In following up to my Smart Furniture Manifesto I decided to do a little research as to what's been done. My criterion for inclusion was to look for pieces of furniture that used environmental information in a deliberately functional way (rather than, say, Dunne and Raby's Placebo Project objects, which intentionally use information in a way that's only marginally useful).
I've come up with (only!?!) two:
Are there any others out there?
[10/27: Found Purdue's Sensing Chair project. Here's a better description.]
Posted by mikek at October 19, 2003 09:36 PM | TrackBackThis might be related:
Dunne & Raby's placebo project, at http://faculty.cua.edu/johnsong/hsct102/DunneRaby/placebo.html
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Posted by: Dan Hill at October 21, 2003 02:16 PM