Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for a dynamic user interface for interacting with computer applications by a user physically manipulating interactive floor tiles. The interactive floor tiles may be networked, and may use a communication bus 204 within the network for communicating the connection status of tiles in the network and/or any user input received by one or more tiles in the network. The tile network module may communicate data to a computer via a data collection module. The data collection module may be internal or external to the computer, and may be used to translate data from one communication format to another, for example, from RS485 framework to RS232 framework. The interactive floor tiles may be configured into various shapes at any time by a user, and the changes to the tiles may be mapped to the computer application screen in real-time.

Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for a dynamic user interface for interacting with computer applications by a user physically manipulating interactive floor tiles. The interactive floor tiles may be networked, and may use a communication bus 204 within the network for communicating the connection status of tiles in the network and/or any user input received by one or more tiles in the network. The tile network module may communicate data to a computer via a data collection module. The data collection module may be internal or external to the computer, and may be used to translate data from one communication format to another, for example, from RS485 framework to RS232 framework. The interactive floor tiles may be configured into various shapes at any time by a user, and the changes to the tiles may be mapped to the computer application screen in real-time.

Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatuses, including computer programs encoded on computer-readable media are disclosed, for receiving, from an inertial measurement unit (IMU) the motion information of an interactive digital stress ball device and from the force detection sensors the pressure information exerted on each of the sensors attached on the ball surface. A haptic actuator and a haptic simulator are used to generate haptic feedback. The sensory analog signals are converted to digital signals and feed into the kinematic computation to calculate performance metrics. Sensory data is transmitted wirelessly to other digital entities. The interactive digital stress ball can also receive digital commands through wireless communication for the generation of the haptic feedback. The electronically embedded stress ball is able to track the motion of the hand and wirelessly transmit a set of kinematics that can be used to control computer games and other peripheral devices.