Floating Companion: Exploring Design Space for Soft Floating Robots in Indoor

This paper presents a design space for soft floating robots (SFRs) in indoor environments, exploring their potential capabilities and proposing a systematic framework for interaction design. The authors conducted an expert-informed study with 12 participants from HCI, Design, and Robotics to develop a ten-dimensional design space, which includes dimensions such as spatial mobility scope, vertical floating mobility, and communication modalities.