• 한국의류산업학회지
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• 제14권3호
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• pp.423-429
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• 2012

This study investigated purchasing practice and size satisfaction to offer basic data to establish a marketing strategy and produce down-aging clothes for females in their 40s-50s. For the data analysis, crosstabs, factor analysis, and one-way ANOVA were used. The results were as follows; first, middle-aged women were observed to purchase down-aging clothes "to look younger" and not purchase clothes "due to the lack of right sizes." For women who answered to 'not purchase clothes', they also acknowledged that they intended to purchase down-aging clothes in the future if the right size is available. Second, people in their early 40s significantly considered perceptual qualities such as fashion and brand names while people in their late 50s placed the most importance in practicality and wearability. For body shapes, people with overweight body types were found to significantly consider physical performance, practicality, and wearability. Third, the examination of purchase satisfaction levels by age groups showed that younger age groups had high satisfaction level for wear functionality related items that included size and activity however, the late 50s group had the lowest satisfaction level. Middle-aged women purchased clothes to look younger however, they simultaneously wear clothes that are plain and conservative or respectable and graceful. Therefore, the development of products reflect the analysis of designs that can help create a more youthful appearance and women's preferred styles are needed in addition to the establishment of a differentiated sizing system for middle-aged female consumers in the incorporation of the characteristics of middle-aged women's body parts.

• 대한음성학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한음성학회 1996년도 10월 학술대회지
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• pp.521-528
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• 1996

This presentation explores on the perceptual characteristics of the lateral sound /l/ in CV syllables. At initial position we found that /l/ has well marked formant transitions. Then several questions arise: 1) are these formant structures dependent on the following vowel\ulcorner. 2) Are the formant transitions giving an additional cue for the identification\ulcorner Considering that the French vocalic system presents a greater variety of vowels than Spanish, several experiments were designed to verify to what extent a more extensive range of vocalic timbres contribute to the perception of /l/. Natural emissions of /l/ produced in Argentine Spanish and Canadian French CV syllables were recorded, where V was successively /i, e, a, o, u/ for Spanish and /i, e, $\varepsilon$, a, $\alpha$, o, u, y, \phi$/ for French. For each item, the segment C was maintained and V was replaced by cutting & splicing by each of the remaining vowels without transitions. Results of the identification tests for Spanish show that natural /l/ segments with low Fl and high formants F3, F4 can be clearly identified in the /i, e, u/ vowel contexts without transitions. For French subjects the combination of /l/ with a vowel without transitions reflected correct identifications for its own original vowel context in /e, $\varepsilon$, y, $\phi$/. For both languages, in all these combinations, F1 values remained rather steady along the syllable. In the case of /o, u/ very likely the F2 difference lead to a variety of perceptions of the original /l/. For example in Ilul, French subjects reported some identifications of /l/ as a vowel, mainly /y/. Our observations reinforce the importance of F1 as a relevant cue for /l/, and the incidence of the relative distance between formants frequencies of both components.

• 말소리와 음성과학
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• 제11권4호
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• pp.9-18
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• 2019

본고는 한국인 피험자를 대상으로 지각 실험을 진행하여 화자의 실제 연령(Chronological age)과 지각 연령(Perceived age) 간의 상관관계를 살피고, 한국인 피험자가 얼마나 정확하게 익명의 화자의 연령을 지각할 수 있는지를 밝히고자 한다. 또한, 이러한 연령 지각에 음성적 단서가 되는 음높이와 발화 속도와 지각 연령 간의 영향 관계를 검토하고자 한다. 이를 위해, 성인 80명을 대상으로 3가지 과제로 구성된 지각 실험을 진행하였다. 실험 자극은 표준어 화자 40명에게서 추출되었으며, 자유 발화, 낭독 발화, 모음 연장 발성으로 구성되었다. 각 실험은 10초 내외의 음성을 듣고 연령을 구체적인 숫자로 답하는 방식으로 진행되었다. 분석 결과, 한국인 피험자들은 상당히 높은 판단 정확도를 보였으며, 모음 연장 발성을 들었을 때보다 자유 발화와 낭독 발화를 들었을 때 화자의 연령을 더욱 정확하게 짐작하였다. 이러한 결과는 음성이 포함하고 있는 정보량의 차이에 기인한 것으로 보인다. 또한, 음성 분석을 수행한 결과 피험자들은 화자의 음높이와 발화 속도를 참고하여 화자의 연령을 추정하는 것으로 나타났으며, 음높이보다는 발화 속도가 연령 지각에 더 적극적으로 기여한 것으로 나타났다.

