2025
Sur-Foam Chair
A foam-sensing sofa that controls the living room by how you sit and touch.
- Role
- Research lead, first author
- Team
- Two
- Timeline
- Jul to Oct 2025
- Tools
- ESP32, capacitive sensing, Excel
Problem
Controlling a smart home still means reaching for a phone or a remote.
Approach
Read posture and touch through the sofa itself, and infer what the room should do.
Outcome
Published at ICADI 2025 (ACM). People needed less attention than with explicit controls.
Nineteen hours of real living rooms showed where control breaks down.
How you sampled and coded the footage, and the interaction model it produced.
Foam that knows six postures and six gestures.
Implicit control worked, and asked for less attention.
94.5%
Mean interaction effectiveness across nine presets
7.8%
Lower attention load than explicit controls (p < 0.05)
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