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A Study on the Areal Analysis of the Sports Center for the Disabled User (장애인의 이용을 고려한 스포츠시설의 면적현황 분석에 관한 연구)

  • Seong, Ki-Chang;Chai, Choul-Gyun;Kang, Tae-Sung
    • Journal of The Korea Institute of Healthcare Architecture
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    • v.14 no.4
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    • pp.31-38
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    • 2008
  • As people's interest in the increase of individual leisure time and health grows, their interest in sports is also growing day by day to improve their standards of living. In the midst of the social changes, people's awareness of the disabled's sports activities is changing as well. However, the disabled's full access to public sports centers is restricted due to the shortage of facilities, area and available programs in public sports centers including community gymnasiums. In order to solve this problem, rehabilitation sports centers have been built as part of public sports centers, but the number of rehabilitation sports centers is still small. Besides, the disabled find themselves uncomfortable when using rehabilitation sports centers because most of them are outdated and too small in size. To make matters worse, sports centers for the use of the disabled only have a negative effect on the disabled's making inroads into society by hampering them from being a part of social unification. This study made a comparative analysis on the areal state of indoor gyms and swimming pools, which are the main areal factors of rehabilitation sports centers and public sports centers. Based on this analysis, this study aims to propose a sports center use plan for both the disabled and non-disabled. As a result, the total floor area ratios of indoor gyms for the disabled were found to be higher than those of public sports centers. This is because many indoor gyms for the disabled are not well equipped with resting areas, auxiliary or supporting areas. Regarding swimming pools for the disabled, their total floor area ratios and areas were found to be lower than those of public sports centers because, in many cases, these swimming pools are used for the rehabilitation of the disabled in rehabilitation sports centers. For this reason, swimming area for individual leisure activity or hobby is insufficient.

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ATTITUDE OF DENTAL HYGIENE STUDENTS TOWARD THE DISABLED (치위생과 학생들의 장애인에 대한 태도)

  • Kwag, Jung-Suk;Woo, Seung-Hee
    • The Journal of Korea Assosiation for Disability and Oral Health
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    • v.7 no.1
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    • pp.1-10
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    • 2011
  • The purpose of this study was to examine the general attitude of dental hygiene students toward the disabled and their oral care in an effort to improve their awareness of the disabled and their accessibility to them and suggest some of the right directions for dental hygiene education related to dental treatment for the disabled. The subjects in this study were dental hygiene students at three different colleges located in South Jeolla Province. The general attitude of the selected students toward the disabled and their oral care were investigated from November 1 to December 20, 2007. The findings of the study were as follows: When their general attitude toward disabled people was checked, they agreed the most that there was nothing that the disabled lagged behind nondisabled people. Those who felt the need for that took a more positive attitude in eight items, and the differences between them and the others were significant. Whether they were cognizant of the necessity of dental treatment education for the disabled made the most significant differences to each variable of their attitude toward the oral care of disabled people, and those who were aware of the necessity showed a more positive attitude in five items. The differences between them and the others were significant. The findings of the study illustrated that the dental hygiene students took a relatively favorable attitude toward disabled people's oral health care, and that they hardly felt a sense of distance to them. So it can be predicted that they will get to take the right attitude to them in the future. Yet the dental hygiene curriculum should give more weight to dental treatment education for the disabled and offer more relevant information, since they didn't get high scores on positive attitude.

A Study on the Process of Forming Peer Relations between Students with Disabilities and Non-disabled Students

  • Cho, Woo-Hong;Joo, Young-Shin
    • Journal of the Korea Society of Computer and Information
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    • v.22 no.10
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    • pp.189-194
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    • 2017
  • The purpose of this study was to find out the necessary conditions and factors what effect as a society member through the students with disabilities to have a positive and mutual peer relationship with their classmates in the school and by them analyzed formation process and elucidate signification. The research method focused on the data summarized and enumerated through the investigation methods such as two in-depth interviews and two observation activities part, and the data which are commonly stated or observed in the data. The results of this study start that the factors of peer relationship formation between children with disabilities and their with non-disabled children are caused by lack of prejudice or lack of awareness. However, continuous cognizance improvement program, teacher's education guidance, the age have presence sense and subject about friend equating idea was mainly shown of school education or local community.

