The Team of Bielefeld (ToBI) has been founded in 2009. The RoboCup activities are embedded in a long-term research history towards human-robot interaction with laypersons in regular home environments. The RoboCup@Home competition is an important benchmark and milestone for this goal in terms of robot capabilities as well as the system engineering approach. For RoboCup 2014, we mainly improved a...

House dust mite allergen exposure is a postulated risk factor for allergic sensitization, asthma development, and asthma morbidity; however, practical and effective methods to mitigate these allergens from low-income, urban home environments remain elusive. The purpose of this study was to assess the feasibility and effectiveness of physical interventions to mitigate house dust mite allergens i...

Two studies investigated flexibility in children's use of spatial and categorical clustering strategies in recall. In Study 1, 10-, 12-, 14-, and 16-year-olds and adults recalled the furniture from their home. Ten-year-olds organized furniture categorically, and 16-year-olds and adults organized items spatially. Twelveand 14-year-olds exhibited equal levels of spatial and categorical organizati...

The textile industry is one of the most important consumer goods industries worldwide. Its mostly small and medium-sized enterprises produce textiles for various uses such as clothing, home textiles (such as bed and table linen, kitchen towels and cleaning rags), household textiles (such as curtains, furniture fabrics, textile floor coverings) and technical textiles (such as protective clothing...

Porphyry is a stone material, volcanic in origin, characterised by its development along parallel planes (photo n. ). This characteristic allows for it to be used as a semi-finished product (untreated photo n. ) as well as after “splitting”. Porphyry’s considerable resistance to wear and tear, due to atmospheric agents, is the feature that has consented to its diffusion in street furniture but ...

Fall detection based on images is rated obtrusive and costly. This paper presents an unobtrusive fall detection system, which allows a nearly invisible positioning under furniture and cost-efficient integration and scalability in retirement homes via WLAN. The system classifies events using image analysis and notifies the caregiver if an alarming event occurred. It was successfully tested in a ...

Argos is a large retailer selling furniture, appliances and other household goods. The company has a highly integrated supply chain and uses a multi channel approach for sales. Argos can sell its goods through traditional sales channels (retail shops), online (over the Internet), and through telephone orders. It continues integrating its multi-location physical points of sale with the new chann...

Abstract - Augmented reality (AR) technology has potential to revolutionize the way we interact with and visualize world around us. One area where this great is in field of furniture design home decor. The goal Reality Furniture project develop a platform which allows users virtually preview their own environments using AR technology. Using smartphone or other AR-enabled device, will be able se...