Project Number
- 305
Title
- sensingChair
Description
- Pressure-sensitive chair for responsive user environments.
Contact
- Hong Z. Tan
Affiliation
- Purdue University
Address
- 1285 Electrical Engineering Building
- West Lafayette, Indiana 47907-1285
- +1.765.494.6416
- +1.765.494.6951 fax
- West Lafayette, Indiana 47907-1285
- hongtan@purdue.edu
WWW
Year
- 2001
Reference
- SIGGRAPH 2001 Conference Abstracts and Applications
Project Details
- "The sensingChair introduces a seat that feels its occupant through a layer of 'artificial skin.'"
- "Pressure sensing in the sensingChair is made possible with a commercially available pressure distribution measurement system. As a new input device, it opens up new opportunities for human-computer interactions." For example, automobile seats can detect if they are occupied and estimate weight and size of occupant for airbag restraint systems.
- The sensingChair is presented in three scenarios:
- 1 - visualization of pressure map
- 2 - sitting posture classification
- 3 - chair-driven computer games controlled by shifting position, weight
Sight
- graphics workstation
Sound
Touch
- sensingChair pressure pad, sensor interpreter
Smell
Taste
Other
Emergence
- 2 - Prototype, Components, Testing
Intent
- 2 - Technique (paradigm, human)
Primary
- 205 - tangible / gesture interface
Secondary
- 104 - machine recogition
Remarks
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