This image is a screen shot or production still from the movie Serenity, set in the Joss Whedon Firefly universe. The woman in the chair is the character River Tam (played by actress Summer Glau), and according to this site she’s in the Project Oracle lab at the Alliance Academy in this scene. Because the movie was made on a tight budget, the chair is recycled from the set of the movie Species 2, where it was used to restrain actress Natasha Henstridge playing a mutant named Eve.
Image provenance by Bacchus at Erosblog.