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Design for the Kangwonland Ski Resort (강원랜드 스키장 설계)

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    • Journal of the Korean Institute of Landscape Architecture
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    • v.32 no.1
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    • pp.92-103
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    • 2004
  • This design was submitted to an invited competition for the Ski Resort of Kangwon Land which was held by Kangwon Land Resort in August, 2003. The site is located at 1∼17 Gohan-ri Gohan-eup Jungsungun Kangwon-do and has an area of 5,000,000$m^2$. The objectives of this project were to revitalize the local economy of Sabuk, Gohan which is well Down for deserted coal mines, by creating a resort complex for family group users with an environmentally friendly ski facility. This design scheme addresses three areas of concerns: First, how to boost the local economy through the proposed ski resort. By limiting lodging facilities in the ski resort, we could induce more development in the nearby towns. In order to balance the economical benefit to towns of Sabuk and Gohan, we decided to have two separate ski base facilities in each town boundary. Second, how to encourage family-oriented use of the ski resort by designing user-friendly ski slope, especially for beginner skiers. We designed 50% more beginner-level ski slope compared to average ski resorts. Third, how to make environmentally-friendly ski resort by respecting the original land form. We minimized the damage to the natural environment by protecting valuable tree groves. Also, ski slopes are designed to reduce unnecessary earth movement. This was designed under the assumption that more valley-oriented slopes would result in less cutting and banking of earthwork; this assumption was verified in comparison with other ski resorts. It is expected that this desist would serve environmentally-friendly designs in ski slopes.

Evaulation of Developing New-Fusion Eco-Friendly Biocide on the Reverse Osmosis Membranes (살균에 박리 및 분산 기능이 추가된 친환경살균제에 대한 역삼투(RO)막에서의 효과 검증 연구)

  • Park, Duk Joon;Oh, Eun Jung;Kim, Sung Han;Ahn, Kwang Taek
    • Journal of Korean Society of Environmental Engineers
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    • v.38 no.9
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    • pp.497-503
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    • 2016
  • Eco-friendly biocide that do not have noxious chemicals, have a role of disinfection adding of dispersion and strengthening peer power on RO membranes surfaces. Eco-friendly biocide show an 93% improvement of differential pressures arrival time. Also, eco-friendly biocide's Autopsy result show less the percentage of organic pollutants than currently in using biocide. Adding dispersion & peeling strength power to remove the microorganisms is upgrading. Eco-friendly biocide that have a dispersion and peering power is non-toxicant chemicals and is safe for user.

An User-Friendly Kiosk System Based on Deep Learning (딥러닝 기반 사용자 친화형 키오스크 시스템)

  • Su Yeon Kang;Yu Jin Lee;Hyun Ah Jung;Seung A Cho;Hyung Gyu Lee
    • Journal of Korea Society of Industrial Information Systems
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    • v.29 no.1
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    • pp.1-13
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    • 2024
  • This study aims to provide a customized dynamic kiosk screen that considers user characteristics to cope with changes caused by increased use of kiosks. In order to optimize the screen composition according to the characteristics of the digital vulnerable group such as the visually impaired, the elderly, children, and wheelchair users, etc., users are classified into nine categories based on real-time analysis of user characteristics (wheelchair use, visual impairment, age, etc.). The kiosk screen is dynamically adjusted according to the characteristics of the user to provide efficient services. This study shows that the system communication and operation were performed in the embedded environment, and the used object detection, gait recognition, and speech recognition technologies showed accuracy of 74%, 98.9%, and 96%, respectively. The proposed technology was verified for its effectiveness by implementing a prototype, and through this, this study showed the possibility of reducing the digital gap and providing user-friendly "barrier-free kiosk" services.

Development of Usability Evaluation Criteria for Senior-Friendly Autonomous Transportation Robot

  • Kim, Seon Chil;Kim, Sun Jung;Choi, Kyongon
    • Journal of the Ergonomics Society of Korea
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    • v.33 no.5
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    • pp.407-422
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    • 2014
  • Objective: The purpose of the study is to develop quantitative usability evaluation criteria for senior-friendly autonomous transportation robot. Background: The Republic of Korea has become the most rapidly aging society, and is anticipated to enter the post-aged society in 2026. To raise the quality of life of a senior with limited mobility and to reduce the burden of caregivers, many high-tech assistive products with information technologies are developed nowadays. The senior-friendly autonomous transportation robot is one person robot vehicle to move a senior to the destination for hospitals, nursing homes or silver town complex. With built-in navigation system and environmental monitoring censors, it automatically seeks the path to the destination and avoids collision to obstacles and pedestrians on the way. Due to the early stage of the product, few usability studies in this field have been done, mostly on general service robots to assist seniors, power wheelchairs and delivery robots. ISO and KS standards for the service robots are focused on safety. Method: Based on the reference usability index, the early draft of the usability evaluation questionnaires was developed. After small group tests and interviews, the experts modified the initial draft to the Usability Evaluation Criteria for Senior-Friendly Autonomous Transportation Robot (UEC-SFATR). Result: UEC-SFATR consisted of 4 subscales - Safety, Controllability, Efficiency and Satisfaction. All of the 4 subscales of UEC-SFATR were passed the reliability criteria by 4 groups of seniors, divided by gender and familiarity of smart-devices. Conclusion: UEC-SFATR covers wider area of user experiences of the SFATR and is a good measurement tool to help both the users and developers of the robot. Application: This study provides guide to the future product development and product competitiveness evaluation by quantifying user experiences for the SFATR.

