scholarly journals T-able: An Investigation of Habituating Moving Tables at Home

Author(s):  
Jo Herstad ◽  
Trenton W. Schulz ◽  
Diana Saplacan

This paper investigates the philosophical and designerly questions of how the concepts of familiarity, orientation, and habituation can be used to understand a self-moving (semi-autonomous robot) table at home. Tables are familiar habituated objects in domestic settings for people with various abilities. We explore the idea of a self-moving table through the lens of universal design. Phenomenology is applied to get a grip on ways of orienting and being oriented by such habituated familiar objects. Specifically, we investigate how the t-able is used as a telephone table, where the telephone is always charged and in a fixed place on the table. This is an attempt to make the telephone easier to use and relate to at home. The paper aims to inform future robots’ design for the independently living elderly by designing robots mainly from natural materials, such as wood. We also discuss similarities and differences between the universal design of the built environment and ICT environments with this paper.

2018 ◽  
Vol 3 (6) ◽  
pp. 29-38
Author(s):  
Syazwani Abdul Kadir ◽  
Mariam Jamaludin

This paper discusses an on-going research on universal design implementation in public buildings in Putrajaya with the applicability to Malaysian Standards of accessibility. The areas of study include disability and accessibility issues, current accessibility system in Malaysia, Malaysian Standards and universal design implementation in built environment, and the importance of public buildings in Putrajaya. Site observation involving facilities measurement and photographic documentation was conducted in ßve signißcant public buildings in this city. The ßndings of this study may be used as reference to designers and building managements in providing adequate accessible facilities for the buildings’ visitors.   Keywords: persons with disabilities, Malaysian Standards of accessibility, barrier-free/universal design eISSN 2514-751X © 2018. The Authors. Published for AMER ABRA cE-Bs by e-International Publishing House, Ltd., UK. This is an open-access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/). Peer–review under responsibility of AMER (Association of Malaysian Environment-Behaviour Researchers), ABRA (Association of Behavioural Researchers on Asians) and cE-Bs (Centre for Environment-Behaviour Studies), Faculty of Architecture, Planning & Surveying, Universiti Teknologi MARA, Malaysia.


NALARs ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 18 (2) ◽  
pp. 143
Author(s):  
Amar Rizqi Afdholy ◽  
Lisa Dwi Wulandari ◽  
Sri Utami

ABSTRAK. Kota Banjarmasin merupakan kota yang dipengaruhi oleh lingkungan sungai. Keberadaan sungai berperan terhadap pembentukan karakteristik identitas Kota Banjarmasin yang dapat dilihat dari permukiman tepian sungainya. Salah satu permukiman tepian sungai yang masih memiliki unsur kelokalan dan kebudayaan sungai yang kuat, yaitu pada permukiman tepian Delta Pulau Bromo. Lingkungan sungai sangat berpengaruh terhadap kehidupan dan aktivitas masyarakat pada permukiman ini. Aktivitas masyarakat yang banyak dilakukan di sungai membuat masyarakat cenderung membangun hunian atau tempat tinggalnya di tepian sungai, hal ini dilakukan agar memudahkan akses untuk melakukan aktivitas di sungai. Rumah-rumah masyarakat dibangun dengan menyesuaikan dan beradaptasi dengan lingkungannya. Penggunaan jenis struktur, konstruksi dan material pembentuk rumah menjadi pertimbangan dalam membangun rumah. Metode yang dipakai untuk melihat pengaruh lingkungan terhadap bentukan rumah pada permukiman tepian sungai ini memakai metode deskriptif kualitatif. Hasil dari penelitian ini didapati bahwa, konstruksi kayu dengan material alam, serta struktur pondasi panggung atau terapung menjadi pilihan pada rumah tepian sungai untuk merespon lingkungannya. Selain itu terdapat pula elemen penunjang pada rumah, seperti titian, batang, dermaga dan jamban yang menjadi akses penghubung penghuni untuk berinteraksi dengan lingkungan sungai.   Kata kunci: Rumah Tepian Sungai, Lingkungan Sungai, Kota Banjarmasin ABSTRACT. Banjarmasin is the city that has been influenced by the environment of the river. The existence of the river plays a role to establish the identity of Banjarmasin that can be seen from the riverside settlements. One of the places which still have the local-wisdom element and dominant river cultures is Bromo Island Delta. The environment of the river is very influential in the lives and activities of the community in the settlement. The activities at the riverside make the community tend to build a residence on it, and this is done to facilitate access to have an activity on the riverside. The community houses built by adjusting and adapting to its environment. The use of structures, constructions, and material forming of the house is considered in creating them. The method that used to see the influence of the environment to the house in the riverside settlement was a qualitative descriptive method. The result of this research found that the wood construction with natural materials and the structure of the foundation stage or floated are the choice of the river house as a community respond to its environment. Besides, there are also supporting elements at home, such as terrace, logs, piers, and toilet which are being accessed connecting residents to interact with the environment of the river. Keywords: Riverside Settlement House, River Environment, Banjarmasin


Author(s):  
Naomi Katayama ◽  
Mayumi Hirabayashi ◽  
Shoko Kondo

Assuming home care for the elderly, we aimed to create a nursing food that can be created even at home, considering the combination of thickeners and foods, and creating useful data. Therefore, we used two types of thickeners that can purchase at pharmacies and three types of commercially available nursing food that can eat without chewing. Line Spread Test Start Kit (LST) manufactured by SARAYA used for viscosity measurement. The two types of thickeners used this time became more viscous when added to the food. And the viscosity of the food could be maintained over time (this time after 5minutes). However, in the case of foods rich in lipids, the thickener B was able to maintain the viscosity more than the thickener A. It is necessary to select a thickener that is compatible with the raw material ratio of the food.


