• Journal of Science and Technology Studies
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• v.18 no.2
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• pp.135-179
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• 2018

How do robots interact with the elderly? In this paper, we analyze the contexts of interaction between robots and the elderly and the role of mediators in initiating, facilitating, and maintaining the interaction. We do not attempt to evaluate the robot's performance or measure the impact of robots on the elderly. Instead, we focus on the circumstances and contexts within which a robot is situated as it interacts with the elderly. Our premise is that the success of human-robot interaction does not depend solely on the robot's technical capability, but also on the pre-arranged settings and local contingencies at the site of interaction. We select three television shows that feature robots for the elderly and one "dementia-prevention" robot in a regional healthcare center as our sites for observing robot-elderly interaction: "Grandma's Robot"(tvN), "Co-existence Experiment''(JTBC), "Future Diary"(MBC), and the Silbot class in Suwon. By analyzing verbal and non-verbal interactions between the elderly and the robots in these programs, we point out that in most cases the robots and the elderly do not meet one-to-one; the interaction is usually mediated by an actor who is not an old person. These mediators are not temporary or secondary components in the robot-elderly interaction; they play a key role in the relationship by arranging the first meeting, triggering initial interactions, and carefully observing unfolding interactions. At critical moments, the mediators prevent the interaction from falling apart by intervening verbally or physically. Based on our observation of the robot-elderly interaction, we argue that we can better understand and evaluate the human-robot interaction in general by paying attention to the existence and role of the mediators. We suggest that researchers in human-robot interaction should expand their analytical focus from one-to-one interactions between humans and robots to human-robot-human interactions in diverse real-world situations.

• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.21 no.5
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• pp.70-83
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• 2021

The issue of predicting the relationship between humans and AI robots is a 'strong AI' problem. Many experts predict the tragic ending which is a strong AI with superior thinking ability than humans will conquer humans. Due to the expectations of AI robots are projected onto media, the 'morally good AI' that meets human expectations is an important issue. However, the demand for good AI and the realization of perfect technology is not limited to machines. Rather, it appears as a result of putting all responsibility on humans, driving humans into immoral beings and turning them into human and human problems, which is resulting in more alienation and discrimination. As such, the result of technology interacts with the human being used and its properties are determined and developed according to the reaction. This again affects humans. Therefore, AI technology that considers human emotions in consideration of interaction is also important. Therefore, this study will clarify the process that the demand for 'Good AI' in the relationship of AI to humans with Randall Collins' Interaction Ritual Chain. Emotional energy in Interaction Ritual Chain has explained the formation of human bonds. Also, the methodology is a type of thinking experiment and explained through Janet and surrounding characters in the TV show .

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Computer Information Conference
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• 2010.07a
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• pp.435-438
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• 2010

오늘날 많은 연구자들은 자율적 인간형 로봇 (Autonomous symbiotic human-robot)을 보조하기 위한 지식체계로 온톨로지의 개념을 사용한다. 이러한 연구는 룰 기반의 추론시스템을 지원하기 위해 온톨로지를 저장하는 데이터베이스 스키마를 설계하는데 초점을 맞추고 있다. 이러한 연구 뿐만 아니라 온톨로지 개념을 사용하는 가장 중요한 목적 중에 하나는 상황 추론이다. 이러한 관점에서 본 논문은 로봇이라는 환경에서 좀 더 지능적인 상황 추론 서비스를 제공하기 위해, 5W1H 기반의 로봇 지능 저장소라 불리는 로봇 메모리 저장소를 설계하는데 초점을 두고 있다. 기존 연구는 체계적이고 의미론적 5W1H를 고려하지 않거나 5W1H와 다른 개념 사이의 연광성의 결여에 많은 문제점을 가지고 있으며 이를 해결하기 위해 본 논문에서는 상황, 목적, 공간, 특징, 인간 그리고 5W1H의 온톨로지 지식을 저장할 수 있는 개념적인 모델인 로봇 메모리 모델을 설계한다. 또한 본 논문에서는 상황 추론을 지원하기 위해 로봇의 인스턴스 정보라고 불리는 자전적 기억 (Episodic Memory)를 효과적으로 저장하기 위한 5W1H 모델을 정의하며 이러한 모델을 물리적으로 저장하기 위한 관계형 데이터베이스 기반의 EventsEpisodicRBS를 설계한다. 결과적으로 이러한 연구를 통해서 자율적 인간형 로봇 환경에서 로봇이 지능적 서비스 제공의 핵심 모듈인 상황 추론을 지원하는데 큰 기여를 할 수 있는 하부 시스템으로서의 의미를 가질 수 있다.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Computer Information Conference
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• 2014.01a
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• pp.145-147
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• 2014

