• 한국IT서비스학회지
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• 제19권1호
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• pp.113-127
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• 2020

Current web accessibility checks and automatic assessments have been pointed out that the assessment items and scores are evaluated from the developer's point of view rather than from the user's one. In addition, although most of the grades of an automatic assessment on the public web sites are excellent because they are built in accordance with the web accessibility development guidelines, not a few web sites shows relatively low grades in evaluating their usability test made by those users. Taking into account the inadequacy of these web accessibility assessments, this study has identified the differences between the grades of usability evaluations and automatic evaluations for people with low vision and analyzed the major factors affecting web accessibility usability evaluations using Repertory Grid Techniques. Also, the Hard Laddering method of the Means-End Chain theory was adopted to visualize the relationship between Attributes-Conferences-Value and a hierarchical value system analysis based on FGI(Focused Group Interview) to people with the low vision. This study proposed the measures to improve the current web accessibility automatic assessment allocation, expert evaluation criteria, and user task assessment. In particular, it is a web accessibility user evaluation model that can consider the web accessibility quality certification criteria and user review assessment by directly analyzing the user cognitive structure and value system. This study is expected to be useful as a research to enhance the quality of web accessibility assessment.

• 대한인간공학회지
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• 제22권3호
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• pp.1-11
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• 2003

The objective of this research is the development of the Automatic Subjective Assessment System (ASAS). The proposed subjective assessment system is designed to evaluate human emotion and sensibility (or "gamsung" in Korean terminology) with subjective responses of volunteers about the experiment of emotion and sensibility. Once volunteers enter their subjective responses about the experiment into the developed system, the proposed system can automatically generate statistical results of human emotion and sensibility using Statistical Package for the Social Sciences (SPSS). Then, the system stores the statistical results in the database which will be open to public through internet. The proposed system will be integrated into the universal" gamsung" assessment system for evaluation of human emotion and sensibility.

• 말소리와 음성과학
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• 제8권4호
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• pp.103-113
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• 2016

This paper aims to propose articulatory features as novel predictors for automatic pronunciation assessment of English produced by Korean learners. Based on the distinctive feature theory, where phonemes are represented as a set of articulatory/phonetic properties, we propose articulatory Goodness-Of-Pronunciation(aGOP) features in terms of the corresponding articulatory attributes, such as nasal, sonorant, anterior, etc. An English speech corpus spoken by Korean learners is used in the assessment modeling. In our system, learners' speech is forced aligned and recognized by using the acoustic and pronunciation models derived from the WSJ corpus (native North American speech) and the CMU pronouncing dictionary, respectively. In order to compute aGOP features, articulatory models are trained for the corresponding articulatory attributes. In addition to the proposed features, various features which are divided into four categories such as RATE, SEGMENT, SILENCE, and GOP are applied as a baseline. In order to enhance the assessment modeling performance and investigate the weights of the salient features, relevant features are extracted by using Best Subset Selection(BSS). The results show that the proposed model using aGOP features outperform the baseline. In addition, analysis of relevant features extracted by BSS reveals that the selected aGOP features represent the salient variations of Korean learners of English. The results are expected to be effective for automatic pronunciation error detection, as well.

• Smart Structures and Systems
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• 제24권3호
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• pp.319-332
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• 2019

Structural health monitoring (SHM) is of great importance to super high-rise buildings. The Shanghai Tower is currently the tallest building in China, and a complete SHM system was simultaneously constructed at the beginning of the construction of the tower. Due to the variety of sensor types and the large number of measurement points in the SHM system, an online automatic structural health assessment method with few computations and no manual intervention is needed. This paper introduces a structural health assessment method for the Shanghai Tower that uses the coefficients of an autoregressive (AR) time series model as structural state indicators. An analysis of collected data indicates that the coefficients of the AR model are affected by environmental factors, and the principal component analysis method is used to remove the influence of environmental factors. Finally, the control chart method is used to track the changes in structural state indicators, and a plan for online automatic structure health state evaluation is proposed. This method is applied to long-term acceleration and inclination data from the Shanghai Tower and successfully identifies the changes in the structural state. Overall, the structural state indicators of the Shanghai Tower are stable, and the structure is in a healthy state.

• PNF and Movement
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• 제17권2호
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• pp.329-337
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• 2019

Purpose: Ultrasound imaging is commonly used to measure the pennation angle of human skeletal muscles in vivo. However, manual assessment of the pennation angle using ultrasound images is subjective and time-consuming and requires a high level of examiner skill. The architectural analysis of human skeletal muscles is thus challenging. Automated approaches using image processing techniques are therefore required to estimate the pennation angle in ultrasound images. The purpose of this study was thus to assess the intra-tester and inter-tester reliability and validity of the pennation angle using an automatic measurement program. Methods: Twenty-two healthy young adults (mean age = 22.55 years) with no medical history of neurological or musculoskeletal disorders voluntarily participated in this study. Ultrasound imaging was used to measure the pennation angle of the gastrocnemius muscle at rest. One examiner acquired images from all the participants. The intra-tester and inter-tester reliability were evaluated using the intraclass correlation coefficient (ICC) to estimate reliability. Validity was measured using Pearson's correlation coefficient. Results: The intra-rater reliability was excellent for the automatic pennation angle measuring program and the manual pennation angle assessment method (ICC>0.95). The inter-rater reliability was also excellent for both methods (ICC>0.93). All the correlation coefficients for the automatic pennation angle measuring program and the manual pennation angle assessment method were 0.79, which indicated a significantly positive correlation (p<0.05). Conclusion: Pennation angle measurement using the automatic pennation angle measuring program showed acceptable reliability and validity. This study therefore demonstrated that the automatic measuring program was able to automatically measure the pennation angle of skeletal muscles using ultrasound images, and thus made it easy to investigate skeletal muscle architecture.