2013 ◽  
Vol 33 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Aimi Hamraie

<p>Universal Design (UD) is a movement to produce built environments that are accessible to a broad range of human variation. Though UD is often taken for granted as synonymous with the best, most inclusive, forms of disability access, the values, methodologies, and epistemologies that underlie UD require closer scrutiny. This paper uses feminist and disability theories of architecture and geography in order to complicate the concepts of "universal" and "design" and to develop a feminist disability theory of UD wherein design is a <em>material-discursive</em> phenomenon that produces both physical environments and symbolic meaning. Furthermore, the paper examines ways in which to conceive UD as a project of collective access and social sustainability<em>,</em> rather than as a strategy targeted toward individual consumers and marketability. A conception of UD that is informed by a politics of interdependence and collective access would address the multiple intersectional forms of exclusion that inaccessible design produces.</p><p>Keywords: universal design; collective access; interdependence; built environment; feminist theory</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>&nbsp;</p>


1955 ◽  
Vol 7 (4) ◽  
pp. 513-531 ◽  
Author(s):  
W. W. Rostow

This article is an effort to set forth certain major similarities and differences between the societies of the Soviet Union and Communist China as of January 1955.It is evident that the Soviet Union and Communist China have many characteristics in common. They stem mainly from parallel or identical concepts of power and its purposes, internal and external, accepted by the respective top leadership groups. These concepts have been translated into similar methods of societal organization, imposed value standards, and lines of day-to-day policy at home and abroad. Differences between the two countries arise from the nature of the economies controlled by Moscow and Peking; from the length of time the Communist regimes have been established; from certain characteristics of each top leadership group; from elements in the Russian and Chinese cultures that even modern totalitarianism has not wholly erased; and from problems presented by the goal of external expansion that the Soviet Union and Communist China share.


2016 ◽  
Vol 32 (4) ◽  
pp. 456-478 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anni Tamm ◽  
Kairi Kasearu ◽  
Tiia Tulviste ◽  
Gisela Trommsdorff ◽  
Zaratkhan Kh.-M. Saralieva

The study examined cultural similarities and differences in how adolescents deal with conflicting expectations of parents and peers. It was tested to what extent adolescents’ interdependence values and satisfaction with family and friendships predict the way they would solve the disagreement, where they had planned to go out with friends, but their parents wanted them to stay at home to do chores. Moreover, adolescents’ reasons for their reported actions were examined. The sample included 894 Estonian, German, and Russian adolescents ( M age around 15 years). Russian adolescents were more likely than their Estonian and German peers to comply with parents’ requests. This was possibly due to interdependence values being more important for them. Satisfaction with family relationships and friendships was not linked to adolescents’ compliance. Adolescents from all cultures were similar in terms of suggesting self-oriented reasons for noncompliance, while Estonian and German adolescents expressed their need for autonomy more explicitly. Russian adolescents were, however, more oriented to maintaining good relationships with parents and friends, respectively, in their reasons for compliance and noncompliance. They were also less likely to suggest compromise.


2014 ◽  
Vol 1008-1009 ◽  
pp. 1117-1120
Author(s):  
Qian Li ◽  
Wei Pu Xu ◽  
Wen Fei Chen ◽  
Yu Li

According to the current development situation of valve used in domestic cryogenic vessel and the level of product quality, through comparison and analysis similarities and differences of cryogenic vessels with the technical standards in cryogenic property inspection technology at home and abroad, then put forward to the basic requirements and key technical indicators for cryogenic property test aspects of cryogenic vessels with valve, provide suggestions for the establishment of national standard for cryogenic vessels with valves in China.


2014 ◽  
Vol 13 (3) ◽  
pp. 473-483 ◽  
Author(s):  
Karen Seal ◽  
Craig D. Murray ◽  
Lesley Seddon

AbstractObjective:Control over place of death is deemed important, not only in providing a “good death,” but also in offering person-centered palliative care. Despite the wish to die at home being endorsed by many, few achieve it. The present study aimed to explore the reasons why this wish is not fulfilled by examining the stories of ten individuals who lost a loved one to cancer.Method:We adopted a narrative approach, with stories synthesized to create one metastory depicting plot similarities and differences.Results:Stories were divided into four chapters: (1) the cancer diagnosis, (2) the terminal stage and advancement of death, (3) death itself, and (4) reflections on the whole experience. Additionally, several reasons for cessation of home care were uncovered, including the need to consider children's welfare, exhaustion, and admission of the loved one by professionals due to a medical emergency. Some participants described adverse effects as a result of being unable to continue to support their loved one's wish to remain at home.Significance of Results:Reflections upon the accounts are provided with a discussion around potential clinical implications.


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