CoMotion bench

Exploring how shape-changing furniture can affect social behaviour

CoMotion is a shape-changing bench designed to explore how shape-changing furniture affects social behaviour and atmospheres in context. Furthermore, the aim of the case has been to explore; how people experience and make sense of shape-changing interfaces, as well as how atmosphere and context affect the experience of shape change.

The bench has been tested in three different contexts, a concert hall, an airport departure lounge, and a shopping mall, gathering insights from more than 100 people.

PROJECT CONTRIBUTORS

Majken Kirkegaard Rasmussen
Sofie Kinch
Erik Grönvall
Marianne Graves Petersen

PAPERS

Majken Kirkegård Rasmussen, Erik Grönvall, Sofie Kinch, Marianne Graves Petersen: It's alive, it's magic, it's in love with you: opportunities, challenges and open questions for actuated interfaces. In: Proceedings of the 25th Australian Computer-Human Interaction Conference: Augmentation, Application, Innovation, Collaboration, pp. 63–72, ACM 2013.

Sofie Kinch, Erik Grönvall, Marianne Graves Petersen, Majken Kirkegaard Rasmussen: Encounters on a shape-changing bench: exploring atmospheres and social behaviour in situ. In: Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Tangible, Embedded and Embodied Interaction, pp. 233–240, ACM 2014.

Erik Grönvall, Sofie Kinch, Marianne Graves Petersen, Majken K Rasmussen: Causing commotion with a shape-changing bench: experiencing shape-changing interfaces in use. In: Proceedings of the 32nd annual ACM conference on Human factors in computing systems, pp. 2559–2568, ACM 2014.