A Comparative Study of Disabled People's Welfare and Accessibility Facilities in Korea and Japan

  • Park Rae-Joon
    • The Journal of Korean Physical Therapy
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    • v.11 no.1
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    • pp.1-21
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    • 1999
  • Japanese welfare legislation for the disabled was enacted via Law 283 on December 26. 1956. The push for such legislation at the national level had gown concurrent with development of Japan's post-war economy Korean welfare law for disabled was made 22 years later and was again amended in 1989. The current legislation promotes and supports the legal welfare of the Koran disabled. The following are the results of a comparison between Korean and Japanese accessibility facilities and welfare law; 1) Japan's developement of disabled people's welfare law is inextricably linked to the development of disabled people's advocacy and the human rights movement. In addition, welfare policy has shifts its mandate from rehabilitation to independent living. It follows that local altitudes will play a pivotal role in further policy initiatives. Korean disabled people's welfare policy emerged hand in hand with economic recovery and development following the Korean War. By 1977 a special education law was enacted which-like it Japanese counterpart-promoted the education of disabled children. 2) Accessibility facilities were developed privately movement. The disabled faced constant and systematic disadvantages in public/private buildings and transportation systems. A general lack of cultural awareness and information relating ti these problems prevailed. These included-hut were by no means limited to sign language (for hearing the impaired) and braille(the language of blind). However, new attitudes and improvements have since emerged and new laws have resulted in the publication of Korean 'White Book' outlining the everyday problems faced by the disabled. In addition, mort convenient access facilities have been constructed in public and private buildings. In closing, legal support for the disabled, senior citizens and pregnant women continues to be improved by newer legislation enacted tin April 6, 1977.

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A Study on the Effect of Accessible Design Features of Housing and Public Facilities on the Quality of Life of People with Disabilities (주택과 공공시설에서의 접근가능한 디자인 요소가 장애인의 삶의 질에 미치는 영향에 관한 연구)

  • Lee, So-Young;Yoo, Sung-Eun
    • Korean Institute of Interior Design Journal
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    • v.21 no.1
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    • pp.3-10
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    • 2012
  • There is a growing awareness that physical barriers affect the level of independence of people with disabilities. Many researchers insist that barrier free design could influence independence living and quality of life of the disabled. The purpose of this study is to find out the effects of accessible design features of house and public facilities on quality of life of disabled people. A total of 189 questionnaires from the disabled who visited public welfare facilities was analyzed. In order to find out what variables among accessible features in housing and public spaces impact quality of life, multiple regression analysis was carried using SPSS 14. The results showed that accessible designs significantly influence quality of life of the disable. The main reason in which the disabled have difficulties when they move outside is a lack of accessible amenities and facilities. Particularly in house design, accessible main entrance route and accessible main entrance door, and removal of floor level significantly affects quality of life of the disabled. For public spaces, accessible main entrance and installation of ramp or removal of floor levels of main entrance and corridor increase quality of life people with disabilities. This paper suggested that the improvement in housing and public space, in which regulation or bylaws do not specify, should be made to increase accessibility for life quality of the disabled.

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Development of Disabled Parking System Using Deep Learning Model (딥러닝 모델을 적용한 장애인 주차구역 단속시스템의 개발)

  • Lee, Jiwon;Lee, Dongjin;Jang, Jongwook;Jang, Sungjin
    • Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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    • 2021.05a
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    • pp.175-177
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    • 2021
  • The parking area for the disabled is a parking facility for the pedestrian disabled and is a parking space for securing pedestrian safety passage for the disabled. However, due to the lack of social awareness of areas for the disabled, the use of parking areas is restricted, and violations such as illegal parking and obstruction of parking are increasing every year. Therefore, in this study, we propose a system to crack down on illegal parking in handicapped parking areas using the YOLOv5 model, a deep learning object recognition model to improve parking interference within parking spaces.

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A Study on the Non-use Factors of the Visually Disabled in Public Libraries (시각장애인의 공공도서관 비이용 요인에 관한 연구)

  • Oh, Seon-Kyung;Lee, Jee-Yeon
    • Journal of the Korean Society for Library and Information Science
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    • v.45 no.3
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    • pp.141-162
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    • 2011
  • In Korea, public libraries lack the adequate services for the visually disabled, and therefore the visually disabled rarely use public libraries. This study aims to secure the information accessibility and usage rights for the visually disabled, and to suggest solutions in order to vitalize their use of public libraries. For this aim, the researcher investigated the reasons why the visually disabled did not use public libraries, extracted the correlations between their awareness of public library services and their actual use, and then tried to propose how to secure their right to use libraries and access to information and knowledge and improve their use of public libraries.

