• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.13 no.12
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• pp.2489-2497
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• 2009

The objective of this research is to get the lesson of the policy by searching the factors of technology acceptance focused on u-Health system. For the purpose of this research, this study presented the concept of u-Health and literature review associated with technology acceptance. Also, this research analyzed the factors affecting 'acceptance of u-Health system'. As a result of the analysis, the first factor affecting acceptance of u-health system is 'self-efficacy' and the second factor is 'connecting'. These results showed characteristics of the innovative aspects and the 'anytime and anywhere' in the ubiquitous concept. Therefore, considering these factors when developing with the priority of u-health system will be able to increase the likelihood of business revenue.

• The Journal of Korean Association of Computer Education
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• v.15 no.6
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• pp.83-89
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• 2012

It becomes important for the countries with ageing populations to prepare coming u-health societies. Surely, the technology of u-health will help the elderly everywhere and everytime because the key concept is based on the combination of the ubiquitous and healthcare technology. In this paper, a design scheme is proposed to construct an automated diagnosis system of body fluid for u-health. Specifically, the system is comprised of embedded system, light generating system and photo sensing system. The system analyzes the diffused lights from the chemical reagent pads under LED lights and diagnoses a variety of diseases according to the predefined color values on specific diseases. As a result, the system is implemented as a hardware and shows the measurement accuracy of 95% in reliability.

• Proceedings of the Korea Contents Association Conference
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• 2009.05a
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• pp.828-832
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• 2009

In this paper we suggest the technique to improve the reliability of U-Health system. The idea is that a video recoding start at only the emergency data of patients. This technique reduces the reliability of U-Health system. In the suggested U-Health system based on video control technique, bio sensors are used to send the state information of patients to a server. The server analyzes the health state of patients from base nodes and start video recoding and sends the video information about the patients in the emergent state to the nearest hospital.

• International Journal of Contents
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• v.12 no.4
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• pp.17-22
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• 2016

This paper presents a novel method to design and implement mobile u-health system by defining the essential elements of mobile healthcare services. We choose common service elements for the proposed u-healthcare scheme and design the service platform. Especially we focus on automatic feces or urine sensing u-care scheme to prove the effectiveness of our platform. We construct the system with sensing part with a manikin and a diaper, wireless communication part with feces or urine sensing data, and coordinator system based on the u-health platform defined in this paper. Experimental results show that our scheme is useful in the area of u-care service for the handicapped, the elderly, and patients who can hardly move by themselves. In addition the designed scheme offers a realized u-care scheme with the purpose of advanced developing tools for application or service developers.

• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.10 no.5
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• pp.80-89
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• 2010

u-Health refers to "Always, ubiquitously" prevention against disease, diagnosis, medical treatment service that can receive treatment even if patient does not visit hospital as abbreviated word of ubiquitous and health. U-Health transmits in individual's living body sign and measuring of health information and health information system that is consisted of process of analysis and feedback transmiting and measure individual's living body signal and health information and health proprietary company or medical institution operates. If analyze pattern to information that health information system is transmited, health care officer or chief physician means that offer healthcare and medical treatment service to remote about target customer. Wish to present authoritativeness model for u-Health's inside and outside of the country same native place and u-Health's BMT in this research.

• Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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• 2011.11a
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• pp.1055-1058
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• 2011

본 논문은 IT분야의 다양한 융합 기술 분야 중에서 언제 어디서나 사용자의 건강상태를 실시간으로 확인 할 수 있는 u-Health 시스템(Ubiquitous Health System)을 구현하였다. 현재 서비스되고 있는 u-Health 시스템은 초기 단계로 사용자의 상태를 확인하는 센서 기기에 의존하여 센서로부터 측정된 데이터를 가족 및 의료기관 등이 직접 분석하여 대처 하는 방법을 사용하고 있다. 그러나 기존에 개발된 u-Health 시스템은 센서 기기에 대한 오동작과 응급상황 발생 시 정확하고 신속한 대처를 할 수 없다는 단점을 가지고 있다. 따라서 본 논문에서는 u-Health 시스템의 단점을 보완하고자 기존 u-Health 시스템에 질환판별 알고리즘을 적용하여 사용자의 상태를 진단하고 이상 징후나 응급상황을 판단 할 수 있도록 하여 신뢰성을 높인다. 또한 질환판별 결과가 응급상황으로 판정될 시 가족 및 의료기관에 실시간으로 문자 메시지를 전송하여 알림 역할을 하고, 스마트폰과 웹페이지를 이용하여 실시간으로 사용자의 상태를 확인할 수 있도록 하여 신속성을 높이는데 목적이 있다.

• Journal of Advanced Navigation Technology
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• v.13 no.4
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• pp.577-585
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• 2009

Various studies on individual health-care application services have been lively going on due to recent development of information and communication technology and improvement of life quality. Moreover, U-health care area is emerging as a new growth industry as the demand of U-health care service for a quality life grows with the development of medical technology and ubiquitous environment. U-health care system for crew members on ships, who need to spend much time on sea far from their families, is especially needed because they find their job much more stressful not only physically but also mentally than any other people in different jobs do and have less chance to get proper medical services in time. In this paper, we suggested how to get more accurate and objective U-health wellbeing index by complementing SF-36, the general heath care index model in order to managing health of crew. Also we designed the U-health wellbeing index service system which can provide appropriate sports programs or diet contents according to health index.

• Journal of Digital Convergence
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• v.10 no.6
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• pp.93-98
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• 2012

This study was to analyze the influences of various factors on the u-health service. Data was surveyed from experienced of u-Health service sectors. We measured legal support, IT-infra, user education, the user education, and the u-Health solution, are the critical success factors for the u-Health service. Also we evaluated u-Health services by survey data from the users. We did also the research to evaluate the validity and reliability of these factors. After that the Analytical Hierarchy Process (AHP) was applied to measure the weights among these factors. Factor analysis resulted in 6 major factors (Eigenvalue > 1.0). The AHP analysis showed the list of Critical Success Factors weighted by its significance priorities. The results of this paper could be the valuable references for the policy making process of the u-Health system in Korea.

• Journal of the Korea Society of Computer and Information
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• v.16 no.3
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• pp.9-15
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• 2011

U-healthcare system has an aim to provide reliable and fast medical services for patient regardless of time and space by transmitting to doctors a large quantity of vital signs collected from sensor networks. Existing u-healthcare systems can merely monitoring patients' health status. In this paper, we describe the implementation and validation of a prototype of a u-health monitoring system based on a wireless sensor network. This system is easy to derive physiologically meaningful results by analyzing rapidly vital signs. The monitoring system sends only the abnormal data of examinee to the service provider. This technique can reduces the wireless data packet overload between a monitoring part and service provider. The real-time bio-signal monitoring system makes possible to implement u-health services and improving efficiency of medical services.

• Journal of Digital Convergence
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• v.13 no.7
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• pp.213-221
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• 2015

The aim of this study is to find the factors affecting attitude on u-health system using Pender's Health Promotion Model (HPM) and also, analyze the moderating effect of gender variable in research model. To assess the proposed research model based on HPM, this study adopted Partial Least Square (PLS) method using Smartpls 2.0 version for the evaluation of research model. Thus, this study used survey questionnaire in order to collect useful data to potential users of u-health system. As a result of analysis, the examined variables explain 29% of variance on attitude to use of the u-health system. According to the PLS analysis, self efficacy and perceived benefits showed significantly positive relationship on attitude to use of u-health system. In addition, on the moderating effect of gender variable, female had more interest on self efficacy for positive attitude on use of u-health system.