To provide a method of managing movements of a seat 10 with an actuator 24 with tracking means 42 and 44 responding to variable characteristics of a force applied by an actuator 24 and a driving means controlling the actuator into two opposite directions, and which can measure the variable characteristics, evaluate the variable characteristics under a certain evaluation criterion, and take appropriate measures to the seat depending on the results of the evaluation.

The method of managing the movements of the seat 10 comprises a step where the first evaluation criterion is applied to the variable characteristics to which certain measures are taken when an actuator 24 is driven into the first direction and a step where the second evaluation criterion is applied to the variable characteristics to which certain measures are taken when the actuator 24 is driven into the second direction. The first evaluation criterion is different from the second one.