• 대한인간공학회지
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• 제34권2호
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• pp.85-101
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• 2015

Objective: The purpose of this study was to develop and evaluate smart secondary controls using iPad for the drivers with physical disabilities in the driving simulator. Background: The physically disabled drivers face problems in the operation of secondary control devices that accept a control input from a driver for the purpose of operating the subsystems of a motor vehicle. Many of conventional secondary controls consist of small knobs or switches that physically disabled drivers have difficulties in grasping, pulling or twisting. Therefore, their use while driving might increase distraction and workload because of longer operation time. Method: We examined the operation time of conventional and smart secondary controls, such as hazard warning, turn signal, window, windshield wiper, headlights, automatic transmission and horn. The hardware of smart secondary control system was composed of iPad, wireless router, digital input/output module and relay switch. We used the STISim Drive3 software for driving test, customized Labview and Xcode programs for interface control of smart secondary system. Nine subjects were involved in the study for measuring operation time of secondary controls. Results: When the driver was in the stationary condition, the average operation time of smart secondary devices decreased 32.5% in the normal subjects (p <0.01), 47.4% in the subjects with left hemiplegic disabilities (p <0.01) and 38.8% in the subjects with right hemiplegic disabilities (p <0.01) compared with conventional secondary devices. When the driver was driving for the test in the simulator, the average operation time of smart secondary devices decreased 36.1% in the normal subjects (p <0.01), 41.7% in the subjects with left hemiplegic disabilities (p <0.01) and 34.1% in the subjects with right hemiplegic disabilities (p <0.01) compared with conventional secondary devices. Conclusion: The smart secondary devices using iPad for people with hemiplegic disabilities showed significant reduction of operation time compared with conventional secondary controls. Application: This study can be used to design secondary controls for adaptive vehicles and to improve the quality of life of the people with disabilities.

• The Journal of Advanced Prosthodontics
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• 제7권1호
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• pp.51-55
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• 2015

PURPOSE. Bone density at implant placement site is a key factor to obtain the primary stability of the fixture, which, in turn, is a prognostic factor for osseointegration and long-term success of an implant supported rehabilitation. Recently, an implant motor with a bone density measurement probe has been introduced. The aim of the present study was to test the objectiveness of the bone densities registered by the implant motor regardless of the operator performing them. MATERIALS AND METHODS. A total of 3704 bone density measurements, performed by means of the implant motor, were registered by 39 operators at different implant sites during routine activity. Bone density measurements were grouped according to their distribution across the jaws. Specifically, four different areas were distinguished: a pre-antral (between teeth from first right maxillary premolar to first left maxillary premolar) and a sub-antral (more distally) zone in the maxilla, and an interforaminal (between and including teeth from first left mandibular premolar to first right mandibular premolar) and a retroforaminal (more distally) zone in the lower one. A statistical comparison was performed to check the inter-operators variability of the collected data. RESULTS. The device produced consistent and operator-independent bone density values at each tooth position, showing a reliable bone-density measurement. CONCLUSION. The implant motor demonstrated to be a helpful tool to properly plan implant placement and loading irrespective of the operator using it.

• 대한인간공학회지
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• 제33권5호
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• pp.313-321
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• 2014

Objective: The purpose of this study is to develop products that prevent muscular skeletal disease of farm workers, which would bring improvement for an efficient harvesting work. Background: A pretest for product development and a survey research was carried out to inspect the problems of current harvesting work procedure. The product was developed and assessed based on ideas to supplement and improve these weak points. Method: A total of twenty men were recruited to evaluate the effects of harvest baskets on the upper-limb muscle activity, working hours. For the usability evaluation, electromyogram and working hours of previous working method (disuse of harvest basket, one-hand carriage of the basket) and new working method with the usage of newly-developed harvest basket was examined. The whole anterior deltoid, biceps brachii and erector spinae on both sides, which make a total of six muscle parts, were used for this experiment. The results were analyzed using ANOVA with muscle activity (%MVC) of each three forms of work and required work time from SPSS 18.0. Results: According to the test result, all muscles did not demonstrate any statistically significant difference, with an exception of the backbone erector (right). The muscle activity of backbone erector (right) in the work method that uses the harvest basket developed in this study was detected to be approximately 23% less than that of the previous working method. Moreover, compared to the previous working method, the required work time decreased to a statistically significant degree. Conclusion: As such, the decrease in the amount of waist muscle usage at harvesting work would enable the prevention of muscular skeletal disease and stabilization of lumbar spine. Application: Which in turn would increase the effectiveness and reduce personnel expense (labor costs) while enhancing productivity with a decreased working hours.

