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I proposed an approach for human swarm interaction in my Master's thesis [1] and published a conference paper based on the research [2]. I wonder if you have come across my work and would like to discuss it if you are interested.

[1] https://mospace.umsystem.edu/xmlui/handle/10355/27879 [2] http://faculty.cs.byu.edu/~mike/mikeg/papers/MOSC/Bashyal_09...

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Your paper is interesting. Can you share a link to a video of your simulator in action? Better, is the code still live? It appears that you allowed the user to switch modes between global commands and "attract/repulse". What modes did the users prefer?

The term "assistive swarming" is intriguing. In future work, we'd like to simulate interacting with an intelligent swarm, perhaps a group of Boids (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boids). Our current work is inspired by micro/nano setups by colleagues here at Rice, and RPI, Drexel, and Harvard -- see the videos page for an overview: http://swarmcontrol.herokuapp.com/videos

Here is the video for radiation source localization problem: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HKofA3ygvPA

And here are two other use cases: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=49rxqItJFeY http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jrq6nq3FLmo

This was all done in Matlab as that was the preferred platform for my lab.

Nice -- the transparent paths are effective for showing the explored area.

Lately I've started sharing code from my papers -- is your code available? Matlab code is easily shared at MatlabCentral: http://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/fileexchange/authors/... (my page).

What research result surprised you the most when doing your user experiments? Can you suggest an experiment you'd like to see at http://swarmcontrol.herokuapp.com ?

Ha, cool work! We're always happy to chat about our research--just hit us up on the linked support email or through my HN profile.

We're trying to get something together in time for ICRA, but we had so much fun fiddling with the sim we almost blew our deadlines. :)

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