Applied Mechanics and Materials Vol. 464

Abstract: Purpose: the purpose of this study was to investigate adventure education activities on life effectiveness in high school student. Method: 69 Tainan high school students in Taiwan as this research subjects. Subjects were divided into experimental group (n=33) and control group (n=36). Experimental group were implemented the exploration educational activities courses for 8 hours within 4 weeks and control group had no received explore educational activities course. After the course, questionnaire of life effectiveness were used to find their difference. Statistics: Data analysis was conducted using the SPSS statistical software for Windows 20.0. Analysis of covariance (ANCOVA) was used as the statistical method at a significance level (α) of .05. Through statistical analysis and comparison, the results were obtained as below: Experimental group has more positive in time management and emotional control than control group. This research proves that through adventure educational activities can improve students life efficiency effectively.

Abstract: The green environmental protection furniture products with local characteristics are increasingly attached attention.Smoked bamboo, a kind of new green material, has the potential to make furniture, and the Huxiang Culture which is rich in human and unique in its own region. The combination of these two can create new furniture. Based on design material of Smoked Bamboo, it researched how to apply Huxiang Culture elements into the design of Smoked Bamboo furniture to create new furniture with flavor of Huxiang regional culture from the three aspects of Xiangxi tujia brocade, Mawangdui lacquer ware and Xiangxi Diaojiao building. This Research in this field can vary the species of furniture products to meet the people's different needs and offer reference for other regional characteristic culture elements applied in furniture design.