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Ethnographical Research for Capturing Emotional Level of User Demand (인류학적 접근을 통한 감성 디자인 연구)

  • Chang, Jin-A
    • 한국HCI학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 2007.02b
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    • pp.33-39
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    • 2007
  • Designing emotion and product experience firstly require companies and individuals involved in NPD (New Product Development) to understand what user really want to receive from owning and using their product. Admitting this necessarily poses the following questions: Can a designer indeed plan for a particular emotion or experience? If yes, what factors must be devoted to designing the user's experience? How can the user's feelings and moods be measured when they use the product? The answer can be found in ethnographical design research.

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A Study on Rule Schemas of User Interface in HCI Devices (HCI 장치의 사용자 인터페이스 규칙스키마에 관한 연구)

  • Kim, Heung-Kyu
    • Journal of the Korea Society of Computer and Information
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    • v.18 no.1
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    • pp.83-91
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    • 2013
  • As humans perform many tasks using computers, HCI(Human-Computer Interaction) has received much attention these days. One objective of HCI research is to propose how to design more consistent systems. In order to evaluate the consistency of HCI devices from the user's perspective, several models such as TAG(Task Action Grammar), GOMS(Goals-Operators-Methods-Selection Rule), and GTN(General Transition Network) have been developed. TAG specifies actions to perform tasks in terms of rule schema. It has been verified that the less the number of rule schema is, the better users perform the tasks due to assumably higher consistency. This paper hypothesizes that the consistency of systems depends not only on the number of rule schema but also on the distances between rule schema. That is, the closer the rule schema are, the easier it is to acquire the whole set of rule schema. An experiment supported this hypothesis. Therefore, distances between rule schema should be considered as well as the number of rule schema when designing systems.

An Exploration of Various Evaluation Methods to Improve Usability of Museum Mobile Device

  • Ahn, Mi-Lee;Cha, Hyun-Jin;Hwang, Yun-Ja;Kim, Hee-Jin
    • Journal of the Ergonomics Society of Korea
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    • v.30 no.6
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    • pp.765-773
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    • 2011
  • Objective: This study aims towards exploring a model of the HCI evaluation methods to improve the usability of mobile device, based on a case of a Mobile PDA system in a Museum context. Background: Mobile PDA systems in a Museum context is widely utilized for the educational purposes, but it is criticized for low usability that the device only play a role in textbooks on legs without any interactive educational activities. Therefore, the usability improvements on the mobile PDA system should be considered. Method 1: This model was developed with a combination of the expert review and the user testing, and with a combination of the qualitative and quantitative studies. In more details, first of all, a qualitative study was conducted as a combination of three different methods: 1) expert review with heuristics, 2) interviews with persons working in a museum, and 3) contextual enquiry. Results 1: The experts review provided with critical usability issues, and the semi-constructive interview helped to understand the background of the mobile device. Lastly, the contextual enquiry showed user experience problems and directions of improving the device from user's perspective. Method 2: Based on the results of the qualitative study, a questionnaire was designed. Results 2: The analysis of the quantitative study was conducted to generalize the problems, and prioritize the direction of improving the device within the limitation of the cost and time in a museum. Conclusion: This study has implications in developing an example of a HCI evaluation model to improve the user experience of the mobile device as well as finding problems and directions of how to improve the mobile PDA systems in the museum. Application: In fact, most of the studies related to the evaluation of the mobile device have been conducted in a laboratory context due to the cost and time. This paper, however, attempted to apply to various HCI research techniques from different constituents in real context.

