• Journal of Broadcast Engineering
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• v.25 no.4
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• pp.537-544
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• 2020

This paper proposes the creation of an android robot head based on the facial action coding system(FACS), and the generation of emotional expressions by FACS. The term android robot refers to robots with human-like appearance. These robots have artificial skin and muscles. To make the expression of emotions, the location and number of artificial muscles had to be determined. Therefore, it was necessary to anatomically analyze the motions of the human face by FACS. In FACS, expressions are composed of action units(AUs), which work as the basis of determining the location and number of artificial muscles in the robots. The android head developed in this study had servo motors and wires, which corresponded to 30 artificial muscles. Moreover, the android head was equipped with artificial skin in order to make the facial expressions. Spherical joints and springs were used to develop micro-eyeball structures, and the arrangement of the 30 servo motors was based on the efficient design of wire routing. The developed android head had 30-DOFs and could express 13 basic emotions. The recognition rate of these basic emotional expressions was evaluated at an exhibition by spectators.

• Transactions of the Korean Society of Mechanical Engineers B
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• v.39 no.2
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• pp.147-152
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• 2015

We designed, fabricated, and tested the capacitive microsensors for skin piloerection monitoring. The performance of the skin piloerection monitoring sensor was characterized using the artificial bump, representing human skin goosebump; thus, resulting in the sensitivity of $-0.00252%/{\mu}m$ and the nonlinearity of 25.9 % for the artificial goosebump deformation in the range of $0{\sim}326{\mu}m$. We also verified two successive human skin piloerection having 3.5 s duration on the subject's dorsal forearms, thus resulting in the capacitance change of -6.2 fF and -9.2 fF compared to the initial condition, corresponding to the piloerection intensity of $145{\mu}m$ and $194{\mu}m$, respectively. It was demonstrated experimentally that the proposed sensor is capable to measure the human skin piloerection objectively and quantitatively, thereby suggesting the quantitative evaluation method of the qualitative human emotional state for cognitive human-machine interfaces applications.

• Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society
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• v.12 no.9
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• pp.4257-4260
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• 2011

Hot spring water is underground water which naturally flows out to the earth's surface or is drilled for artificially and the water temperature should be higher than the region's average temperature for the year or underground water temperature of the earth's shallow strata of the region. Our nation stipulates that hot spring can be called if it is over $25^{\circ}C$. Generally, it is widely know that hot spring water has an effect on blood circulation, pain alleviation, soothing, and skin care and that its efficacy is mainly due to water temperature and a variety of minerals contained in water. The Onyang springs are the oldest spring district in our country and one of the most typical hot springs in this country. The current study found that there's no skin irritation through the skin irritation test applying hot spring water to cosmetic formulas, and that products using Onyang hot spring water showed an increase of 8.56% in epidermal water rate and a decrease of -67.74% in relative transepidermal water loss(TEWL), which indicates that cosmetics using Onyang hot spring water has an effecton skin improvement.

• Journal of the Society of Cosmetic Scientists of Korea
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• v.47 no.2
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• pp.179-184
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• 2021

Stratum corneum known as a skin barrier, which maintains water in skin, is the outer layer of the skin. Natural moisturizing factors (NMF) are one of the constituents in stratum corneum and amino acids are the highest components among NMF. In this study, we designed stearic acid-based solid lipid nanoparticles (SLNs) for improved skin penetration of serine (Ser). Ser-capsulated SLN was manufactured by double-melting emulsification method. The mean particle size and zeta potential of SLNs were 256.30 ~ 416.93 nm and -17.60 ~ -35.27 mV, respectively. The higher the degree of hydrophobicity or hydrophilicity of emulsifiers, the smaller the particle size and the higher the stability and capsulation rate. In addition, skin penetration was conducted using SkinEthic^TM RHE which is one of the reconstructed human epidermis models. The results of Ser penetration demonstrated that all SLNs enhanced than serine solution. The amount of enhanced Ser penetration from SLNs were approximately 4.1 ~ 6.2 times higher than that from Ser solution. Therefore, Ser-loaded SLN might be a promising drug delivery system for moisturizing formulation in cosmeceutical.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society for Emotion and Sensibility Conference
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• 2001.05a
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• pp.104-108
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• 2001

