• Journal of Institute of Control, Robotics and Systems
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• v.18 no.10
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• pp.947-954
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• 2012

Sand scorpions are nocturnal animals to mostly use tactile senses to detect their prey. It has been reported that sand scorpions have high vibration sensitivity for their prey-localizing behavior. We tested vibration experiments in the sand with microphone sensors to model the sand scorpion's behavior and a time-difference model was applied to find the direction of a vibration source. Using the information of the arrival time of the vibration signal to reach each leg position, we can find the location of the vibration source.

• Communications of Mathematical Education
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• v.30 no.4
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• pp.515-530
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• 2016

Recently an extensive study of the mathematicians who have overcome the visually impaired and contribute to the academic in math was published. In the case of Korea, we can find there are mathematicians who have overcome physical disabilities such as cerebral palsy and polio. However there is no example of blind person who majored mathematics to become a mathematic's teacher or professor and have entered any mathematics related professions. This let us to study the reasons that caused difficulties to visually impaired students majoring in mathematics. We also suggest ways that may help blind students to have access to mathematics intuitively. In this study, we propose a tactile mathematics textbooks and teaching manuals utilizing 3D printing which the visually impaired students can touch and feel. We can supply such materials to visually impaired youth, special education teachers and parents in Korea. As a result, visually impaired students will be able to access mathematics easily and can build their confidence in mathematics. We hope that some blind students with mathematical talent do not hesitate to major mathematics and choose career in mathematical professions.

• Journal of the Korea Society of Computer and Information
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• v.24 no.11
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• pp.61-69
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• 2019

In this paper, we propose a multisensory(i.e., visual-auditory-tactile) based AR system for the education of cultural heritage. The proposed system provides a multisensory interaction by designing a user to experience with a 3D printed artifact which is mapped by a virtual 3D content of digital heritage. Compared with the existing systems of cultural heritage education based on augmented reality(AR) technology, this system focused on not only providing learning experience via a sense of visual and auditory, but also a sense of tactile. Furthermore, since this systems mainly provided the direct interactions using a 3D printed model, it gives a higher degree of realism than existing system that use touch or click motions on a 2D display of mobile phones and tablets. According to a result of user testing, we concluded that the proposed system delivered the excellent presence and learning flow to users. Particularly, from the usability evaluation, a 3D printed target artifact which is similar in shape to original heritage artifact, achieved the highest scores among the various tested targets.

• Tribology and Lubricants
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• v.32 no.6
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• pp.207-211
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• 2016

To interpret the perception that originates from tactile sensibility during people touch and recognize the object surfaces, this study focuses on the development of a friction model that can describe the interaction of a stylus pen sliding over the counter surfaces. In addition, the study includes several other experimental factors such as the pressure, temperature, and topology of surface, which can have an effect on the emotional user experience concerning various surfaces; this research aims to suggest a method to quantitatively evaluate the relation between these experimental parameters and emotional user experience. Accordingly, the objective of research comprises the friction characteristic technology for measurement of fine tribological behavior and a standard to quantify the emotional feedback. Existing panels or input devices that provide interaction feedback about user actions simply operate with a single frequency vibration or sound response. On the contrary, this research investigates various interaction characteristics including friction force, frequency, and surface topology synthetically. Using the developed model, which can explain the relation between the friction parameters and emotional user experience, developers can design their product in order to provide the user with expected emotional sensibility. Consequently, it can contribute to reduce the development cost about sensitivity model.

• Journal of IKEEE
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• v.27 no.4
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• pp.561-566
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• 2023

With the development of deep learning, it is possible to solve various computer non-specialized problems such as image processing. However, most image processing methods use only the visual information of the image to process the image. Text data such as descriptions and annotations related to images may provide additional tactile and visual information that is difficult to obtain from the image itself. In this paper, we intend to improve image classification accuracy through a deep learning model that analyzes images and texts using image-text pairs. The proposed model showed an approximately 11% classification accuracy improvement over the deep learning model using only image information.

