• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.14 no.3
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• pp.781-793
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• 2010

Recently, owing to the development of ubiquitous sensor network and mobile communication technologies, many studies on healthcare system are being carried out. In this paper, we have designed and implemented a mobile u-Healthcare system based on sensor network. The u-Healthcare system is composed of three components: wireless sensor network at home, healthcare center located at remote site, and gateway which relays sensing physiological signals to healthcare center. In order to measure patient's physiological signal three sensors are used: three channel ECG sensor, pulse oximeter, and blood pressure sensor. Each sensor is mounted on a mote which can send gathered signal to the base node using Zigbee communication protocol. Once the base node receives physiological signal from each sensor, the client in the base node transfers the signal to the healthcare center. The received physiological signal at the healthcare center is analyzed and processed using various algorithms. The processed results are compared to the standard healthcare database and appropriate treatment including dietetics and exercise cure would be sent to the patient as feedback using SMS message or healthcare center web site. Each patient can check and manage one's health state every day using the healthcare system and gain a recovery under the treatments from minor health problems.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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• 2009.05a
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• pp.149-151
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• 2009

본 논문에서는 이동이 힘들거나 자주 건강관리가 필요한 노약자나 임산부들에게 좀 더 신속하고 빠른 진단 서비스를 제공하기 위해 단말기에서 맥박을 측정하여 Bluetooth를 통하여 모바일 폰에 전송하고 원격에서 모바일 폰을 통해 전송된 맥박파형 데이터를 분석하고자 한다. 팔목에 착용하는 형태의 단말기에는 체온측정을 위한 온도센서, 맥박측정을 위한 Piezo Vibration Sensor, 움직임 체크를 위한 가속도센서와 자이로센서가 장착되어있다. 이 센서들을 이용하여 측정된 데이터들을 모바일 폰의 Wi-Fi를 통해 서버로 전송하여 원격에서 의사가 담당환자를 체크할 수 있도록 하고자 한다.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.19 no.2
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• pp.323-335
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• 2015

Mobile healthcare is a fusion of information technology and biotechnology and is a new type of health management service to keep people's health at anytime and anywhere without regard to time and space. The WBAN(Wireless Body Area Network) technology that collects bio signals and the data analysis and monitoring technology using mobile devices are essential for serving mobile healthcare. WBAN consisting of users with mobile devices meet another WBAN during movement, WBANs transmit data to the other media. Because of WBAN conflict, several nodes transmit data in same time slot so a collision will occur, resulting in the data transmission being failed and need more energy for re-transmission. In this thesis, we proposed a MAC protocol for WBAN with mobility to solve these problems. First, we proposed a superframe structure for WBAN. The proposed superframe consists of a TDMA(Time Division Muliple Access) based contention access phase with which a node can transmit data in its own time slot and a contention phase using CSMA/CA algorithm. Second, we proposed a network merging algorithm for conflicting WBAN based on the proposed MAC protocol. When a WBAN with mobility conflicts with other WBAN, data frame collision is reduced through network reestablishment. Simulations are performed using a Castalia based on the OMNeT++ network simulation framework to estimate the performance of the proposed superframe and algorithms. We estimated the performance of WBAN based on the proposed MAC protocol by comparing the performance of the WBAN based on IEEE 802.15.6. Performance evaluation results show that the packet transmission success rate and energy efficiency are improved by reducing the probability of collision using the proposed MAC protocol.

• Journal of the Korean Society for information Management
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• v.33 no.4
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• pp.7-26
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• 2016

The present study aimed at investigating the strengths and weaknesses of a mobile personal health record (PHR) application and identifying its impacts on consumer health information behavior. For the study, twenty-seven college students used a PHR application for three months, based on which the study conducted paper-based interviews with them. The results of content analysis highlighted the benefits of the PHR such as supporting preventive healthcare and motivating and providing specific guidelines for healthy lifestyles by utilizing visual interface design, sharing the data with family and assisting caregivers to manage patients' healthcare, and above all enhancing the interaction between patients and healthcare professionals. However, the study found the drawbacks of the PHR such as a lack of data entry for strength training and the incompatibility with other healthcare applications. The participants were motivated to change their health behaviors in ways such as getting rid of sleep disorders, avoiding alcohol and smoking tobacco, and losing weight, and changing eating habits. Some consumers improved self-efficacy by changing their health behaviors, while the PHR provided emotional supports to the consumers who wanted to improve their health. The present study has an academic significance because the study of PHR is a burgeoning area in Korea. The study provides insights for promoting health and medical information services to cope with the paradigm shift of healthcare fields.

• Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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• 2015.10a
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• pp.1718-1721
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• 2015

본 논문에서 구현한 헬스케어 서버 시스템은 사용자가 스스로 자신의 건강을 관리할 수 있도록 돕는 플랫폼으로서, 모바일 애플리케이션을 이용하여 자신의 운동, 식단 등과 같은 건강기록을 관리할 수 있으며, 또한 건강기록들을 바탕으로 사용자에게 알맞은 건강 정보를 제공한다. 또한 개인 건강기록(PHR) 정보와 라이브로그를 저장하기 위한 데이터베이스 및 지식베이스를 설계하고, 온톨로지 및 데이터마이닝 기법을 적용하여 사용자에게 맞춤형 건강정보를 제공하는 기능을 수행한다.

• The Journal of the Institute of Internet, Broadcasting and Communication
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• v.11 no.2
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• pp.253-259
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• 2011

In a ubiquitous society, the world is changing to the place where we can access to network anytime, anywhere, on any device. The mobile internet is leading the ubiquitous world and the most commonly used medium is a cell phone. However, it is uncomfortable to link to cafe, blog, and mini homepage. Because we have to stop wap service in order to upload the mobile contents like photos, videos, sound recordings produced by mobile phones. Also we have to re-access. So, in this paper content management system was designed and implemented which mobile users don't have to stop wap service in order to upload photos, videos, sound recordings produced by mobile phones. Also it supports upload in wap service integrative medicine diagnosis and contents can be managed by category.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics and Information Engineers
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• v.51 no.6
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• pp.50-59
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• 2014

In mobile healthcare service, the accurate detection and the notification of the emergency situation are important to chronic patients' life. In the existing healthcare service, the medical staff or medical service provider always judges patients' health status by monitoring from the measured from bio-data. However, it is difficult to monitor many patients in real-time simultaneously, because the medical staff should monitor the health status continuously. Furthermore, an emergency condition diagnosis based solely on the statistical level of the bio-data may be difficult, since the emergency judgment of the bio-data might differ depending on the health characteristics of each person such as age, history of disease, gender, etc. In order to solve this problem, this article presents an mobile healthcare system for emergency bio-data management using a personalized emergency policy. The salient feature of the proposed mobile healthcare system is that the characteristics of the health status of an unique patient is defined to the policy, which is used to judge the emergency condition of the bio-data measured from the patient. The prototype of proposed mobile healthcare system has been built to demonstrate the design concept.

• The Journal of the Convergence on Culture Technology
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• v.7 no.3
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• pp.105-113
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• 2021

This study is a qualitative study that conducted one-on-one in-depth interviews and focus group interviews to understand the meaning of the experience of participating in a cardio-cerebrovascular disease prevention management program using a mobile app for middle-aged female workers. The subjects of this study were 26 female workers over 50 years of age who participated in a cardio-cerebrovascular disease prevention program using a mobile app in a department store. Participating experience derived from the research result were 'Pleasure of getting to know', 'Activation of mutually friendly relations', 'health concerns take care of me ', 'Accepting an unfamiliar culture', 'Convenience as if receiving counseling anywhere. Through these results, it was shown that the mobile app improves the will to practice health behavior, and it is suggested that a standard to guarantee that the mobile app is a safe program is necessary to reduce anxiety about unfamiliar programs when installing the mobile app.

• The Journal of the Institute of Internet, Broadcasting and Communication
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• v.14 no.6
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• pp.13-18
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• 2014

In this paer, mobile healthcare App is developed for mental health management focused on anger management for modern people who are under constant stress and various inner conflicts. We describe mechanism of anger and relations between disease and anger, and constitute contents of App to provide information of anger management. And finally we implement Web App. We build menu of App to be convenient to users to use. Implemented App provides many useful functions like information of anger and body, various self-test including A-type test, hostility test, and KMPI etc., journaling, anger management and community.

• Journal of Korea Game Society
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• v.17 no.2
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• pp.155-164
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• 2017

This study conducted to analyze the difference of perceived benefits, psychological well-being, exercise application attachment, and perceived exercise achievement according to the message frame provided in the mobile fitness game. Repeated Measure Design and Playtest methodologies were used for this research. As a result, when gain messages were shown, all factors were higher than the case of showing loss message. The results of this study emphasize that when persuasion messages need to be presented through a health functional game, gain messages can be more effectively delivered to the users of health functional game than loss messages.