A Study on the Factors of Using Intention of U-City Services for the Disabled to Reduce Ubiquitous Divide (유비쿼터스격차 해소를 위한 장애인의 U-City 서비스 사용의도에 영향을 미치는 요인에 관한 연구)

  • Lee, Mi-Gyeong;Kang, Ju-Young;Lee, Sang-Gun
    • The Journal of Information Systems
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    • v.17 no.2
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    • pp.95-112
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    • 2008
  • The development of the Information Technology(IT) has brought enormous change to the human life, not even only to the politics, economy, society, and cultures, but all the way through the people's consciousness and cultural patterns. However, the information society resulted information inequality issues and especially to those disabled people, who have more difficulties on the technology adaptation, the "digital divide" symptom is significantly found. At present the rapid development of IT has gone beyond the level of the information society and it is accelerating the ubiquitous society that will combine people, computers, and all objects into one. And during the time of ubiquitous the "digital divide" will still exist. This research is focused on the digital divide of disabled people that were insufficiently covered in the research of digital divide and ubiquitous. From the empirical study of the effect that the disabled contributes on the service usability in U-City, the factors of background of the digital divide, and the difference of such factors in types of sex, ages, disabled types, and disabled class, and finally how the ubiquitous divide of the disabled affects have been researched. Based on the proposed study model and by analyzing the model by structural equation, following resulted was gained. (1) With the TAM (TAM : Technology Acceptance Model), which is commonly used in the studies of IT devices and services, the digital divide of the disabled cases cannot be identified sufficiently since it is not eligible for Using Intention of U-City Services. (2) In case of the disabled, the mental factors like willingness to overcome the impediment and accessibility like environment to meet the information services and ability to access the services are more effective on Using Intention of U-City Services rather than TAM.

A Context Awareness System in the Disabled Persons Facilities Based on the USN (USN기반 장애인 시설내 상황인지 시스템)

  • Kim, Chang Gi;Lee, Sang Do;Seo, Jeong Min
    • Proceedings of the Korean Society of Computer Information Conference
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    • 2014.07a
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    • pp.407-410
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    • 2014
  • USN 기술은 센서 네트워크를 이용하여 각종 환경이나 상황정보를 수집하여 분석하고, 이를 이용하여 상황정보를 모니터링하는 시스템에 최적의 기술을 제공한다. 최근 중앙정부를 포함하여 지자체들은 이러한 USN 기술을 이용하여 각종 사회적 안전망을 구축하려는 계획을 갖고 있다. 특히 장애인들이 많은 시간을 보내는 장애인 복지관 등의 관련 시설에 USN 기술을 적용하여 장애인에게 유용한 정보를 제공하고, 서비스의 품질을 높이려는 전략은 매우 필요하나 현실적으로는 예산 등의 문제로 제대로 추진되지 못하고 있는 것이 현실이다. 이에 본 논문에서는 저가의 센서를 이용하여 USN을 구축하고, 이를 상황인식 시스템에 적용하는 시스템을 제안한다.

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The Disabled, What do you think about them ? : Using the Q Methodology (장애인, 당신은 어떻게 생각하십니까? : Q방법론을 활용하여)

  • Lee, Doh-Hee;Joo, Jeong-ah
    • The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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    • v.21 no.9
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    • pp.493-501
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    • 2021
  • This study started to examine the understanding and perception of 'disabled people' and 'non-disabled people', one of the dichotomous elements in the 21st century social integration era. In particular, for the analysis, Q-methodology, which should respond based on the respondent's inner self and perception, was used. For the analysis, 32 Q-statements were secured, and as a result of targeting 20 P-sample respondents, three types were derived as follows. In , statements such as 'A correct awareness of disability is necessary' and 'Disability can occur to anyone' are emphasized, so it was named 「Correct Perception Emphasis Type」. emphasized 'The life of the disabled is not easy' and 'The disabled need an opportunity to participate in society' and was named 「The Life of the Disabled Understanding Type」. emphasized statements such as 'Economic support is necessary for the disabled' and 'The welfare budget for the disabled must be sufficiently secured', and was named 「Institutional Support Emphasis Type」. Therefore, in addition to the necessity of correct recognition of disability and disability in our society, we expect this study result is to be priming water for improving the recognition of the disabled.