• Korean Journal of Air-Conditioning and Refrigeration Engineering
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• v.20 no.4
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• pp.287-293
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• 2008

The purpose of this study was to clarify the effects of air and ceiling temperatures on a type of ceiling cooling system that involves cool water circulation. The experiment is conducted in summer. The subjects (11 young females) are exposed to the following conditions: combinations of air temperatures $(27^{\circ}C,\;29^{\circ}C,\;31^{\circ}C)$ and ceiling temperature of $(22.7^{\circ}C,\;23.7^{\circ}C,\;24.7^{\circ}C)$ in still air and RH 50%. The following results were obtained; the thermal sensation vote is neutral at a mean skin temperature of $34.5^{\circ}C$. The ceiling temperature affected different parts of the body. For example, the forehead, scapula and abdomen produced different skin temperatures. Thermal comfort vote was rated as comfortable at high temperature environment. The satisfaction from the ceiling temperature was valued comfortable zone in this experiment. Mean skin temperature showing higher thermal neutrality temperature than existing studies for floor and wall radiation cooling results.

• Journal of the Society of Cosmetic Scientists of Korea
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• v.44 no.2
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• pp.201-210
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• 2018

In this study, we formulated oil-in-water emulsion composition for skin care products containing jadeite powder which is well known as far-infrared radiating material. Jadeite powder could sustain stable dispersion in aqueous solvents over a month and this helped mixing it high content in oil-in-water emulsion formulation. To identify the effect of jadeite as a far-infrared radiator materials relating to the skin surface temperature change, we applied emulsion formulation containing 2 weight percent jadeite powder onto facial skin surface and blank formulation together and analyzed surface temperature with thermo-vision. Our results showed that the temperature difference between jadeite powder formulation applied region and blank formulation reached to 1.5 ~ 2.0 degree Celsius. We also performed same test with nephrite powder and titanium dioxide powder but only jadeite powder containing formulation showed significant skin temperature change. To elucidate main cause of heat energy transfer, we tested heat radiation, energy dispersive spectrometer analysis and measured far infrared radiance emissivity, diffuse reflectance spectra and water evaporation rate. We found out jadeite powder could retard water evaporation effectively from the skin surface and resist temperature drop down. This is because of the innate chemical composition and surface structure of jadeite, which can bind with water molecules to form hydrogen bonds. It is concluded that we can develop novel skin care products for moisturizing and thermos with jadeite powder.

• Science of Emotion and Sensibility
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• v.14 no.4
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• pp.503-512
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• 2011

Recently in HCI research, emotion recognition is one of the core processes to implement emotional intelligence. There are many studies using bio signals in order to recognize human emotions, but it has been done merely for the basic emotions and very few exists for the other emotions. The purpose of present study is to confirm the difference of autonomic nervous system (ANS) response in three emotions (boredom, pain, and surprise). There were totally 217 of participants (male 96, female 121), we presented audio-visual stimulus to induce boredom and surprise, and pressure by using the sphygmomanometer for pain. During presented emotional stimuli, we measured electrodermal activity (EDA), skin temperature (SKT), electrocardiac activity (ECG) and photoplethysmography (PPG), besides; we required them to classify their present emotion and its intensity according to the emotion assessment scale. As the results of emotional stimulus evaluation, emotional stimulus which we used was shown to mean 92.5% of relevance and 5.43 of efficiency; this inferred that each emotional stimulus caused its own emotion quite effectively. When we analyzed the results of the ANS response which had been measured, we ascertained the significant difference between the baseline and emotional state on skin conductance response, SKT, heart rate, low frequency and blood volume pulse amplitude. In addition, the ANS response caused by each emotion had significant differences among the emotions. These results can probably be able to use to extend the emotion theory and develop the algorithm in recognition of three kinds of emotions (boredom, surprise, and pain) by response measurement indicators and be used to make applications for differentiating various human emotions in computer system.

• Proceedings of the ESK Conference
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• 1997.04a
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• pp.203-211
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• 1997

