Design Machine Group

Yeonjoo Oh, Doo Young Kwon, Babak Ziraknejad, Ken Camarata, and Ellen Yi-Luen Do

Window Seat

Visual Experience with an Interactive Chair

Outline

- Introduction - Related Work- Window Seat Design- Demonstration- Discussion

Introduction

Interactive Chair How can a rocking chair be used to mediate the visual experience of a remote location?

Ordinary person’s virtual reality interfacevs. HMD (Head-mounted Display), CAVE

Scenario Architectural scale model (St. Ignatius Chapel)

Related Work

Virtual Reality Navigation - HMD (Head-mounted Display) - CAVE - Desktop VR

HMD CAVE Desktop VR

Related Work

Tangible Media - Bricks - metaDESK & DigitalDesk

metaDESK & DigitalDesk (Newman, W., and Wellner, P.,

1992)

Bricks (Fitzmautice, G., Ishii, H., and Buxton, W., 1995)

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Chairware Components 1. Physical Chair/ 2. Handyboard

3. Wall as Display Device

4. Projector/ 5. Remote Camera

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Two Sensors

Pressure Sensors

Variable resistors/ Pan (right & left)

Infrared Sensor

Range finder/ Tilt (up & down)

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Movement of Camera: Servo Motors

: Two attached servo motors at a right angle

: Pan (right & left) Tilt (up & down)

Window Seat in Action

Immersion Experience

Window Seat in Action

Immersion Experience

Discussion & Future Work

- Simple idea - Explore the potential of creating real

immersion sensation

Future Work - Swiveling chair - Camera position - Remote Location

: molecular space, distant space