RFIDice - Augmenting Tabletop Dice with RFID 

Steve Hinske Institute for Pervasive Computing ETH Zurich, Switzerland +41 44 
632 0768 steve.hinske@inf.ethz.ch 

Marc Langheinrich Institute for Pervasive Computing ETH Zurich, Switzerland 
+41 44 632 0688 marc.langheinrich@inf.ethz.ch 

Augmented dice allow players of tabletop games to have the result of a roll 
be automatically recorded by a computer, e.g., for supporting strategy games. 
We have built a set of three augmented-dice-prototypes based on radio 
frequency identification (RFID) technology, which allows us to build robust, 
cheap, and small augmented dice. Using a corresponding readout infrastructure 
and a sample application, we have evaluated our approach and show its 
advantages over other dice augmentation methods discussed in the literature.