공동주의는 사회적 개체간의 지각적 경험을 공유하는 상호작용과정으로, 최근 인간-로봇 상호작용연구와 관련해서 로봇 공학자의 관심이 커지고 있다. 발달심리학에 기초한 기존의 developmental robotics의 접근과는 달리, 본 연구에서는 사전단서 패러다임을 이용해서 목표물, 단서, 주의반응 간의 삼자관계를 수학적으로 개념화하였다. 간단한 목표물 탐사과제를 통해서 계산모형의 수행을 검증하였다. 연구결과에서는 컴퓨터 시스템의 시각적 주의 모형이 사용자가 지시하는 단서(손가락 지시)의해 목표물(이온음료)을 주의를 할당하는 것을 보였다. 본 연구는 심리학에서 연구된 사전단서 패러다임을 인간-로봇 상호작용에 적용될 수 있음을 보여준다.

• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.11 no.7
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• pp.51-59
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• 2011

Intelligent service robots leading the future market are robots which assist humans physically, mentally, and emotionally. Since intelligent service robots operate in a tightly coupled manner with humans, their safe operation should be an inevitable consideration. For this safety, real-time capabilities are necessary to execute certain services periodically. Currently, most robot components are being developed based on Windows for the sake of development convenience. However, since Windows does not support real-time, there is no option but to use expensive third-party software such as RTX and INTime. Also since most robot components are usually execute in user-level, we need to research how to support real-time in user-level. In this paper, we design and implement how to support real-time for components running in user-level on Windows using RTiK which actually supports real-time in kernel level on Windows.

• Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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• 2010.11a
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• pp.1582-1585
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• 2010

로봇은 인간의 생명과 밀접하게 관련되어 있기 때문에 높은 안전성과 신뢰성이 요구된다. 특히 최근에는 지능형 서비스 로봇의 등장과 더불어 증가되는 로봇 개발환경의 복잡성 문제와 로봇의 신속한 개발 및 유지보수 문제를 해결하기 위해 컴포넌트 기반의 로봇 플랫폼에 대한 연구가 증가하고 있으며, 특히 로봇 플랫폼을 구성하는 컴포넌트의 장애문제 해결이 중요한 이슈로 대두되고 있다. 따라서 본 논문에서는 컴포넌트 기반 로봇의 결점분류 절차를 제시하고 로봇의 결점타입과 로봇 플랫폼과의 상관관계를 분석하고 로봇 플랫폼에 결점타입을 매핑하여 최종적으로 컴포넌트 기반 로봇의 결점분류 모델을 제안한다.

• Transactions of the Korean Society of Mechanical Engineers A
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• v.34 no.4
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• pp.399-405
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• 2010

The grasping motion of a person's hand for a simplified degree of freedom was modeled by using the photographic motion measured by a high-speed camera. The mathematical expression of distal interphalangeal (DIP) motion was developed by using relation models of the metacarpophalangeal (MCP) and proximal interphalangeal (PIP) motions to reduce the degree of freedom. The mathematical expression for humanoid-hand operation obtained using a learning algorithm with a neural network and using a kernel regression model were compared. A feasible model of hand operation was obtained on the basis of comparative data analysis by using the kernel regression model.