• 제어로봇시스템학회:학술대회논문집
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• 2004.08a
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• pp.1093-1097
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• 2004

We propose 'the haptic primitive' for haptic rendering without the need to solve complicated parametric equations. To develop 'the haptic primitive', we adopted "the God-Object Method" as a haptic rendering algorithm and applied 'Constructive Solid Geometry' to manage haptic objects. Besides being used in the 'ghost library' of $PHANToMTM^{TM}$ our method can be used as a basic component for developing tools and libraries that aim to simplify haptic modeling. It can also be applied to tactile display modules and temporal display modules. Ultimately it can be developed into a one-stop haptic modeling tool that enables the user to more conveniently create a tangible CAD systems or a tangible e-ommerce system.

• Korean Journal of Computational Design and Engineering
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• v.15 no.3
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• pp.222-233
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• 2010

Developed in this research is a TP (tangible prototyping) system, which consists of two modules; (1) a virtual reality model to evaluate the functions and appearance of the product, and (2) a haptic device to emulate tactile and kinesthetic properties of mechanical dial knobs. As an example, a washing machine is modeled using a commercial CAD system and transformed in VRML and X3D formats. Some dynamic behaviors and kinematic characteristics are programmed using X3D script and Java. Various haptic behaviors of the dial are generated by modulating torque profile according to the rotation angle. A torque profile measuring system is developed to evaluate the behaviors of the haptic dial physically. Haptic sensibility evaluations are accomplished using the TP by semantic differential method.

• Proceedings of the Korean Operations and Management Science Society Conference
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• 2006.05a
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• pp.193-197
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• 2006

본 연구는 감성 공학적 접근법을 사용하여, 벽지의 디자인 요소와 소비자의 감성과의 관계를 정량적으로 규명하는 것을 목표로 한다. 문헌조사, 인터뷰 전문가 의견 등을 종합하여, 총 13개의 주관적 감성 변수(6개의 시각적 변수, 7개의 촉각적 변수) 와 4개의 벽지 디자인 요소(color, texture pattern, embossing depth, gloss)들이 추출되었으며, 최종 목표 감성은 '고급감'으로 정하였다. 9점 척도와 100점 척도으로 구성된 설문지를 통하여, 28개의 샘플 벽지에 대해서 30명의 목표 고객들을 대상으로 감성 평가 실험을 실시하였고, 주성분 회귀 분석, 수량화 이론 등을 이용한 분석을 통하여, 소비자의 감성과 디자인 요소와의 관계를 정량적으로 분석했으며, 고급감을 향상시킬 수 있는 감성 변수 조합과 디자인 요소 조합을 규명하였다.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society for Emotion and Sensibility Conference
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• 1999.03a
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• pp.153-157
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• 1999

Voigt Model assumed for creep was used to obtain the viscoelastic properties of fabrics in thickness direction and the governing equation was derived. The weights were specially designed and calibrated for constant stress applied to fabrics and the 1 ${\mu}{\textrm}{m}$ resolution laser displacement sensor was attached in order to measure the variation of strain. Ten fabric samples were used. The few steps of strain showed according to the internal structure of fabrics. Also correlations the Hand Values from KESF with the spring and damping coefficients were considered.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society for Emotion and Sensibility Conference
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• 1999.03a
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• pp.147-152
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• 1999

We have measured viscoelastic properties of fabrics in thickness direction. We assume that Maxwell model is very useful in stress relaxation of viscoelastic theories and appropriate formulas for fabric are calculated. Measurement system constitute of high precession load cell, translator and laser displacement sensor for viscoelastic properties was designed and elastic coefficients and damping coefficients were measured for 10 fabric samples. Elastic coefficients measured were 19~25 kN/㎡ and Damping coefficients measured were 4.8~8.7 MN$.$s/㎡. We concluded that these coefficients are good related with FUKURAMI collected from KESF system