본 연구는 기온$15^{\circ}C{\pm}1^{\circ}C$ $26^{\circ}C{\pm}1^{\circ}C$,습도$55%{\pm}5%$ 환경조건에서 손가락 끝마디 부분을 얼음물에 침지시킨후 구강온과 4부위 피부온, 손가락끝 피부온, 전신온냉감, 전신쾌적감, 손가락 끝 동통감의 변화를 젊은 남자 피험자와 노인남자 피험자를 대상으로 비교측정하고자 하였다. 본 학회에서는 젊은 남자피험자 그룹에 대하여 보고하고자 한다. 결과는 다 음과 같다. $15^{\circ}C{\pm}1^{\circ}C$에서 4부위 피부온을 보면 가슴과 상완은 손가락끝 침지시 약간 하강하고 다시 상승하지만 대퇴와 하퇴에서는 하강하고 그 상태가 유지된다. 특히 하퇴의 경우는 급격히 하강하는 경향을 보이고 있다. 손가락끝 피부온은 손가락 침지와 동시에 급격한 하강을 나타내나 손가락을 꺼낸후에 손가락 침지전의 온도로 회복되지는 않았다. 평균피부온을 보면 손가락 침지시 하강하는 경향을 보이고 있다. 전신 쾌적감은 약간 불쾌하게 나타났고, 전신온냉감은 서늘하다고나타났고 손가락끝의 동통 감은 매우 아프다고 나타났다. $26^{\circ}C{\pm}1^{\circ}C$에서 4부위 피부온을 보면 가슴 상완대퇴 하퇴 모두 손가락끝 침지시 약간 하강하고 낮은 상태로 유지되는 경향을 보이고 있다. 손가락끝 피부온은 손가락 침지시 급격한 하강을 나타내었고 손가락을 꺼낸후에도 침지의 온도로 회복이 되었다. 평균피부온은 손가락 침지후에 약간 하강하였지만 큰 차이는 없었다. 전신쾌적감은 약간 쾌적하게 나타났고 전신온냉감은 약간 따뜻하다라고 나타났으며 손가락끝의 동통감은 약간 아프다고쪽으로 나타났다.때문에 이를 디자인에 곧바로 적용시키기 어려운 점이 있다. 이에 본 연구는 기존의 바용성 평가를 위한 분석도구들이 갖는 문제 점들 해결하여 제품의 사용자 인터페이스 디자인 개발과정에서 활용할 수 있는 평가 분석도구를 개발하는 것을 목표로 한다. 이를 위해 첫째, 다양한 유형의 정보를 포함하는 비디오 정보를 선정하였따. 둘째, 데이터를 다양한 측면에서 추출할 수 있는 Data logger를 개발하였다. 셋째, 데이터를 시각적으로 정리하고 분석할 수 있는 도구를 제안한다. 마지막으로 인터페이스 디자인에서 여러 가지 디자인안을 도출해 내는 작업에 이용할 수 있는 종합화과정을 개발한다. 이러한 일련의 과정이 통합된 컴퓨터 시스템 안에서 이루어지도록 프로그램을 개발하여 정보의 유용성을 높일 수 있도록 한다.at the entropy index as a measurement of inter-business relatedness is not significant but technological relatedness index is significant. OLS estimates on pooled data were considerably different from FEM or REM estimates on panel data. By introducing interaction effect among the three variables for business portfolio properties, we obtained three findings. First, only VI (Vertical integration) has a significant positive correlation with ROS. Second, when using TFP growth as an depende

• Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society
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• v.14 no.8
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• pp.3925-3932
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• 2013

Emotion is closely related to the life of human, so has effect on many parts such as concentration, learning ability, etc. and makes to have different behavior patterns. The purpose of this paper is to extract important features based on physiological signals to recognize negative emotion. In this paper, after acquisition of electrocardiography(ECG), electroencephalography(EEG), skin temperature(SKT) and galvanic skin response(GSR) measurements based on physiological signals, we designed an accurate and fast algorithm using combination of linear discriminant analysis(LDA) and genetic algorithm(GA), then we selected important features. As a result, the accuracy of the algorithm is up to 96.4% and selected features are Mean, root mean square successive difference(RMSSD), NN intervals differing more than 50ms(NN50) of heart rate variability(HRV), ${\sigma}$ and ${\alpha}$ frequency power of EEG from frontal region, ${\alpha}$, ${\beta}$, and ${\gamma}$ frequency power of EEG from central region, and mean and standard deviation of SKT. Therefore, the features play an important role to recognize negative emotion.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics and Information Engineers
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• v.50 no.11
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• pp.206-216
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• 2013

The emotion plays a critical role in human's daily life including learning, action, decision and communication. In this paper, emotion discrimination classifier is designed to reduce system complexity through reduced selection of dominant features from biosignals. The photoplethysmography(PPG), skin temperature, skin conductance, fontal and parietal electroencephalography(EEG) signals were measured during 4 types of movie watching associated with the induction of neutral, sad, fear joy emotions. The genetic algorithm with support vector machine(SVM) based fitness function was designed to determine dominant features among 24 parameters extracted from measured biosignals. It shows maximum classification accuracy of 96.4%, which is 17% higher than that of SVM alone. The minimum error features selected are the mean and NN50 of heart rate variability from PPG signal, the mean of PPG induced pulse transit time, the mean of skin resistance, and ${\delta}$ and ${\beta}$ frequency band powers of parietal EEG. The combination of parietal EEG, PPG, and skin resistance is recommendable in high accuracy instrumentation, while the combinational use of PPG and skin conductance(79% accuracy) is affordable in simplified instrumentation.

