• Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society
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• v.14 no.11
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• pp.5698-5706
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• 2013

This study presents research into the patterns that affect the understanding and acceptance of healthcare management systems as part of a healthcare information technology infrastructure targeted at university students. The participants were 623 university students in D city and K province. This study employed a descriptive and correlational cross-sectional survey and made use of the ubiquitous healthcare management services measurement scale. 48.5% of respondents had accessed healthcare-related information on the Internet. Among the independent variables of general characteristics related to perceived susceptibility was found to have adj $R^2$ of 11% while the other dependent factors reported much lower between 0.5 to 4.7%. Female respondents, medical-related majors, self-efficacy, and intention to use had significant positive effects while health beliefs and concern had a significant negative effect on the intentional acceptance of healthcare information technology systems.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.10 no.11
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• pp.2107-2112
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• 2006

As growing up of elderly population, the interesting on healthcare system in normal life using W is increasing. An integrated u-healthcare service architecture with IEEE 802.11 and IEEE 802.15.4 based sensor network and code divisi(m multiple access(CDMA) public mobile telecommunication networks was designed and developed. Sensor nodes with electrocardiogram(ECG), body core temperature sensors are attached on the patients' body. The healthcare parameters are transferred to web server via CDMA mobile network or through existed LAN network. The existed LAN network is suggested to be used for continuous monitoring of patient's health status in hospital while mobile networks can be used for general purpose at home or outdoor where infra networks unavailable. This system enable healthcare personal to be able to continuously access, review, monitor and transmit the patients information whereever they are, whenever they want. And immediately check their status by using cellular phone and obtain detail information by communication with medical information server through CDMA. By using this developed integrated u-healthcare service architecture, we can monitor patients' health status for 24 hours.

• The KIPS Transactions:PartC
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• v.17C no.2
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• pp.173-180
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• 2010

Information technology is being applied to the development of ubiquitous healthcare system, which provides both efficient patient care and convenient treatment regardless of patient's location. However, the increasing number of users and medical information give rise to the problem of user management and the infringement of privacy. In order to address this problem we propose a user access scheme based on the RBAC (Role Based Access Control) model. The preceding trust management model for Grid security, FAS(Federation Agent Server), was analyzed and extended to provide supplementary functions for role-based access control in u-Healthcare system. The RBAC model provides efficient user management and access control, but very vulnerable in case when one with valid role tries to leak confidential inner medical information. In order to resolve this problem, a RBAC-WS (Work Status with RBAC) model has been additionally developed which allows only qualified staffs to access the system while on duty. Th proposed RBAC and RBAC-WS model have been merged together and applied to the PACS (Picture Archiving and Communication System).

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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• 2008.05a
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• pp.624-627
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• 2008

본 연구에서는 유비쿼터스 헬스케어를 위하여 비침습적으로 측정기 가능하고, 많은 건강정보를 포함하고 있는 심전도(electrocardiogram, ECG)와 광전용적맥파(photo plethysmograph, PPG)를 측정하고자 하였다. 이를 위하여 배터리로 구동 가능한 초소형의 심전도 및 맥파측정 시스템의 구현을 위하여 각각의 신호를 검출 및 신호처리하기 위한 회로를 구현하였다. 그리고 계측된 심전도 및 맥파신호의 무선전송을 위하여 초저전력 무선센서네트워크 기술을 적용한 무선 생체신호 전송시스템을 구현하였다. 계측된 심전도의 R파 정점과 인체의 말초부위에서 측정한 맥파의 기준점 사이의 시간인 맥파전달시간(pulse transit time, PTT)을 분석하여 심장에서 말초부위까지 혈관의 물리적 특성을 평가함으로써 동맥경화와 같은 혈관질환의 사전모니터 링이 가능한 시스템을 구현하고자 하였다.

• The Transactions of The Korean Institute of Electrical Engineers
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• v.56 no.9
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• pp.1688-1693
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• 2007

The aim of this paper is to develop and verify the system which can detect heart rate during exercise by using conductive fabric electrode and transportable measurement module. The experiment was performed under 4 conditions(resting, walking, jogging, running) and 18 subjects data are used. By using the ECG measurement system used in cardiac stress testing as reference value in order to verify the accuracy of the developed system, the relative error and correlation coefficient was calculated for each subject at every 3 seconds. The results have shown that the high correlation between the developed system and the reference system for detecting heart rate during exercise. Relative error and correlation coefficient are 2.27% and 0.9877, respectively. 7 subjects data are omitted in these calculations because of severe noises. Therefore, it is expected that this system could be used as a health monitoring system in ubiquitous environment in the future.

