A cooling or heating seating system creating an open, unbounded, temperature-controlled zone for personnel, said seating system having HVAC equipment for producing and delivering cooled or heated air, a first air outlet disposed in a deck member, a second air outlet disposed in a seat back member, and a first air return disposed in the seat back member between a seat member and a seat back rest. A process executing in a processor generates an effective address for a coprocessor request, invokes the processor’s address translation mechanisms to generate a corresponding real address, and passes this real address is the coprocessor. Moreover, the inventive method comprises at least a step which consists in a switching over the station, automatically or by user control, based on the presence of the station in a fixed site. The pant may also comprise a scratchless security pocket, which is predisposed toward a closed position and thus does not require the use of buttons or the like.