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Implementation of a Smartphone Interface for a Personal Mobility System Using a Magnetic Compass Sensor and Wireless Communication (지자기 센서와 무선통신을 이용한 PMS의 스마트폰 인터페이스 구현)

  • Kim, Yeongyun;Kim, Dong Hun
    • Journal of the Korean Institute of Intelligent Systems
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    • v.25 no.1
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    • pp.48-56
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    • 2015
  • In the paper, a smartphone-controlled personal mobility system(PMS) based on a compass sensor is developed. The use of a magnetic compass sensor makes the PMS move according to the heading direction of a smartphone controlled by a rider. The proposed smartphone-controlled PMS allows more intuitive interface than PMS controlled by pushing a button. As well, the magnetic compass sensor makes a role in compensating for the mechanical characteristics of motors mounted on the PMS. For adequate control of the robot, two methods: absolute and relative direction methods based on the magnetic compass sensor and wireless communication are presented. Experimental results show that the PMS is conveniently and effectively controlled by the proposed two methods.

A Study on the Application of Human Factors to the Introduction of PAV & UAM

  • Ahn, Kyung Su;Jeong, Won Kyong
    • Journal of the Korean Society for Aviation and Aeronautics
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    • v.28 no.4
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    • pp.171-175
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    • 2020
  • The present and future cities are expanding, and the noise and environmental pollution in cities are getting worse day by day, causing saturation of road and subway traffic. As a result, citizens are spending a great deal of time and money. The use of the sky as a measure to solve this problem has become a reality. However, airplanes that require airstrips and noisy helicopters are difficult to use in cities. As a solution, PAVs and UAMs that generate low noise and enable vertical takeoff and landing using electric energy, motor, hybrid, and hydrogen energy, are attracting attention, with its practicality being promoted in many countries. The development of urban environment and technology has led to the emergence of Personal Air Vehicle (PAV), Vertical Takeoff and Landing (eVTOL), and Urban Air Mobility (UAM) for shipping. Though currently at the level of testing, general commercialization of these air transport means is expected in the next five to fifteen years. This study suggests a plan on the application of human factors to the introduction of PAV and UAM.

A Fusion of Data Mining Techniques for Predicting Movement of Mobile Users

  • Duong, Thuy Van T.;Tran, Dinh Que
    • Journal of Communications and Networks
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    • v.17 no.6
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    • pp.568-581
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    • 2015
  • Predicting locations of users with portable devices such as IP phones, smart-phones, iPads and iPods in public wireless local area networks (WLANs) plays a crucial role in location management and network resource allocation. Many techniques in machine learning and data mining, such as sequential pattern mining and clustering, have been widely used. However, these approaches have two deficiencies. First, because they are based on profiles of individual mobility behaviors, a sequential pattern technique may fail to predict new users or users with movement on novel paths. Second, using similar mobility behaviors in a cluster for predicting the movement of users may cause significant degradation in accuracy owing to indistinguishable regular movement and random movement. In this paper, we propose a novel fusion technique that utilizes mobility rules discovered from multiple similar users by combining clustering and sequential pattern mining. The proposed technique with two algorithms, named the clustering-based-sequential-pattern-mining (CSPM) and sequential-pattern-mining-based-clustering (SPMC), can deal with the lack of information in a personal profile and avoid some noise due to random movements by users. Experimental results show that our approach outperforms existing approaches in terms of efficiency and prediction accuracy.

The Relation among Residential Mobility, Values of Independence, and Preference for Uniqueness (주거 유동성,독립성의 가치 및 독특성 선호 간의 관계)

  • Hyekyung Park
    • Korean Journal of Culture and Social Issue
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    • v.19 no.2
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    • pp.179-202
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    • 2013
  • This research examined the relation between personal history of residential moves and psychological independence. In particular, this research tested how actual self-importance (vis-a-vis perceived social importance) of values (Study 1) and preference for uniqueness (Study 2) would vary as a function of past experience of moving. The results showed that personal history of residential moves was positively linked to actual self-importance of individualistic values and perceived social importance of collectivistic values. In addition, the results demonstrated that individuals with frequent residential moves generally showed a greater liking for uniqueness. The implications of these results for the direction of causation between residential mobility and psychological independence are discussed and suggestions for future research are made.