• 환경영향평가
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• 제11권2호
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• pp.109-116
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• 2002

The diagnostic and prognostic methods for generating 3 dimensional wind field were comparatively analyzed and 4 dimensional data assimilation (FDDA) technique by incorporating Automatic Weather System (AWS) into the prognostic methods was discussed for the urban scale air quality model. The A WS covered the urban scale grid distance of 10.6 km and 4.3 km in South Korea and Kyong-in region, respectively. This is representing that AWS for FDDA could be fairly well accommodated in prognostic model with the meso${\gamma}$~ microa scale (~5 km), indicating that the 3 dimensional wind field by FDDA technique could be a useful interpretative tool in urban area for the atmospheric environmental impact assessment.

• International Journal of Contents
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• 제9권2호
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• pp.66-69
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• 2013

In the U.S., performance assessment on the Automatic Exposure Control system (AEC) is managed according to the Mammography Quality Standards Act (MQSA). However, The AEC is not available in the performance assessment conducted in Korea. Also, there is no study made on the performance of the automatic exposure control system for mammography in Korea. For this reason, this study examined the performance of the automatic exposure control system for mammography that was clinically used in the Incheon area. Result showed that the difference of the mean optical density was 0.79 ~ 2.81. This implies that some devices caused unnecessary x-ray exposure to patients. Furthermore, only 61.5% of the entire experimental device was shown to be satisfactory in terms of change in mean optical density. Moreover, in terms of the subject's thickness, change in radiographic density was shown to be severe among lower X-ray tube voltage while there was severe density change in X-ray image depending on X-ray tube voltage among the subjects with more thickness. Therefore, it is suggested to provide performance management on the AEC for mammography.

• 환경영향평가
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• 제18권2호
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• pp.99-109
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• 2009

In general, manual calibration is commonly used for the stream water quality modelling. Because the manual calibration depends upon the subjectivity and experience of the researcher, it has a problem with the objectivity of the modelling. Thus, the interest about the automatic calibration by the optimization technique is deeply increased. In this study, Influence coefficient algorithm and Genetic algorithm are introduced to develop an automatic calibration model for the QUAL2K that are the latest version of the QUAL2E. Genetic algorithm, used in this study, is very simple and easy to understand but also applicable to any complicated mathematical problem, and it can find out the global optimum solution effectively. The developed automatic calibration model is applied to the Gangneung Namdaecheon. The calibration results about the 11 water quality variables show the good correspondence between the calculated and observed water quality values.

• 한국컴퓨터정보학회논문지
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• 제28권9호
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• pp.167-176
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• 2023

본 연구에서는 글자와 숫자를 기반으로 한 프로그래밍 자동 평가 시스템에서 그래프를 평가할 수 있는 그래프 평가 모듈을 설계 및 구현하였다. 그래프 평가 모듈의 평가 방법은 학습자가 제출한 코드와 모범 코드로 작성한 그래프, 평가 준거를 제시하는 자기 평가와 각각의 그래프 이미지를 배열로 변환하여 정답을 판정하고 오답일 경우 피드백을 제공하는 자동 평가이다. 그래프를 작성하는데 사용되는 데이터는 직접 입력하거나 외부 데이터를 불러올 수 있으며 평가할 수 있는 그래프 작성 방법은 matplotlib의 MATLAB 스타일이며 수학과 교육과정에서 제시된 그래프를 평가할 수 있다. 전문가 검토를 통해 평가 모듈의 내용 요소와 학습 가능성, 학습자의 요구에서 타당도를 갖춘 것으로 확인하였다. 본 연구에서 개발한 그래프 평가 모듈은 프로그래밍 자동 평가시스템 평가 영역을 확장하였고 학생들이 데이터 시각화를 익히는데 도움이 될 것으로 기대된다.

• 한국멀티미디어학회논문지
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• 제12권3호
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• pp.383-396
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• 2009

뼈 나이 측정은 소아의 내분비계 관련 질병 진단을 위해 소아과에서 널리 사용되는 방법이다. 그러나 전문 인력이 부족하여 자동화된 측정 방법에 대한 꾸준한 요구가 있었다. 따라서 본 논문에서는 패턴 인식기법을 이용한 자동화된 뼈 나이 측정 알고리즘을 제안한다. 제안하는 알고리즘은 X-ray 영상에서 손가락뼈의 각 부분을 자동으로 분류하는 과정과 분류된 뼈 영상으로부터 정규화된 형상 모델을 추출하는 과정, 그리고 정규화된 형상 모델로부터 뼈 나이를 측정하는 과정으로 구성된다. 제안하는 알고리즘은 능동 형상 모델(Active Shape Model: ASM)을 이용하여 나이 측정에 사용되는 특정값 추출의 정확도를 향상시켰으며, 뼈 나이 분류를 위해 사용된 Support Vector Machine(SVM)의 입력으로 정규화된 형상 모델로부터 얻어진 각 뼈의 크기와 비율을 특징값으로 사용하였다. 성능 평가를 위해서 한양대학교 부속병원에서 제공한 영상에 대해 전문가가 평가한 나이와 제안한 알고리즘을 이용하여 측정된 나이를 통계적으로 비교 분석하였다. 실험을 통하여 본 논문에서 제안한 특징값과 알고리즘으로 뼈 나이를 진단한 결과, 전문가에 의한 결과와 평균 0.679살의 오차 이내의 뛰어난 뼈 나이 측정 성능을 보였다.