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A Modeling of Ubiquitous Environments Reflecting User's Behaviors in the House (주택 내에서의 사용자 행위 분석을 이용한 유비쿼터스 환경 구축 - 거실공간을 중심으로 -)

  • Lee, Dong-Hwa;Park, Sung-Jun;Lee, Hyun-Soo
    • Proceeding of Spring/Autumn Annual Conference of KHA
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    • 2005.11a
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    • pp.63-66
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    • 2005
  • The purpose of this study is to suggest the modeling of ubiquitous environments according to the analysis of user's behaviors focused on the living area within the house. Recently, with appearing 'Ubiquitous environments', the applications of ubiquitous technologies on the our environment adopt a new paradigm. This new paradigm leads to the possibility of creating more intellectual dwelling environment according to user's behaviors. This paper suggests to change our dwelling by considering both engineering technology and the character of dwelling, because the house should provide causes humans with comfortability. Therefore, we need to understand user's behaviors in the dwelling, towards user friendly environment. Also, it very important for us to configure proper sensors and technologies by the priority based on user's behaviors. To sum up, this study is aimed to analyze user's behaviors and then, to suggest the guideline for users offering optimal ubiquitous environments.

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Present status and prospects of automotive industry in the world (세계 자동차공업의 현황과 장래)

  • 한영출
    • Journal of the korean Society of Automotive Engineers
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    • v.5 no.4
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    • pp.23-33
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    • 1983
  • 급속한 산업발달과 도시인구의 집중화로 자동차의 이용도가 높아져 이를 육지의 교통 및 수송 수단으로 가장 널리 사용하고 있는 현실이다. 자동차는 1886년 독일의 다이믈러가 사륜가솔린 자동차를 발명한 이래 1913년 미국의 헨리,포오드가 대량생산으로 만들어 개인화가 시작되어 오늘에 이르기까지 끊임없이 발전을 거듭해 왔다. 더욱이 자동차공업은 기계, 금속, 전자, 화학 공업 등이 총망라된 종합공업으로 이들 공업의 발달에 병행하여 모든 산업분야의 발전에 크게 기여해 왔다. 특히 전자공업의 발달에 따라 자동차 생산제공정의 자동조작과 자동차 자체의 작 동에도 많은 컴퓨터 시스템의 이용이 두드러지고 있다. 최근에 들어 에너지위기와 공해문제의 대두로 연료절약(fuel saving) 및 저공해(low pollution)의 자동차 생산에 많은 연구개발이 집중 되며 또한 쾌적성(comfortability), 조향안정성(maneuverability), 내구성(durability), 신뢰 성(reliability)등 까지 중요한 연구개발테마로 하여 많은 발전을 계속하고 있다. 본 고에서는 현재 자동차공업의 선진국인 미국, 일본을 중심으로 유럽 여러나라들의 자동차공업의 현황과 자동 차공업이 직면한 사회적 문제 및 장래의 전망에 대하여 통계적 수치를 중심으로 고찰하고자 한 다.

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Velocity Pattern Generation for the Position Control Elevator (엘리베이터 위치제어를 위한 속도패턴 발생)

  • 김경서;박창훈;강기호;한권상
    • The Transactions of the Korean Institute of Power Electronics
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    • v.4 no.6
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    • pp.616-623
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    • 1999
  • Elevator velocity pattern is basL'C! on combining the time-based velocity pattern according to which the car m trip from starting position to vicinity of target position, and distance-based velocity pattern for precise landing ( of car. To obtain the lide comfortability, the impact caused by velocity pattern switching should be minimizLD b by removing the discontinuity of velocity and acceleration. In this paper, new velocity pattern generation m method which ensure the continuity of velocity and acceleration during pattern switching is proposed. P ProPOSLD velocity pattern also shorten the landing time to the target position.

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A Configuration Methods of Sensor Reflecting User's Behaviors in the Ubiquitous House (유비쿼터스 주택에서의 사용자 행위에 따른 센서 기기 구성방법에 관한 연구 - 시나리오에 따른 사용자 행위 분석을 기반으로 -)

  • Lee, Dong-Hwa;Park, Sung-Jun;Lee, Hyun-Soo
    • Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Interior Design Conference
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    • 2005.10a
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    • pp.111-114
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    • 2005
  • The purpose of this study is to suggest configuration methods of sensor according to user's behaviors in the ubiquitous house. Recently, with appearing the concept of 'Ubiquitous', the applications of ubiquitous technologies on the our environment adopt a new paradigm. This new paradigm leads to the possibility of creating more intellectual dwelling environment according to user's behaviors. This paper suggests to change our dwelling by considering both engineering technology and considering the character of dwelling, because the house should provide causes humans with comfortability. Therefore, we need to understand user's behaviors in the dwelling, towards user friendly environment.