• The Journal of Information Systems
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• v.19 no.4
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• pp.51-63
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• 2010

U-City applies ubiquitous information technologies such as RFID, GPS, USN to various components of city functions and services. The concept of U-City was popularized especially in Korea and currently more than 40 projects have been carrying out all over country. U-City incorporates advanced information communication technologies into ubiquitous information services to provide better quality of life. The purpose of this study is to analyze preferences for the U-City services by surveying experts in U-City developing companies. This study employs Analytic Hierarchy Process which is very useful tool for performing multi-criteria decision making. Total of 28 responses were used in the analysis. The results indicated that the first 7 most preferred items were from transportation and safety area and environment and healthcare area and 4 out of 6 items in transportation and safety area were ranked among them. It implies that respondents consider countering anxiety caused by congested traffic, natural disasters, crimes, etc most important aspect that U-City should deal with. On the other hand, U-Port, U-Convention, U-Logistics, U-Public Administration and U-City Portal were listed as the least preferred services.

• Journal of information and communication convergence engineering
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• v.5 no.4
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• pp.382-388
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• 2007

Indoor location system using wireless sensor network technology was applied for the status evaluation and activity monitoring of elderly person or chronic invalid at home. Location awareness application is transparent to the daily activities, while providing the embedded computing infrastructure with an awareness of what is happening in this space. To locate an object, the active ceiling-mounted reference beacons were placed throughout the building. Reference beacons periodically publish location information on RF and ultrasonic signals to allow application running on mobile or static nodes to study and determine their physical location. Once object-carried passive listener receives the information, it subsequently determines it's location from reference beacons. By using only the sensor nodes without any external network infrastructure the cost of the system was reduced while the accuracy in our experiments. was fairly good and fine grained between 7 and 15 cm for location awareness in indoor environments. Passive architecture used here provides the security of the user privacy while at the server the privacy was secured by providing the authentication using Geopriv approach. This information from sensor nodes is further forwarded to base station where further computation is performed to determine the current position of object and several applications are enabled for context awareness.

• Review of KIISC
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• v.17 no.1
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• pp.57-62
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• 2007

본 논문에서는 바이오인식 정보 기술(얼굴, 정맥, 지문, 홍채)을 이용하여 신뢰성 있는 Ubiquitous-Healthcare(U-HC) 서비스를 지원하는 사용자 인종 메커니즘과 암호화 기법을 제안한다. U-HC 서비스에 태동 및 특징, 국내외 산업현황, 기대효과 등을 통해 U-HC서비스의 필요성을 강조하고 있다. 하지만 지능화 및 고도화된 기술을 통하여 개인 정보를 악의적인 의도로 유출하여 개인에게 육체적 정신적 경제적 피해를 주고 있다. 바이오인식은 이러한 피해를 막고 보안 및 프라이버시 측면의 취약점 및 공격들을 분석하여 효율적으로 방어함으로서 개인의 의료정보 및 바이오 정보를 보호하기 위한 대응책인 새로운 사용자 인증과 암호화 기법이다. 사용자 인증 기법은 다수의 바이오 정보들을 인증 시에 무작위로 선택하여 2개 이상 입력하는 방안이며 암호화 기법은 사용자 스토리(Story)식 암호화(Encryption) 기법을 제안한다. 이러한 방법론을 통하여 효율적이며 신뢰 성 있는 U-HC 서비스를 보장하고자 한다.

• Journal of information and communication convergence engineering
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• v.6 no.4
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• pp.454-458
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• 2008

It can improve human being's life quality that all people can have more convenient medical service under pervasive computing environment. For a pervasive health care application for diabetes patient, we've implemented a health care system, which is composed of three parts. Various sensors monitor both outer and inner environment of human such as temperature, blood pressure, pulse, and glycemic index, etc. These sensors form zigbee based sensor network. And medical information server accumulates sensing values and performs back-end processing. To simply transfer these sensing values to a medical team is a low level's medical service. So, we've designed a new service model based on back propagation neural network for more improved medical service. Our experiments show that a proposed healthcare system can give high level's medical service because it can recognize human's context more concretely.

• Proceedings of the Korean Operations and Management Science Society Conference
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• 2008.10a
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• pp.141-144
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• 2008

u-Health 관련 보건 비용의 지속적인 증가와 건강 및 사전 예방에 대한 관심이 증가함에 따라 온라인을 통한 상담, 정보제공, 동영상 서비스 및 e-commerce등 건강 관련 서비스 시장이 확대가 되고 있다. 특히 노령인구의 급증에 따른 국내 고령층에 대한 실버산업이 대두되고 있다. u-Health 의료산업은 원무행정 분야에 대한 초기 정보화 단계에 있으며, 대학/종합병원들의 IT예산은 급속히 증가하고 있으나, 중소형 병/의원/약국의 경우 IT 투자예산 확보에 어려움이 있다. 이를 대처하기 위해 u-Health와 Wellness를 통합 함으로서 BT, NT 및 IT 관련 기술을 활용하여 u-Fitwellness 시스템을 구축하여 Ubiquitous 네트워크를 통해 고령자를 위한 건강과 의료관련 서비스, 제품, 정보를 제공하고 개인의 삶의질을 향상시킴으로써 홈 네트워킹 기반 u-Healthcare Total Solution을 통한 융합형 서비스를 제안하고자 한다.