• 한국과학예술포럼
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• 제31권
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• pp.355-365
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• 2017

미래 한국의 인구 구성은 저 출산과 의료기술의 비약적 발전에 힘입어 고령자가 2060년에는 세계 2위 수준까지 예상되고 있다. 고령자를 위한 사회의 부담은 지속적으로 증가될 것으로 예상되고 있다. 고령자가 되면서 제일 먼저 나타나는 현상은 신체적인 변화이다. 기억력이 낮아지고 인지능력이 저하되는 현상이 생기면서 그들의 활동이 제한되고 경제적인 생산능력이 급격히 줄어들게 된다. 자급자족이 힘든 상황이 되면서 경제적이고 사회적인 측면의 도움을 필요하게 되었다. 그들에게 도움을 줄 수 있는 제품이 연구되고 개발되어 져야하는 시기가 도래되었다. 고령자들에게 흔히 나타나는 인지능력저하 단계인 경도인지장애(MIS)단계가 있다. 경도인지장애인들은 약물적 치료방법과 비약물적 치료 방법을 병행하는 것이 효과적이다. 비약물적 치료방법 중 음악에 대한효과가 입증되어 있다. 본 논문은 음악치료기법을 활용한 보조기구를 개발함에 있어 디자인적인 관점에서 디지털 융복합의 연구가 필요하다. 본 연구를 위해서 경도인지장애자를 대상으로 외형에 대한 선호를 알아보았다. 2번에 걸쳐 설문조사가 이루어졌다. 연구의 결과 경도인지장애자를 위한 홈케어 제품디자인은 기존의 게임기나 셋탑박스의 정형적이고 박스형태가 아닌 사용자의 상황과 특수성을 고려한 형태가 요구되고 있다. 기억력, 인지능력이 떨어지는 신체적인 변화와 주변 사람이나 환경이 변화되는 정신적인 변화에 맞는 제품이 개발되도록 디자인이 요구되고 있다는 결과이다.

• 한국철도학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국철도학회 2004년도 추계학술대회 논문집
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• pp.455-460
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• 2004

The Fuel cell Rubber tired Train (FRT), which is now getting the attention as the next generation vehicle with its environment-friendliness, is the transportation for smooth connections of city traffic. It is the revival of the surface-car system with its revaluation of the function and technological development. Accordingly, fixed time operation and high speed driving became possible. FRT is operated together with other vehicles on the regular drive way. While this vehicle can solve the problem of traffic congestion in the urban area, it also can be cost-effective when it is compared to the cost of subway construction. It is also designed to minimize the underground or elevated traffic lane, to introduce the new construction technology, to reduce a term of works, and to cut down the operation cost by unmanned automatic driving system. Furthermore, it is considered as the alternative measure of other transportation due to its potential for the ecological way of speed improvement and the accessability to the disabled, elderly and children by developing the vehicle with folding steps or by building the high boarding platforms. In this research, I concentrated on the user oriented interior design of the FRT to make it passenger-friendly and safe in order to maximize the utilization of the vehicle so that all users including wheelchaired, user with baby carriage, elderly and children can conveniently use this vehicle.

• 재활간호학회지
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• 제4권2호
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• pp.187-197
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• 2001

The purpose of this study was to determine the effects of self-help management program which strengthens self-efficacy for post stroke elders who attend day care center in Chongju. One group pretest-posttest design was used, and the subjects were 7 post stroke elders with hemiparesis. The self-help management program consisted of 5 sessions and each session included group education on stroke, ROM exercise, recreation and self-care strategies. Those strategies for encouraging and reinforcing self-efficacy provided verbal persuasion, performance accomplishment and vicarious experience. All subjects were questioned before and after the program about ADLs, IADLs, self-efficacy, self-care behavior and depression. The analysis of data revealed that the program was effective to increase the IADLs, self-efficacy and self-care behavior. However, there was no significant difference between pre and post ADLs and depression. The results indicated that this program may be adopted to improve the physical and psychological function of post stroke elderly patients in community settings.

• 센서학회지
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• 제19권4호
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• pp.278-284
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• 2010

Indoor localization for pedestrian is the key technology for caring the elderly, the visually impaired and the handicapped in health care districts. It also becomes essential for the emergency responders where the GPS signal is not available. This paper presents newly developed pedestrian localization system using the gyro sensors, the magnetic compass and pressure sensors. Instead of using the accelerometer, the pedestrian gait is estimated from the gyro sensor measurements and the travel distance is estimated based on the gait kinematics. Fusing the gyro information and the magnetic compass information for heading angle estimation is presented with the error covariance analysis. A pressure sensor is used to identify the floor the pedestrian is walking on. A complete ambulatory system is implemented which estimates the pedestrian's 3D position and the heading.

• 대한인간공학회지
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• 제28권4호
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• pp.125-137
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• 2009

Recently, the frequency in use of electric adjustable bed is going up by an increase in the elderly population. In bad ergonomic design for an electric adjustable bed causes some problems in the aspects of usability and safety. In particular, lots of accidents came from going up or going down an electric adjustable bed. In that case, the height of bed is very important factor for preventing an accident. This problem is related to its anthropometric factors. Therefore we carried out its anthropometric analysis and old people's standing action according the height of electric adjustable bed as an experimental study. As a result, we proposed some anthropometric design criteria and identified the effect of bed height when old people use it.

