• 한국HCI학회:학술대회논문집
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• 2009.02a
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• pp.221-226
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• 2009

Not many years ago, people found the contemporary technology expensive and difficult to use in collaborative type of meetings. Today, with the technology advanced to high standards and accessible at cheaper price, its adaption is becoming more and more ubiquitous with wide range of applications. Today's meeting rooms are not just plain old telephone systems with microphones and speakers. Today's meeting rooms are smart and intelligent. They can identify the participants; they can provide natural view of remote participants; they can proactively manage resources for collaboration and so on. More effective collaboration is possible with deployment of devices like high-definition cameras, advanced displays, sensors, gigabit networks, trackers, pointers, and high-end audio devices. Devices alone are not enough in the meeting rooms. We need software infrastructure to manage the devices and meeting contexts. One such software infrastructure is SMeet, a Smart Meeting space, which we have developed to provide an effective multi-party remote collaboration environment. Networked display systems are used in such advanced collaboration environment for better visualization. In this paper we discuss a novel approach to control and manage networked display systems in SMeet environment.

• Informatization Policy
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• v.17 no.1
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• pp.120-135
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• 2010

Competition is now moving from between companies to between networked enterprises(NE). It's difficult to evaluate the outcome of NE because formalization of collaboration among partners is difficult. This paper introduces a performance-management model focusing on collaboration in NE. The model is an integration of BSC and EFQM model, but it is different from conventional researches as it links performance management with strategic management based on a comprehensive framework of collaboration. Theoretical and empirical researches are further required to validate the model. Studying cases of several Korean NEs, we have obtained some findings for further research and application.

• 한국HCI학회:학술대회논문집
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• 2006.02a
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• pp.244-250
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• 2006

본 논문에서는 촉각지원 네트워크 협업 테스트베드의 구현을 소개한다. 네트워크 촉감 상호작용을 위한 효율적인 실험 환경을 구축하기 위해서는 네트워크 제약 조건들을 정밀하게 조절하는 것이 가능하면서 사용자가 직접 경험을 통해서 현실감의 정도를 느낄 수 있어야 한다. 제안된 촉각지원 네트워크 협업 테스트베드는 본 요구사항을 만족시키기 위하여 두 대의 Phantom Omni 디바이스를 마스터 슬레이브 구조로 연결하고 FreeBSD (dummynet) 기반의 네트워크 에뮬레이터를 포함한다. 본 네트워크 에뮬레이터는 다양한 환경의 네트워크 시나리오를 지원하기때문에 촉감 상호작용의 질과 네트워크 간의 상관성 파악 및 네트워크 제약 보상 기법의 검증에 적용될 수 있다. 본 논문에서는 한 예로써 이를 기반으로 UDP 가 TCP 보다 촉감 상호작용에 더 적합한 프로토콜임을 보이는 실험을 소개하고 현실감있는 촉각지원 네트워크 협업 시스템을 위한 네트워크의 요구 조건을 살펴본다.

• Journal of the Korean Society of Systems Engineering
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• v.2 no.2
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• pp.45-50
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• 2006

Tilting technology is to tilt the train on the curve in order to minimize centrifugal force to passengers and to improve the speed within the limits of passenger's comfort and safety. According to reports from other countries, there is 15~30% speed improvement compared to the conventional trains. Recently, the advent of World-Wide-Web(WWW) and the explosive popularity of the Internet gave birth to collaborative applications which were enabled by computers and networks as their primary media. The progress of 3D computer graphics enabled collaborative applications with 3D virtual environments or distributed virtual environments. In this paper, we explain our implementation of the Share collaboration engine which is for collaboration applications based on a distributed virtual environment. The Share collaboration engine proposes a new Share network architecture for management of participants, and it provides some synchronization methods for 3D objects in virtual collaboration. TTX_PDM is an experimental application that tries to prevent wastes of human, material and time resources in networked virtual collaboration.

• 제어로봇시스템학회:학술대회논문집
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• 1999.10a
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• pp.177-180
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• 1999

Nowadays, one of the major technical issues in manufacturing is to create an environment to promote collaboration among diverse engineering activities. Collaborative engineering is an innovative approach integrating widely distributed engineering activities through promoting information sharing and actual collaboration. It requires close interactions among developers, suppliers and customers, and consideration of entire product life cycle from concept to disposal. A carefully-designed operating system is crucial for successful collaboration of many different activities in a Networked Virtual Manufacturing System(NVMS). High extensibility, flexibility and efficiency ale the key characteristics requested of an operating system to handle the complexity of the NVMSs. In this paper, we propose a model of the operating system for collaborative engineering using concurrent quasi-procedural method(QPM). QPM is a goal-driven data management technique for distributed and parallel computing environments. It is to be applied to the evaluation of activities to be executed, validities of input data, execution path of activities for a needed output, and expected to greatly improve the productivity of operations by preventing redundant evaluations. Collaboration among many different engineering activities in NVMSs is to be performed by the network of agents that encapsulate the capabilities of both users and their tools.

• Journal of KIISE:Computing Practices and Letters
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• v.14 no.1
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• pp.40-51
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• 2008

To realize advanced collaboration environments for knowledge workers distributed geographically, there are extensive researches in ubiquitous computing environments. Especially, to cope with several known problems in traditional collaboration tools such as limited display resolution, uncomfortable shared documentation, difficult operation of collaboration environments, various approaches are attempted in the aspect of framework design. In this paper, we design a framework for collaboration environments covering hardware/software/networking architecture to flexibly coordinate a set of collaboration services and devices considering users' expectation and node capabilities. Based on the proposed framework, we develop the collaboration environment supporting the interactive networked tiled display enabling media/data sharing via networking, display interaction using pointing/tracking, and high-resolution tiled display. Finally the demonstration of the developed prototype is introduced to prove the possibility of its realization.