• 한국음향학회지
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• 제19권4호
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• pp.58-68
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• 2000

본 논문에서는 폴리포닉 오디오 신호에 대한 정현파 모델링 방법을 제안한다. 정현화 모델링을 폴리포닉 오디오 신호에 적용하는데 있어서 가장 큰 문제점은 스펙트럼 분석을 위한 분석 윈도우의 크기를 결정할 수 없다는 것이다. 또한 고음질의 합성음을 위해서는 악기음의 특성을 결정짓는 어택이 잘 보존되어야 한다. 본 논문에서는 입력 신호를 6개의 옥타브 벤드 구조의 다중 해상도 필터 뱅크를 통과시키고, 각 서브벤드 신호에 대해 서로 다른 크기의 분석 윈도우를 적용시킴으로써 폴리포닉 오디오 신호에 대한 분석 윈도우 크기 결정 문제를 해결한다. 정현파 모델링에서 발생하는 어택과 같은 천이 구간에서의 퍼짐 현상을 개선하기 위해 각 서브밴드 신호에 동적 세그맨테이션 방법을 적용하여 천이 구간 근처에서는 분석과 합성 프레임 크기를 작게 하는 방법을 사용한다. 이 방법을 통해 서브밴드 신호의 구간별 시간-주파수 특성에 따라 적절한 크기의 윈도우를 선택할 수 있다. 동적 세그멘테이션 방법으로는 기존의 방법보다 계산량과 성능 면에서 더 나은 특성을 보이는 방법을 제안한다. 여러가지 폴리포닉 오디오 신호에 대한 시뮬레이션 결과 제안한 정현파 모델링 방법이 음질의 손상 없이 원래 신호를 잘 복원할 수 있음을 확인하였다.

• 한국실내디자인학회논문집
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• 제22권5호
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• pp.188-198
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• 2013

Advancement toward aging society has presented the importance of house planning in consideration of the elderly, increasing the necessity of such planning. Therefore the importance of indoor design guideline for elderly houses has been stressed and the understanding of the aging in regard to this trend will create more mature spaces. In line with this trend the purpose of this study is to study the medical factors related with bathroom interior design guidelines of the existing elderly houses from the viewpoint of deteriorating physical functions due to aging process. In order to research the deterioration of physical functions due to aging literatures of medical and exercise physiology were used and concerning the existing bathroom design guidelines for the aged people, the guideline items of behavior facilitation, physiological maintenance and perceptual maintenance aspects out of Murtha & Lee's user benefit criteria(1976) related with physical functions were selected to research in relation with the knowledge about the deterioration phenomena of physical functions. Physical aging and deterioration aspects were classified from the viewpoint of musculoskeletal disorder, cardiovascular disorder, respiratory disorder, gastronomy disorder, urology disorder, somatosensory disorder, endocrine disorder, immune disorder, nervous disorder and skin diseases and these were utilized in interpreting total 100 items of bathroom design guideline. Because bathroom is the space where many physical movements are done, it had the closest relationship with the deterioration of musculoskeletal health in general and as bathroom is the space where people use water and feel the difference in temperature and moisture more than other spaces, deterioration of skin and somatosensory health had the next closest relationship. The result of this study revealed that regarding the deterioration of physical functions of the elderly people in aspect of their perceptibility as designers will design creatively and sincerely based on its relationship with nervous system in future, the result of this study will be used to develop better spatial designs efficiently to meet for the aging society.

• 한국음향학회지
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• 제32권2호
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• pp.157-166
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• 2013

본 논문은 패킷 손실의 영향을 이용한 비 침입적 음질 평가 방법을 제안한다. 패킷 손실은 패킷 기반의 통신 시스템에서 음질을 저하시키는 주된 요소이며 그 영향은 코덱에 내장된 패킷 손실 은닉 알고리듬에 의해 결정된다. 패킷 손실 영향을 반영한 음질평가 시스템을 위해 VoIP 에서 협대역 코덱으로 사용되는 코덱 중 하나인 G.729를 선택하였으며, 음성 특징에 따른 패킷 손실 영향을 구분하기 위해서 G.729 코덱의 음성 파라미터를 이용한 한 음성 특성 분류기를 설계하였다. 이후, 각각의 패킷 특성에 따른 음질 저하의 정도를 수치화하기 위해 원 PESQ-LQ점수와 상관계수를 최대화하는 음질 저하 가중치를 반복적으로 구하였으며, 최종 음질 저하는 가중합으로 구하였다. 그 결과 제안한 모델과 PESQ-LQ의 상관계수는 칩입 모델 에서는 0.8950를, 비 침입 모델 에서는 0.8911의 결과를 나타내었다.