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Vehicle tire Noise/Vibration Characteristic Analysis using SEA(Statistical Energy Analysis) (SEA를 이용한 승용차 타이어의 소음/진동 특성 해석)

  • 김윤철;채장범;강기석;이상주;이승규
    • Proceedings of the Korean Society for Noise and Vibration Engineering Conference
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    • 2001.11b
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    • pp.719-724
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    • 2001
  • The study on reducing vehicle noise and vibration has gained much attention to ensure the comfortability as well as the safety. These days. in this paper, we applied Statistical Energy Analysis(SEA) to characterize the tire assembly, which is useful analytical tool for mid- and high-frequency range. First, the SEA tire model was developed by dividing the tire and the wheel into several subsystems. The material properties were estimated experimentally. Finally. the SEA model was validated by comparing the estimated and the measured. In addition, we investigated the energy level and the energy transfering paths through the tire assembly in different frequency region.

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Stochastic Model Predictive Control for Stop Maneuver of Autonomous Vehicles under Perception Uncertainty (자율주행 자동차 정지 거동에서의 인지 불확실성을 고려한 확률적 모델 예측 제어)

  • Sangyoon, Kim;Ara, Jo;Kyongsu, Yi
    • Journal of Auto-vehicle Safety Association
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    • v.14 no.4
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    • pp.35-42
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    • 2022
  • This paper presents a stochastic model predictive control (SMPC) for stop maneuver of autonomous vehicles considering perception uncertainty of stopped vehicle. The vehicle longitudinal motion should achieve both driving comfortability and safety. The comfortable stop maneuver can be performed by mimicking acceleration profile of human driving pattern. In order to implement human-like stop motion, we propose a reference safe inter-distance and velocity model for the longitudinal control system. The SMPC is used to track the reference model which contains the position uncertainty of preceding vehicle as a chance constraint. We conduct simulation studies of deceleration scenarios against stopped vehicle in urban environment. The test results show that proposed SMPC can execute comfortable stop maneuver and guarantee safety simultaneously.

Patients Preference for Korean Medicine Doctors' Attire: a Survey of Outpatients at a University Hospital (한방병원 외래 환자의 한의사 복장에 따른 선호도에 관한 연구 - 한의사 복장에 따른 선호도에 관한 연구 -)

  • Ryu, Han-Sung;Lee, In;Han, Chang Woo;Kim, So Yeon;Hong, Jin Woo;Park, Seong Ha;Kwon, Jung Nam;Choi, Jun-Yong
    • Journal of Society of Preventive Korean Medicine
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    • v.17 no.3
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    • pp.155-164
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    • 2013
  • Purpose : This study was conducted to assess whether Korean medicine doctors' attire influences patients' preference (confidence, comfortability, neatness) in a university hospital. Materials and Methods : Employing a cross-sectional design, outpatients answered a questionnaire in a university hospital of Korean Medicine. Respondents were asked for completing the questionnaire to estimate their preference of doctor's attire for confidence, comfortability and neatness after watching 4 types of attire in both male and female Korean medicine doctors, including white coat, traditional attire, formal suit and casual clothes. Whether Korean medicine doctors' attire on a patients' preference is important was also asked for the respondents using a 5-point Likert scale. Results : All 175 patients were enrolled, of whom 38.9% were male respondents, 46.3% graduated from a university at least and mean age of responders was 47.1. Most had a tendency for preferring white coat followed by traditional attire and only a small portion of respondents preferred for formal suit and casual clothes. When comparing preferences in confidence between white coat and traditional attire only, male patients preferred white coat more than female patients did with statistical significance. In addition, 85.4% of respondents answered that Korean medicine doctors' attire is important to a clinical situation with higher ratio of female respondents (87.9%) than male respondents (80.9%). Conclusion : Patients preferred white coat and traditional attire mostly for the Korean Medicine doctor's attire with only small preference for formal suit and casual clothes. Also, Patients recognized that Korean medicine doctors' attire is important in the clinical situation.

