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[edit] Michael Philetus Weller
me buried in bloxes from the Human Hive
I am a PhD candidate in the CoDe Lab at the Carnegie Mellon School of Architecture. My background in architecture and the philosophy of cognition has led to my interest in the ways that the designed objects that comprise our physical environment shape our society. My research currently focuses on using rapid prototyping, robotics and embedded computation to create artifacts that support novel modes of interaction. I am also interested in hacking open source tools to support design.
[edit] Thesis
I am currently working on my doctoral thesis, with the working title Made of Tiny Robots: Building and Interacting with Robunculi. The proposal document and presentation slides are here:
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2009
- M P Weller, M D Gross and S C Goldstein (2009): Hyperform Specification: Designing and Interacting with Self-reconfiguring Materials, in Journal of Personal and Ubiquitous Computing, Special Issue on Material Computing, Springer. (to appear)
- (includes material previously presented in) M P Weller, M D Gross and S C Goldstein (2009): Hyperform Specification: Designing with Self-reconfiguring Materials. In Workshop on Programmable Reality at Human Factors in Computing (CHI 2009). pp 1-4. pdf
- M P Weller and E Y-L Do (2009): Exploring Architectural Robotics with the Human Hive, in Proceedings of Creativity and Cognition (C&C 2009), ACM. (to appear). pdf
- M P Weller, B T Kirby, H B Brown, M D Gross and S C Goldstein (2009): Design of Prismatic Cube Modules for Convex Corner Traversal in 3D, in Proceedings of Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS 2009), IEEE. (to appear). pdf
- (includes material previously presented in) M P Weller, M E Karagozler, B Kirby, J D Campbell and S C Goldstein (2007): Movement Primitives for an Orthogonal Prismatic Closed-Lattice-Constrained Self-Reconfiguring Module, Workshop on Self-Reconfiguring Modular Robotics at Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS 2007). 1-6. pdf
- M P Weller (2009): Making with Robunculi, to be presented at the Workshop on Architectural Robotics at Ubiquitous Computing (Ubicomp 2009), ACM. (to appear). pdf
- M P Weller, E Y-L Do and M D Gross (2009): State Machines are Child’s Play: Observing children age 9 to 11 playing with Escape Machine, in Proceedings of Interaction Design and Children (IDC 2009), ACM. pp 170-173. pdf
- M P Weller, M D Gross and E Y-L Do (2009): Tangible Sketching in 3D with Posey, in Ext Abstracts of Human Factors in Computing (CHI 2009), ACM. 3193-3198. pdf
- M P Weller, E Y-L Do and M D Gross (2009): An Optocoupled Poseable Ball and Socket Joint for Computationally Enhanced Construction Kits, in Proceedings of Robot Communication and Coordination (RoboComm 2009), IEEE. 1-8. pdf
2008
- M P Weller (2008): Function Follows Narrative: Posey and Quik Blocks, presented at the Design Computing and Cognition (DCC 2008) Doctoral Symposium. 1-6. pdf
- M P Weller, E Y-L Do and M D Gross (2008): Escape Machine: Teaching computational thinking with a tangible state machine game, in Proceedings of the Interaction Design and Children (IDC 2008), ACM. 282-289. pdf
- M P Weller, E Y-L Do and M D Gross (2008): Posey: Instrumenting a Poseable Hub and Strut Toy, Proceedings of Tangible and Embedded Interaction (TEI 2008), ACM. 39-46. pdf
2007
- M E Karagozler, J D Campbell, G K Fedder, S C Goldstein, M P Weller and B W Yoon (2007): Electrostatic Latching for Inter-module Adhesion, Power Transfer, and Communication in Modular Robots, Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS 2007), IEEE. 2779-2786. pdf
- M P Weller and E Y-L Do (2007): Architectural Robotics: A New Paradigm for the Built Environment, Proceedings of Design Sciences & Technology (EuropIA.11), EuropIA. 353-362. pdf
2006
- M E Karagozler, B Kirby, W J Lee, E Marinelli, T C Ng, M P Weller and S C Goldstein (2006): Ultralight Modular Robotic Building Blocks for the Rapid Deployment of Planetary Outposts, presented at RASC-AL 2006, NASA. 1-15. pdf
2004
- M P Weller, E Y-L Do, M D Gross (2004): EspressoCAD: A System to Support the Design of Dynamic Structure Configurations, presented at Generative CAD Systems Symposium (GCADS 2004). 1-14. pdf
2003
- M P Weller, M D Gross, J Nicholls and E Y-L Do (2003): The Junk Mail to Spam Converter, (poster) in Adjunct Proceedings of Ubiquitous Computing (Ubicomp 2003), ACM. 229-230. pdf
- M P Weller (2003): Espresso Blocks: self-configuring building blocks, M.Arch Thesis, University of Washington, Seattle. pdf