• 대한가정학회지
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• 제28권2호
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• pp.91-106
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• 1990

This study focuses on consumers' advertising discriminatory competencies and the influencing facors. So the objects of this study are as follows : 1) to identify the overall level of advertising discriminatory competencies. 2) to examine if consumer attitude variables have significant effects on the ads. discriminatory competenceis. 3) to examine if the frequencies of contacting advertising variable have significant effects on the ads. discriminatory competencies. 4) to examine if socio-economics variables-age, educational level, monthly family income, occupational status-have significant effects on the ads. discriminatory competencies. 5) to find out the independent influence of variables related to the ads. discriminatory competencies. For this purpose, a survey was conducted using questionaires and advertisement papers. The data used in this study included 194 Homemakers living in Seoul. The ads. used in this study included ads. of diary products like foods, drinks, medicine, cosmetic, detergent in TV, radio, newspaper and magagine. Statistics were Frequency Distribution, Mean, percentile, ANOVA, Scheff -test, Pearsons' Correlation, Multiple Regrassion Analysis. Major findings were as follows : First, in 26 items(70%) of 37 items measured consumers' ads. discriminatory competencies, the rate of right answer was below 50%, so over the half of consumers were misleaded by the deceptive ads. Second, consumers' ads. discriminatory competencies differed significantly according to consumer attitude variables but no according to the frequency of contacting advertising. Third, according to socio-demographic variables-age, educational level, monthly family income, occupational status-advertising discriminatory competencies differed significantly. In group of lower age, higher educational level, higher income and professional occupation status, the level of ads. discriminatory competencies were high. Forth, the most influencing variabel on ads. disciriminatory competencies were eudcational level and in turn general attitude toward ads., attitude toward consumerism. This three variables explain 22.9% of dependent variable's variance. From these findings, the following suggestions are made, First, the consumer education offering informations and learing practical ads. discriminatory competencies should be conducted for all consumers wheather they are educated or not. Also the education to improve the consumer attitude must be. Second, considering misleading level, the business must make the regulatory standards and reinforce the regulation voluntarily, and by enforcing the regulation of ads. and deciding more diverse, objective and exact standards, the government should keep the consumer's right to know.

• 센서학회지
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• 제23권2호
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• pp.114-121
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• 2014

We report a polysilicon active area membrane field effect transistor (PSAFET) pressure sensor for low stress deflection of membrane. The PSAFET was produced in conventional FET semiconductor fabrication and backside wet etching. The PSAFET located at the front side measured pressure change using 300 nm thin-nitride membrane when a membrane was slightly strained by the small deflection of membrane shape from backside with any physical force. The PSAFET showed high sensitivity around threshold voltage, because threshold voltage variation was composed of fractional function form in sensitivity equation of current variation. When gate voltage was biased close to threshold voltage, a fractional function form had infinite value at $V_{tn}$, which increased the current variation of sensitivity. Threshold voltage effect was dominant right after the PSAFET was turned on. Narrow transistor channel established by small current flow was choked because electron could barely cross drain-source electrodes. When gate voltage was far from threshold voltage, threshold voltage effect converged to zero in fractional form of threshold voltage variations and drain current change was mostly determined by mobility changes. As the PSAFET fabrication was compatible with a polysilicon FET in CMOS fabrication, it could be adapted in low pressure sensor and bio molecular sensor.