복사에 의한 냉난방은, 장시간 재실하는 방이나 소음, 기류에 민감한 장소에 적합하고 에너지 절약면에서도 유효한 냉난방 방식이라고 알려져 있다. 일반적으로 널리 알려져 있는 바닥난방은 실온의 수직분포가 균일함으로서 인체에 쾌적한 난방방식으로 알려져 있다. 이것에 비해, 바닥의외의 벽, 천장을 활용한 냉난방설비의 쾌적성에 대해서는 아직 충분히 검토되고 잇지 않다. 따라서 본 연구는 물순환식 복사 냉난방장치를 이용하여 겨울철의 천장복사난방이 인체에 미치는 생리적, 심리적영향을 밝히고 복사난방의 유용성에 대해서 검토하는 것을 목적으로 한다. 실험은 일본 나라여자대학 인공기후실을 이용하였고, 실험조건은 실온 18$^{\circ}C$, 21$^{\circ}C$, 24$^{\circ}C$ 천장온도 $25^{\circ}C$, 3$0^{\circ}C$, 35$^{\circ}C$의 조건을 조합하여 7조건으로 설정하였다. 또, 상대 습도 40%, 기류속도 0.1m/s 이하로 일정하게 유지시켰다. 생리적반응으로는 피부온14점과 직장온을 30초 간격으로 측정하였고, 혈압, 심박수, 체중, 체지방율을 측정하고 심리적반응으로는 온열감, 쾌적감등의 항목을 10분간격으로 측정하였다.

• KSBB Journal
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• v.23 no.1
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• pp.8-17
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• 2008

There are many different approaches to healing of acute and chronic ulcer and large skin defect, such as burn. Currently available wound covers fall into two categories. Permanent covering, such as autografts, and temporary ones, such as allograft including de-epidermized cadaver skin, bioartificial skin, xenografts, and synthetic dressings. Autologous skin grafting in the form of split- or full-thickness skin is still the good standard. Following on from developments in the 1980s involving the use of cultured keratinocyte grafts in wound healing, the last decade has been great progress in the fabrication of composite bioartificial skin grafts. However, two bottleneck on producing cultured bioartificial skin, whether of the simple epithelial cell sheet type, or the more complex composite type, continue to be the generation of sufficient keratinocytes cheaply and quickly and develop biocompatible dermal scaffolds. This article covers the development, clinical application, and current research directions associated with bioartificial skin.

• Electrical & Electronic Materials
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• v.7 no.5
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• pp.438-446
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• 1994

인류는 지금 2차석기시대를 맞이하고 있으며 이 시대는 인공으로 만들어지는 돌인 세라믹이 단순히 용기나 도구로 사용되는 것 이외에 정보화사회에 있어서 기술의 관건이 될 지능소자로서 사용되고 있다. 세라믹은 내열성, 내식성, 내마모성이라는 특성으로 인해 많이 이용되어 왔지만 이러한 특성 이외에도 전자적 기능, 광학기능, 화학기능 등 "두뇌"도 우수한 재료라 할 수 있다. 더구나 세라믹은 인간을 대신하여 감지하는 것이 가능한 각종 센서로서도 폭넓게 이용되고 있다. 인간에 있어서 눈, 코, 귀, 혀, 피부 등 오감이 센서이며, 눈은 물체를 식별하는 것으로 빛을 검출하고 귀는 소리를 듣는 것으로 압력과 음파를 검출하고, 코는 냄새로 가스나 온도를 검출하고, 혀는 맛으로 미각을 검출하고, 피부는 촉각에 의한 압력, 온도, 습도를 검출하며, 인간의 오감에 대응되지 않는 것으로 세라믹 센서는 자기장을 감지할 수 있다. 이와같이 센서는 용도에 따라 수많은 센서가 개발되어 그 종류가 대단히 많기 때문에 모든 센서에 대해서 기술한다는 것은 어렵다. 그러므로 여기서는 센서중에서 기본적인 가스센서와 습도센서에 대해 소개하기로 한다. 소개하기로 한다.