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Usability Testing and Improvement of Mobile Application of Shared Mobility Ttareungi (공유 모빌리티 따릉이 모바일 어플리케이션 사용성 평가 및 개선 방안 제안)

  • Lee, Seonghyeon;Moon, Saiyeon;Oh, Siyeon;Hong, Jina;Jung, Young-Wook
    • The Journal of the Convergence on Culture Technology
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    • v.7 no.2
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    • pp.377-388
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    • 2021
  • With the growth of the global sharing economy market, various sharing services have recently appeared in South Korea. Seoul city unmanned public bicycle rental service, "Ttareuni" is one of the services representing the shared mobility industry in South Korea. Although many users use this service, the usability of the mobile application, which is the essential medium of utilizing the service, is not improving. In this regard, this study conducted usability testing and in-depth interviews for Ttareungi's main users in their 20s and 30s to improve the user experience of the mobile application of Ttareungi. As a result, the problems of Ttareungi mobile application were identified, and based on this, design considerations for shared mobility services having publicity like Ttareungi were proposed. This is expected to contribute to improving the user experience of shared mobility services.

A Study on Infra-Technology of RCP Interaction System

  • Kim, Seung-Woo;Choe, Jae-Il
    • 제어로봇시스템학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 2004.08a
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    • pp.1121-1125
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    • 2004
  • The RT(Robot Technology) has been developed as the next generation of a future technology. According to the 2002 technical report from Mitsubishi R&D center, IT(Information Technology) and RT(Robotic Technology) fusion system will grow five times larger than the current IT market at the year 2015. Moreover, a recent IEEE report predicts that most people will have a robot in the next ten years. RCP(Robotic Cellular Phone), CP(Cellular Phone) having personal robot services, will be an intermediate hi-tech personal machine between one CP a person and one robot a person generations. RCP infra consists of $RCP^{Mobility}$, $RCP^{Interaction}$, $RCP^{Integration}$ technologies. For $RCP^{Mobility}$, human-friendly motion automation and personal service with walking and arming ability are developed. $RCP^{Interaction}$ ability is achieved by modeling an emotion-generating engine and $RCP^{Integration}$ that recognizes environmental and self conditions is developed. By joining intelligent algorithms and CP communication network with the three base modules, a RCP system is constructed. Especially, the RCP interaction system is really focused in this paper. The $RCP^{interaction}$(Robotic Cellular Phone for Interaction) is to be developed as an emotional model CP as shown in figure 1. $RCP^{interaction}$ refers to the sensitivity expression and the link technology of communication of the CP. It is interface technology between human and CP through various emotional models. The interactive emotion functions are designed through differing patterns of vibrator beat frequencies and a feeling system created by a smell injection switching control. As the music influences a person, one can feel a variety of emotion from the vibrator's beats, by converting musical chord frequencies into vibrator beat frequencies. So, this paper presents the definition, the basic theory and experiment results of the RCP interaction system. We confirm a good performance of the RCP interaction system through the experiment results.

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Requirements of Improvement on Personal Protective Equipment and Experiences Exposed to Accidently High Risk Circumstance while Firefighting: A Questionnaire Study (화재진압 중 소방관의 돌발 고위험상황 노출 경험과 개인보호구 개선요구사항 실태조사)

