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Determination of the Optimal Control-Response Ratio for Data Searching Through a Touchpad Placed on the Steering Wheel (스티어링 휠의 터치패드를 이용한 정보 목록 검색 시 조작 : 반응 비율에 관한 연구)

  • Kim, Jong-Seok;Jung, Eui-S.;Park, Sung-Joon;Jeong, Seong-Wook
    • Journal of Korean Institute of Industrial Engineers
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    • v.35 no.2
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    • pp.141-149
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    • 2009
  • As the number of personal computers installed in vehicles increases, a touchpad often used in a labtop computer can be used for the control of an in-vehicle information system (IVIS). Using a touchpad to control the system allows the user to select among large amount of information with a single touch of dragging. For safety and convenience of a driver, the touchpad could be placed on a steering wheel. This research is designed to calculate the most efficient Control-Response Ratio (C/R ratio) for the menu interaction of a touchpad on a steering wheel. Since the menu pointer's rate of movement and proper C/R ratio is determined by the amount of selected information, the amount of displayed information and the movement of a menu pointer was chosen to be independent variables. The dependent variables are a user's preference and task completion time. Two factor full factorial within subject design was used 16 subjects. The investigation revealed that the amount of selected information increased with increasing C/R ratio. The movement of the pointer became slower as the amount of information increased. The best C/R ratio was calculated for each amount of information and preference regression of the user's preference was drawn accordingly. Through this research, the automobile interior designer can benefit from the guidelines suggested for the touchpad control.

A Study on the Improvement and the Survey Study on the Complaints of People with Disabilities in the Use of Disabled Car (복지차 이용 시 장애인의 불편사항 조사와 개선방안 연구)

  • Rhee, Kum Min;Kim, Dong Ok
    • 재활복지
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    • v.17 no.4
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    • pp.339-370
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    • 2013
  • This study is to suggest necessary improvements of inconvenient elements as well as the ergonomic design standard to develop disabled cars by evaluating the types of needs and observing the behavior characteristics on their car use and the survey on the complaints of the disabled drivers and their guardians in the use of disabled car. The results of this study are as follows. First, both the disabled drivers and their guardians are found to feel high inconvenience and low satisfaction with the cars they use now. Second, the disabled owner-drivers also answered in a same way as guardians. They find the most difficulty in moving the supporting equipment to get into and out of a car. Both the owner-drivers with disabilities and guardians complained of lack of handiness they face when they wear the seat belts and sitting on the seats. In view of this, a disabled car to be developed should have ergonomic design for its seats and the safety of the seatbelt as well as trouble-free supporting equipment helping them move. Third, rather than owner-drivers with handicaps, guardians expressed more difficulties and less contentment with the cars for the disabled, which is reckoned to lead to the changes of perspectives on development of cars for the disabled breaking away from existing viewpoints focusing on the accessibility to the vehicles. Fourth, both owner-drivers and guardians showed higher interests in driving and other safety and convenience measures than in using supporting equipment to get into and out of vehicles, implying that rather than the accessibility to get into and out of a car, convenience should primarily be taken into account for the design of the disabled car. Fifth, the auto-manufacturer is to give prior thought to user convenience when developing a car in practice. For this, the developer may have the disabled car users join the process of development as well as asking experts for help and participation.

A Blockchain Network Construction Tool and its Electronic Voting Application Case (블록체인 자동화도구 개발과 전자투표 적용사례)

  • AING TECKCHUN;KONG VUNGSOVANREACH;Okki Kim;Kyung-Hee Lee;Wan-Sup Cho
    • The Journal of Bigdata
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    • v.6 no.2
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    • pp.151-159
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    • 2021
  • Construction of a blockchain network needs a cumbersome and time consuming activity. To overcome these limitations, global IT companies such as Microsoft are providing cloud-based blockchain services. In this paper, we propose a blockchain-based construction and management tool that enables blockchain developers, blockchain operators, and enterprises to deploy blockchain more comfortably in their infrastructure. This tool is implemented using Hyperledger Fabric, one of the famous private blockchain platforms, and Ansible, an open-source IT automation engine that supports network-wide deployment. Instead of complex and repetitive text commands, the tool provides a user-friendly web dashboard interface that allows users to seamlessly set up, deploy and interact with a blockchain network. With this proposed solution, blockchain developers, operators, and blockchain researchers can more easily build blockchain infrastructure, saving time and cost. To verify the usefulness and convenience of the proposed tool, a blockchain network that conducts electronic voting was built and tested. The construction of a blockchain network, which consists of writing more than 10 setting files and executing commands over hundreds of lines, can be replaced with simple input and click operations in the graphical user interface, saving user convenience and time. The proposed blockchain tool will be used to build trust data infrastructure in various fields such as food safety supply chain construction in the future.

