• 한국임상약학회지
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• 제31권4호
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• pp.311-323
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• 2021

Objective: The disabled are in a blind spot for obtaining information on drugs, and the pharmacies' counseling on drug use is centered on non-disabled people. Few studies have investigated the current statuses of drug use by type of disability. The purpose of this study is to understand the drug use by type of disability and by life cycle of visually impaired and hearing impaired in Korea. Methods: The study participants consisted of 16 people with visually impairments, 12 people with hearing impairments. One in-depth interview was conducted per participant, and each interview was recorded and documented. Results: Common barriers against safe medication and medical service uses across disability types are 'lack of consideration and service for the disabled, limited access to medical facilities due to disability, limited access to information regarding medication use, psychological anxiety about drug use and side effects, and inconvenience regarding COVID-19 epidemic. The specific factors were 'difficulties in identifying proper medicines and following prescribed dosages' in the case of visually impaired, and 'problems with sign language interpretation system' for the hearing impaired. Conclusion: Disabled people are hindered from using medicines properly due to various factors. Based on the content derived from this study, it is necessary to eliminate the inhibition factors and devise specific measures for the safety of each type of disorder such as developing a method for medication counseling considering disabilities and establishing communication support systems.

• International journal of advanced smart convergence
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• 제9권1호
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• pp.54-62
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• 2020

According to the Ministry of Health and Welfare, "Status of Registered Persons with Disabilities", the number of people with disabilities is 2,494,460 as of 2015. The lowest rates of children with disabilities were intellectual disabilities (23%) and mental disorders (33.3%). The highest rates of screening were blindness (97%), heart failure (94.4%), and hearing impairment (92.7%). 65.2% of visually impaired people who have already had a disability at the time of marriage, and the remaining 34.8% can be thought to be the cause of high incidence of disability after marriage. 'SID (Seed in the Dark)' project was designed to recapture the visually impaired parent's desire for attachment and the space difficulties of the blind who want to be a normal parent to their children through a visual impairment of a father with 7-year-old daughter. Using Gear VR(Virtual Reality), the general public was able to feel the surroundings as if they had no vision and focused on the hearing. Especially, We expressed the sound wave visually and added the hilarious game element which grasps the terrain of the maze by sound wave like a 'blind person who perceives the surroundings by sound' and catches up with daughter. People with disabilities who are far from mental illness often have a form of family with children. The fact that the rate of childbirth is high means that there is relatively little problem in daily life. It is wondered that the rate of blindness among the visually impaired, which accounts for 10% of the total disabled, is the highest at 97%. This is because, in the case of the visually impaired, the obstacle is often caused by aging, accidents, or diseases due to inherited causes rather than the visual disorder. In particular, However, the fact that there is an obstacle in vision that accounts for 83% of the body's sensory organs causes other difficulties in the nursing process of children who are non-disabled. Parents do not know the face of child when their visual impairment is severe. Parents are extremely anxious about worry that they will be lost or abducted if their children are not by their side. And that the child recognizes the disability of his or her parents other than the other parents easily and takes it as a deficiency. Since visually impaired parents are mentally mature parents with non-disabled people, they may want their children not to feel deprived of their disability. The number of people with visual impairments has been increasing since 2001, and people with impairments often become disabled. In addition, there is much research on the problem of nondisabled parents who have children with disabilities, while there is relatively little interest and research on the problem of nondisabled child rearing of parents with disabilities.

• 한국전자통신학회논문지
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• 제8권10호
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• pp.1523-1528
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• 2013

본 연구는 장애인차별금지법에서 명시하고 있는 정보접근권, 그 중에서도 가장 핵심을 이루고 있는 웹접근성이, 시각장애인이 안마사 외에도 직업적 다양성을 개진해 나가는데 있어서 어떤 함의를 제시해 주는지에 대해 비판적으로 검토하였다. 이를 통해 직업적 다양성을 확보할 수 있는 기초기제로서의 웹접근성 향상을 위한 입법상의 보완점을 제언하였다.

