Dissertations / Theses on the topic 'Children's furniture'

Research shows the importance of a childhood home environment encouraging of creative and imaginative play. I designed a set of children's furniture that, in addition to being play toys, stimulates creativity, interactivity and understanding of design construction. When a child understands how furniture is assembled and is encouraged to be creative in play, he or she gains valuable learning experiences while having fun. Together, a child and adult can easily assemble all the pieces of furniture without any need for tools. Much like a puzzle, the child has fun assembling the furniture while, at the same time, learns valuable lessons of spatial relationships and structural stability. This also leads to an understanding of safety in play. The added element of a portable three-inch LED orb encourages interaction once all pieces are assembled. Abstract design elements were used to stimulate imagination during play. Using basic Gestalt design principles, the furniture series was constructed to not only be structural but to be beautiful in design. The curved abstract shapes encourage the child to take control and imagine the furniture as integral components of their play scene.

In recent years substantial investment has been made to replace or refurbish state schools in England and Wales and, although research has unsuccessfully sought to prove its contribution, the discipline of Design continues to be identified as a facilitator of educational transformation. Results to date, however, are mixed and there is an evident failing at the design briefing stage to understand how children interact with their educational settings and, notably, an avoidance of direct challenge to the primary school classroom and its practice. In response, this thesis asks how the social and cultural study of children’s relationships with their physical school can suggest a meaningful approach to primary school architecture and furniture design. A model of well-being is developed to clarify misused terminology and to present a realistic expectation of design in which the contradictory goals of inclusion and the development of the individual are appraised. Sitting within a diverse grounded methodology, the concept of belonging is then explored as a basis for evaluating the contribution of different aspects of the physical school to children’s well-being. The primary school environments studied were found to limit the possibilities of a child’s well-being. School architecture through to classroom wall displays were complicit in restricting physical and social expression in favour of school organisation and, furthermore, the central child-teacher relationship was found to be unnecessarily devalued by behavioural concerns derived from the setting. By ethically interpreting the rich variety of children’s voices, priorities for what is coined here as child-teacher centred design are established and a clear relationship between architecture and furniture is offered. The thesis recommends that architecture continues to perform a protective classroom role to support objectives of inclusion whilst school furniture supports more affective, individualistic goals through less prescriptive and more varied settings for learning.

TumbleTime is a children's customizable play area that is both fun and educational. Planned to be produced in foam and vinyl fabric, TumbleTime resembles a gymnastic mat. The design is involved geometry that allows children to discover geometric relationships while playing with their furniture. TumbleTime has thousands of configurations demonstrated by 3D computer renderings and animations produced using Autodesk 3ds Max.