• Science of Emotion and Sensibility
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• v.26 no.3
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• pp.29-40
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• 2023

The term and concept of "immortality" has garnered a considerable amount of attention worldwide. However, research on this topic is lacking, and the question of when the mind of a deceased individual survives death has yet to be answered. This research investigates whether morality and mind perception of the dead correlate with immortality. Study 1 measures the perceived immortality of people, who were good or evil in life. The results show that the perceived morality is related with the perceived immortality. Moreover, participants indicated the extent to which each person had maintained a degree of morality and agency/experience of the mind. Therefore, morality and mind perception toward a person are related to perceived immortality. In Study 2, participants were asked to read three essays on robots (good, evil, and nonmoral), and had to indicate the extent to which each robot maintains a degree of immortality, morality, and agency/experience of the mind. The results show that good spirits of a robot are related to higher scores of mind perception toward the robot, resulting in increasing tendency of perceived immortality. These results provide implications that the morality of humans and robots can mediate the relationship between mind perception and immortality. This work extends on previous research on the determinants of social robots for overcoming difficulties in human-robot interaction.

• Journal of Intelligence and Information Systems
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• v.27 no.2
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• pp.55-78
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• 2021

Tosolve complex and diverse social problems and ensure the quality of life of individuals, social robots that can interact with humans are attracting attention. In the past, robots were recognized as beings that provide labor force as they put into industrial sites on behalf of humans. However, the concept of today's robot has been extended to social robots that coexist with humans and enable social interaction with the advent of Smart technology, which is considered an important driver in most industries. Specifically, there are service robots that respond to customers, the robots that have the purpose of edutainment, and the emotionalrobots that can interact with humans intimately. However, popularization of robots is not felt despite the current information environment in the modern ICT service environment and the 4th industrial revolution. Considering social interaction with users which is an important function of social robots, not only the technology of the robots but also other factors should be considered. The design elements of the robot are more important than other factors tomake consumers purchase essentially a social robot. In fact, existing studies on social robots are at the level of proposing "robot development methodology" or testing the effects provided by social robots to users in pieces. On the other hand, consumer emotions felt from the robot's appearance has an important influence in the process of forming user's perception, reasoning, evaluation and expectation. Furthermore, it can affect attitude toward robots and good feeling and performance reasoning, etc. Therefore, this study aims to verify the effect of appearance of social robot and consumer emotions on consumer's attitude toward social robot. At this time, a social robot design evaluation model is constructed by combining heterogeneous data from different sources. Specifically, the three quantitative indicator data for the appearance of social robots from the ABOT Database is included in the model. The consumer emotions of social robot design has been collected through (1) the existing design evaluation literature and (2) online buzzsuch as product reviews and blogs, (3) qualitative interviews for social robot design. Later, we collected the score of consumer emotions and attitudes toward various social robots through a large-scale consumer survey. First, we have derived the six major dimensions of consumer emotions for 23 pieces of detailed emotions through dimension reduction methodology. Then, statistical analysis was performed to verify the effect of derived consumer emotionson attitude toward social robots. Finally, the moderated regression analysis was performed to verify the effect of quantitatively collected indicators of social robot appearance on the relationship between consumer emotions and attitudes toward social robots. Interestingly, several significant moderation effects were identified, these effects are visualized with two-way interaction effect to interpret them from multidisciplinary perspectives. This study has theoretical contributions from the perspective of empirically verifying all stages from technical properties to consumer's emotion and attitudes toward social robots by linking the data from heterogeneous sources. It has practical significance that the result helps to develop the design guidelines based on consumer emotions in the design stage of social robot development.

• 전기의세계
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• v.42 no.2
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• pp.23-28
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• 1993

작업안전 대책으로서는 기본적으로 인간존중을 바탕으로 안전관리를 추진해 나아가는 것이 가장 좋은 대책이지만 하루에 여러개소의 현장을 이동하고, 각 작업 현장의 형태가 달라질 수 있는 특별한 분야에 있어서는 매우 어려운 요소를 포함하고 있다. 따라서 조금이라도 이에 근접되도록 관계자는 연구와 노력을 계속하여야 하며, 배전작업용 로봇등을 적용하는 특수한 분야에서는 종합적이고 과학적인 방법을 도입하여 작업현장 안전대책을 수립하고 문제점을 적출하여 안전재해 예방에 최선을 다해야 할 것이다.