This paper outlines a study that investigates spatial language for use in human-robot communication. The scenario studied is a home setting in which the elderly resident has misplaced an object, such as eyeglasses, and the robot will help the resident find the object. We present results from phase I of the study in which we investigate spatial language generated to a human addressee or a robot ...

BACKGROUND Design of school furniture is one of the contributing factors to back pain among pupils. Research has implicated that mismatch between school furniture and body size may be regarded as a causative factor for muculoskeletal disorders amongst pupils. To investigate the fitness between school furniture and pupils this study was designed and implemented in Hamadan City, west of Iran. M...

As increasinglymore companies outsource to Asia, US furniture companies’ supply chains are becoming longer. Tomake their logistics networksmore efficient, companies need to choose the right supply chain model, promote cooperation with their partners in the supply chain, and adopt new technologies to make better decisions and to manage better. Discrete-event simulation models are powerful tools ...

Upholstered furniture intended to provide better sleep and rest, especially furniture for disabled persons, require careful design of elastic spring systems. In the majority of cases, when designing new articles, both furniture designers and manufacturers rely on long-term experience and craftsman’s intuition. On the other hand, the accumulated interdisciplinary knowledge of modern medical labo...

Design and the furniture industry have been evolving a lot, with advancements in lives of human beings. With passage time, has continuously adapted itself to suit needs mass. However, time being, design become competitive order fulfil increasing demands More more people are migrating metro cities like Delhi National Capital Region, Mumbai, Bangalore etc., for better job opportunities. Due lack ...

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...