Design Machine Group

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Window Seat Visual Experience with
an Interactive Chair
Design Machine Group Yeonjoo Oh, Doo Young Kwon,
Babak Ziraknejad, Ken Camarata, and Ellen
Yi-Luen Do
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Outline

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

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Introduction

• Interactive Chair How can a rocking chair be
  used to mediate the visual experience of a remote
  location?
• Ordinary persons virtual reality interfacevs.
  HMD (Head-mounted Display), CAVE
• Scenario Architectural scale model (St.
  Ignatius Chapel)

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Related Work

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

CAVE
HMD
Desktop VR
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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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Window Seat
1. Physical Chair/ 2. Handyboard 3. Wall as
Display Device 4. Projector/ 5. Remote Camera

• Chairware Components

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Window Seat

• Two Sensors

Pressure Sensors Variable resistors/ Pan (right
left)
Infrared Sensor Range finder/ Tilt (up down)

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Window Seat

• Movement of Camera Servo Motors

Two attached servo motors at a right angle
Pan (right left) Tilt (up down)

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Window Seat in Action

• Immersion Experience

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Window Seat in Action

• Immersion Experience

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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