• Journal of Korean society of Dental Hygiene
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• v.24 no.2
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• pp.149-162
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• 2024

Objectives: This study aimed to identify the level of digital oral health literacy among Korean adults in Gangwon-do. Methods: A survey was conducted through face-to-face interviews with adults aged 30-89 residing in Gangwon-do, South Korea. The independent variables were socio-demographic characteristics, including gender, age, education level, income, and occupation. The dependent variable was digital oral health literacy. The statistical analysis included Independent t-test, one-way ANOVA, Pearson correlation analysis, and multiple linear regression analysis, all performed using the SPSS 27.0 software program. Results: The elderly and those with poor socioeconomic status (p<0.001) had lower average scores due to poor digital oral health literacy. The ease of searching for oral health information and the utilization of digital devices to search for information on oral health displayed a significant relationship (r=0.730, p<0.001). To develop the use of digital devices, simplifying the search for oral information (p<0.001) is essential. Conclusions: All socio-demographic characteristics, except gender, displayed a correlation with the level of digital oral health literacy. Both environmental and individual aspects of the respondents' living conditions must be considered to improve digital oral health literacy.

• Journal of Digital Convergence
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• v.14 no.11
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• pp.249-255
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• 2016

Since the elderly voices include a lot of noise caused by physiological changes in respiration, phonation, and resonance, the performance of the convergence health-care equipments such as speech recognition, synthesis, analysis program done by elderly voice is deteriorated. Therefore it is necessary to develop researches to operate health-care instruments with elderly voices. In this study, a voice activity detection using a symmetric higher-order differential energy function (SHODEO) was developed and was compared with auto-correlation function(ACF) and the average magnitude difference function(AMDF). It was confirmed to have a better performance than other methods in the voice interval detection. The voice activity detection will be applied to a voice interface for the elderly to improve the accessibility of the smart devices.

• Information Systems Review
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• v.25 no.3
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• pp.163-177
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• 2023

This research aims to identify key initiatives and a policy approach to support the industrialization of the sector. The research collected a total of 91,873 news data points relating to healthcare between 2013 to 2022. A total of 20 topics were derived through topic modeling analysis, and as a result of time series regression analysis, 4 hot topics (Healthcare, Biopharmaceuticals, Corporate outlook·Sales, Government·Policy), 3 cold topics (Smart devices, Stocks·Investment, Urban development·Construction) derived a significant topic. The research findings will serve as an important data source for government institutions that are engaged in the formulation and implementation of Korea's policies.

• Review of KIISC
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• v.32 no.4
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• pp.135-146
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• 2022

포스트 코로나시대에는 다가올 디지털 인프라 사회에서의 스마트시티에서 안전하고 편리한 사이버 경제활동을 구현하기 위해서는 특히 비대면 디지털 환경에서 바이오인식기술의 중요성은 증대될 것으로 전망된다. 이에 따라 바이오인식 관련 국제표준화기구인 ISO/IEC JTC1 SC37(Biometrics)/SC27(Security)과 ITU-T SG17 Q10(ID Management & Telebiometrics) 등 바이오인식기술 국제 표준화 동향과 아시아바이오인식협의회(Asian Biometric Consoritum) 사실 표준화 현황을 면밀히 분석하여, 모바일기기·웨어러블 디바이스 응용분야, 디지털 헬스케어분야, 자율주행 응용분야, 국제공통·국가공용 ID카드분야, 동물보호 공학분야 등 미래의 스마트시티에서 활용될 바이오인식기술에 대한 전망과 함께 관련되는 국제표준에 대한 주요내용과 적용분야를 제안하고자 한다. 이를 통하여 향후 디지털 사회로의 대전환 시대가 도래함에 따른 생체인식기술을 적용한 스마트시티의 발전전망을 고찰하고자 한다.

• Electronics and Telecommunications Trends
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• v.26 no.6
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• pp.37-46
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• 2011

최근 고령화가 사회적인 이슈로 떠오르고 있다. 노인 인구의 증가는 급격한 의료 서비스의 수요 증가를 초래하고 이로 인해 의료비용의 급증을 야기하고 있다. 또한, 평균 수명의 연장은 노인의 삶의 질 저하를 막기 위한 수단을 요구하고 있으며, 전문 의료진의 부족현상이 심화되고 있다. 이러한 문제들을 해결하기 위하여 최근 IT 기술이 의료 분야에 다양한 형태로 융합되고 있다. 의료기기에 IT가 융합되어 기존의 의료기기를 고도화하거나 새로운 형태의 의료기기를 만들어 내고 있으며, 유헬스와 같이 새로운 개념의 서비스가 등장하고, 병원의 정보화를 통해 효율화를 극대화하는 디지털병원, 대규모로 축적되는 의료정보의 효율적 활용을 추구하는 Health 2.0 등 혁신적인 의료 IT 융합기술들이 연구되고 있다. 본 고에서는 국내외에서 진행되고 있는 의료 IT 융합기술의 연구개발 동향에 대하여 알아보고, 한국전자통신연구원(ETRI)에서 연구하고 있는 내용을 소개한다.

