After our trip to Beijing, China to meet and present our research with the PKU student team, it was determined that it would prove to be more beneficial for us all to move forward with a new design aimed at using a kind of tile floor to harvest energy from daily commuters walking. Going into winter break, our UCI team decided to do more research on the different modes of contact for triboelectric generators in tile floor applications. With several scholarly articles acquired, we saw that first hand testing was needed to decide between using contact and release or friction from sliding as the main generating motion. We designed a proof of concept CAD model that would allow us to give rough hand estimates of the possible power production using either kind of motion.