Suggestions of Bus Station Service in Gangnam - Using HCI methods - (서울시 강남역 광역버스 정류장 서비스 개선 제안 - HCI방법론을 중심으로 -)

  • Kim, Sora;Kang, Ji Yeon;Han, Hae Jung;Kim, Sora
    • Design Convergence Study
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    • v.13 no.5
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    • pp.131-145
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    • 2014
  • Considering the number of population commuting from Gyeonggi to Seoul, the development of the bus system is relatively slow. There are many problems to be solved but it has been overlooked, leaving the users in discomfort. The goal of this research is to improve the current system to satisfy the unmet needs, using HCI methods, which is composed of five steps, including Define, Find, Analyze & Synthesize, Ideation, Develop. In Define, we recruited the interviewees using the extreme user method to find their needs. In Find, we proceeded 'be the customer', shadowing for background research and in-depth interview. In Analyze & Synthesis, we analyzed the customer needs and clustered to similar needs to draw useful ideas. After that we suggested sophisticated ideas based on design principles from previous stage and visualized in user scenarios and mock-ups. Overall, the research suggests with text message service, informative light service and mobile application to improve the existing bus station.

Analysis of the Adaptability and Methods of Public space in media - Focused on new-media and HCI theory - (공공공간에서 나타나는 미디어 특성에 관한 연구 - 뉴 미디어와 HCI 이론을 중심으로 -)

  • Koh, Gwi-Han;Kang, Seon-Gyung
    • Korean Institute of Interior Design Journal
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    • v.22 no.1
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    • pp.203-210
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    • 2013
  • With digital technology, space design is developing in a new direction with the changing paradigm. The space creates an interactive environment by motivating the User's active participation through the digital madia. In this social stream, it is very important to think about how this new paradigm affects the spatial design and the interactions between social changes and spatial design paradigm, so that we can understand design paradigm of our time. Hence, in this research, we will think about social characteristic and design paradigm of digital age by questioning how spatial design is changing in the digital age and how digital technology is affecting spatial design. this study analyzed about the space form, digital media setting, user interactivity of the examples of experience space using digital media. fields of our society, interactive space with the concept of HCI became a big issue in environmental design field. In this interactive space, various types of informative factors of the given space are sent using sensor and computer networking technology to the main system, and the main computer system sends manipulated output media to interactive devices. So, a user's movement in the space is more than just a movement itself user's movement now forms a important spatial structure that leads the narrative of the space. Researcher will analyze the characteristic of a public space and progress this research supposing that space needs this interactive design.

Comparison of EEG Topography Labeling and Annotation Labeling Techniques for EEG-based Emotion Recognition (EEG 기반 감정인식을 위한 주석 레이블링과 EEG Topography 레이블링 기법의 비교 고찰)

  • Ryu, Je-Woo;Hwang, Woo-Hyun;Kim, Deok-Hwan
    • The Journal of Korean Institute of Next Generation Computing
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    • v.15 no.3
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    • pp.16-24
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    • 2019
  • Recently, research on emotion recognition based on EEG has attracted great interest from human-robot interaction field. In this paper, we propose a method of labeling using image-based EEG topography instead of evaluating emotions through self-assessment and annotation labeling methods used in MAHNOB HCI. The proposed method evaluates the emotion by machine learning model that learned EEG signal transformed into topographical image. In the experiments using MAHNOB-HCI database, we compared the performance of training EEG topography labeling models of SVM and kNN. The accuracy of the proposed method was 54.2% in SVM and 57.7% in kNN.

Research Trends and Case Study on Keypoint Recognition and Tracking for Augmented Reality in Mobile Devices (모바일 증강현실을 위한 특징점 인식, 추적 기술 및 사례 연구)

  • Choi, Heeseung;Ahn, Sang Chul;Kim, Ig-Jae
    • Journal of the HCI Society of Korea
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    • v.10 no.2
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    • pp.45-55
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    • 2015
  • In recent years, keypoint recognition and tracking technologies are considered as crucial task in many practical systems for markerless augmented reality. The keypoint recognition and technologies are widely studied in many research areas, including computer vision, robot navigation, human computer interaction, and etc. Moreover, due to the rapid growth of mobile market related to augmented reality applications, several effective keypoint-based matching and tracking methods have been introduced by considering mobile embedded systems. Therefore, in this paper, we extensively analyze the recent research trends on keypoint-based recognition and tracking with several core components: keypoint detection, description, matching, and tracking. Then, we also present one of our research related to mobile augmented reality, named mobile tour guide system, by real-time recognition and tracking of tour maps on mobile devices.

