Being Part of the Swarm: Experiencing Human-Swarm Interaction with VR and Tangible Robots

A swarm is the coherent behavior that emerges ubiquitously from simple interaction rules between self-organized agents. Understanding swarms is of utmost importance in many disciplines and jobs, but hard to teach due to the elusive nature of the phenomenon, which requires to observe events at different scales (i.e., from different perspectives) and to understand the links between them. In this article, we investigate the potential of combining a...