SENSE-SEAT: challenging disruptions in shared workspaces through a sensor-based SEAT

Ehrenberg, Nils; Silva, José Luís; Campos, Pedro

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Authors

Ehrenberg, Nils

Silva, José Luís

Campos, Pedro

Abstract(s)

Creative industries’ workers are becoming more prominent as countries move towards intellectual-based economies. Consequently, the workplace needs to be reconfigured so that creativity and productivity can be better promoted at shared workspaces. We report on a study based on diaries, interviews and probes, with 8 creative industries’ profes sionals at a co-working space, with the goal of understand ing their advantages and disadvantages, and causes for cognitive disruptions. Findings indicate that temperature, noise and coworkers’ requests are the main causes for dis ruptions in the work processes. The insights are used to inform the design process of SENSE-SEAT, a seat with em bedded sensors and tangible actuators, as a contribution to reimagining the role of tangible and embedded interac tion in intelligent furniture. We are currently at a prototyping stage, with 3D prints and 3D renders and we explain the design process and outlining the early results.

Keywords

Tangible interaction Sensor-based furniture Interaction design . Faculdade de Ciências Exatas e da Engenharia

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http://hdl.handle.net/10400.13/4631

Citation

Ehrenberg, N., Silva, J. L., & Campos, P. (2018, March). SENSE-SEAT: challenging disruptions in shared workspaces through a sensor-based SEAT. In Proceedings of the Twelfth International Conference on Tangible, Embedded, and Embodied Interaction (pp. 260-265).