Experience Design Guideline for Smart Car Interface (스마트카의 인터페이스를 위한 경험 디자인 가이드라인)

  • Yoo, Hoon Sik;Ju, Da Young
    • Design Convergence Study
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    • v.15 no.1
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    • pp.135-150
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    • 2016
  • Due to the development of communication technology and expansion of Intelligent Transport System (ITS), the car is changing from a simple mechanical device to second living space which has comprehensive convenience function and is evolved into the platform which is playing as an interface for this role. As the interface area to provide various information to the passenger is being expanded, the research importance about smart car based user experience is rising. This study has a research objective to propose the guidelines regarding the smart car user experience elements. In order to conduct this study, smart car user experience elements were defined as function, interaction, and surface and through the discussions of UX/UI experts, 8 representative techniques, 14 representative techniques, and 8 locations of the glass windows were specified for each element. Following, the smart car users' priorities of the experience elements, which were defined through targeting 100 drivers, were analyzed in the form of questionnaire survey. The analysis showed that the users' priorities in applying the main techniques were in the order of safety, distance, and sensibility. The priorities of the production method were in the order of voice recognition, touch, gesture, physical button, and eye tracking. Furthermore, regarding the glass window locations, users prioritized the front of the driver's seat to the back. According to the demographic analysis on gender, there were no significant differences except for two functions. Therefore this showed that the guidelines of male and female can be commonly applied. Through user requirement analysis about individual elements, this study provides the guides about the requirement in each element to be applied to commercialized product with priority.

A Study on Space Evaluation Factors and Case Analysis of Teen Space in Public Libraries in Korea (공공도서관 청소년자료실의 공간 평가요소 분석 및 사례조사 연구)

  • Kim, Gi Young;Lee, Gi Ri;Kim, Yeon Ji;Park, Ok Nam
    • Journal of the Korean Society for Library and Information Science
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    • v.53 no.3
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    • pp.215-245
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    • 2019
  • The purpose of this study is to derive evaluation elements on teen space in public libraries in Korea and to study current status and implications for teen space in public libraries. To this end, six items of space evaluation factors; Convenience, Accessibility, Safety, Diversity, Comfort and Emotionality - were derived based on the teen space guidelines by the Young Adult Library Service Association and previous studies. The research also conducted a case study on teen spaces of five public libraries in Seoul. As a result, teen space in libraries requires use guidance and convenience facilities, access to information resources, maintenance of user guidelines, various spaces for teens, pleasant library environment and learning motivation promotion, and provision space to support all necessary resources of teens.

A Driving Information Centric Information Processing Technology Development Based on Image Processing (영상처리 기반의 운전자 중심 정보처리 기술 개발)

  • Yang, Seung-Hoon;Hong, Gwang-Soo;Kim, Byung-Gyu
    • Convergence Security Journal
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    • v.12 no.6
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    • pp.31-37
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    • 2012
  • Today, the core technology of an automobile is becoming to IT-based convergence system technology. To cope with many kinds of situations and provide the convenience for drivers, various IT technologies are being integrated into automobile system. In this paper, we propose an convergence system, which is called Augmented Driving System (ADS), to provide high safety and convenience of drivers based on image information processing. From imaging sensor, the image data is acquisited and processed to give distance from the front car, lane, and traffic sign panel by the proposed methods. Also, a converged interface technology with camera for gesture recognition and microphone for speech recognition is provided. Based on this kind of system technology, car accident will be decreased although drivers could not recognize the dangerous situations, since the system can recognize situation or user context to give attention to the front view. Through the experiments, the proposed methods achieved over 90% of recognition in terms of traffic sign detection, lane detection, and distance measure from the front car.

