Table and chair will habitually become your best friend. Seating for a long time will affect and depreciate our bodily systems. Especially when we are concentrating on accomplishing our work, we often would drifted into a ‘workaholic state of mind’ and would lose track of the reality time. The prolong work hours and the habit of letting work overpower us will slowly deteriorate our health. However, studies say that having breaks between long hours of office works will help us keep exercise our muscle and reduce potential health risks.
The Keeping Motion, Not Stillness (KMNS) is my first project that involves the integration of a microprocessor technology into an artifact device. It plays around with the theme of time, coding a schedule and creating a product-user interaction. It focuses on behaviour change while seating for a long period for work.
KMNS has developed a smart device that wraps around the chair like a chair cover. It alerts occupier at a programed time and encourage occupier to have breaks in between work hours. It will continuously alarm occupier until certain actions are done. The warning signal feedbacks are disclosed via vibrations and uncomfortable noises. The electronics and its functions are concealed by the friendly character, cute alien character chair cover, thus, creating a surprise with hidden agenda. It is designed to intentionally wrap around the chair as a metaphor that illustrates one is being slowly consumed and controlled by harmful habit just like a creature that is slowly overtaking its territory.