• 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.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society for Emotion and Sensibility Conference
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• 1999.11a
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• pp.433-437
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• 1999

본 연구는 도로표면의 기복 또는 굴곡의 변화가 자동차 탑승자에게 미치는 자율신경계의 반응을 관찰하고자 하였다. 아스팔트, 시멘트, 비포장도로를 각각 30 km/h의 속력으로 정속 주행하면서 ECG, GSR, Skin Temperature 의 생리변화를 3분간 측정하였고, 주행 후에는 각각의 도로 주행시 느꼈던 감성의 변화를 주관적 평가지로 검정하였다. 건강한 5명의 지원자가 이 실험에 참여하였고 도로표면의 기복의 변화로부터 유발되는 감성에만 집중하도록 요구하여 다른 간섭효과로부터 유발되는 감성의 변화를 최소화하도록 하였다. 정차에 비해 각 도로 주행시 피험자는 아스팔트, 시멘트, 비포장도로 순서로 불쾌도와 긴장도가 증가하였다고 주관적 평가를 하였다. 또한 아스팔트, 시멘트, 비포장도로 순서로 평균 R-R 간격이 점차 감소하였고, GSR의 진폭은 증가하였으며, 피부온도는 감소하였다. 본 연구로부터 도로표면의 기복의 정도가 증가할수록 교감신경계가 활성화된다는 사실을 관찰할 수 있었고 이러한 결과는 주관적 평가결과와도 일치하였다.

• Journal of the Korean Society of Clothing and Textiles
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• v.26 no.1
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• pp.74-82
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• 2002

The present study is aimed to investigate the effect of the safety hat on the balance of body temperature by observation of the physiological response under hot working environment. The experiment was carried out in a climate chamber of 3$0^{\circ}C$, 50%RH for 70 minutes. To compare the two kinds of safety hat, 5 healthy male subjects worn safety hat without hole (called 'without hole') or safety hat with hole (called 'with hole') according to a randomized cross-over design. The main results of this study are as fellows: Rectal temperature and heart rate were significantly lower level in 'with hole'than in 'without hole'. The mean skin temperature was significantly higher in 'without hole'than in 'with hole'. Blood pressure were significantly low in 'with hole'. Sweat rate which was measured by weight loss before and after experiment was higher in 'without hole'. In subjective ratings, subjects replied more hot, more uncomfortable and more wet, they felt more fatigue in condition of 'without hole'. Work ability which was measured by a grip strength dynamometer was higher in 'with hole'. Safety hat which can be used for safety of the brain in work place is meaningful device of behavioral thermoregulatory response under the hot working environment. The safety hat which is designed for proper ventilation and hygiene can maintain the homeostasis of body temperature by releasing body temperature efficiently.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society for Emotion and Sensibility Conference
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• 2009.05a
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• pp.149-152
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• 2009

향에 대한 심리생리적 효과는 널리 알려져 있으며 다양한 연구방법을 통하여 보고되고 있다. 본 연구에서는 에센스 제품 향에 대한 심리적, 생리적 반응을 조사하고, 심리적 향 이미지와 생리적 변화간의 변화를 알아보았다. 실험은 피실험자의 EEG, ECG, SKT, GSR을 이용하였다. 실험 결과, 향 종류에 따른 중추신경반응을 뇌파로 측정하여 알파파의 활성을 비교한 결과, Relaxing Fragrance(Neuro $Fragrance^{TM}$) 및 뉴로 에센스, Grapefruit 향 조건에서 알파파의 활성 비율이 높았으며, 좌뇌보다는 우뇌에서 알파파의 활성도가 높았고 Relaxing Fragrance(Neuro $Fragrance^{TM}$)와 뉴고 에센스가 고른 알파파의 활성을 보였다. 향 종류에 따른 자율신경반응을 비교한 결과, 평균 R-R 간격은 Relaxing Fragrance(Neuro $Fragrance^{TM}$)와 뉴로 에센스 조건에서 무향에 비해서 증가하였다. 피부온도와 피부전기저항에서는 무향에 비해서 전체적으로 내려가는 경향을 띄였으며, Relaxing Fragrance(Neuro $Fragrance^{TM}$)와 뉴로 에센스 조건에서 가장 낮았다.