Дисертаційне дослідження присвячене проблемі формування середовища для розвитку дітей, яке здатне до трансформації та сприяє соціальнокомунікативному, пізнавальному, мовленнєвому, художньо-естетичному та фізичному розвитку дітей.У дисертації на основі існуючих зразків дитячих меблів розроблено типологію трансформації меблів та обладнання середовища для розвитку дітей; розширено і удосконалено конструктивно-технологічні та художньо-образні особливості трансформації меблів та обладнання середовища для розвитку дітей; обґрунтовано функції, які виконує трансформація у формоутворенні предметного наповнення середовища для розвитку дітей та функції, які виконують меблі-трансформери для гри; запропоновано дефініцію визначень «дитячі меблі» та «меблі, що перевертаються»; запропоновано авторську модель середовища для розвитку дітей з функцією трансформації. Удосконалено спеціалізований матеріал, пов’язаний з формуванням предметного наповнення середовища для розвитку дітей. Підкреслено необхідність використання конструктивно- та художньообразних особливостей трансформації в проєктуванні середовища для розвиткудітей. Удосконалено типову модель створення середовища для розвитку дітей. Диссертационное исследование посвящено проблеме формирования детской развивающей среды, которая может трансформироваться, и способствует социально-коммуникативному, познавательному, речевому, художественно-эстетическому и физическому развитию детей. В диссертации на основе существующих образцов детской мебели разработана типология трансформации мебели и оборудования среды для развития детей; расширены и усовершенствованы конструктивнотехнологические и художественно-образные особенности трансформации мебели и оборудования среды для развития детей; обоснованны функции, которые выполняет трансформация в формообразовании предметного наполнения среды для развития детей и функции, которые выполняет мебельтрансформер для игры; предложено дефиниции определений «детская мебель» и «мебель, которая переворачиваются»; предложена авторская модель среды для развития детей с функцией трансформации. Усовершенствован специализированный материал, связанный с формированием предметного наполнения среды для развития детей. Подчеркнута необходимость использования конструктивно-технологических и художественно-образных особенностей трансформации в проектировании среды для развития детей. Усовершенствована типичная модель создания среды для развития детей. The main scientific problem of the dissertation research is children's development environment formation, which is capable of transformation and promotes socio-communicative, cognitive, speech, artistic, aesthetic and physical children's development. The scientific novelty of the work lies in the complex consideration and analysis of the formation peculiarities of the environment, which is capable of transformation, for children's development. For the first time on the basis of existing samples of children's furniture the typology of transformation of furniture and the equipment of environment for children's development has been developed; the constructive-technological and artistic-figurative features of transformation of furniture and equipment of children's development environment have been expanded and improved; the functions performed by the transformation in the formation of the subject content of children's development environment and the functions performed by the furniture-transformers for playing have been substantiated; the definition of "children's furniture" and "shape-shifting furniture" has been proposed; the author's model of the environment with the function of transformation for children's development has been proposed. Specialized material related to the subject content formation of children's development environment has been improved. The necessity of using constructive-technological and artistic-figurative features of transformation in designing children's development environment has been emphasized. The typical model of creating children's development environment has been improved. Interdisciplinary and system approaches in solving the tasks have become the methodological basis of the work. General scientific (theoretical and empirical) and special research methods have been used in the work. It has been shown that the principle of transformation is fundamental in industrial design modern objects shaping, which is associated with the provision of many important functions of human life. The author offers his own interpretation of the term "children's furniture". It is a set of built-in or mobile elements of interior equipment designed for children corresponding to the age characteristics of the children's organism. The author also offers definitions of "children's development environment" and "shape-shifting furniture". Thus, children's development environment is a set of interconnected objects, people and processes that constantly surround the person, ensuring his or her development. Children's development environment is characterized by integrity, dynamism, multi-vector, socio-cultural mobility, emotional saturation, coordination, etc. Shape-shifting furniture is the transformer furniture in which not the piece of furniture itself is changed, but its consumer properties or the way the observer evaluates these properties. This furniture, when rotated by a certain angle (usually 180 °, rarely 90 °) is perceived as a new object, possibly with a function completely different from the previous one. Taking into consideration the interdisciplinary nature of the research problem and the complexity of the object of study, complex, environmental, historical, cultural and structural-functional approaches have been chosen as the methodological basis of the study. Factors influencing children's development environment formation have been identified: physical, spatial, ergonomic, ecological, aesthetic and age factors. It has been found that the following requirements are set for the formation of children's environment subject content: anthropometric compliance, psycho-emotional compliance and safety. It has been proved that children's environment plays a very important role in the development of child's personality, because it is a playroom, a place where studying of the world begins, and a bedroom. The correct formation of his or her personality, development of abilities and talents often depend on how convenient and comfortable the child is in his room. Children's furniture should be bright, light, mobile, stable, multifunctional, safe. Figurative principles of shaping furniture-transformers for children have been identified and characterized: the principle of nonlinearity, the principle of fractality, the principle of transferring the plastic properties of the material to the object, the principle of "transfer of the situation", tangram principle, bionics principle and origami principle. In the dissertation research the author makes a comparative description of a typical model of children's development environment with a new proposed model, which is endowed with the function of transformation.

