Escaping Chair

Takeshi Oozu, Aki Yamada and Hiroo Iwata / Japan

University of Tsukuba

A furniture-device is the device having a furniture appearance and physical input and output functions. The Escaping Chair is a furniture-device capable of having physical and dynamic interaction with a subject to create self-awareness towards the intent of their actions and personification of the furniture-device. The chair interacts with the bystanders by trying to move away from nearby people. By doing this, the device tries to make a person unable to sit on it, stimulating their perception towards their sitting action, while also making the person consider the Chair's «personality».