• Journal of rehabilitation welfare engineering & assistive technology
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• v.11 no.3
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• pp.223-229
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• 2017

This study analyzed any accidents occurred by agricultural machines and comprehended the safety for trends in the current research. The researches pertaining to the safety for agricultural machines are identified by two different methods: scrutinizing the statistical data for accidents and suggesting solutions to ways of an investigation. Other researches related to investigations for the accidents by agricultural machines are planned on the national level and the broad terms of an accident of agricultural activities. The studies are conducted for the prevention and control of accidents about the requirement analysis as well as administrative, educational and financial policy in accordance with the different kinds of the agricultural machines. In addition, for the better responses to injuries caused by the agricultural machines, more researches about the function and ability of elders are much needed.

• Journal of the Korea Safety Management & Science
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• v.19 no.1
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• pp.103-114
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• 2017

The objective of this study is to analyze the needs and determine the requirements of elder drivers for effectively using In-vehicle Information System (IVIS), by reducing cognitive and physical impact on this vulnerable group. The persona method was used to determine the relevant characteristics of older drivers. Task analysis was performed in order to obtain general interaction problems of the personas when using a common function of recent days IVIS. The results were classified in the different usability goals as general requirements, specific needs. This study suggest improvement directions in order to develop an elderly friendly IVIS; in addition, different usability metrics were suggested. In this way, elder drivers would easily interact with new powerful functions supplied by IVIS of modern cars; while improving safety and comfort of an rapidly aging society.

• Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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• 2009.04a
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• pp.200-203
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• 2009

최근 전 세계적으로 노인 인구가 차지하는 비중이 갈수록 증가하고 있어 세계적으로 고령화는 미래에 우리가 직면하게 될 가장 큰 사회적인 문제로 대두되고 있다. 고령화 사회에 삶의 질을 향상하기 위해서는 고령자가 주체가 되어 생활환경의 설계를 위한 실버 운용 시스템의 구조적 변화의 방향성을 제시 할 필요가 있다. 이 과정에서 요구되는 사회적 커뮤니티는 실버세대에게 자신감과 즐거움을 제공하고, 삶의 질을 높이는데 중요한 역할을 할 것이며 기능성 게임 콘텐츠는 실버세대의 커뮤니티에 중요한 역할을 할 것이다. 본 논문에서는 실버 세대의 여가 활용과 건강 유지를 위해 조작이 용이한 인터페이스 기술을 이용한 기능성 게임 콘텐츠인 두더지 밟기 게임을 제안한다. 제안 방법은 단순한 UI와 무선 인터페이스 기술을 활용함으로써 게임 조작의 용이성을 확보할 수 있고 근력강화, 균형성 및 유연성 기능과 더불어 재미와 흥미를 유발할 수 있도록 하였다.

• Science of Emotion and Sensibility
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• v.13 no.2
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• pp.347-358
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• 2010

As life gets richer along with social development, the interest in composure of life and in quality of life gets higher. According to this, a concept on bathroom, which had been simply physiological sanitary space before, is being gradually changed, thereby being reborn as space of charging vitality of life and of realizing own desire. As these consumers' new desire is emerged, it is being highlighted the behavior of being made in space now called 'bathroom', the requirements for this space, and the interest in what aims to be pursued. However, current Korean people have different bathroom behavior such as using outside bathtub or filling a washbasin with water unlike the center on stand-up shower in the West, thereby having inconvenience. Accordingly, when bathroom is designed that reflects Korean people's bathroom behavior, the satisfaction with using bathroom will be able to be enhanced. This study aims to increase the use satisfaction with bathroom space, to survey Korean people's situations of using bathroom, the inconvenience in using, and the general emotion, and to elicit requirements for bathroom users and basic design guidelines available for reflecting the health in planning bathroom space, the space of solving sanitary problem, and the modern people's physical features and lifestyle.