A Study on Estimation of Carotid Intima-Media Thickness(IMT) using Pulse Wave Velocity(PWV) (맥파전달속도를 이용한 내중막 두께 추정에 관한 연구)

  • Song, Sang-Ha;Jang, Seung-Jin;Kim, Wuon-Shik;Lee, Hyun-Sook;Yoon, Young-Ro
    • Journal of Biomedical Engineering Research
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    • v.30 no.5
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    • pp.401-411
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    • 2009
  • In this paper, we correct pulse wave velocity(PWV) with heart-rate and derive regression equations to estimate intima-media thickness(IMT). Widely used methods for diagnosis of arteriosclerosis are IMT and PWV. Arterial wall stiffness determines the degree of energy absorbed by the elastic aorta and its recoil in diastole but there is not correlation between sclerosis and IMT in an existing study. In this study, we will correct PWV with heart-rate and get regression equation to estimate IMT using heart-rate correction index(HCI). We executed experiments for this study. Made up question of physical condition and measured electrocardiogram(ECG), photoplethysmogram (PPG) of finger-tip and toe-tip and ultrasound image of carotid artery. Calculated PWV and IMT using ECG, PPG and ultrasound image. We found that every p-value between PWV and IMT is not significant(<0.05). But p-value between IMT and HCI which is a corrected PWV using heart-rate is significant(>0.01). We use HCI and various measured parameter for estimating regression equation and apply backward estimation to select parameters for regression analysis. Result of backward estimation, found that only HCI is possible to derive proper regression equation of IMT. Relationship between PWV and IMT is the second order. Result of regression equation of E-H PWV is $R^2$=0.735, adj $R^2$=0.711. This is the best correlation value. We calculate error of its analysis for verification of earlobe PWV regression equation. Its result is RMSEP=0.0328, MAPE(%) = 4.7622. Like this regression analysis, we know that HCI is useful parameter and relationship between PWV, HCI and IMT. In addition, we are able to suggest possibility which is that we can get different parameter of prediction throughout just one measurement.

Virtual Science Lab - Sensible Human Body Learning System (가상 과학 실험실 - 체감형 인체 구조 학습 시스템)

  • Kim, Ki-Min;Kim, Jae-Il;Kim, Seok-Yeol;Park, Jin-Ah
    • 한국HCI학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 2009.02a
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    • pp.2078-2079
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    • 2009
  • This research suggests the framework for human body learning system using various forms of bidirectional interfaces. The existing systems mostly use the limited and unidirectional methods which are merely focused on the visual information. Our system provides more realistic visual information using 3D organ models from the real human body. Also we combine the haptic and augmented reality techniques into our system for wider range of interaction means. Through this research, we aim to overcome the limitation of existing science education systems and explore the effective scheme to fuse the real and virtual educational environment into one.

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Automatic Music Recommendation System based on Music Characteristics

  • Kim, Sang-Ho;Kim, Sung-Tak;Kwon, Suk-Bong;Ji, Mi-Kyong;Kim, Hoi-Rin;Yoon, Jeong-Hyun;Lee, Han-Kyu
    • 한국HCI학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 2007.02a
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    • pp.268-273
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    • 2007
  • In this paper, we present effective methods for automatic music recommendation system which automatically recommend music by signal processing technology. Conventional music recommendation system use users’ music downloading pattern, but the method does not consider acoustic characteristics of music. Sometimes, similarities between music are used to find similar music for recommendation in some method. However, the feature used for calculating similarities is not highly related to music characteristics at the system. Thus, our proposed method use high-level music characteristics such as rhythm pattern, timbre characteristics, and the lyrics. In addition, our proposed method store features of music, which individuals queried, to recommend music based on individual taste. Experiments show the proposed method find similar music more effectively than a conventional method. The experimental results also show that the proposed method could be used for real-time application since the processing time for calculating similarities between music, and recommending music are fast enough to be applicable for commercial purpose.

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