BACKGROUND This study was carried out to investigate the fit between university student's anthropometry and classroom furniture dimensions. METHOD In this cross-sectional and descriptive-analyzing study conducted in 2012, a total of 194 students (aged 18 through 30 years), were recruited randomly from Tabriz University of Medical Science community. The body size of each student was assessed u...

Abstract In 1981, Furniture and Life magazine commenced publication in the city of Xi'an People’s Republic China. By late 1980s, it had become a well-known furniture home-making magazine, read for its DIY guides, advice columns, home stories. Each issue discussed how to beautify homes turn Chinese Communist Party’s vision ‘socialist material civilization’ into practice lived experience. This ar...

With the improvement of people’s living standard, mass customization production model has been the trend of the furniture industry. A model of furniture product design and assembly for customization is proposed. It can decompose customers’ needs and transform them into homologous modules set in the structure tree. This process will not only save manpower and resources, but also improve enterpri...

Fast visualization of industrial parts for rapid prototyping is nowadays eased by the fact that CAD construction data is readily available in most cases. Upholstery constitutes an important exception as its shape is not given a priori but the result of complex physical interactions between hard bodies, soft cushioning and elastic sheets. In this paper we propose an interactive visualization and...

Tennenhouse [1] coined the term proactive computing where humans get out of the interaction loop and may be serviced specifically according to their needs and current situation. In this paper we propose a framework for proactive guidance which aims to overcome limitations of today’s printed instructions. By attaching computing devices and multiple sensors onto different parts of the assembly th...

this study explores identity elements of tehran province in travel writings with concentration on symbols in urban planning and architecture. on one hand, symbolic representation of a city plays a crucial role in identity making and on the other hand special provinces and cities like tehran are important in echoing contemporary iranian national identity and are highly closed to today’s iran. in...