• 한국운동역학회지
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• 제18권3호
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• pp.43-80
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• 2008

본 연구는 투어중인 프로골퍼를 대상으로 시즌 중 사용하는 드라이버스윙을 분석하는데 목적을 두었다. 연구대상으로서 3명의 KPGA(Korean Professional Golfer Association)의 투어골퍼를 대상으로 시즌중의 드라이버스윙을 수집하기위해 시즌 마지막 경기 직후 측정하였다. 다운스윙구간을 분석구간으로 정했으며 임팩트 이후 릴리즈 구간까지 분석하였다. 그 결과 기존의 운동학적 연구에서 나타난 주동분절 간의 유기적 작용은 본 연구에서도 같게 나타났다. 흉곽, 왼팔 그리고 손으로 이어지는 시스템은 상위분절인 흉곽이 먼저 움직이고 왼팔, 왼손과 클럽으로 이어지는 순서를 보임으로서 선행연구와 같게 나타났다. 오류의 수준이 크게 줄어든 데이터를 이용하여 미세한 변화를 정확하게 기술 할 수 있었다. 그러나 선행연구와 다른 결과도 나타났다. 3명의 대상자 모두에게서 왼팔의 코킹각의 구성에 있어서 기술되지 못했던 왼손의 내전각을 표현할 수 있었고 그로인해 왼손의 내전각은 코킹의 형성에 크게 영향을 주지 않는 것을 발견했다. 또한 선행연구에서 강조되었던 임팩트 직전 흉곽의 운동이 볼의 진행방향의 반대가 아니라 미세하지만 볼의 진행방향과 같은 방향으로 진행됐음을 알 수 있었다.

• Journal of Biosystems Engineering
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• 제43권4호
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• pp.273-284
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• 2018

Purpose: Conventional headland turning typically requires repeated forward and backward movements to move the farming equipment to the next row. This research focuses on developing an upland agricultural robot with an optimized headland turning mechanism that enables a $180^{\circ}$ turning positioning to the next row in one steering motion designed for a two-wheel steering, four-wheel drive agricultural robot named the HADA-bot. The proposed steering mechanism allows for faster turnings at each headland compared to those of the conventional steering system. Methods: The HADA-bot was designed with 1.7-m wide wheel tracks to travel along the furrows of a garlic bed, and a look-ahead path following algorithm was applied using a real-time kinematic global positioning system signal. Pivot turning tests focused primarily on accuracy regarding the turning radius for the next path matching, saving headland turning time, area, and effort. Results: Several test cases were performed by evaluating right and left turns on two different surfaces: concrete and soil, at three speeds: 1, 2, and 3 km/h. From the left and right side pivot turning results, the percentage of lateral deviation is within the acceptable range of 10% even on the soil surface. This U-turn scheme reduces 67% and 54% of the headland turning time, and 36% and 32% of the required headland area compared to a 50 hp tractor (ISEKI, TA5240, Ehime, Japan) and a riding-type cultivator (CFM-1200, Asia Technology, Deagu, Rep. Korea), respectively. Conclusion: The pivot turning trajectory on both soil and concrete surfaces achieved similar results within the typical operating speed range. Overall, these results prove that the pivot turning mechanism is suitable for improving conventional headland turning by reducing both turning radius and turning time.

• 한국운동역학회지
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• 제24권1호
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• pp.19-26
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• 2014

This study investigated foot pressure patterns between experienced skiers and intermediate skiers during alpine skiing. Five experienced skiers and five intermediate skiers participated in this study. Foot pressure measurement system was used to measure vertical ground reaction force (vGRF) and contact area under the six plantar regions. Each participant was asked to perform basic parallel turns and carved turns on a $18^{\circ}$ groomed slope. Each right turn was divided into the initiation phase, the steering phase 1 and 2. For the initiation phase of the basic parallel turns, significantly greater contact area was found on the LRF and RRF of the intermediate skiers (p<.05) and significantly greater vGRF was found on the LRF of the intermediate skiers (p<.05). Also significantly greater vGRF and contact area were found on the LRF and RRF of the intermediate skiers at the steering phase 1 (p<.05) and on the LRF of the intermediate skiers at the steering phase 2 (p<.05). For the carved turns, significantly greater vGRF and contact area were found on the LRF and RRF of the intermediate skiers at all three phase (p<.05). On the other hand, significantly greater vGRF was found on the RFF of the experienced skiers at the steering phase 1 (p<.05). Also significantly greater vGRF and contact area were found on the RMF of the experienced skiers at the steering phase 2 (p<.05). In order to increase performance, we suggest that the intermediate skiers should be unweighted at the initiation phase and shift the body weight to the forefoot of the outer foot at the steering phase 1. Also, the outer ski should be loaded more than the both skis at the steering phase 1 and 2.

