Rotating, tilting, bouncing

Abstract

A typical office worker nowadays spends the majority of his time sedentary in the course of his working life. In this paper, we address the problem of sedentariness in the context of office work through smooth integration of light physical activity into the daily work routine. Equipping a flexible office chair with motion sensing functionality, the chair becomes a ubiquitous input device that provides an office worker with the possibility to use the movements of his body for tilting, rotating, or bouncing to control his workplace computer. Based on this idea, we apply an existing gesture taxonomy to body movements on an active office chair, and explore different application scenarios for ubiquitous gestural chair interaction.

Understanding Walking Meetings: Drivers and Barriers

“…Probst et al [51] pioneered a new concept of working "in-motion" by proposing an 'Active Office Workplace' to support changes in work postures for different tasks. They also proposed a Human Computer Interaction (HCI) based design to promote activity in the office environment through an interactive chair [49]. Similar approaches can be found by Tobiasson et al [64] in their work on physical movement probes for in the office and the work by Choi et al on active workstations [17].…”

Pretty Pelvis

“…Another is the interactive chair that promotes activity in office environments. This chair rotates, tilts, bounces as an input device of the computer [18]. As for the smartphone application, most are designed to break sedentary behavior by simply alerting the users to stretch with stretching images that many users found dull [5,13,19].…”