“Smiles in Motion”.

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Smiles in Motion is an interactive pieces of furniture designed for augmented relationships between two people.Two chairs link two visitors that enable them to converse with each other in a very special manner.
This construction might be called a “relation apparatus” and is able to transform speech into movement. Speech and sounds produced in the audible spectrum by the two visitors are converted into vibrations, through motors placed in the seats of the chairs. As a visitor is percieving what is spoken in the form of vibrations, he is also shown the mouth of the other visitor on a monitor fixed in a globe.
The visitors “hear” each other through vibrations, synchronised with the images of the movements of their mouths. And so may converse through vibrations and smiles.