• 대한교통학회지
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• 제34권4호
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• pp.291-303
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• 2016

교차로에서 발생한 교통사고건수는 최근 10년간 지속적으로 증가하였고, 2014년 전체 교통사고의 44%를 차지하면서 교차로는 교통안전에 취약한 도로형태로 주목되고 있다. 특히 선정된 사고다발지점 대다수가 신호교차로를 포함하고 있어, 신호교차로의 안전개선 노력이 우선적으로 필요한 실정이다. 이에 정부는 주로 도로안전시설 개선사업을 시행하여 주어진 예산 내에서 단기간에 높은 효과를 얻을 수 있는 안전개선사업을 수행하고자 한다. 이를 위하여 도로안전시설의 사고감소효과를 확인하는 연구가 지속적으로 등장하고 있으나 독립적으로 수행된 연구별 특성은 종합하기 어렵고, 각 연구결과가 대표성을 갖는데 한계가 있기 때문에 여전히 한정된 예산과 불확실한 도로안전시설 설치효과로 인해 선뜻 안전개선사업을 진행하지 못하고 있다. 따라서 본 연구에서는 메타분석을 통해 기존의 신호교차로 교통사고발생에 영향을 미치는 변인을 활용한 여러 사고예측연구 결과를 종합적으로 검토하고, 각 변인이 대표할 수 있는 개선효과를 도출하고자 하였다. 본 연구에서는 신호교차로 전체 사고건수를 종속변수로 하는 연구 중 19건의 논문을 선정하고 8개 변인에 대한 34개의 개별효과크기(effect size)를 산출하였다. 메타분석 결과, 도로안전시설 설치와 신호교차로 교통사고의 관계는 좌회전 전용차로를 제외하고는 모두 통계적으로 유의하게 감소한 사고영향을 나타내어, 도로안전시설이 사고감소에 영향을 준다는 통계적인 결과자료를 도출하였다. 그 중 도류화설치의 효과크기가 가장 높았으며, 좌회전차로 가속구간, 조명시설, 횡단보도, 우회전 전용차로, 중앙분리대 순으로 효과가 높은 것으로 나타났다.

• 한국가스학회지
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• 제25권5호
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• pp.78-87
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• 2021

본 논문에서는 국내 공공기관과 민간기업의 교통정보 제공 서비스 범위 및 속성 현황을 분석하고, 각 회사별 노드-링크정보의 공동 적용 가능 방안과 민간 교통정보의 공동 활용 가능성을 제시하고자 한다. 이를 위해 먼저 국내·외 교통정보 노드-링크의 현황과 속성(링크길이, 노드 ID번호, 유턴정보, 차선정보, 좌회전 정보, 우회전 정보 등)을 분석하였다. 분석 대상으로는 국가 표준노드링크와 2개 회사의 노드-링크를 분석하였다. 실험 대상 지역으로는 표준-링크정보가 복잡하고 교통량이 많으며 다양한 표준-링크가 존재하는 서울시 종로구 일대를 선정하였다. 실험은 3종의 노드-링크의 교통정보 속성을 비교 분석하고, 노드-링크 중첩 매칭을 수행(인코딩_디코딩 방법 활용)하여, 서로 다른 규격의 노드-링크의 위치와 속성 매칭의 가능성을 Open LR 기법을 이용하여 분석하였다. 그 결과, 국가표준노드-링크는 1, 3, 6, 7의 분류 체계를 사용하였으며 2개 회사 노드링크는 1, 3, 4, 6, 7의 분류 체계를 사용하였다. 따라서 2개 회사 노드링크 분류 체계가 국가 노드링크 분류 체계보다 세부적인 교통정보를 수집함을 알 수 있었다. 새로운 비즈니스 모델인 수소 튜브트레일러의 수소용기의 압력, 온도, 고정 등과 차량상태의 병행적인 안전 운행이 기대된다.