• 한국콘텐츠학회논문지
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• 제19권4호
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• pp.556-563
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• 2019

본 연구는 최근 확산되고 있는 언택트 서비스의 대표 사례인 패스트푸드점의 키오스크를 대상으로 고령자의 사용경험 향상을 위한 연구를 수행하였다. 먼저 문헌 연구를 통해 키오스크 디자인 분석 기준에 대해 고찰하고 현재 우리나라 패스트푸드점 중 키오스크가 제공되고 있는 맥도날드, 롯데리아, 버거킹의 햄버거 구매 UI 화면을 컬러, 레이아웃, 버튼으로 나누어 분석하였다. 그 다음 고령자들을 대상으로 사용성 평가와 설문을 통해 현 키오스크의 인터페이스 디자인 문제점을 발견하였다. 그 결과 고령자들은 아웃라인이 없는 버튼을 버튼으로 인지하지 못한다는 점, 화면의 레이아웃이 변하거나 시선이 흐름이 복잡하면 오류가 발생하는 점이 발견되었다. 또한, 가로 형태의 내비게이션과 세로 형태 배열의 메뉴가 오류가 적었으며 버튼의 디자인은 같은 기능에 있어서 동일한 컬러인 것이 오류가 적었다. 연구 결과 고령자들이 선호하는 키오스크 UI 디자인은 다음과 같다. 첫째, 아웃라인 또는 솔리드 형태의 버튼이 권장된다. 둘째, 이미지와 텍스트가 결합된 버튼의 세로 결합 형태가 권장된다. 셋째, 화면 레이아웃에 있어서는 시선 흐름과 조작의 방향이 일관성이 있어야 하며, 메뉴 수와 안내 정보가 증가하는 것을 피해야 한다. 넷째, 페이지 내비게이션은 가로 형태가, 메뉴 배열은 세로 형태가 권장된다. 마지막으로 버튼은 동일한 기능을 수행하는 버튼은 동일한 컬러를 사용하는 것이 효율적이고, 서로 다른 기능인 경우 보색 관계의 컬러를 적용하는 것이 혼란을 줄일 수 있을 것으로 연구결과가 도출되었다.

• 한국의류학회지
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• 제42권4호
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• pp.612-625
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• 2018

This study designed 16 kinds of basic structure and 4 kinds of modified structure for impact protection pads with a spacer fabric shape. The pad is a structure in which hexagonal three-dimensional units, composed of a surface layer and a spacer layer, are interconnected. Designed pads were printed with flexible $NinjaFlex^{(R)}$ materials using a FDM 3D printer. The printed pads were evaluated for impact protection performance, compression properties and sensory properties. The evaluation of the impact protection performance indicated that basic structures better than CR foam material at 20cm height were DV1.5, DX1.5, DX1.0, DV1.0 and HV1.5. The evaluation of the compression properties for the five types, with good results in the impact protection performance, indicated that DV1.0, DX1.0, DV1.5, HV1.5 and DX1.5 showed good results, respectively. The sensory evaluation of DV1.0, DX1.0, and DV1.5, which with good results when considering both the impact protection performance and the compression performance, showed that DV1.0 were the best for surface, flexibility, compression and weight. Therefore, DV1.0 is shown to be the best structure for protection pads.

• 한국생산제조학회지
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• 제22권1호
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• pp.92-99
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• 2013

The ratio of mobility handicapped was 12,110,000 in late 2009 about 24.4% of total population. The number of handicapped population is increasing continuously due to traffic accidents and industrial disasters. Therefore, the purpose of this research is to suggest a design for passengers on wheelchairs to get into and off to raise handicapped or elderly people's right of mobility. The scope of this research is mobility handicapped especially wheelchair passengers who use vans, small buses, and trains. The ramp design of vans is module form. The ramp is moved with screw jack and guides are installed on each side to increase stability. Moreover, a bridge was installed for smooth getting in and off of the van. The ramp design for small bus is lowed by 200m in order not to have obstacle such as speed bump when getting in or off. In order to reduce vulnerable environment and administration, air slide cylinder was chosen. Lastly, for the ramp design of train, the principle of link was used that the simpler structure made the weight lighter and installation in the train became easier. If we look at the conjugation condition of heterogeneous materials to produce a ramp, proper welding condition for cold steel plate and stainless plate is 3kW output and 3-5m/min of welding speed using laser beam seems proper.

• 제어로봇시스템학회논문지
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• 제17권7호
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• pp.674-684
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• 2011

More and more elderly and disabled people are using electric scooters instead of electric wheelchairs because of higher mobility. However, people with high levels of impairment or the elderly still have difficulties in driving the electric scooters safely. Semi-autonomous electric scooter system is one of the solutions for the safety: Either manual driving or autonomous driving can be used selectively. In this paper, we implement a semi-autonomous electric scooter system with functions of localization and path following. In order to recognize the pose of electric scooter in outdoor environments, we design an outdoor localization system based on the extended Kalman filter using DGPS (Differential Global Positioning System) and wheel encoders. We added an accelerometer to make the localization system adaptable to road condition. Also we propose a path following algorithm using two arcs with current pose of the electric scooter and a given path in the map. Simulation results are described to show that the proposed algorithms provide the ability to drive an electric scooter semi-autonomously. Finally, we conduct outdoor experiments to reveal the practicality of the proposed system.

• Journal of information and communication convergence engineering
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• 제5권1호
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• pp.7-11
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• 2007

The aim of this paper is to design and implement a new ECG signal monitoring and analysis method for the home care of elderly persons or patients, using wireless sensor network (WSN) technology. The wireless technology for home-care purpose gives new possibilities for monitoring of vital parameter with wearable biomedical sensors and will give the patient freedom to be mobile and still be under continuously monitoring. Developed platform for portable real-time analysis of ECG signals can be used as an advanced diagnosis and alarming system. The ECG features are used to detect life-threatening arrhythmias, with an emphasis on the software for analyzing the P-wave, QRS complex, and T-wave in ECG signals at server after receiving data from base station. Based on abnormal ECG activity, the server transfer diagnostic results and alarm conditions to a doctor's PDA. Doctor can diagnose the patients who have survived from arrhythmia diseases.