• Journal of Korean Physical Therapy Science
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• v.25 no.1
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• pp.75-84
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• 2018

Background : In order to recognize the problems of current Korean physical therapy which does not conform to the current trend of modern society and to suggest improvement directions, we will establish a law for exclusive use of physical therapy that can guarantee the health rights of the people and contribute to the development of Korean physical. Methods : Korea's current physiotherapy system is compared with OECD member countries and WCPT member countries, and considering the expected effects and necessities that arise when the sole law is enacted, the sole law for the global trend is presented. Result : If the sole law is enacted and the physical therapist is treated solely, the effect is as follows. 1. Provision of high-quality physiotherapy services through establishment of physical therapy expertise 2. Convenient service provision 3. Reduced treatment costs due to reduced National Health Insurance fiscal expenditure 4. contributing to the improvement of medical welfare for the elderly and the disabled 5. Decreased unemployment rate due to job creation.

• Journal of the Korean Society of Safety
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• v.31 no.4
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• pp.15-21
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• 2016

The elevator is an essential part of the transportation means in modern society. It has become the convenient movement means of vertical and horizontal mobilities for vulnerable citizens including the disabled or elderly in skyscrapers and the multi-purposes facilities. After the 1990s, the number of newly installed elevators have increased because of the establishment of large scale public houses which need an increase of means of transportation. Thus, the safety accident in the elevator has been currently in an increasing trend as years passed by because that the elevator is always exposed to the risk of accident. Most of the elevator accidents occur in the escalator and moving walkway. This study investigated the current usage situations of users at multi-purpose shopping spaces, the sub way, and the airport about the escalator including moving walkway. Moreover the accident types were analyzed for the escalator based on 10 years of statistics. And the methods for the accident prevention were proposed on the equipment, management and user side.

• Journal of Korean Society of Rural Planning
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• v.21 no.2
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• pp.51-61
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• 2015

The necessity of universal design for forestry is increasing. Although several studies applied universal design in forest site, they had been only concentrated on the barrier-free design for the limited activities rather than overall utilization for considering all visitors from the disabled, the elderly and the infirm to the baby and child. The purpose of this study is to find out the principle of the universal design within forest welfare service facilities by analysing how socially disadvantaged people perceive overall usage of natural recreation forest area. This study figures out the main principles of universal design in forest welfare through analyzing usage of children and disabilities in Yumyeongsan natural recreation forest where is one of the popular type of forest welfare area. By doing focus interviews targeted on children and disabilities, the results are analyzed through semantic network analysis, objectively. The result proves that universal design in forest welfare area contains four principles; convenience, safety, diversity and amenity. Also it confirmed that disabilities need better internal space facilities and priority care. Through those characters of universal design, forest area will be able to cover more various type of users as forest welfare area.

• Physical Therapy Korea
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• v.7 no.1
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• pp.46-54
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• 2000

The purpose of this study is to determine whether movement strategies affect functional forward reach distance in a standing position. Forty-seven healthy subjects were selected for this study: 23 men and 24 women, with an average age of 22.3. Functional forward reach distances were measured as hip strategy and squat strategy (included knee and ankle movement strategy) in a standing position, respectively. The mean values of functional forward reach distance in hip strategy, squat strategy were 33.57 cm, 29.48 cm, respectively. There was significantly difference in functional forward reach distance between hip strategy and squat strategy(p<.001). There was no difference of functional forward reach distance between male and female in hip strategy, but there was significant difference in other strategy(p<.05). These results suggest that movement strategies should be considered during functional forward reach test in standing. Further study is required to determine whether movement strategies affect functional reach distance in elderly and disabled groups.

• The Journal of the Institute of Internet, Broadcasting and Communication
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• v.13 no.6
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• pp.131-136
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• 2013

The rate of disappearance people such as children, demented elderly, and disabled is being increased every year. In this paper, we suggest accident prevention system for second class citizens which is based on Bluetooth and NFC to prevent second class citizens' disappearance. Nowadays, most of people are using a smart phone, and these smart phones usually have Bluetooth and NFC module. Therefore in this paper, we would design and implement the accident prevention system for second class citizens and their guardians by using smart phones which have Bluetooth and NFC module.