As bibliotecas são espaços dinâmicos, centros de aprendizagem e de lazer que necessitam estar em consonância com o público ao qual atendem. Por sua importância relacionada ao desenvolvimento cognitivo, à emancipação em termos de aprendizagem e à cultura e socialização imbricadas a sua essência, as bibliotecas voltadas para o público infantil são o tema da presente pesquisa. Reconhecendo-se que o bom uso da biblioteca está intrinsecamente conectado a aspectos relativos à organização espacial do local e a seus equipamentos, esta pesquisa teve como objetivo compreender como se dá a relação da criança em bibliotecas voltadas para este público, com seu ambiente e com os equipamentos ali presentes, visando extrair da análise destas experiências aspectos que possam servir para projetos futuros relacionados ao tema. Para tanto, foi feita uma pesquisa bibliográfica que buscou compreender como se deu a criação da infância enquanto aspecto cultural e a relevância da criação da Biblioteca Infantil Municipal, atualmente denominada Biblioteca Infantojuvenil Monteiro Lobato, para a cidade de São Paulo na década de 1930. Além disso, discutiu-se a Infoeducação e os aspectos a ela imbricados, que norteiam as análises dos ambientes aqui estudados. Uma compilação dos mobiliários atualmente ofertados pela indústria brasileira pra escolas e bibliotecas e a análise de bibliotecas com espaços infantis que apresentam projetos inovadores para a área também constituem esta pesquisa. Por fim, foram realizados dois estudos de caso de bibliotecas voltadas para o público infantil (uma pública e a outra escolar), coletando dados referentes à atuação de crianças entre seis e nove anos nas mesmas, com a adição da coleta de dados com outros personagens que fazem parte, direta ou indiretamente, da experiência das crianças nestes locais como, por exemplo, os pais e/ou responsáveis, as bibliotecárias e as contadoras de histórias. A análise dos dados coletados e os resultados obtidos com os estudos de caso foram confrontados por meio de uma triangulação dos dados gerados com os aspectos relacionados à Infoeducação e à ofertada da indústria brasileira para os ambientes em questão, permitindo, assim, tecer considerações acerca dos resultados obtidos com esta experiência.
Libraries are dynamic spaces, centers of learning and recreation that need to be in consonance with the public they serve. Because of its importance in relation to cognitive development, emancipation, in terms of learning, culture and socialization imbricated to its essence, children\'s libraries are the subject of this research. Recognizing that the good use of the library is intrinsically connected with aspects related to the spatial organization and to the equipments that belong to these libraries, this research has as its main objective, to understand how kids interact with these libraries and its equipments, aiming to extract from the analysis of these experiences, aspects that may be useful for future projects related to this area of study. To make it possible, a bibliographical research was realized in aiming to understand the creation of the childhood\'s concept, as a cultural aspect and also about the relevance of the creation of the Municipal Children\'s Library (nowadays called Biblioteca Infantojuvenil Monteiro Lobato) to the city of São Paulo in the 1930s. In addition, aspects concerning the essence of the Infoeducation were discussed, which guided the analysis of the spaces studied here. A compilation of the furniture provided by the Brazilian industry for schools and libraries and an analysis of libraries with children\'s spaces that have innovative projects for the areas of design and architecture are also part of this research. Finally, there are two cases of children\'s libraries (a public children library and a school library), collecting data related to the performance of children between six and nine years old, with an addition of data collected with other characters that are directly or indirectly part of the experience of the kids at these places, such as parents and / or guardians, librarians and storytellers. The analysis of the data collected and the results obtained with the cases were confronted using a triangulation of the data generated with the aspects related to the Infoeducation and the furniture offered by the Brazilian industry in general, making it possible to generate considerations about the results obtained with this experience.

