the disciplines of Architecture and Interaction Design. This paper discusses the success and challenges that have emerged from this project, while also documenting an interaction design studio that prototyped sensor-based integrations with the BotBar.
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This research has been supported by the Faculty of Architecture, Design and Planning, and has been developed at DMaF Lab. The authors would like to thank Interaction Design students Duane Allam, Angela Graf and Guilherme de Macedo from “Faces” project; Abhiruchi Chhikara, Qingwei Kong and Yonghan Ji from “Bounce”; as well as Yu Guan, Yan Song and Dan Zhang from “Pubpop”, for their inspiring projects and their participation in this research.
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Niemelä, M. et al. (2016). BotBar: A Platform for Multi-disciplinary Design Education. In: Reinhardt, D., Saunders, R., Burry, J. (eds) Robotic Fabrication in Architecture, Art and Design 2016. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-26378-6_19
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