A Study on Middle School Student Users' Perceptions of Spatial Characteristics of School Libraries as Reading Spaces (독서공간으로서 학교도서관 공간특성 요소에 대한 중학생 이용자 인식에 관한 연구)

  • Munji Jeong;Jee Yeon Lee
    • Journal of the Korean Society for information Management
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    • v.40 no.4
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    • pp.229-257
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    • 2023
  • This study aims to understand students' perceptions of the spatial characteristics of school libraries when they use them for reading. We selected a set of spatial characteristics by reviewing the literature and conducting a preliminary investigation. Then, we examined how students perceived the importance of and how satisfied they were with each characteristic. In addition, we investigated how students' perceptions differ by the library uses and reading-related activities. We also studied whether the satisfaction of school library users affects their continued use of the libraries. We also verified whether school library user satisfaction is an intervening variable in continued-use intention, which is affected by spatial characteristics perception. We conducted a survey of 342 students from four middle schools. The analysis of the survey outcomes shows differences in library use due to spatial characteristics such as convenience, communicability, diversity, and safety. Factors such as communicability, comfortability, and ambience affected user satisfaction positively. Both aesthetics and communicability also positively influenced the continued-use intention. Furthermore, we identified that communicability, comfortability, and ambience eventually impacted the continued-use intention via user satisfaction, an intervening variable. The significance of this study is that it considered the direction of the school library to support students' reading by regarding the school library as a space for reading.

Design Development of Outdoor Wear for Trail Running (트레일 러닝을 위한 아웃도어 웨어 디자인 개발)

  • Kim, Yoon
    • Journal of the Korean Society of Costume
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    • v.65 no.3
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    • pp.151-166
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    • 2015
  • This research aims to study the needs of the trail runners as trail running has become a popular outdoor activity, and give suggestions for high functional outdoor menswear design that can satisfy the needs of the highly demanding taste of runners. The design development is as follows: 1) The design had to be made of lightweight material and be easily packable in all situations, and 2) we also considered the ergonomic and compact fit for activity, 3) the functional location of high functional fabric, 4) the reflective use and layering system giving a wide range of outdoor workout time and 5) the trend in 2016 S/S active sports and outdoor wear. Based on the above elements, the men's outdoor wear design has been developed for trail running in spring and summer. The design development includes a total of 7 items. The design focused on lightweight, availability of packaging, "comfortability" and freshness in activity, functional suitability of location of highly functional materials and the layering system to protect body temperature under the changing environment. In particular, the layering system was implemented to provide ventilation, and it was done in body parts that released the most body heat. Therefore, mesh materials were actively used on the side panel, sleeves and center of the back piece for necessary sweat emission without any problems and ventilation for trail running.

A Study on the Concept of a Cave in Terunobu Fujimori's Architecture (후지모리 테루노부 건축의 동굴 개념에 대한 고찰)

  • Kim, Hyon-Sob
    • Journal of architectural history
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    • v.23 no.4
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    • pp.7-17
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    • 2014
  • This paper aims at researching the cave concept of the Japanese architect Terunobu Fujimori and the result could be summarised as follows. First, a cave is Fujimori's only theme related to the interior space. He set some design guidelines for practice concerning openings of the wall and finishing materials of the interior, following the two major characteristics of a cave: 'comfortability' and 'homogeneity in material'. And 'fire' was also the premise in the cave as a 'spirit' of the space. Second, Fujimori applied the concrete guidelines to Tanpopo House (1994~95), which had in fact borne the ideas. Yakisugi House (2005~07) that took the cave as its design theme showed the transition of his cave concept, from closedness to openness. Third, though his cave concept might deserve the criticism that it is inclined to 'image' rather than 'essence', it illustrates that he seeks after an archetype of human dwelling before the purity of the original space was tarnished with rationality and abstraction. And the cave idea allows the seemingly contradictory 'sachlich' and 'surrealistic' features to coexist. Summing up, Fujimori's cave concept proves that his architecture is a rejection of the Cartesian modernist ideal and the contemporary architects' desire for dematerialisation. In a fundamental level, however, it is a result of his strategic choice induced by his own primary principle that his building must not be similar to any styles in history or any other architects' works in the world.