• Proceedings of the Plant Resources Society of Korea Conference
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• 2012.05a
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• pp.3-3
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• 2012

자원식물은 인간의 천연물에 대한 관심 고조와 미래 생물자원으로서의 경제적 가치가 재인식되어 미국을 비롯한 선진국은 오래전부터 유용한 식물자원 보존과 이를 이용한 산업화에 정부가 앞장서 추진하고 있다. 더욱이 우리나라는 국토면적에 비해 많은 식물종이 분포하고 뚜렷한 4계절과 다양한 토양특성으로 우수한 기능성식물자원이 많으며 이들 식물자원의 이용과 효능에 대한 풍부한 지식이 전통적으로 이어져 왔다. 그럼에도 불구하고 우수한 자원식물에 대한 보존과 이용이 과학화 체계화되지 못하여 세계적인 품종이나 제품개발은 미흡한 실정이다. 그동안 우리나라는 토종자원에 대한 관심과 꾸준한 연구개발로 농촌진흥청 보존 농업유전자원은 세계 6위 수준('10년말 291천점) 이며, 멀티기능 유용물질 함유 작물 개발 및 실용화 기술수준도 기술력 지수 세계7위로 높게 평가되고 있다. 그러나 이들 자원식물로부터 유용물질을 이용하여 세계시장을 선도하는 천연물신약, 건강기능성식품, 한방화장품, 천연 색소 및 향료 등의 제품개발은 미흡하여 앞으로 유망 자원식물을 이용한 체계적이고 과학적인 고부가 산업 육성을 위한 집중적인 투자가 필요한 시점이다. 자원식물을 이용한 천연물 신약개발은 고부가가치 제품과 산업재산권 확보가 가능하므로 수입 대체와 기술 및 제품수출이 충분히 이루어질 수 있다고 보여 현재 연구개발 중인 신약후보 도출 및 임상개발 과제의 수요를 반영한 후 단계별 대규모 신약개발 노력이 필요하다 하겠다. 건강기능 식품 개발은 고령사회 진입과 노령인구 증가로 노화억제 및 고령자 건강유지용 식품비중이 지속적으로 높아질 것으로 추정되어 약용식물을 소재로 개인 맞춤형 나노바이오 건강기능성 식품 개발을 통한 다양한 제품개발이 요구된다. 또한 우리나라 화장품분야의 전반적인 기술수준은 세계최고 기술의 62% 수준이나 화장품 소재의 자원식물 발굴과 나노기술 접목을 통한 효능의 극대화는 소비자의 웰빙 트랜드와 외국화장품과의 차별화 전략에 맞물려 국내 한방화장품의 세계화가 가능한 품목 중 하나이다. 식용 및 염색용 색소도 자원식물이 풍부하고 천연색소 시장이 크게 확장되고 있어 자원식물 중 경제성과 기술적 개발 가능성을 고려하여 단계적인 개발이 요구된다. 특히, 우리의 식물자원, 전통지식, 과학기술이 통합되어 효능을 현저하게 상승시키는 천연물신약, 건강보조식품, 화장품 등이 개발된다면 세계시장을 선도할 날도 멀지 않을 것으로 기대한다.

• Land and Housing Review
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• v.12 no.4
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• pp.61-79
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• 2021

Despite the rapid economic growth, people's quality of life has not been improved and the regional and hierarchical disparities of it have deepened. We analysed regional differences in quality of life and it was found that non-capital regions, provinces and rural areas compared to Seoul and capital region, metropolitan cities, and urban areas respectively, show a relatively lower level of satisfaction in the quality of life. An in-depth analysis of Chungcheongnam-do province shows that the trend was similar to that of the national analysis. The quality of life satisfaction of the elderly was lower than that of the young and middle-aged, and this trend was similar regardless of region. Young people living in the Dong area showed high satisfaction with the quality of life than the middle-aged and elderly living in the Myeon area. It was observed the level of Life SOC services in urban areas have been better than the one in rural areas. However, there is no clear relationship between quality of life satisfaction and the expansion of Life SOC, therefore, it is difficult to argue that the government intervention to expand Life SOC will improve the citizen's quality of life satisfaction. The implication of the study is that the future supply policy of the Life SOC should be based on the detailed analysis of the impact on the environment, and linking with the development of various programs in progress rather than supplying a Life SOC that provides a single service. Furthermore, in rural areas it is essential to enhance user demand by combining several services in supply and to improve the efficiency of managing the services.

