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Accessibility Analysis of Android-based Smart Phones Targeted at People with Upper Limb Dysfunctions (상지기능 장애인을 대상으로 한 안드로이드 기반 스마트 폰의 입력 접근성 분석)

  • Kim, Kyung Sik;Song, Byung Seop
    • Journal of rehabilitation welfare engineering & assistive technology
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    • v.10 no.4
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    • pp.267-272
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    • 2016
  • In the era of ultra high speed information communication technology represented by Smart phone and Tablet PC, the disable and the aged people came to be in a position of so-called 'relatively weak people' in the field of information communication due to inconvenience of use and difference in information acquisition and processing ability. Thus, a survey was conducted on Smart phone accessibility items based on previous studies of the disabled with crippled disorder, brain lesions, myelopathy and muscular disabilities having more inconvenience relatively in their use of smart phone due to upper limb dysfunctions. Especially, people with upper limb dysfunctions with relatively weak grip had big inconvenience in the conditions of uses requiring actions such as grabbing and rotating the devices, and due to the characteristics of touch screen input method of Smart phone, they had big inconvenience due to a lack of a guidance for keyboard in input. As a result of questionnaires by the type of disability, it turned out that severe myelopathy causes the most inconvenience in using smart phone.

Development of Digital Textbook for Middle School Career and Vocational Education of Basic Curriculum (기본교육과정 중학교 진로와 직업 교과 디지털 교재 개발)

  • Ryu, M.O.;Moon, S.J.;No, J.A.
    • Journal of rehabilitation welfare engineering & assistive technology
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    • v.9 no.3
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    • pp.203-208
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    • 2015
  • In this study, a digital textbook was developed for effective career and vocational education of students with disabilities. The contents of developed digital textbook consisted of 'lesson 15: Sale(1)' of middle school career and vocational education of basic curriculum. It progresses six periods and each topic activities are composed of open learning, learning activity 1, learning activity 2, and organized learning in order. NamoPubTreeEditor Program was used to develop the text book in the study, digital textbooks were designed to be compatible with various devices including smartphone of android operating system, Tablet PC, the iOS system, iphone, ipad, etc. In addition, it was designed to offer a variety of learning materials such as sale multimedia materials, glossary, evaluation questions, and linked data related to sale, supported self-motivated learning. allowed students to evaluate their study for the learning of students with disabilities.

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Design and Implementation Endoscope System for Endotracheal Intubation (기관 내 삽관을 위한 내시경 시스템 설계 및 구현)

  • Kim, H.S.;Kang, S.K.;Kim, G.Y.;Han, Y.H.
    • Journal of rehabilitation welfare engineering & assistive technology
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    • v.9 no.2
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    • pp.153-160
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    • 2015
  • With the development of recent IT fusion technology, IT fusion technology of medical equipment has been dramatically development. The need to most basic preferential implementation of emergency is the respiration of the patient, it is necessary to first aid is maintained in emergency patients airway simultaneously. However, to the endotracheal intubation is a procedure to secure the airway, it requires experience and first aid, Inc. good career, very that may lead to sequelae in patients who otherwise have failed to procedures It is a sensitive and important procedure. For these reasons, the success rate of current endotracheal intubation technique is not at a high level and about 50 percent. In an attempt to complement these problems, in this paper, in the process of endotracheal intubation, intubated by inserting an endoscopic camera to Into Activation tube, the streaming is a real-time monitoring and wireless video transmission method using, there is a purpose of enabling the monitoring in smart devices increase the success rate of endotracheal intubation of first aid purchases.

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The study of the impact of using hearing aids on job satisfaction and daily life satisfaction of hearing-impaired workers (보청기 사용이 청각장애인 근로자의 직무만족도와 일상생활만족도에 관한 연구)

  • Hong, J.A.;Lee, S.D.;Yeum, D.M.
    • Journal of rehabilitation welfare engineering & assistive technology
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    • v.7 no.1
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    • pp.67-72
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    • 2013
  • Data from Panel Survey of Employment for the Disabled(4th year, 187 workers) was used for analyzing the difference between hearing aid users and nonusers for their job satisfaction and daily life satisfaction. The analyses result shows that there are no significant differences in both job satisfaction and daily life satisfaction between hearing aid users and nonusers. However, job satisfaction of hearing aid users has a positive role in daily life satisfaction. Although hearing aids to the hearing impaired played very important role, it was thought to be resulted that some influence factors such as the increase of using IT devices and the expansion of communication support services weren't applied because of the nature of the panel data. These limitations of the study and implications are presented at the conclusion.

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Development of Device Management and Safety Diagnosis Manual for Electrical Stimulating Swallowing-Assist Equipments (전기적 자극방식 삼킴 보조 치료기의 장비관리/안전진단 매뉴얼 개발)

  • Heo, S.Y.;Choi, B.G.;Rhee, G.M.
    • Journal of rehabilitation welfare engineering & assistive technology
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    • v.8 no.2
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    • pp.79-88
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    • 2014
  • In Republic of Korea, there are considerable vulnerability in electrical stimulating swallowing-assist equipments even though they are professional medical equipments and have high penetration rate with heavy frequency of use. Therefore, in this article, we developed Device Management and Safety Diagnosis Manual for Electrical Stimulating Swallowing-Assist Equipments system. For achieving this, we collected and analysed international standard data from international organizations like International Electrotechnical Commission(IEC). After literature reviews, we build maintenance worksheet and equipment procedure manual for electrical stimulating swallowing-assist equipments according to evidences we collected. These manual and protocol would be used as standard process and contribute to sustain accuracy, effectiveness of the devices, also decrease failure rate and assist to save medical documents.

