OBJECTIVE The purpose of this study was to examine the effect of optimal seated positioning in individually fitted furniture versus suboptimal seated positioning in standard classroom furniture on typical 6- and 7-year-old children's object manipulation skills as measured by the In-hand Manipulation Test (IMT). METHOD An experimental research design was used to compare IMT performance of two ...

Students’ residence halls have been studied repeatedly during the last decades from various perspectives (eg satisfaction). However, our knowledge is very limited in terms of students’ emotions towards various residence hall interior and exterior spaces. Besides, very little study exists on the impact of homelike furniture on students’ emotions. The question driving this research is whether the...

This chapter explores the poetics of everyday objects, and their abilities to elicit meaningful interactions. Our focus is on a special kind of everyday objects: a chosen set of “augmented” chairs and tables, especially designed to gently disrupt usually associated emotional / social responses, and shake habitual ways in which people interact with – and through – furniture. We address the physi...

We present MoCoShoP, a system that supports the collaborative process of shopping and planning furniture and interior items. The system consists of a mobile application running on the users' mobile phones and an interactive surface application deployed on shared planning desks in the furniture retail store environment. Users belonging together share a virtual shopping cart. By scanning labels a...

In the era of e-commerce while buying furniture online the customers obviously feel the need for visual representation of the arrangement of their furniture. Even when doing interiors of the house it's difficult to just rely on assumptions about best layouts possible and professional help may become quite expensive. In this project, we make use of Genetic Algorithm (GA) which is an Artificial I...

As part of a project sponsored by the Furniture Manufacturing and Management Center at North Carolina State University, an assessment of the use of CAD/CAM in the furniture industry in North Carolina and neighboring states was undertaken. The woods-based furniture industry, an important component of the North Carolina economy, is a manufacturing intensive activity for which CAD/CAM can provide ...

Web-enabling technologies represent the next generation of design environments to design and manufacture complex systems, such as them characterizing contract furniture. In the context of web applications to facilitate and support teamwork in collaborative product development, the paper presents a CAD-based infrastructure for the 3D visualization of co-designed solutions, the on-line customizat...

In accordance with the fundamental principles and methods of Human-Computer Interaction (HCI), this paper has explored the design process and methods on modeling technique of furniture equipment through studying the computer-aided modeling design of modern furniture products; and builds up a complete set of 2D and 3D sketch design system through demonstrating the transformation of furniture pro...