• Proceedings of the Korean Society for Emotion and Sensibility Conference
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• 2001.05a
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• pp.182-185
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• 2001

본 연구에서는 쾌, 불쾌, 긴장, 이완의 네 가지 상상을 통해 감성의 변화를 유도하였고, 생리 신호 분석을 통해 감성의 변화를 변별하고자 하였다. 20명의 피험자를 대상으로 네 가지 상상을 각각 30초씩 수행하게 하면서 EEG, ECG, GSR, PPG, RSP, Skin-Temperature를 각각 측정하였고 측정 종료 후 주관적 평가를 실시하였따. 주관적 평가 분석 결과, 피험자는 뚜렷이 구별되는 네 가지 상상을 한 것으로 나타났고, 쾌도는 “쾌 > 이완, 긴장 > 불쾌” 상상 순서의 3단계로, 긴장도는 “긴장 > 불쾌, 쾌 > 이완” 상상 순서의 3단계로 뚜렷이 구별되었다. EEG 분석 결과에서는 쾌와 불쾌, 쾌와 이완 상상 사이에서만, 자율신경계 반응 역시 약 2.5 단계의 긴장도 감성 변별이 가능하여 정확한 3단계의 감성 변별에는 어려움이 있었다. 그러나 향후 비선형 분석법을 적용하고 피험자 수를 증가시킨다면 생리 신호 분석을 통한 감성 변별 민감도를 증가시킬 수 있을 것으로 사료된다. 본 연구로부터 쾌/불쾌와 긴장/이완의 2차원의 감성 영역의 각 축을 EEG와 자율신경계의 생리 신호를 통해 변별할 수 있다는 가능성을 확인하였다.

• Journal of Korean Academy of Nursing
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• v.23 no.1
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• pp.29-41
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• 1993

Relaxation technique is an independent nursing intervention used in various stressful situations. Relaxation techniques must be explored regarding relaxing imaginations used by the people in their traditional life experiences. So for Korean relaxation techniques to become culturally acceptable and effective imaginations of relaxation must be developed. The purpose of this study was to identify differences in relaxation levels of Koreans according to five relaxation imaginations and five groups and to analyze the factors influencing relaxation techniques for Korean people. The subjects were 38 hospitalized patients, 21 rural residents, 56 housewives, 16 researchers and 59 nursing students. Data were collected from September 4 to October 24, 1991 by interview or self-re-port questionnaires. The measurement tool was the graphic rating scale of relaxation levels. The data analysis was done by percent, ANOVA and Scheffe test using the SAS program. The. results of study are summerized as follows : 1. The relaxation level of Koreans was significantly different for the five relaxation imaginations (F=5.95, P=0.0001). Relaxation level of ‘after bathing imagination’ was 6.90, ‘in bed imagination’ was 6.55, ‘in the mountain imagination’ was 6.01, ‘snow and fireplace imagination’ was 5.84 and ‘at the seashore imagination’ was 5.80. As a result of the Scheffe test, ‘after bathing imagination’ was found to show a higher relaxation level than ‘at the sea-shore imagination’ ‘in the mountain imagination’ and ’snow and fireplace imagination(P〈.05). 2. The relaxation levels of the Koreans were not different for the five groups(F=1.26, P=0.29). 3. There were no differences in the relaxation level of the koreans according to sex, age, place of residence, place of residence during childhood, marital status, religion or educational status. In conclusion, Korean people prefer the ‘relaxation imagination of after bathing’ to western style relaxation imagination of ‘at the seashore imagination’ and ‘snow and fireplace imagination’.

• Sleep Medicine and Psychophysiology
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• v.7 no.2
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• pp.109-114
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• 2000

Objectives: This study was performed to examine the characteristic cardiovascular response patterns associated with the imagination and discussion of anger-provoked events in patients with hwa-byung. Methods: Forty-three female patients with hwa-byung were evaluated with the Korean version of the State-Trait Anger Expression Inventory, the State-Trait Anxiety Inventory, Hamilton Rating Scale for Anxiety, Beck Depression Inventory, and Hamilton Rating Scale for Depression just before the task. Subjective Units of Distress (SUDS) and Vividness of the event (VIVID) during the imagination and discussion of the event were evaluated immediately after tasks. Blood pressure (BP) and heart rate (HR) during baseline, rest, and tasks were also evaluated. Results: Both startle and recovery responses of BP, startle response of HR, SUDS, and VIVID in discussion task were significantly larger than in the imagination task. Conclusion: Results suggest that it is undesirable for the patients to excessively and repeatedly recall and talk about the anger events.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society for Emotion and Sensibility Conference
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• 2002.05a
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• pp.86-89
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• 2002