• Journal of KIISE:Computer Systems and Theory
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• v.28 no.12
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• pp.642-652
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• 2001

Recently, the advent of World-Wide-Web(WWW) and the explosive popularity of the Internet gave birth to collaborative applications which were enabled by computers and networks as their primary media. The progress of 3D computer graphics enabled collaborative application with 3D virtual environments or distributed virtual environments. In this paper, we explain our implementation of the Share collaboration engine which is for collaboration applications based on a distributed virtual environment. We introduce Virtual Architectural Engineering 2000 (VAE2000) that is our pilot application implemented with the Share collaboration engine. The Share collaboration engine proposes a new Share network architecture for management of participants, and it provides some synchronization methods for 3D objects in virtual collaboration. VAE2000 is an experimental application that tries to prevent wastes of human, material and time resources in networked virtual collaboration.

• Architectural research
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• v.7 no.1
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• pp.1-9
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• 2005

The needs of collaboration among design participants spread in different locations is emphasized in the early design stage in order to not only save time and provide places to meet and talk, but also to save cost for those events as well: This is being realized by the Internet, which helps support a networked, integrated real-time multi-user environment. As the base for collaboration activities moves from physical places to cyberspace, the methods of connecting every participant by means of a computer technology have been desired and considered. This study aims at investigating today's collaboration technology in the architectural design process, especially focused on the early stages, in terms of temporal dimensions. In addition, major concepts for and previous efforts and tools of collaborative design have been examined, and a specific recommendation has been proposed for future development of collaborative architectural design systems: That is distributed collaboration, which is accessible and comprehensible to all the professionals in the building design team, which not only allows the sharing of information but also the sharing of understanding, and which facilitates the development of design tools for different aspects of the envisioned collaborative design environment.

• 한국HCI학회:학술대회논문집
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• 2007.02a
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• pp.64-69
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• 2007

이 논문은 촉각 가상 환경(Haptic Virtual Environment)에서 촉각(haptic) 데이터를 촉각 데이터 특성에 맞추어 네트워크에 적응적이고 효율적으로 전송할 수 있는 전송 알고리즘을 제안한다. 촉감 상호작용 측정을 위해 네트워크 햅틱 협업 응용을 작성하였고 지연, 지터, 손실에 따른 변화를 분석하였다. 이를 바탕으로 네트워크 트래픽에 적응할 수 있는 알고리즘을 구성하였다. 손실되거나 지터의 영향을 받은 패킷에는 간단한 선형예측 방법을 사용하여 보상하여 손실과 지터로 인한 오차를 줄였다. 이는 심각한 손실이나 지터에 의해 떨림 현상이 나타나는 햅틱 장치의 문제점을 개선하게 되었다. 또한 네트워크 협업에서 지연이 발생할 때 나타나는 클라이언트들 사이의 비동시성을 해결하기 위하여 완충시간을 두었다. 지연이 큰 클라이언트는 버퍼를 사용하지 않고 실시간으로 처리하고, 지연이 적은 클라이언트는 버퍼를 사용하여 전송받은 좌표를 완충시킨 후에 처리하는 방법을 사용하여 클라이언트들 사이의 햅틱 렌더링을 동기화 하였다. 제안된 알고리즘은 다양한 네트워크 상황에서의 협업에서 개선된 결과를 보였다. 이를 바탕으로 향후 선형예측 방법을 다양하게 적용시키고 서버와 클라이언트 사이의 동기화를 구현하는 알고리즘을 작성할 것이다. 본 논문은 다양한 네트워크 상황 에서 햅틱 데이터를 전송하고 처리하는 연구의 기초자료가 될 수 있을 것이다.

• 한국HCI학회:학술대회논문집
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• 2007.02a
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• pp.76-82
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• 2007

햅틱 협업을 위한 네트워크는 기본적으로 지연, 지터, 손실의 제약을 가진다. 햅틱은 정보의 속도에 민감하므로 네트워크 환경에서 협업을 이루어내기에 많은 제약이 있다. 특히 협업의 품질을 감소시키는 네트워크 지연을 보상하기 위한 연구가 필요하다. 본 논문에서는 물체의 좌표 전송을 기반으로 한 햅틱 협업이 높은 수준의 지연시간을 지닌 네트워크에서 발생할 수 있는 문제를 정의하고 그 원인을 파악하여 안정적인 협업을 유지하기 위하여 네트워크 지연 문제를 보상할 수 있는 기법을 제시한다. 네트워크 지연에 의해서 물체를 밀 때 더 많은 힘을 사용되는 현상과 클라이언트들이 물체를 들어올릴 때 물체가 진동하는 현상이 발생된다. 이 문제를 해결하기 위해 물체의 강도를 변경하는 방법을 제안한다. 지연 시간의 수준이 증가하여도 지연 문제가 발생하지 않게 함과 동시에 최대한 원래 물체 강도를 유지하기 위해서 클라이언트가 물체에 발생시키고자 하는 힘과 서버에서 물체에 발생시키는 힘을 같도록 만드는 수식을 유도한다. 이 수식을 이용하여 지연의 크기에 관계없이 클라이언트가 물체의 위치를 제어할 수 있다. 지연 보상 기법을 통해 햅틱 미디어의 품질을 유지하면서 지연에 의한 문제를 해결하는 방안을 제시하며, 실제 실험을 통하여 결과를 확인한다.