A Study on the Analysis of Ship Handling Simulation about Domestic Sea Bridge over the Harbor (국내 항만횡단 해상교량 관련 선박조종시뮬레이션 분석)

  • Lee, Yun-Sok;Cho, Ik-Soon;Cho, Ju-Hyun;Song, Chae-Uk
    • Journal of Navigation and Port Research
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    • v.32 no.5
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    • pp.321-326
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    • 2008
  • Recently the large sea bridge's construction crossing harbor and main ship's route have been propelled in the domestic so that it is active for the smoothly traffic flow of inland transportation and road user's convenience. However, it can bring about the trouble to ensure marine traffic safety if it is built that sea bridge's construction sets to an economy principle in the extension of the land road system. We're adopting Ship Handling Simulation in representative method for the influence assessment of marine traffic safety and danger elements beforehand. This research attempts to show the problems through the comparison and analysis of the reports relating to the sea bridge construction for 4 organization possessing Ship Handling Simulation. Finally, We offer the necessity of standardization on performing and assessment method of simulations.

Establishment of the Optimal Repair Cycle of the Components of the Rental Housing (공공임대주택 구성재의 적정 수선주기 산정 연구)

  • Lee, Tae-Kyoung;Chae, Chang-U;Lee, Kang-Hee
    • KIEAE Journal
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    • v.12 no.5
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    • pp.29-34
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    • 2012
  • A rental housing has a key role to supply the living space to non-ownership. A public rental housing is particularly aimed at providing the living space for the low-income households with a low rent fee. Therefore, the local government would try to maintain the facilities of the rental housing and to get the decent living condition. For getting the required living condition, it should make a maintenance plan, which contains the repair time, repair scope and targeted component and finishings. This study is aimed at providing the optimal repair time in 12 components and components of the rental housing which is controlled by the local government. The optimal repair time has two steps to get the final result. First, it would draw the 1'st repair time with the probabilistic and empirical approach. Second, comparing the drawn data and the service life, the optima repair time would be provided with considering the components' attributes. Result are as follows : First, the optimal repair time would be considered with the component attributes. There are user's convenience, its safety and physical aspect. Second, the kitchen utensils, elevator and water tap has a optimal time of 16, 19, 17 years respectively which is considered with physical aspect. In addition, the optima repair time of the wiring appliance and lighting equipment are 12 years and 10 years respectively.

The Design and Implementation of IoT based Remote Control System for Active Connected Cars (능동형 커넥티드 카를 위한 IoT기반 원격제어 시스템의 설계 및 구현)

  • Lee, Yun-Seop;Jang, Mun-Seok;Choi, Sang-Bang
    • Journal of the Korean Society of Industry Convergence
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    • v.22 no.6
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    • pp.703-709
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    • 2019
  • This paper proposes a monitoring and remote control system, an essential part of In Vehicle Infotainment (IVI) and Human Vehicle Interface (HVI) to provide safety and convenience to a driver. The system utilizes Bluetooth for a short range communication and utilizes WCDMA for a long range communication to enhance efficiency. In this paper, an integrated controller, which integrates a CAN communication module, a Bluetooth communication module, a WCDMA communication module, is designed to control a car. Also, a remote server for managing data is designed to provide real-time monitoring and remote control for a user via smart devices. Experiment results show that all the proposed remote control, driving log, real-time monitoring, and diagnostics functions are working properly. With the proposed system, a driver can drive safely by monitoring and inspecting a car before driving via smart devices, and control conveniently by controlling a car remotely.

Implementation of Workflow Based Smart Building Services (워크플로우 기반 스마트 빌딩 서비스 구현)

  • Lee, JaeHee;Kim, DooYoung;Song, Seheon;Lee, Sangil;Park, JaeHyun
    • KIPS Transactions on Computer and Communication Systems
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    • v.6 no.6
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    • pp.289-296
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    • 2017
  • With the development of IoT technology, the scope of object controls and sensor information has expanded and services have been diversified. Energy saving efforts in buildings with high energy consumption is increasing, and services are being extended over life safety, security and convenience. However, Existing smart building services are dependent on IoT devices and are difficult to change or expand. In this paper, we have implement of workflow based smart building services to modify or extend services according to user's needs.