Key Table / Picture Frame
The Key Table gets a sense of people's emotions from the way they dump their stuff onto it. Much as slamming doors are a crude measure of mental state, so the table uses the transient onsets of a new weight to gauge mood. Reactions to emotional entrances are triggered as mechanised frames swing pictures off centre to warn other inhabitants to tread carefully.
Key Table & Picture Frame are part of the Equator IRC Domestic Experience project. They were conceived by and developed in cooperation with the Interaction Research Studio at the Royal College of Art.
More information at the RCA's Electronic Furniture for the Curious Home page.
