1 Department of Furniture and Decoration Education, Dumlupinar University, 43500 Simav-Kutahya, Turkey. 2 Department of Furniture and Decoration, Giresun University, Giresun Vocational School, 28048, Giresun-Turkey. 3 Department of Furniture and Decoration, Artvin Coruh University, Artvin Vocational School, 08000, Artvin-Turkey. 4 Department of Forest Industrial Engineering, Artvin Coruh Univer...

Rearranging furniture in elementary school classrooms encourages classroom activities. In elementary schools in Indonesia and some other developing countries, usually only one style of furniture is used for all children, and the furniture is heavy and oversized for younger children. This affects their ability to carry it. The objective of this study is to investigate the effects of elementary s...

Classical scrapie is an environmentally transmissible prion disease of sheep and goats. Prions can persist and remain potentially infectious in the environment for many years and thus pose a risk of infecting animals after re-stocking. In vitro studies using serial protein misfolding cyclic amplification (sPMCA) have suggested that objects on a scrapie-affected sheep farm could contribute to di...

In this paper, a modeling method to handle furniture is proposed. In real environment, there is a lot of furniture such as drawer, cabinet and so on. If mobile robots can handle these furniture autonomously, it is expected that multiple daily tasks, for example, storing a small object in a drawer, can be performed by the robots. However, it is a perplexing process to give several pieces of know...

As the design of a workstation can have significant effects on user fatigue, safety and user performance, ensuring that the workstations used in any work systems are agreeable with the principles of anthropometrics have become so important. In this research, a library furniture set (table and chair for student) currently used at a Main Library, St.Maty’s Engineering College, has been evaluated....

We propose an interactive modeling framework to create 3D furniture models with interactive parts from a single image. Given a real furniture image, we first infer the potential structure of the furniture based on the labeled bounding box of each part. Then a novel interaction guided modeling algorithm is employed to make each part to be movable. With the interaction graph and user labeling, ou...

To meet the demand of online collaborative design, a Web-based Collaborative Working Environment (CWE) has been developed. An approach to enhance sustainable furniture design by utilizing the CWE is proposed. In this paper, the CWE framework is briefly presented, which consists of upperware, middleware and resource layers; then three key aspects of sustainable furniture design by utilizing the ...

Expanding on work previously conducted with the Furniture Manufacturing and Management Center, the current project continues the evaluation of how parametric-based 3-D CAD and product data management (PDM) software tools can be utilized better in the furniture industry. The central focus of this work is the development of a demonstration system which uses a parametrically driven 3-D CAD/PDM sys...

Innovation is considered fundamental for the survival and sustainability of furniture manufacturers in Greece and Europe at least. The paper presents a draft summary of the techno-economic analysis of a nonincremental furniture innovation called GSF as an acronym of green and smart furniture. It regards a smart and purely ecological main entrance furniture piece with incorporated intelligent fu...