본 연구는 객관적인 생리 신호로부터 인간의 감성을 추론할 수 있는 감성 평가 전문가 시스템을 개발하기 위한 첫 번째 단계로, 측정된 생리 신호를 이용하여 인간의 긴장도를 판단하는 알고리즘의 개발이 목표이다. 감성 평가에 관련된 애매함을 수리적으로 취급하기 위해 퍼지 이론을 적용하여 임의의 감성 영역에 속하는 정도를 소속 함수로 정량화 함으로써 감성 평가를 가능하게 하고자 하였다 소속 함수의 결정은 상상을 통해 유발된 긴장/이완의 생리 신호 데이터 베이스 결과를 사용하였다. 그리고 두 가지 이상의 생리 신호 측정 결과와 각 생리 신호의 소속 함수로부터 하나의 최종 결과 (긴장도)를 유추하기 위해서 Dempster-Shafer 증거합 법칙을 적용하였고, 이를 통해 최종적인 긴장도를 도출할 수 있도록 하였다.

• Sleep Medicine and Psychophysiology
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• v.8 no.1
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• pp.45-51
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• 2001

Objectives: The experience of traffic accident is a kind of the psychosocial stressors to person. The traffic accident-related patients may show the psychophysiologic hyperarousal. So we examined the differences of psychophysiologic response between patients with and without the memory of experienceing a traffic accident. Methods: Twenty-four traffic accident-related patients were divided into two groups according to ther memory of a traffic accident. In psychological assessment, levels of anxiety and depression were evaluated by State-Trait Anxiety Inventory, Beck's Depression Inventory, and Hamilton Rating Scales For Anxiety and Depression. Heart rate, electrodermal response (EDR), and electromyographic activity (EMG) were measured by biofeedback system, and systolic and diastolic blood pressure by automated vital sign monitor during baseline, task, and rest periods. We utilized script-driven imagery technique as a stressful task. The patients listened to the script describing their own traffic accident experience and were instructed to imagine the event during the task period. Statistically analytic data were obtained from the differences of psychological and psychophysiologic data between two groups. Results: The memory group did not show significantly higher EDR than the none memory group, but showed higher tendency during baseline, imagery, and rest periods. The memory group showed significantly lower EMG than the none memory group during rest period. However, there were no differences in other psychophysiologic reponses between the two groups. Conclusion: Our results showed that the memory group had higher tendency in autonomic arousal level such as electrodermal response than the none memory group. We suggest that physicians need to minimize repetitive imagery of traffic accident (reexperience), and decrease the autonomic hyperarousal in the treatment of traffic accident-related patients.

• Science of Emotion and Sensibility
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• v.5 no.1
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• pp.17-24
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• 2002

This research was the first step to develop Expert System for Evaluation of Human Sensibility, where human sensibility can be inferred from objective physiological signals. The study aim was to develop an algorithm in which human arousal level can be judged using measured physiological signals. Fuzzy theory was applied for mathematical handling of the ambiguity related to evaluation of human sensibility, and the degree of belonging to a certain sensibility dimension was quantified by membership function through which the sensibility evaluation was able to be done. Determining membership function was achieved using results from a physiological signal database of arousal/relaxation that was generated from imagination. To induce one final result (arousal level) based on measuring the results of more than 2 physiological signals and the membership function of each physiological signal, Dempster-Shafer's Rule of Combination in Evidence was applied, through which the final arousal level was inferred.

• Science of Emotion and Sensibility
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• v.5 no.2
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• pp.11-22
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• 2002

This study investigated the effects of mild mental imagery inducing pleasantness or unpleasantness and cognitive mental arithmetic task on skin conductance level. Subjects were f undergraduates(male 5, female 4). They were given the list of the words and asked to write down the liked objects and the disliked ones freely associated with these words. Among these objects the most-liked one and the most disliked one were selected as the self-induced mental imageries. Data-collection procedures were as follows ; first baseline, pleasant imagery, 2nd baseline, unpleasant imagery, finally 3rd baseline, and mental arithmetic task subtracting continuously 7 from the number 500. During these trials, the SCLs were recorded every 10 seconds. The results indicated that there were nonsignificant differences between the 3 trial-baselines ot each condition. This suggested that unlike the procedures used in the previous studies, our procedures would give the stability of the baseline level necessary for the comparison of the effects of several stimuli. Also, the level of skin conductance in mental arithmetic condition was significantly higher than that of the emotional mental imagery. This suggested the possibility that mental arithmetic task would gave rise to the higher physiological arousal in comparison to mental imageries. Overall, it was suggested that the procedures and the stimulus presentation methods used in this preliminary study could be useful for the data-collection techniques for The future study. Implications for the future study were presented.