• The Journal of the Institute of Internet, Broadcasting and Communication
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• v.13 no.6
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• pp.237-242
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• 2013

There are some limitations to use the fitness center frequently by various reasons, excessive business workload, geographic location and time limit. This research specially focuses on the developement of health care application tool for aerobic/anaerobic exercise in a house accompanied by training coach, simply for the purpose of preventing from a boredom moment by exercing alone. This study newly proposes the realization of program tool by using Microsoft Kinect hardware tool which can be seen easily in the internet stores and can recognize the user. In addition, this program are designed to take care of movement control, weight and calory by maping the perceived user implementing modeling of 3D model.

• Korean Journal of Occupational Health Nursing
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• v.16 no.1
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• pp.58-66
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• 2007

Purpose: A national long-term care system for elderly and the disabled has its unique evolution in each country. Japan, Germany and the United States may be the typical examples of respective social insurance system. This paper reviews the counterpart examples of Japan, Germany and the United States and looks at their accumulated long-term care system experiences and personal care system under workers' compensation. Methods: Literature review and website searching were conducted. Key words as 'workers' compensation insurance', 'personal care benefit' and 'long term care' were used in searching the related literatures. Results: Though the personal care benefit under current Workers'Compensation in Korea is very similar to Japan's, the long-term care system of Korea is not as well established. Germany and the United States have the provision of personal care benefit for injured workers within long term care system. Conclusions: We recommend some key issues to take into account for improving personal care benefit system in workers' compensation in Korea as follows: providing a comprehensive coverage through the linkage of long term care, introducing an assessment & evaluation system for the appropriate benefits, establishing insurer's role for quality management of personal care service, and developing a policy for family caregivers.

• Journal of Biomedical Engineering Research
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• v.32 no.4
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• pp.336-344
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• 2011

This article describes a new recognition algorithm using correlation coefficient for intelligent wheelchair to avoid collision for elderly or disabled people. The correlation coefficient can be used to represent the relationship of two different areas. The algorithm has three steps: Firstly, we extract an edge vector using the Histogram of Oriented Gradients(HOG) which includes gradient information and unique magnitude for each cell. From this result, the correlation coefficients are calculated between one cell and others. Secondly, correlation coefficients are used as the weighting factors for normalizing the HOG cell. And finally, these features are used to classify or detect variable and complicated shapes of two wheelers using Adaboost algorithm. In this paper, we propose a new feature vectors which is calculated by weighted cell unit to classify with multiple view-based shapes: frontal, rear and side views($60^{\circ}$, $90^{\circ}$ and mixed angle). Our experimental results show that two wheeler detection system based on a proposed approach leads to a higher detection accuracy than the method using traditional features in a similar detection time.

• Journal of Internet Computing and Services
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• v.20 no.6
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• pp.137-142
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• 2019

This paper Various services exist to detect and monitor abnormal event. However, most services focus on fires and gas leaks. so It is impossible to prevent and respond to emergency situations for the elderly and severely disabled people living alone. In this study, AI model is designed and compared to detect abnormal event of heart rate signal which is considered to be the most important among various bio signals. Specifically, electrocardiogram (ECG) data is collected using Physionet's MIT-BIH Arrhythmia Database, an open medical data. The collected data is transformed in different ways. We then compare the trained AI model with the modified and ECG data.

• Journal of the Korean housing association
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• v.28 no.2
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• pp.1-12
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• 2017

In modern society, diverse vulnerable population, such as homeless, disabled, elderly and so on, have been prominently appeared with polarization of wealth because of radial biased economic development and urban sprawl. Housing acquisition is a difficult problem for the venerable population to get, so appropriate alternatives should be explored. In USA, under the 'Housing First' principle, supportive housing has been developed as a main alternative. Sharing this alternative experience is very valuable to promote future development including policies. The purpose of this study is to delineate the trend of supportive housing research. This research is conducted by content analysis technique, and data were recent 29 research articles dealing supportive housing, collected from medical service data base where supportive housing research has started and diffused. As results, overall trends and characteristics appeared that the main research field was Psychiatry/Psychology, and mostly, they were correlational research. Mainly, resident type was mentally ill, and the principal research method was secondary data analysis. In general, all the service programs were mostly essential, and the number of congregate housing type appeared dominantly. The modern supportive housing is a social intervention to cope with instability of future housing welfare.