• International Journal of Knowledge Content Development & Technology
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• 제13권2호
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• pp.35-50
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• 2023

Assistive technologies are necessary for ensuring independent living and equal participation in an information-based society for people living with disabilities (PLWD). This study investigated the assistive technology preference of students with visual disabilities, and the approach academic libraries should adopt in procuring assistive technologies. The study adopted a quantitative research method, with a survey as the research design. The study was conducted among visually disabled students in four public universities in Nigeria. Using the total enumeration method, an online questionnaire was used to obtain information from 151 students who voluntarily agreed to partake in the survey. The study found that access to electronic resources, scanning/conversion of print resources to electronic formats and access to information on the Web were among the technology-based services provided to visually disabled students. COBRA, ZoomText, Supernova and Dragon Naturally Speaking are the most preferred assistive technologies (software). At the same time, handheld scanners ($\bar{x}=4.40$) and braille keyboards ($\bar{x}=4.60$) are the most preferred assistive technologies in the hardware category by visually challenged students. The study further revealed that the library management should consult with students living with a visual disability before procuring assistive technology. Findings from this study thus provide further evidence of the need for librarians to fulfil their moral and legal obligation in advocating the provision of assistive technologies. Library administrators and university stakeholders should expedite actions on meeting the assistive technology needs of people living with visual disabilities. These actions should transcend mere policy formulation on the provision of assistive technologies to restructuring their services and spaces to accommodate assistive technologies as information service delivery tools for people with visual disabilities.

• 복식문화연구
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• 제30권6호
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• pp.842-860
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• 2022

There has been growing attention on the well-being of people with disabilities. The purpose of this study was twofold: (1) to investigate the associations between individuals' socio-demographic and psychological characteristics and clothing expenditure, and (2) to examine the moderated mediation effect of self-efficacy and acceptance of disability on the association between dependency on others and happiness among people with visual impairment. This study was based on secondary analysis of data from the second wave of the 6th Panel Survey of Employment for the Disabled collected by the Employment Development Institute. The results of this study showed that average monthly expenditure on clothing was positively associated with self-efficacy, happiness, and acceptance of disability, while being negatively associated with dependency on others. The results also confirmed that self-efficacy mediated the association between dependency on others and happiness. A conditional direct effect of dependency on others on happiness was found, in which negative associations were significant among people with visual impairment who had low and mean levels of acceptance of disability (but not high levels). In addition, there was a significant conditional indirect effect, in which the indirect and negative effect of dependency on others on happiness via self-efficacy was significant for those with low and average levels of acceptance of disability. These findings support the importance of enhancing the independence and acceptance of disability among people with visual impairment, which ultimately contributes to their happiness.

• 한국산학기술학회논문지
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• 제17권7호
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• pp.666-676
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• 2016

본 연구의 목적은 후천적 시각장애인에 대한 우울 실태와 이들의 우울에 영향을 미치는 요인을 규명하는 것으로 이를 위해 본 연구에서는 장애인실태조사 2014 자료를 활용하여 분석을 실시하였다. 연구대상자는 출생 1년 이후부터 시각장애를 가지게 된 20~60세 사이의 성인이며 최종 분석에 포함된 대상자 수는 235명이다. 다중로지스틱회귀분석 실시 결과, 후천적 시각장애인의 약 20%가 우울증상을 경험한 것으로 나타났으며, 우울증상 경험을 예측하는 요인으로는 인구사회학적 요인 중에서는 연령, 성별, 결혼여부가 유의한 요인으로 나타났으며 건강 관련 요인으로는 흡연여부, 일상생활 스트레스 수준, 주관적 건강상태가 유의한 요인으로 파악되었다. 장애관련 요인으로는 장애기간 및 일상생활 수행능력 수준이 유의한 예측요인으로 밝혀졌다. 종합적으로 본 결과는 국내 거주하는 후천적 성인 시각장애인의 많은 수가 우울과 같은 심리적 어려움에 노출되어 있으며, 이를 위한 예방 및 개입 방안 마련이 시급함을 알려준다. 아직까지 장애인 복지 및 장애인 대상 서비스 분야에서 이들에 대한 관심 및 서비스 마련이 미흡한만큼 추후 중도에 실명 혹은 시각손실을 경험하게 된 장애인에 대한 제도적인 고려가 요구된다.

• International Journal of Knowledge Content Development & Technology
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• 제13권1호
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• pp.43-58
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• 2023

This article is a spinoff of a doctoral study that was completed at the University of KwaZulu-Natal (South Africa) in 2018 on provision of information services to persons with visual and physical impairments in public university libraries in Kenya. The article examined how ICTs such as internet, e-resources and e-databases, word processing, websites and more were being used in public university libraries to provide access to information by visually and physically impaired persons. Data were collected from the visually and physically impaired students, University Librarians, Systems librarians, staff from disability departments and library staff who provided services to visually and physically impaired persons. The findings revealed that the visually and physically impaired persons in most of the libraries could not access information owing to lack of the necessary assistive and adaptive technologies and weak institutional support and framework. The study recommend that the libraries improve assistive technology infrastructure, embrace new assistive technologies such as telepresence robots, virtual realities and more, and put in place enabling policies and capacity building programmes for library staff to enable them to provide services to persons with impairments.