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A Study on the Correlation between Job performance and Vocational abilities of People with developmental disabilities (발달장애인의 직무수행도와 직업능력의 상관관계 연구)

  • Kim, Mi-Jung
    • Journal of the Korea Convergence Society
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    • v.12 no.12
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    • pp.427-434
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    • 2021
  • This study was conducted to investigate the job-performance of manual wheelchair post-management and to find out the relationship between job-performance and vocational ability of people with developmental disabilities. In this study, situational evaluation and vocational evaluation were conducted for 9 subjects participated in the vocational training program about manual wheelchair post-management. The data was analyzed by non-parametric statistical processing. As a result, the job-performance was an average of 80.87%. The job-performance had a positive correlations with visual closure, kinesthetic integration, and basic concepts(p<.05). The relationship between job-performance and vocational abilities can be used as basic data for vocational training program and job assignment. It is expected to be useful of spreading the post-management job for assistive technology devices in the local community activated through the convergence of assistive technology and vocational rehabilitation.

Refractory Coronary Artery Spasm after Minimally Invasive Direct Coronary Artery Bypass Grafting

  • Ju, Min-Ho;Kim, Joon-Bum;Kim, Hee-Jung;Choo, Suk-Jung
    • Journal of Chest Surgery
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    • v.44 no.4
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    • pp.288-291
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    • 2011
  • Postoperative coronary arterial spasm is a rare but potentially fatal complication. A 51-year-old male patient with a history of a reactive ergonovine stress test coronary angiogram developed refractory coronary artery spasm after undergoing minimally invasive direct coronary artery bypass grafting of the left anterior descending coronary artery. The patient was successfully managed with rapid implementation of intra-aortic balloon-pump counter pulsation and extracorporeal membrane oxygenation.

Design of Acoustic Aware System based on Haptic Device for Hearing Handicapped Person (청각장애인을 위한 촉각 기반 정보전달 시스템 설계)

  • Kwak, Chul-Hyun;Kim, Min-Ho;Kim, Joo-Youn;Kim, Keon-Wook
    • Proceedings of the IEEK Conference
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    • 2008.06a
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    • pp.865-866
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    • 2008
  • Despite the effort for affording hearing handicapped persons facility for living, the investigation of assistive devices which recognize the out of sight circumstance has been studied insignificantly. In this paper, a novel acoustic-aware system is suggested to forward the sudden noise occured by the appearance of a new context to a hearing-impaired persons.

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A Study on the Improvement of Domestic Medical Device Product Classification through Analysis of Medical Device Classification System in the U.S. and Europe (미국 및 유럽 의료기기 품목분류 체계 분석을 통한 국내 의료기기 품목분류 개선 연구)

  • Kang Hyeon, You;Ji Min, Son;Gyeong Min, Kwon;You Rim, Kim;Hui Sung, Lee;Won Seuk, Jang
    • Journal of Biomedical Engineering Research
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    • v.44 no.1
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    • pp.73-79
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    • 2023
  • The purpose of this study is to derive medical devices with different management systems through comparison of domestic and overseas medical device product classification systems and to propose management conversion measures for the products. The definitions of medical devices were compared and the scope of medical devices defined by each country was confirmed through surveys of the Medical Device Act, Federal Food, Drug & Cosmetics Act (FD&C) in the U.S., and Medical Device Regulations (MDR) in Europe. Using the Ministry of Food and Drug Safety's regulations on medical device products and grades, 21 CFR part 860-892 and product code classification files in U.S., and EMDN in Europe as basic data to compare medical device products and derive medical devices with different management systems. As a result of comparing the definition and product classification systems of medical devices in Korea, the U.S. and Europe, medical device accessories, prosthetic limbs and aids among assistive devices for persons with disabilities, drugs, quasi-drugs and industrial products that are not managed by medical devices in Korea are managed as medical devices in the U.S. and Europe. This study aims to improve public health by securing systematic product safety management and essential performance under medical device regulations. Management within a single medical device system will increase the efficiency of licensing work of domestic medical device manufacturers and related organizations. It is also expected to help advance the system according to the international harmony of the item classification system and enhance smooth import and export competitiveness.

Development of IoT Smart Mobility Service Design for People with Disabilities in the Era of Digital Transformation (디지털 트랜스포메이션 시대 교통약자를 위한 IoT 스마트 모빌리티 서비스 디자인 개발)

  • Lee, Woong-Hee;Kim, Jung-Woo
    • The Journal of the Institute of Internet, Broadcasting and Communication
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    • v.21 no.1
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    • pp.163-173
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    • 2021
  • In the era of digital transformation, the transportation underprivileged remains as an underprivileged class without the benefits of technological advances. Electric assist devices for the People with disability are inadequate to provide services suitable for the current traffic environment, although the mobility of the People with disability is improved. In this paper, we develop IoT smart mobility by deriving essential elements through user satisfaction surveys to efficiently move physical distances based on the experience of users using existing electric assistive devices. Based on the data collected through user satisfaction survey, quantitative analysis using TF-IFD and qualitative analysis based on QFD are performed to determine the importance of user requirements. For the evaluation of IoT smart mobility design results reflecting essential functions, usability verification is conducted by forming an expert evaluation team in various fields. In the future, we plan to conduct a service design study that can improve mobility convenience and provide mobility service solutions by designing to provide efficient public services by utilizing IoT smart mobility to the People with disability.