For the Love of Books: A Furniture Solution for Transient Bibliophiles

The goal of this thesis project was to design a physical object to help young adults relocate a small book collection to a new housing situation. The under- lying investigation deals with books as a vehicle for expressing identity, the influence of digital texts on the book collection, and the physical burden of transporting a collection of physical books. The project’s final form is a leaning structure that supports 3 book display surfaces that hang from a cross bar. It can also be collapsed, the displays worn as backpacks, and the structure easily shouldered between two people

Moving Objects Databases: Issues and Solutions

Consider a database rhar represents information about moving objects and their locafion. For example, fur a database representing rhe location of taxi-cabs a opicai query may be: retrieve the free cabs that are current11 within 1 mile of 33 N. Michigan Ave., Chicago (to pick-up a cusromer). In the mililar): moving objects database applications arise in rhe context qf rhe digiral battlefield, and in the civilian indusrot they arise in rransporration systems. Currently, movingobjecrsdatabaseapplicationsare be-ing developed in an ad hoc fashion. Database Management System (DBMS) technology provides a potential founda-tion upon which to develop these applications. however; DBMS’sare currenrhnorusedforthispurpose. The reason is that there is a &&al set of capabilities that are needed by moving objects database applicarions and are lacking in existing DBMS’s The objective of our Databases for MovlNg Objects (DOMINO)pmject is to buildan envelope containing these capabilities on top ofexisting DBMS’s, In this paper we describe the problems and our proposed so-lutions.