• Journal of Society of Occupational Therapy for the Aged and Dementia
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• v.12 no.2
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• pp.67-74
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• 2018

Objective : The purpose of this study is to quantitatively analyze the role of occupational therapy in long - term care insurance for the elderly using text mining, one of the big data analysis techniques. Method : For the analysis of newspaper articles, "Long - Term Care Insurance for the Elderly + Occupational Therapy for the Elderly" was collected after the period from 2007 to 208. Naver, which has a high share of the domestic search engine, utilized the database of Naver News by utilizing Textom, a web crawling tool. After collecting the article title and original text of 510 news data from the collection of the elderly long term care insurance + occupational therapy search, we analyzed the article frequency and key words by year. Result : In terms of the frequency of articles published by year, the number of articles published in 2015 and 2017 was the highest with 70 articles (13.7%), and the top 10 terms of the key word analysis showed the highest frequency of 'dementia' (344) In terms of key words, dementia, treatment, hospital, health, service, rehabilitation, facilities, institution, grade, elderly, professional, salary, industrial complex and people are related. Conclusion : In this study, it is meaningful that the textual mining technique was used to more objectively confirm the social needs and the role of the occupational therapist for the dementia and rehabilitation in the related key keywords based on the media reporting trend of the elderly long - term care insurance for 11 years. Based on the results of this study, future research should expand research field and period and supplement the research methodology through various analysis methods according to the year.

• The Journal of Society for e-Business Studies
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• v.20 no.1
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• pp.167-182
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• 2015

The concept of Smart home is receiving a huge attention as a future living environment because of its advantages for elderly and disabled to maintain their quality of life. Smart home is a place equipped with integration of technology and services and closely intertwined with occupant's lifestyle. Therefore it is critical to consider the user's actual needs for ensuring satisfaction. However despite growing researches on user values for smart home, there have been few studies clearly categorizing smart home service and stating user values depending on characteristics of service. Thus, the aim of this research is to classify smart home services on user's perspective, and reveal user values for each smart home services. Through the in-depth literature review, we elicited technology-related user values and service-related user values, and state classification for smart home service. Also the relationship between user values and each smart home services were revealed. The results of this research should help to reflect user's actual needs for designing smart home services.

• Archives of design research
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• v.19 no.1 s.63
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• pp.15-26
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• 2006

As the interest and use of computer have been increased among elderly users according to the entry to the aging society, the issue of universal design for computer usability was brought forward. Especially, it is widely recognized that universal UI(User Interlace) design on MS windows is important. The objective of this study is to conceptualize Universal GUI design on MS windows which can be used more easily and intuitively by novice users such as elderly and housewives. Especially, the solution for Universal GUI design on MS windows was developed by reflecting elderly users' needs because elderly users is the group with more difficulties than other user groups in learning and using MS windows. First, elderly user's needs was collected by participant observation as a teaching assistant in computer dass for elderly people for 4 weeks. Secondly, the experimental test and in-depth interview was implemented to find difficulties factors and needs in addition to participant observation. Based on the findings, the new GUI design solution was suggested. The design solution consists of ideas in several categories such as setting default, simplification of function for easy conceptual model making, customization of function and working environment, and intuitive GUI in interaction process. The new MS windows GUI design can be accessed by novice mode when user login in window XP. This study has the significance in finding elderly users detailed needs through in-depth and long term participant observation. However, the usability of the suggested prototype needs to be verified to various user groups besides elderly users in the future.

• Journal of The Korea Institute of Healthcare Architecture
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• v.19 no.2
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• pp.51-59
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• 2013

Purpose: At the moment, a lot of poor older people live in permanent rental housing in Korea. But many rental apartments are not suitable for elderly living because most of them have many problems related to the lack of accessibility and adaptability for older people with physical and mental disabilities. So it is necessary to upgrade the old permanent rental housing for convenience of elderly living. The purpose of this paper is to construct basic data for remodeling of worn out and small rental housing block in order to realize the concept of "Aging in Place". Methods: Questionnaires and interviews about elderly living have been conducted on 104 elderly who live in Suwon Wooman permanent rental apartment block which was constructed 21 years ago. From the collected data, dining pattern, inconvenient area, small area, satisfaction level on unit area and demand for unit expansion type have been analysed in order to find out the direction for remodeling of permanent rental apartment unit. Results: The problems of existing permanent rental apartment can be summarized into improper laundry space, small dining area, inconvenient bath and so on. According to the family size, the elderly resident has the different preference about the expansion type of his resident unit. Big families usually want to enlarge their living unit though they pay for additional monthly rental fee. Implications: Lifetime home concept adopting Universal Design has to be applied to the whole residential block especially to the social rental housing. And this concept had better be expanded to Lifetime neighbor design.