• Applied Chemistry for Engineering
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• v.34 no.2
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• pp.161-169
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• 2023

In this study, we prepared naproxen (NP) imprinted biodegradable polymer based multi-layer biomaterials using allbanggae starch (ABS), polyvinyl alcohol (PVA), and alginic acid (SA), and investigated their physicochemical properties and the controlled drug release effects. In addition, the prepared multi-layer biomaterials were characterized by FE-SEM and FT-IR. In order to confirm the controlled drug release effect for the transdermal drug delivery system (TDDS), the NP release properties of NP imprinted multi-layer biomaterials were investigated using various pH buffer solutions and artificial skin at 36.5 ℃. The results of NP release in various pH buffer solutions indicated that the NP release at high pH was about 1.3 times faster than that at low pH. In addition, NP release in multi-layer biomaterials was about 4.0 times slower than that in single-layer biomaterials. It was confirmed that the NP release rate in triple-layer biomaterials was 4.0 times slower than that in single-layer biomaterials while using artificial skin. Also, it could be found that NP in double-layer biomaterials and triple-layer biomaterials was released sustainably for 12 h. The NP release mechanism in pH buffer solutions followed the Fickian diffusion mechanism, but followed the non-Fickian diffusion mechanism with artificial skin.

• Microbiology and Biotechnology Letters
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• v.21 no.4
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• pp.381-391
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• 1993

As the first stage of development of an artificial skin, fibroblasts were cultured in the collagen matrices to make a living dermal equivalent. Mouse embryonic fibroblasts were incorporated into a collagen matrices on plastic dishes containing concentrated DMEM culture media supplemented with sodium bicarbonate, hepes, antibiotics and fetal bovine serum. As the growth stimulation components, glycosaminoglycans were added: hyaluronic acid, chondroitin sulfate, heparin, chitosan were incorporated into the media at a concentration of either 1% or 5% w/w/ to collagen in order to investigate the effect on development of dermal equivalent. After the few days of incubation, gel matrics were contracted and firm dermal equivalent were formed. And the keratinocytes were cultured on top of dermal equivalent and make a three dimensional artificial skin tissue.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Surface Engineering Conference
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• 2016.11a
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• pp.167.2-167.2
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• 2016

금(Au) 및 금의 합금도금은 주로 극히 얇고 색상만 나타내는 정도의 장식용으로 많이 사용되고 있으나 단순한 장식품뿐만 아니고 스마트폰, 정보통신 서버, 전자기기, 자동차, 전지용에도 널리 사용되고 있다. 특히 로켓공업이나 인공위성의 와곽부, 엔진에는 필수적이다. 현재 미국의 금도금액 85%는 전자부품과 인공위성(NASA) 등의 공업용에 사용되고 있다. 금도금의 이용가치는 주로 내식성이며 전기저항이 작고 열전도성이 뛰어나 전기접전부에 필수적으로 사용해야만 한다. 또한 2007년 유럽의 RoHS규정에 의해 피부에 접촉하는 팔찌, 귀걸이, 목걸이, 반지 등의 디자인 액세서리 제품에 있어서도 종래의 6가 크롬이나, 납, 수은, 카드뮴 사용이 금지되었다. 종래의 산성, 알칼리성, 중성 금도금에서는 주로 시안(Cyan) 기반의 전처리 탈지액이 사용되고 있어 작업환경에도 유해하며 생산성 감소로 이어지고 있다. 이에 전해 금도금 전처리 탈지공정을 개선함으로써 품질불량 20%감소와 함께 작업환경 개선으로 생산성 30%향상을 기대할 수 있다.