Long living chair

  • Authors:
  • Larissa Pschetz;Richard Banks

  • Affiliations:
  • University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, Midlothian , UK;Microsoft Research, Cambridge, UK

  • Venue:
  • CHI '13 Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems
  • Year:
  • 2013

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Abstract

The Long Living Chair is a rocking chair with enhanced memory. It knows the day it was produced and can record how many times it is used over the course of 96 years. Its semi-hidden display and the slow pace it changes suggest that the recorded information should not be accessed frequently. Instead, it is meant to be forgotten and then once in a while accessed to provide a moment of wonder and a sense of relatedness to the object. The project was developed to embody important slow technology concepts.