SensoruInteractive seating

TEAM #3 Chelsea Hunter, Evan McDermott, Katie Gibbs, Ximena Romero, Shannon Berke

SensoruIntroduction

SightHeart Beat sensonrs

Hear t beat sensors will be located on

the arm rest in a way that promotes

placing your hands on them. The sensors

would capture the audience’s collec-

tive hear t rate and would be projected

through the use of light on the ceiling

of the specific show. By using these sen-

sors the lighting could be adapted to

the audiences hear t rate, to better set

the visual mood of the theater. Both the

ambient lighting and the lighting for the

show could be adapted to this technol-

ogy helping to tie the audiences emotion

directly to the show.

Touch-feelMassaging mechanism

Also, by incorporating a massaging mech-

anism like luxury autos are equipped with,

you could jolt the back of an audience

members sea during a key moments in

the show. For example when the Icarus

falls and hits the ground you could jolt

the back of the seats of the audience

members giving them the sensation of

the impact. Another example would

be at the beginning of the show when

the lizard is roaming. The chair could

be manipulated so that the massaging

motors give the sensation of something

being brushed up against the audience

members, making them feel like there

are more creatures around than the ones

they can see on stage.

Touch-feelHeating and cooling

Much like the technology used by many

automotive companies the show would

use heating and cooling elements in the

seats to better convey the atmosphere

of the show, such as in Varekai when the

focus is on Icarus flying too close to the

sun. The seat could be warming and then

cool of as he fell to the jungle floor.

SoundBy incorporating surround sound into the

seating you could control the way the

audience perceives sounds down to the

individual seat in a show, such as Varekia

that takes place in a jungle you could

make members of the audience feel like

there were insects or creatures flying

around them.

SmellBy incorporating smells into the show the

audience can be given a sense that they

have been transpor ted into the place the

show takes place in. For example in a show

like Varekia you can use pressurized scents

through a ducting system that vents around

the theater and releases small amounts at key

moments during the show to give the impres-

sion that people have been transpor ted into a

jungle by using scents like flowers or humidity.

In a show like the Love you could use scents

that will make people feel like they have been

brought back in time and placed at a concer t-

taking place in the sixties.

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