Ming-style furniture, adhering to the excellent traditional Chinese history and culture, is pinnacle of Chinese-style which vividly embodies cultural essence furniture. However, with current popularity smart home products, there are many obstacles for elderly users use products. Voice interaction one main methods The design strategy voice user interface aging products studied improve experience...

The objective of this project is to extract furniture items from an image which includes multiple furniture items, and then find similar items from the database with the extracted furniture items. The image could be downloaded from online websites or taken using cameras. An android application is developed to process images taken using the phone camera. The processing process can be divided int...

This paper introduces a novel way that allows non-expert users to create smart surroundings. To establish this goal, we have developed a panel type smart material called “u-Texture”, which has a built-in computer and sensors. u-Textures can be connected to each other to form various furniture that support human home activities. The unique point of u-Textures is the self-organizable function, ch...

Falls are one of the major risks for seniors living alone at home. Computer vision systems, which do not require to wear sensors, offer a new and promising solution for fall detection. In this work, an occlusion robust method is presented based on two features: human centroid height relative to the ground and body velocity. Indeed, the first feature is an efficient solution to detect falls as t...

Fine hardwood trees in the Central Hardwoods region of the United States are an important resource for the furniture, cabinetry, flooring, modular home, and paneling manufacturing industries. Consumers find wood from these trees to be very desirable because of quality factors such as grain, strength and color. To enhance wood production, tree improvement programs can address quantity and qualit...

We explore the use of ubiquitous sensing in the home for contextsensitive microlearning. To assess how users would respond to frequent and brief learning interactions tied to context, a sensor-triggered mobile phone application was developed, with foreign language vocabulary as the learning domain. A married couple used the system in a home environment, during the course of everyday activities,...

1 Background With the remarkable and ever increasing technology growth, we need various products and services from different vendors, such as: • Home appliances • Furniture • Mobile • Internet To deliver these products and provide services, representatives from concerned companies visit our place. We somehow need to ascertain if the person visiting is an authentic representative from the concer...

Objectives: In children, ocular trauma occurs disproportionately in the home. The purpose of this study is to evaluate the epidemiology, characteristics, and outcomes of pediatric traumatic Open Globe Injuries (OGI) occurring at home, and to compare the observed final Visual Acuity (VA) to the Ocular Trauma Score (OTS) expected VA. Methods: Retrospective chart review of pediatric (ages 0-19) pa...