  • Lee, Hyo-Hyun;Kim, Siyeon;Kim, Do-Hee;Kim, Do-Hyung;Lee, Joo-Young
    • Journal of Korean Living Environment System
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    • v.24 no.5
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    • pp.549-561
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    • 2017
  • We conducted a nationalwide questionnaire to investigate accidental experiences and injuries at flashover or flame-fire for active firefighters in the line of duty. A total of 794 firefighters participated in this survey (764 males, 27 females, and 3 respondents; $39.2{\pm}8.4yr$ in age, $173.7{\pm}5.1cm$ in height, $73.4{\pm}8.6kg$ in body mass). The results showed that high risk circumstances the most frequently experienced while firefighting in Korea was flashover followed by backdraft, rollover and flameover. At the high risk circumstances the most frequently-experienced injuries were bruise, stabs and burns. Firefighters hoped to reduce the total mass of personal protective equipment (PPE), improve the mobility of the PPE and dexterity of protective gloves, so that they could escape from the high risk circumstances as fast as possible. In particular, requirements for improvement on protective gloves were greater than those on other PPE. The present study suggested that the need for improvements on the current firefighters' PPE to cope with emergency high risk situations in terms of PPE mass reduction and mobility.

Prerequisites for Realizing Urban Air Traffic (UAM) and Personal Air Vehicle (PAV) (도심항공교통(UAM)과 개인용 비행체(PAV) 실현화를 위한 선행 조건에 대한 전망)

  • Choi, Jeongho;Choi, Young-Moon
    • Journal of the Korea Convergence Society
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    • v.11 no.12
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    • pp.147-153
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    • 2020
  • This study is aimed at a basic infrastructure for realizing urban air mobility (UAM) and personal air vehicle (PAV), which have recently been high interest as new means of transportation. The development of UAM and PAV technologies is a field of a high added value that the world is competitively pushing for the world. However, the three most fundamental aspects are the establishing an aviation certification system, finding reliable manufacturers having advanced technical abilities, and the training/securing of professional manpower. Above all, the aviation certification system will be established for the first time. Based on the certification system, it will be possible to realize the government's policy goal of introducing new means of transportation, including the production of aircraft and to realize commercialization that meets international standards that satisfy conformity and compliance. In addition, finding reliable manufacturers, fostering professionals, and establishing an educating system for stable supplying of the professionals are main projects to become a leading country in the field.

Influence of Urban Built Environment on Severity of PM-Pedestrian Accidents in Seoul (서울시 PM 대 보행자 교통사고 심각도에 대한 도시건조환경의 영향)

  • Songhyeon Shin;Sangho Choo;Danbi Lim
    • The Journal of The Korea Institute of Intelligent Transport Systems
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    • v.22 no.4
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    • pp.114-131
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    • 2023
  • Personal Mobility (PM)-related accidents have increased rapidly since PM use was activated. In response to the increase in these accidents, the government strengthened regulations for PM users on May 13, 2021. The number of the accidents in which the PM user was a victim decreased significantly. In contrast, the increasing number of accidents in which PM user was the offender did not decrease significantly. In most of these accidents, the PM user was the offender who crashed into pedestrians. Hence, the safety of pedestrians is threatened. Therefore, this study analyzed the factors, such as the regulations, urban built environment, and personal characteristics, affecting the severity of PM-pedestrian accidents by focusing on PM-pedestrian crashes. This study analyzed the PM-pedestrian accidents in Seoul from 2020 to 2021 using binary logistic regression model. Through these results, this study proposed the policy implications.

Studies on selected properties of a public golf (일반인의 골프 선택 속성에 대한 연구)

  • Lee, Young-Ju
    • The Korean Journal of Franchise Management
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    • v.5 no.2
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    • pp.69-79
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    • 2014
  • This study was carried out to demonstrate how realistic any action that causes the selection criteria for new members to join the decisions of the general public about the growing recreational sport of golf to the present day. Looking at the results of in-depth interviews, "time out through direct participation "" become more and more expensive equipment "," varied program "," located near "," are items of personal development and interpersonal relationships "was found to have a significant impact on the public choice of leisure sports. It was with the greatest response in the dual to "become more and more expensive equipment," "self-development and personal relationships." These results exigent there in living the contemporary social phenomena that can not ignore the economic aspects of choosing a leisure sport and personal development and interpersonal relationships in organizations improve social promotion and sales, a key role in providing opportunities for upward mobility suggests that the passage is.