Nature-Friendly Design Characteristics of Outdoor Spaces in Brand Apartments (브랜드 아파트에 나타난 자연친화적 외부공간의 디자인 특성에 관한 연구)

  • Hwang, Yeonsook;Lee, SongHyun
    • KIEAE Journal
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    • v.13 no.1
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    • pp.93-100
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    • 2013
  • A outdoor space of the brand apartment can improve the quality of the whole environment in apartment and has differentiated identity in apartment housing through various versions of the green space and water space plan. The purpose of this study is to evaluate nature-friendly design characteristics in brand apartments and to offer a basic information for planning of brand apartment. In concrete, nature-friendly design did by green space and water space that can analyze by visual, and investigation contents divided to position, form, user behavior, link space from user viewpoint by case study. This study examined a case of eight brand apartments located in Gangnamgu, Seoul. We has divided the characteristics of a green space into horizontal type, vertical type, multi-dimensional type and has divided the water space into stagnant water type, flowing stream type, waterfall type and fountain type. The findings are summarized as follows: First, in case of the space of brand apartment, the application of horizontal and vertical greenery was lower compare with multi-dimensional green space. The most of items for multi-dimensional greenery have been planned to the open space and promenade. Second, a stagnant water type of water space features well used in most of the cases but a water space of signs of activity like a flowing stream, waterfall, fountain types were underused because of problem of administrative and maintenance expenses. Thirdly, Water space of brand apartments was planned with specialization item by apartment housing but green space does not have differentiated item and was planned by most similar form.

The Study of EV Charging Infrastructure Installation Policy's Effectiveness in Jeju (제주지역 전기차 충전 인프라 구축정책에 대한 효과성 연구)

  • Youngkyu Koh;Suwan Kim;Jisup Shim;Sang-Hoon Son;Chulwoo Rhim
    • The Journal of The Korea Institute of Intelligent Transport Systems
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    • v.21 no.6
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    • pp.211-224
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    • 2022
  • In this study, factors affecting the efficacy of EV charging infrastructure improvement were investigated for EV users on Jeju Island. This study analyzed satisfaction with the EV charging infrastructure and demographic factors that affect the efficacy of EV charging infrastructure improvement. Factors found to affect the efficacy of EV charging infrastructure improvement include a sufficient number of charger installations, the speed in using EV chargers, the ease of obtaining additional information about charging, and fast customer service for faulty chargers. It was also confirmed that demographic factors such as user's housing types had a significant effect. This study contributes to verifying user satisfaction with the construction of EV charging infrastructure throughout Jeju Island.

A Case Study on the Ecological Dwellings by User's Participation (이용자참여에 의한 환경친화적 주거건축 사례조사 연구)

  • Jung, Jinju
    • Journal of the Korean Institute of Rural Architecture
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    • v.8 no.2
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    • pp.46-53
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    • 2006
  • The nature accompanies with natural and ecological truth, worsening living environment without think using of our nature. Now, the sustainable researches to study peculiarities in ecological dwellings considered with nature and the development of human life's quality in housing itself, have been progressing. Also it is needed to show understanding about ecological dwellings in the user participant's consciousness such as, unification thought with nature, circulation thought of substance, and environment friendly thought of the traditional housing. Chose five examples which is applying ecological architectural concept by each Chungbuk, Chungnam, Jeonbuk, Gyeongbuk, Gyeonggi district and I investigated change of exterior or interior material, application of ecological system, and etc. With these background, this study will survey cases of ecological dwellings and find peculiar characteristics of ecological dwellings through researching the correlation between the concept in user's consciousness and application method.

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RAN-aCGH: R GUI Tools for Analysis and Visualization of an Array-CGH Experiment

  • Kim, Sang-Cheol;Kim, Byung-Soo
    • Genomics & Informatics
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    • v.5 no.3
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    • pp.137-139
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    • 2007
  • RAN-aCGH is an R GUI tool for the analysis and visualization of array comparative genomic hybridization (array-CGH) experiments. The tool consists of data-loading, preprocessing for missing data, several methods for statistical identification of DNA copy number aberration, and visualization of the copy number change. RAN-aCGH requires a single input format, provides various visualizations, and allows the addition of a new statistical method, all in a user-friendly graphic user interface (GUI).

A Study on guidance System for Workstation Using AI Techniques (인공지능 기법을 이용한 워크스테이션 조작지사용 S/W 개발에 관한 연구)

  • Young Sum Kim
    • Journal of the Korean Institute of Telematics and Electronics
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    • v.25 no.2
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    • pp.168-175
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    • 1988
  • This paper describes a User guidance System aimed for user-friendly workstation guider that extracts Conceptual Structure from the input sentence by use of CE theory and performs Question Answering in Teletex Manual domain. It uses Frame typed knowledge base and CD recognizer as link procedure between CE structure and Frame controller.

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Image Processing Software Package(IMAPRO) for IBM PC VGA (IBM PC VGA용 화상처리 소프트웨어(IMAPRO))

  • 徐在榮;智光薰
    • Korean Journal of Remote Sensing
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    • v.8 no.1
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    • pp.59-69
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    • 1992
  • The IMAPRO sotfware package was mainly focused to provide an algorithm which is capable of displaying various color composite images on IBM PC, VGA(Video Graphic Array) card with no special hardware. It displays the false color images using a low-cost eight-bit place refresh buffer. This produces similar quality to the one obtained from image board with three eight-bit plane. Also, it provides user friendly menu driven method for the user who are not familier with technical knowladge of image processing. It may prove useful for universities, institute and private company where expensive hardware is not available.