• 보건교육건강증진학회지
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• 제21권2호
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• pp.117-131
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• 2004

In order to obtain basic data for a health promotion program of hair dressers, the health promoting behavior of some hair dressers was assessed with the related factors such as general characteristics and cognitive-perceptual factors. The subjects were 245 hair dressers working at beauty shops having at least two hair dressers. The data was collected by a questionnaire from October 14 to October 20, 2001. The results were as follows： 1. The mean score of health promoting behavior conducted by the hair dressers was 31.17 out of 50.00 in total score. 2. The score of the health promoting behavior was statistically different according to marriage, on-duty hours, holidays, satisfaction in the job, perceived health status, perceived fatigue, health concept, and self-efficacy (p＜.05), while it was not statistically different according to gender, religious faith, residence, eduation, economic levels, career in the job, average income, medical care insurance, employment insurance, control of fortuity, and control over other persons. 3. The health promoting behaviors in the hair dressers showed positive correlation with self-efficacy and internal control, while it showed negative correlation with control over other people, control of fortuity, health concept, and perceived fatigue. 4. The Regression analysis results of the questionnaire showed that perceived fatigue, health concept and office hours were significant factors but the age, the fact of being single or couple, position at the job, holidays, satisfaction of the job, self-control and stresses from other people and self-efficiency appeared insignificant. In conclusion, the hair dressers with less perceived fatigue and better cognitive health concept and short duty hours showed better health promoting behavior. So, In order to conduct health promoting behaviors of hair dressers, the method will need to control of working time and perceived fatigue.

• 대한인간공학회지
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• 제25권4호
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• pp.51-62
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• 2006

The concept of universal design has recently emerged as an important aspect of product design. Universal design is considerably analogous to ergonomic design in a way that it takes the capabilities and limitations of users into consideration during the product development process. However, relatively few studies have been devoted to reflect the practical use of ergonomic principles on universal design. This research attempts to develop a universal design index for mobile phone design to quantify how well a product complies with principles of universal design. The research also emphasizes on ergonomic principles as a basis of evaluation. A generation of the evaluation items was done by cross-checking among the personal, activity and product components. Personal components consist of human characteristics including age, physique, perceptual capacity, life-style, etc. Activity components were derived from those scenarios of mobile phone use while product components were composed of the parts to which a user interacts. Further analysis systematically generated a universal index from relationship matrices among the three components. The index was then used to test its suitability by applying to the evaluation of mobile phones currently on the market. This study demonstrates a development process through which evaluations can be made possible for universal design. The research suggests an improved approach to the appraisal of how well mobile phones are universally designed based on ergonomic principles.

• 한국실내디자인학회논문집
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• 제15권6호
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• pp.77-88
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• 2006

According to critics and architects, non-linear structure is not only an organic form of space, but also a form of space detached from modem style. Accordingly, non-linear structure can be accepted as an alternative to what has remained unsolved by deconstructionist. However, they are criticized for not clarifying the interdependent relationship between non-linearity of space and cognitive structure of human being. They ended up remaining the hypothesis just an intuitive and abstract one. This research began on the basis that their hypothesis is hard to be objectified, and it needs further inquiry. The purpose of this thesis is to explore how the redundant factors constitute non-linear structures of digital media centered space design. Geometric compositions of space structure were analyzed to define what types of redundant factors are contrived in the process of visual information. This study about the visual form, researching the Information Theory, and then offer a quantitative analysis that makes those more objective. Space structure and geometric composition were analyzed to define what types of redundancy are contrived in the process of visual information. In particular, I put higher theoretical emphasis on what characteristics are ensued in the process of structuring spaces than any other subjects. Followings are the conclusion of analysis. First, as a result of examining, we can assume that NOX' space structure is not a chaotic form, but has an operating the form of its own. Second, in case of curvilinear, the structure was found redundancy on mid deviation ratio and discontinuous circular fabric. Although most of their structures appeared complex with a higher coherent constant, they were found to be stable factors because of the low deviation ratio between systems. The amount of surplus information was stable structure as well.

• 한국산업정보학회논문지
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• 제4권2호
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• pp.57-61
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• 1999

영상 압축 분야에서 분류벡터양자화 방법은 에지와 같이 시각적 인지에 중요한 특징을 잘 복원해주는 특성을 가지고 있다. 그러나, 기존의 분류벡터양자화에서는 수직, 수평, 대각 에지 클래스와 같은 몇 개의 선형 에지 클래스를 사전에 정의하고 분류함으로써, 영상 내 존재하는 다양한 유형의 에지 패턴을 효과적으로 재구성할 수 있도록 일반화되어 있지 못하다. 본 논문에서는 에지 패턴들간의 유사도 측정자를 정의하고 이를 바탕으로 에지 블록을 분류하는 새로운 방법을 제안한다. 영상내외 각 에지블록은 그 블록이 가지는 에지 패턴의 형태에 따라 하나의 특징벡터로 변환된다. 훈련 영상들로부터 다양한 형태의 에지 패턴들을 유사도가 높은 것들끼리 군집화하여 일반화된 에지 클래스를 자동으로 생성한다. 실험에서는 생성된 선형/비선형 에지 클래스의 유형을 보이고, 이를 이용하여 0.6875bpp로 압축된 결과 영상에서 에지가 잘 보존되고 있음을 보인다.