  The design of functional seating furniture is a complicated process which
often requires extensive manual design effort and empirical evaluation. We
propose a computational design framework for pose-driven automated generation
of body-supports which are optimized for comfort of sitting. Given a human body
in a specified pose as input, our method computes an approximate pressure
distribution that also takes frictional forces and body torques into
consideration which serves as an objective measure of comfort. Utilizing this
information to find out where the body needs to be supported in order to
maintain comfort of sitting, our algorithm can create a supporting mesh suited
for a person in that specific pose. This is done in an automated fitting
process, using a template model capable of supporting a large variety of
sitting poses. The results can be used directly or can be considered as a
starting point for further interactive design.