• International Journal of Computer Science & Network Security
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• 제24권1호
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• pp.205-208
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• 2024

Artificial Intelligence (AI) technology has evolved rapidly in recent years and is used in everything from banking to email management to surgery, but without the help of the visible, most of the fun features of the Internet include visual impairment. It benefits people with disabilities. The main purpose of this study is to find ways to help people with visual impairments using AI technology. A visually impaired request is made for the visually impaired. For example, when a message arrives that the program will notify you by voice (reads the sender's name, read the message, and replies to it if necessary), this is a special program installed on your mobile phone. This program uses a customized algorithm developed in Python to convert written text to voice, read text, and convert voice to written text on a message when a visually impaired person wants to respond. Then it sends the response in the form of a text message. Therefore, the research should lead to programs for people with visual impairments. This program makes mobile phones easier and more comfortable to use and makes the daily life easier for visual impairments.

• 한국문헌정보학회지
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• 제46권3호
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• pp.35-55
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• 2012

본 연구는 장애인서비스 전문사서 양성 교과과정 모형개발을 위한 기초연구이다. 이를 위하여 문헌을 통한 이론적 연구를 수행하고 국내 문헌정보학과 교육과정 장애인서비스 담당사서의 계속 교육과정 및 서울시 공공도서관의 장애인서비스 현황을 조사 분석하였다. 조사 결과를 요약하면 다음과 같다. 첫째, 학부 대학원 과정의 경우 현재 각각 한 곳에 장애인서비스 전문사서 양성과 관련된 교과과정이 개설되어 있었다. 둘째, 장애인서비스 담당사서의 계속 교육과정은 국립중앙도서관에서 2010년 처음 강좌를 개설한 이후 매년 강좌를 개최하고 있으며, 강좌 이수 후 설문조사를 실시하여 이수자들의 의견을 다음 강좌내용 선정에 반영하고 있다. 셋째, 현재 공공도서관을 이용하는 장애인은 시각장애인보다는 지체장애, 정신지체, 정서 행동장애, 자폐성 장애가 있는 이용자가 많은 것으로 나타났다. 장애인서비스는 관외대출서비스가 대부분을 차지하고 있었으며 일반자료를 대상으로 이루어지고 있었다. 전화인터뷰에 의하면 현재 장애인서비스를 적극적으로 수행하고 있는 소수 기관의 담당사서들은 장애인에 대한 이해, 장애인 문화프로그램 운영 기획에 관한 정보를 필요로 하고 있었다.

• 한국컴퓨터그래픽스학회논문지
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• 제26권3호
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• pp.99-109
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• 2020

본 연구는 기존에 진행되던 시각 장애 인식 개선에 대한 교육 방식의 개선을 위해 VR을 기반으로 시각장애인의 시선과 환경에서 체험을 진행할 수 있는 'Hear me later' VR 콘텐츠를 설계 및 구현하였다. 중고등학생부터 20대 청년까지 타겟의 범위로 하여 비장애인들에게 평범한 일상과 활동이 시각 장애인에게 어느 정도의 불편함을 주는 일상인지를 체험하고 이해할 수 있도록 하기 위해 다음과 같이 콘텐츠를 구성하였다. 한 학생이 아침에 집에서 기상하여 학교에 등교하고, 학교에서 수업을 들은 후, 어두워진 늦은 시간에 집으로 하교하는 흐름으로 각 맵에서는 일상적인 활동이지만, 시각장애인들에게 불편한 활동인 10가지의 퀘스트를 배치하여 사용자들의 참여와 활동을 유도 하였다. 'Hear me later'의 효과를 검증하기 위해 10대~20대 초반 8명의 실험 참가자들을 대상으로 시각장애인에 대한 인식을 체험의 사전 사후 평가를 통해 측정하였다. 그 결과, VR 체험 사후 평가에서 사전 평가에 비해 시각장애인에 대한 인식이 30% 상승하는 결과가 도출 되었다. 특히, 시각장애인에 대한 오해와 편견 부분의 변화가 두드러졌다. 본 연구를 통해, 시공간의 구축이 자유롭고 체험을 극대화할 수 있는 VR기반의 장애 체험 교육 프로그램의 가능성을 검증 하였고, 이를 다양한 분야로 확대할 수 있는 기반을 마련하였다.