Tese de Doutoramento em Design, com a especialização em Design de Produto apresentada na Faculdade de Arquitetura da Universidade de Lisboa para obtenção do grau de Doutor.
Esta investigação em design foca-se no bem-estar da criança e no mundo material envolvente. Tem como objectivos gerais, contribuir para uma melhor adequação do mobiliário à criança, potenciando um aumento do tempo útil de vida do produto e a sustentabilidade; melhorar o ambiente material infantil, tornando-o mais atractivo, saudável e sustentável. E como objectivos específicos, a procura de um conhecimento aprofundado acerca destas matérias, levando-o à prática num projeto de mobiliário doméstico infantil, mais concretamente, de uma cadeira alta para crianças dos 6 meses aos 7 anos, de modo a encontrar soluções mais confortáveis, mais estáveis aos níveis físico e psicológico e que contribuam para o desenvolvimento sustentável; a disponibilização da informação aos profissionais do sector, através de uma disseminação activa. Nesta investigação, foi utilizada uma metodologia mista de base qualitativa, embora com alguns dados quantitativos. Numa 1ª fase, foi feita a contextualização histórico-teórica através de crítica literária e foram conduzidas entrevistas exploratórias a progenitores e crianças. Foi desenvolvido um estudo de casos, com 10 exemplos deste tipo de equipamentos, disponíveis no mercado actual. Foi também realizado um estudo com crianças do ensino pré-escolar, utilizando a cadeira Tripp Trapp® da marca Stokke®, Noruega. Numa 2ª fase, empírica, foram conduzidas entrevistas a especialistas em design, produção, saúde e segurança infantil, bem como uma pesquisa acerca de materiais e tecnologias, recorrendo a contactos com a indústria. Em paralelo, decorreu a 3ª fase, também empírica, essencialmente de projecto e prototipagem de uma cadeira infantil, que se pretende, seja viável em termos produtivos, resolvendo os problemas identificados e apresente baixo impacte ambiental. Ao longo da investigação foi levada a cabo uma disseminação activa, que resultou em vários contributos e em significativa produção científica publicada. Os dois protótipos de cadeira alta infantil e um protótipo de almofada de conforto (para a produção do qual, foi estabelecida uma parceria com a empresa TintexTextiles), foram avaliados por um grupo de amostra de utilizadores directos e indirectos (crianças de várias idades e progenitores) e por um painel de especialistas, de modo a identificar falhas e/ou lacunas, levando a reformulações no projecto, regressando à hipótese ou argumento. Assim foi possível concluir, através de um projecto de design de produto optimizado para crianças, que é possível uma maior adaptação ao crescimento infantil, através de soluções que contribuam para a sustentabilidade. Esta investigação em design deixa também recomendações para futuras investigações.
ABSTRACT: This research project is focused in the child's wellbeing and in the surrounding material world. Its overall objectives are, to contribute to a better adaptation of furniture to the child, leading to an extension of the average lifespan of products and to sustainability; create a better material environment for children, making it more attractive, healthy and sustainable. Its specific goals are, the search for a more profound understanding about this issues, taking it into practice in a project of children's home furniture, more specifically, of a high chair for children aged 6 months up to 7 years, in order to find solutions physically and psychologically more confortable and stable, which can contribute to sustainable development; the provision of information to professionals in this sector, through an active dissemination. In this research it was used a mixed methodology mainly qualitative, although with some quantitative data. In its first phase, a theorical-historical contextualization was made through literary review and exploratory interviews to parents and children were conducted. A case study was developed, with 10 examples of high chair models, available in the current market. A study with pre-school children was also made, with the Tripp Trapp® chair, from Stokke® brand, Norway. In a second and empirical phase, interviews to experts in design, production, health and child's safety were conducted, as well as a research about materials and technologies, using contacts with the industry. Meanwhile, a third phase was being developed, also empirical, essentially consisting of project and prototyping of a children's high chair, which is intended to be feasible in a productive level, solving the identified problems and with low environmental impact. Throughout this investigation, an active dissemination was lead, resulting in several contributions for this research with significant essay writing and publication. The two high chair prototypes and one comfort cushion (made in partnership with the textile company TintexTextiles), were evaluated by a sample group of direct and indirect users (children of several age groups and parents) and by an experts' panel, in order to identify problems and/or gaps, leading to reformulations of the project, also returning to the hypothesis or argument. It was possible to conclude, through an optimized design product for children, that it is possible to achieve a greater adaptation to the child's development, with solutions, which can contribute to sustainability. This research also leaves recommendations for future research.
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In this thesis, the design considerations of a healthy and stimulating bedroom environment for preschool period children are analyzed. In order to build up a multipurpose environment, the development of the preschool children, necessary items of furniture and the related design concepts are discussed. General design criteria are determined to constitute a guide for a children bedroom environment of preschool period. Under the light of these data, a research is conducted to analyze today&rsquo
s children furniture market in Turkey.

