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| iChair | ||
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| Author(s): | Diane Chen Chunxi Jiang Min Weng |
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| Instructor: | Schneider, Michael | |
| Class: | Introduction to Physical Computing | |
| Documents: | (JPEG) | |
| Keywords: | humanized chair, iPod, humanized user interface | |
| iChair makes an ordinary act as sitting on a chair into a fun and exciting experience! | ||
| iChair is a project of making two interactive chairs. They interact with people in different ways: The lights inside the chairs will interact with your movement upon the chair, you can control your iPod by touching different parts of the chair, and the two chairs interact with each other. Your experience on the chair may go like this: the lights in the chair go on when you sit down on it, and the brightness of the chair will change according to your movement on it. For example, if you tap hard on the chair, the lights go brighter, and if you tap lighter, the lights will become dimmer. You can also control your iPod by different gestures on the chiar. For example, you play your iPod by leaning on the back of the chair, and you can pause the music by leaning forward. And by sliding your hand up and down the armrests you can control the volume of the music, by tapping on the right side of the chair you forward the music, and by tapping on the left side of the chair you backward the music. Our idea is to humanize something that we use everyday, so all the functions are done through natural body movements. Being able to control the lights and iPod music by a chair would make the plain experience as sitting on a chair into a really fun and exciting thing, and everyone can have a different fun experience on the chair! | ||