• Journal of Korea Technology Innovation Society
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• v.8 no.1
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• pp.135-153
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• 2005

With an explosive growth of internet and a change of consumer's demand, Post PC is emerging as a substitute for the existing desktop computer and laptop computer. Post PC is a new computer which is portable with wireless networking, cheaper than the existing PCs and specialized in the specific function that consumers want. Furthermore, the shape and the ability of Post PC are dependent on its specific function. The rudimentary Post PCs such as PDA, web-pad and smart-phone are already usable. And in the future, owing to the progress of technologies, the heterogeneity of relate companies and the low entry barrier, various Post PCs will be developed. In this paper, we analyze consumers' willingness-to-pay for Post PC with the attributes such as the portability, the speed of CPU, the data input method (using key board, or notepad etc), the size of monitor and price. To estimating consumers' willingness-to-pay for the attributes of Post PC, we apply a contingent ranking method, which makes the respondents rank hypothetical Post the portability, the speed of CPU, the data input method (using key board, or notepad etc),the size of monitor and price. To estimating consumers' willingness-to-pay for the attributes of Post PC, we apply a contingent ranking method, which makes the respondents rank hypothetical Post PC alternatives featuring various combinations of attributes, to a survey data collected in Korea. Using the estimated willingness-to-pay, we predict the shape and the ability of future's Post PC and draw policy implications for the national and company level R&D strategies.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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• 2006.05a
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• pp.324-327
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• 2006

The person who gets a ALS(Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis) has language disability and physical disability together. A common first symptom is a painless weakness in a hand, foot, arm or leg, which occurs in more than half of all cases. Other early symptoms include muscle weakness of speech. In the early stage of this disease they can communicate with other persons, but it will become increasingly difficult. In our research we have designed and implemented communication tools for them. We have implemented Chunjiin(the Korean computer keyboard) at PDA(personal digital assistant). And we have also implemented software which is consisted of frequently used words.

• Journal of Advanced Navigation Technology
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• v.11 no.1
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• pp.72-78
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• 2007

In this paper, the wide-band monopole antenna with a parasitic element on the ground plane for application in Cellular, GSM and RFID mobile terminals such as the mobile phone or Personal Digital Assistant(PDA) phone is presented. The VSWR of the designed antenna is 2:1 over the frequency range of 820 MHz to 1040 MHz(bandwidth of 23.6 %). Therefore, the designed antenna can provide wide bandwidth covering the Cellular(824 MHz~894 MHz), RFID(908.5 MHz~914 MHz) and GSM(Tx:880 MHz~915 MHz, Rx:925 MHz~960 MHz). The radiation characteristics of the fabricated antenna were also studied. According to the measured radiation patterns, the maximum gains at 859 MHz and 911.25 MHz(center frequencies of the Cellualr and RFID bands) are -0.7 dBi and 0.16 dBi, respectively. The measured maximum gains of GSM bands are -0.48 dBi(897.5 MHz, the center frequency of Tx) and 1.69 dBi(942.5 MHz, the center frequency of Rx).

• 한국HCI학회:학술대회논문집
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• 2009.02a
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• pp.846-850
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• 2009

본 논문은 픽토그램(Pictogram)의 시각전달 요소를 재해석하고 증강현실 환경에서의 효율적 전달 방법에 대하여 제안한다. 픽토그램은 국경을 넘어 남녀노소 모두가 인지할 수 있어야 함이 규칙이며 불특정 다수라는 사용자들을 위해 정확한 정보를 담고 있는 시각전달 매체로서 공정성, 객관성을 가지고 디자인 되어야 한다. 사용자에게 정보전달 인식을 높이기 위해 표준 픽토그램 과 문화 속에서 발견할 수 있는 행위들을 접목하여 애니메이션으로 제작하고, 이를 다양한 연구분야에서 응용되고 있는 증강현실 (Augmented Reality 또는 AR) 기술에 적용하여 표현하였다. 증강현실은 사용자-콘텐츠 정보전달 매체로서 현실 환경을 기반으로 하는 3 차원공간의 시각정보에 대한 사용자의 인식을 향상시킬 수 있는 방법으로 인간-컴퓨터 상호작용(Human-Computer Interaction)을 제공한다. 본 논문에서 제시된 픽토메이션은 기존 공공장소 어디서나 만날 수 있는 다양한 픽토그램을 패턴화하여 마커로 활용하고 사용자는 현재 널리 보급되고 있는 UMPC 혹은 PDA를 통하여 증강현실 환경에서 제작된 픽토메이션 콘텐츠를 경험해 볼 수 있다. 픽토메이션은 시각커뮤니케이션의 효과를 증가 시킬 수 있고, 정보습득의 주체인 사용자에게 콘텐츠의 종류를 예측할 수 있는 선택의 자유를 준다. 본 논문에서는 멀티미디어디자인 요소를 포함한 콘텐츠와의 실시간 상호작용을 통하여 유희적 요소의 접목을 시도하고 증강현실환경에서 Pictomation을 통하여 사용자들과의 효과적 커뮤니케이션을 위한 방법을 모색하고자 한다.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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• 2000.10a
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• pp.239-242
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• 2000

Bluetooth is generally called as wireless technology$.$standard$.$product for communicating in a short distance which is in order to implement both-sides short distance telecommunications at low price without complicated electric wires. SIC is the cooperation group which is composed of telecommunications, computer, eminent network firms for technological development and building the market. It actually made a scheme for standardization. SIG, Ericsson takes a main role in SIG. is composed of about 1,800 member companies and the members are increasing continuously. It was announced Bluetooth version 1.0 from SIG August 1999 and the products such as software development kits, core components will come out soon later. In this paper, Bluetooth technological development and the present state of standardization are investigated and analyzed.