• Information and Communications Magazine
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• v.32 no.11
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• pp.12-20
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• 2015

최근 의학 기술이 눈부시게 발전함에 따라 사람들은 수명이 연장되고 삶의 질 향상에 많은 관심을 가지게 되었다. 더욱이 혁신적인 디지털 기술 발전과 함께 다양한 웨어러블 기기와 수많은 헬스케어 어플리케이션이 출시되고 있으며, 이들은 어떻게 하면 개인의 성향이나 체질에 잘 맞는 맞춤형 (개인화) 서비스를 제공할 수 있을 것인가에 관심을 두고 진화하고 있다. 따라서 IoT 환경의 일상생활에서 입력되는 센서 데이터의 수집, 처리, 가공 기술, 일상 행위 및 라이프 스타일 인지, 지식 획득 및 관리 기술, 개인화 추천서비스 제공, 프라이버시 및 보안을 통합적으로 지원할 수 있는 프레임워크 개발에 대한 요구가 증대되고 있다. 이에 본 고에서는 저자가 개발중인 개인 맞춤 건강 및 웰니스 서비스를 제공하는 마이닝 마인즈 프레임워크를 소개한다. 마이닝 마인즈는 현존하는 최신 기술의 집약체로 개인화, 큐레이션, 빅 데이터 처리, 클라우드 컴퓨팅의 활용, 다양한 센서 정보의 수집과 분석, 진화형 지식의 생성과 관리, UI/UX를 통한 습관화 유도 등 다양한 요소를 포함한다. 그리고 건강 및 웰니스 프레임워크 요구사항 분석을 통해 마이닝 마인즈가 이러한 요구를 충족시킬 수 있으며, 개발된 프로토타입을 통해 개인화 서비스의 발전 가능성을 입증하고 향후 나아가야 할 방향을 제시한다.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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• 2014.05a
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• pp.299-302
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• 2014

Due to the convergence between digital devices and the development of wireless communication technology, bit-signal sensor miniaturization, building an Electronic Medical Record (EMR) which is a digital version of a paper chart that contains all of a patient's medical history and the information of Electronic Health Record (EHR), Ubiquitous healthcare (u-Healthcare) that can monitor their health status and provide personal healthcare service anytime and anywhere. Also, the appearance of cloud computing technology is one of the factors that accelerate the development of u-healthcare service. However, if the individual information to be used maliciously during the u-healthcare service utilization, leads to serious problems directly related to the individual's life because if it goes beyond the level of simple health screening and treatment, it may not provide accurate and reliable healthcare services. For this reason, we analyzed a variety of security issues related to u-healthcare service in cloud computing environment and described about directions of secure health information sharing system construction. In addition, we suggest the future developmental direction for th activation of u-healthcare industry.

• Journal of Korea Society of Industrial Information Systems
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• v.15 no.3
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• pp.23-32
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• 2010

U-healthcare provides people with many conveniences and keeps their health. As facility centered medical environment is being changed to patient centered one, however, various problems are emerging. These problems range from institutional problems to technological, producer related, and user related ones. The researcher took interested in problems originating from users, in particular, elderly patients and guardians taking care of an elderly patient. The main focus of this study is the direction of serious contents design for training skills in HMI of U-healthcare equipment and developing emergency coping abilities. In this study, I started from research on elderly cognitive psychology and elders' motor reactions and interconnected the characteristics of various digital content forms. The results of this study are expected to be useful for the rapidly expanding elderly population and in the U-healthcare industry.

• Journal of Digital Convergence
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• v.16 no.10
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• pp.59-67
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• 2018

There are not that many m-health related services limited to the elderly. Many of the elderly who are at risk of dementia are unfamiliar to smart devices, so it is required to design an user-customized App. Therefore, I design and embody a mobile voice alert integrated app, which enables voice input to increase the accessibility of the elderly, so as to prevent diseases caused by declined cognitive function such as dementia. I conducted interviews and questionnaire after having the students use the app in Lifelong Education Center in H region of Gyeongbuk, and the analysis result has showed the high satisfaction. It is expected that it will be able to play a key role for M-Health service for the elderly since it is possible to prevent dementia through the voice health care alert app. I would like to learn deep learning in the future to predict the life patterns and the possibility of dementia of the elderly.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.34 no.11A
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• pp.870-881
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• 2009

The rapid development of healthcare information management for 3D medical digital library, 3D PACS and 3D medical diagnosis has addressed security issues with medical IT technology. This paper presents multiple 3D medical image data for protection, authentication, indexing and diagnosis information hiding applied to healthcare information management. The proposed scheme based on POCS watermarking embeds the robust watermark for doctor's digital signature and information retrieval indexing key to the distribution of vertex curvedness and embeds the fragile watermark for diagnosis information and authentication reference message to the distance difference of vertex. The multiple embedding process designs three convex sets for robustness, fragileness and invisibility and projects 3D medical image data onto three convex sets alternatively and iteratively. Experimental results confirmed that the proposed scheme has the robustness and fragileness to various 3D geometric and mesh modifiers at once.