"Eric Aley, Trina Cooper, Ross Graeber, Andruid Kerne, Kyle Overby, and Zachary O. Toups. 2005. Censor chair: exploring censorship and social presence through psychophysiological sensing. In Proceedings of the 13th annual ACM international conference on Multimedia (MULTIMEDIA '05). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 922-929. DOI=10.1145/1101149.1101345 http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1101149.1101345" In this paper, we describe Censor Chair, an art installation that creates a shared experience addressing forms of censorship including self-censorship, censorship of a group upon an individual, visual and auditory censorship in digital media, and censorship in society. We are taking a playful position in considering relationships between censorship and sensors that monitor physiology. Censor Chair makes use of a galvanic skin response (GSR) sensor, live video feeds, and a barcode reader to drive the presentation of a digital media library.

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