• Journal of information and communication convergence engineering
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• v.8 no.5
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• pp.586-590
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• 2010

Medical technology is gradually being developed by applying information technologies. Especially, RFID technology is being used for precise disease history information of patients [4]. And in case the patient is far away, the patient can be treated using network communication of the internet [5][6]. The internet makes us to treat or operate the patient without being restricted to time or space. If the above technologies are made as a system, the patient can be treated or operated without being restricted to time or space. In this paper, we present a patient treatment system has been implemented with a system using RFID and network communication of the internet [1][2][3][4]. The system is driven as follows. First, the information of patient can be checked from a remote PC, if the tag that a patient has been read through a reader. And a remote treatment is performed by controlling robot's arm with a joystick using internet network [19][20][21]. The RFID system was implemented in frequency of 125 KHz [1]. The information of patient can be checked with PDA, PC and C-LCD using Bluetooth and WLAN [7][8][9][10]. For the treatment and operation of the patient, the robot's arm has been formed using AX-12 motor, joystick and two buttons [11][12][13][14][15] [17][18].

• Journal of the Korean Institute of Electrical and Electronic Material Engineers
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• v.18 no.7
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• pp.647-651
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• 2005

We studied the external pressure-stable advanced frnge field switching (FFS) pixel design with 3 slit sructue. In this mode, a patterned pixel slit is partitioned into 3 areas, namely, two edges and a center, where the edge slit angle is larger than the center slit angle. Thus the reverse twist region in the pixel edge is reduced comparing to the conventional FFS mode so that the LC dynamics in this region becomes very stable. And also, when the external pressure is applied to the panel at the high voltage, the disclination lines (DLs) were barely intruded into active area. Therefore, the structure is use for the pen based system such as the tablet personal computer (PC), personal digital asistant (PDA).

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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• 2008.10a
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• pp.365-368
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• 2008

This paper presents a new concept of IP-based wireless sensor networks and also introduces a routing protocol that is based on clustering for global healthcare information system. Low-power wireless personal area networks (LoWPANs) conform the standard by IEEE 802.15.4-2003 to IPv6 that makes 6lowpan. It characterized by low bit rate, low power, and low cost as well as protocol for wireless connections. The 6lowpan node with biomedical sensor devices fixed on the patient body area network that should be connected to the gateway in personal area network. Each 6lowpan nodes have IP-addresses that would be directly connected to the internet. With the help of IP-address service provider can recognize or analysis patient biomedical data from anywhere on globe by internet service provider equipments such as cell phone, PDA, note book. The system has been evaluated by technical verification, clinical test, user survey and current status of patient. We used NS-2.33 simulator for our prototype and also simulate the routing protocols. The result shows the performance of biomedical data packets in multi-hope routing as well as represents the topology of the networks.

• Journal of Sensor Science and Technology
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• v.16 no.4
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• pp.270-276
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• 2007

A location-aware system, which is capable to detect a user's whereabout in a region and provide real-time location information in outdoor environment is designed and fabricated, specifically using the GPS (global positioning system) as key technology in view of its stability and high precision in outdoor environment. Experiment is conducted to test this application in campus-based environment. Once GPS receiver detects specific location which is tagged with GPS coordinates, the system provides information relevant to that context and user can operate and react accordingly. Besides, this location-aware system is able to provide user with the route in order to get to a desired place by detecting the direction that the user is moving towards from his/her initial location. The mapping data is transferred via wireless LAN to PDA carried by the user as well as to the back-end system on real-time basis. The test result is analyzed and discussed to validate the effectiveness of using GPS in implementing this system and indicates future works that could be made to improve this prototype to be implemented in other applications, such as theme park, tourist attraction spot or recreational park.

• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 2002.07d
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• pp.2577-2579
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• 2002

In this paper, we describe a CMOS DC-DC converter with a variable output voltage(8-12V @100mA) for a portable battery-operated system applications. The proposed DC-DC converter is used along with a Pulse-Frequency Modulation (PFM) method and consists of a reference circuit, a feedback resistor, a controller, and an internal oscillator. The integrated DC-DC converter with two external passive components(L.C) has been designed and fabricated on a 0.6${\mu}m$ 2-poly, 3-metal CMOS process and could be applied to the Personal Digital Assistants(PDA), Cellular Phone, Laptop Computer, etc.