Orientador: Antonio Celso Fonseca de Arruda
Dissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Faculdade de Engenharia Mecânica
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Resumo: No transporte, por ambulâncias, as crianças estão expostas a riscos fatais ao serem transportadas em macas de adultos as quais não atendem a antropometria infantil. A situação é agravada ao considerar o fato das ambulâncias se locomoverem em altas velocidades e necessitarem frequentemente reduzi-las de modo abrupto. Neste cenário, buscou-se projetar, construir e testar um protótipo de maca com um sistema de retenção eficaz para transportes emergenciais de crianças. O diferencial do projeto em relação às outras macas infantis, existentes no mercado internacional, está na versatilidade de realizar transportes tanto em ambulâncias quanto em áreas de resgate de difícil acesso veicular. O projeto de maca infantil possibilita atender uma ampla gama de pacientes de pequeno porte desde crianças na faixa etária de 1 (um) ano até 10 (dez) anos de idade. Trata-se de uma maca desenvolvida para rápido manuseio e armazenagem por ser dobrável e de fácil instalação sobre qualquer maca de adulto normatizada pela ABNT. O principal fator de segurança está vinculado ao sistema de retenção regulável, com facilidade de rápida fixação e remoção da criança. Foram realizados testes de impacto, com velocidade aproximada de 18 (dezoito) km/h, utilizando a maca de adulto e a maca infantil. O manequim com massa de 22 kg, representativo de uma criança de 6 (seis) anos de idade, foi instalado nas posições sentado e deitado. Os dados coletados, via um programa computacional Kinovea adequado para análise de biomecânica, permitiram estimar o deslocamento do manequim com grande precisão. Utilizou-se um aplicativo instalado em um celular com sistema operacional Android para registrar as desacelerações ocorridas no momento do impacto. A maca infantil apresentou uma retenção significativamente superior à obtida com a maca de adulto, tanto no deslocamento da cabeça quanto do tronco do manequim. Na posição deitado, o manequim chegou a ser ejetado para fora da maca, o que nunca ocorreu utilizando a maca infantil. Os testes realizados com o protótipo da maca validaram o projeto e a solução construtiva que estão vinculados a uma patente a ser depositada no Brasil
Abstract: In transportation, for ambulances, children are exposed to fatal risks by transported in adult gurneys that are not adapted to child anthropometry. The situation is escalated when considering the fact that the ambulances move up in high speeds and with frequently need to reduce abruptly velocity. In this field, we tried to design, build and test a prototype gurney with an effective restraint system for emergency transport children. The differential of the project regards to other children gurneys that exist in the international market; its versatility to perform both transport in ambulances and possible land rescue. Child gurney enables a wide range of small patients from children with one (1) until ten (10) years old, designed for fast handling and storage by be foldable and easy to install on any adult gurney standardized by ABNT. The main safety factor is linked to the adjustable retention system with facility for rapid attachment and the child's removal. Impact tests were performed, with an approximate speed of 18 (twenty) km / h, using the adult gurney and child gurney. The dummy with mass 22 kg, representing a child with 6 (six) years old, was installed in sitting and lying positions. Data collected via a computer program Kinovea suitable for biomechanical analysis, allowed to estimate displacement of the dummy with great precision. It was used a smartphone based on Android operational system to register decelerations occurred on impact. Child gurney had a higher retention regarding to adult gurney both the displacement of the head when the dummy torso restraint. In two teste with lying position, the dummy was ejected out of the gurney, fact that had never happened with child gurney. Tests conducted with the prototype gurney validated the project and the constructive solution that are bind to a patent to will be implanted in Brazil
Mestrado
Materiais e Processos de Fabricação
Mestre em Engenharia Mecânica

碩士
國立臺北教育大學
數位科技設計學系(含玩具與遊戲設計碩士班)
100
In the children's world, be happy to learn and grow is very important, the process of cooperation obtained from the recognition and encouragement, and cooperation among young children is learning democracy, a good opportunity to construct knowledge. However, the facilities used by preschool children, most of the parents, principal or director of the kindergarten as a purchase, the child does not have the right to decide how to provide children an innovative combination of educational toys and because they can become a part of the environment and facilities , so that young children by supporting and teaching toys, games and learning the concept of space and enhance children's creativity, rather the necessity to study this subject. Research methods and processes, mainly the first children's behavior by observation and interviews with stakeholders, the sum to the user, the relationship between the environment and products, do analysis and review of its results, in-depth understanding of the object used as a specific combination of furniture missing, in order to improve early childhood furniture design. The final stage, the application of the design finished teaching a combination of furniture, child care operation showed young children, teachers and parents, acceptance comparatively good.

碩士
國立交通大學
管理學院管理科學學程
100
With the continuously developing of Taiwan economy and living standard, the national income has also improved. However, birth rate is reduced as well. Therefore, parents would like to make more investment in children, including children's furniture products. As the market share changes, the seller wants to find out about consumer's real demand to use as an important indicator for R&D expenditure, and make different promotion methods to attract customers. The research is based on the demand of children's furniture to understand the relationship among demographic parameters, children's furniture products, promotion methods, and influence on purchase intention. Sample data were collected from general consumers of Taiwan and were analyzed by the SPSS softwae. The results are as follows: 1.Demographic parameters positively affect the demand of children furniture products. 2.Product attributes positively affect the purchase of children furniture. 3.Different promotion methods used by marketing in different children furniture products positively impact on purchase intention.

碩士
國立雲林科技大學
創意生活設計系碩士班
101
Under the trend of pregnancy at advanced maternal age and low birth rate, the modern parents are willing to pay more attention and money on raising children. It makes them become a consumption group which should not be underestimated. Children grow fast mentally and physically, which makes children furniture unusable soon and causes crowded space in the house. Most predecessors of the children furniture brands in Taiwan were operated by original equipment manufacturing. The brands were not built until these years, but they are still limited to goods sales without multidimensional operation plans. However, their development of service innovation still has high plasticity. The purposes of this study are to discuss consumer’s needs of services from children furniture businesses via consumer service decision processes, to find out consumers’ expectations and observe the services provided by children furniture businesses simultaneously via consumer questionnaires, and finally to conclude strategies for service innovation verified via expert questionnaires, making the services from the children furniture industry more diverse and multidimensional and thereby building the market segmentation. The study results showed that: (1) “Information service” is what the most needed to customers in the process of buying and using child furniture, as well as what the most deficient to businesses, becoming the biggest service gap, (2) Child furniture businesses currently keep operating with the basic consumption process service model and extremely lack innovative and systematic service plans, (3) To draw up different strategies for service innovation according to consumer decision processes would more easily be accepted, (4) “Virtual technology service” is a common consensus between the industrial and academic circles, and (5) The biggest cognitive difference the industrial and academic circles have is the dimension “new customer surface.”

碩士
國立臺北科技大學
創新設計研究所
97
The purpose of this study is to find the current situations and bottlenecks of children''s furniture industry,and propose a solution for the bottlenecks.This study want to bring the concept of play to children''s furniture industry,then design the children''s furniture with playing. Initial stage of the study, we investigate and analyze the existing children''s furniture merchandise and discover that there are few children''s furniture with playing, our country especially. Design in our contry toward two stytle:one is emphasize the function,another is story stytle,it is not innovation.So we pick the design elements of play,list the four design criteria and three design direction for playing by analysising children’s playing behavior from the literature. Second,we also analysis the color, the material,and the shape from the existing children''s furniture merchandise.Then it can be the reference and advice for the following design. Finally, according to the design elements of play, three design direction for playing,and their physical and mental development,we design children''s furniture with playing.The children''s furniture with playing will increase the opportunity to learn and to play at home,and promote their physical and mental development. The results of this study also give reference to children furniture designer.