• 한국생활과학회지
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• 제16권6호
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• pp.1243-1250
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• 2007

The purpose of this study was to compare government guidelines and foreign guidelines related to furniture design for elderly. Future elderly will increasingly accustomed to the provisions of improved housing, education and welfare in comparison with our forebears. Also, there will be upgrading and different need for elderly furniture in our market. The results were as follows. The height of bed was based on the height of wheelchair seat, commonly. A adjustable bed was recommended for abled and disabled elderly. A pull-down shelf, drawer, empty space under chest, folding or sliding door in wardrobe and so on were recommended as a elderly furniture. It were good adjustable sink on human scale. There were need the empty space under sink for wheelchair users, one-touch or lever faucet, etc. There have given a little furniture design guidelines for elderly in Korea until now. But those guidelines haven't been considered enough human scale of elderly including wheelchair user. Because the close investigations have not made about abled and disabled elderly for their furniture design. So first of all, the government should be examined elderly physical size more accurately for elderly furniture design. The guideline for elderly furniture design should be for abled elderly and the disabled, too.

• International Journal of Contents
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• 제16권3호
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• pp.1-17
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• 2020

Human motion recognition is essential for user-centric services such as surveillance-based security, elderly condition monitoring, exercise tracking, daily calories expend analysis, etc. It is typically based on the movement data analysis such as the acceleration and angular velocity of a target user. The existing motion recognition studies are only intended to measure the basic information (e.g., user's stride, number of steps, speed) or to recognize single motion (e.g., sitting, running, walking). Thus, a new mechanism is required to identify the transition of single motions for assessing a user's consecutive motion more accurately as well as recognizing the user's body and surrounding situations arising from the motion. Thus, in this paper, we collect the human movement data through Android smartphones in real time for five targeting single motions and propose a mechanism to recognize a consecutive motion including transitions among various motions and an occurred situation, with the state transition model to check if a vulnerable (life-threatening) condition, especially for the elderly, has occurred or not. Through implementation and experiments, we demonstrate that the proposed mechanism recognizes a consecutive motion and a user's situation accurately and quickly. As a result of the recognition experiment about mix sequence likened to daily motion, the proposed adoptive weighting method showed 4% (Holding time=15 sec), 88% (30 sec), 6.5% (60 sec) improvements compared to static method.

• 한국실내디자인학회논문집
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• 제17권6호
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• pp.152-160
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• 2008

The Cases of advanced nations which have advanced welfare policy, they have headed for the deinstitutionalization and the protection of the local society. So they have expanded and improved the various policies and welfare facilities to be able to keep daily life on the base of local area. Many problems have been caused by rising the average life span of the elderly in Korea now. Under the tendency, there have been many alternative proposals to solve the problems. One of those proposals, the deinstitutionalization theory that is rated the ideal way, is the community-based care than the care in facilities for the elderly. It shows that the most ideal facility for the care is Daycare center and that it matters the system of spatial construction and standard of the facilities. Under the undetailed Korean standard of facility design, it is very important that system of spatial construction to correspond to the needs of the users and standard of the facilities are prepared from the point of view of the standard design of the domestic facilities for the elderly. The study of the book grasps the regional present situation of the domestic Daycare center and surveys the tendency of the stay and features of occupation of the user there through some case, and aims to have a thorough grip of the spatial scale by the user's behavior. It is to utilize for a proposal for preparation of the space scale, and an institution standard corresponding to user's needs in a Daycare center.

• 디지털콘텐츠학회 논문지
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• 제19권9호
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• pp.1759-1767
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• 2018

우리사회의 급속한 고령화 현상에 따라 고령자들의 질병예방 및 건강관리를 목적으로 하는 모바일 헬스케어서비스에 대한 관심이 높아지고 있다. 고령자들의 모바일 헬스케어서비스에 대한 사용성을 높이기위해서는 고령자 관점에서UI 환경이 설계되어야하며, 이러한UI 사용성 수준을 진단할 수 있는 구체적인 평가체계가 필요하다. 본 연구에서는 고령자 관점에서의 헬스케어 애플리케이션 UI 사용성 평가영역을 개발하고자 하였다. 이를 위해문헌분석을 실시하여 개략적인 UI 사용성 평가요인을 탐색하였으며, 전문가 집단과 사용자 집단을 대상으로 하는 FGI를 실시하여 UI 사용성 평가영역 및 세부 평가요인들을 도출하였다. 분석 결과, 고령자 관점의 UI 사용성 평가영역은 크게 '디자인 영역', '콘텐츠 영역', '프로세스 영역', '시스템 영역'의 4가지 영역으로 나타났으며, 각 영역들에 대한 13개의 세부 평가요인과 32개의 구성개념들이 도출되었다.

• 융합보안논문지
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• 제23권5호
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• pp.151-156
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• 2023

현재 다양한 정보통신기술들이 독거노인 돌봄과 치매노인 실종방지 등에서 폭넓게 활용되고 있으며, 향후 커뮤니티케어 정책을 통해 인공지능과 로봇활용 비대면 돌봄은 향후 더욱 다양한 영역에서 활용될 전망이다. 따라서 본 연구에서는 4차 산업혁명에 관한 정부정책 방향에 기반하여 커뮤니티케어에 활용도가 점차 증가하고 있는 인공지능 기술 기반 돌봄서비스 현황과 활용 및 활성화 전망을 모색해보고자 하였다. 커뮤니티케어에 활용될 수 있는 서비스인 AI 스피커와 돌봄로봇은 노인층이 경험하고 있는 다양한 문제를 해결하는데 도움이 되며, 감성적인 기능을 추가하여 대화 부족이나 외로움을 해소하는데도 활용하고 있다. 향후 AI 기술을 활용한 커뮤니티케어 활성화를 위해서는 첫째, 커뮤니티케어 고령자의 AI기기 친밀화를 위한 지속적인 교육과 고령층을 위한 '사용자 경험(User Experience, UX) 디자인'이 필요하며, 둘째, 기능위주의 기술 활용보다는 상호보완적 관계를 가지고 감성적인 상호관계가 가능한 인간중심의 기술 활용이 필요하며. 셋째, 사용자의 자기결정권 보장, 사생활 보호 등의 윤리적 문제를 해결할 필요가 있다.

• 한국융합학회논문지
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• 제11권1호
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• pp.161-168
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• 2020

본 연구는 고령자들의 안전한 독립보행을 보조하기 위한 보행기를 개발하기 위한 연구로, 기존 고령자용 보행기에 대한 제품 분석을 통한 문제점 파악과 사용자 관찰 실험을 통하여 사용상 문제점과 니즈를 파악하였다. 제품 분석결과 대부분의 고령자용 보행기는 기능이 우선시 되는 경향을 볼 수 있었다. 또한 사용자 관찰 결과 대부분의 사용자가 기능에 대해서는 긍정적인 인식을 가지고 있으나, 조작방법이나 안정감 등 구조적인 부분은 부정적인 결과를 가지고 있는 것을 파악할 수 있었다. 이후 도출된 문제점과 니즈를 통해 총 다섯 가지의 디자인 지침을 도출하였다. 디자인 지침은 기능적인 부분이 아닌 구조적인 문제점의 개선을 중점적인 목표로 설정하였고, 기능 우선이 아닌 안전이 우선시되도록 방향을 설정하여 진행하였다. 본 연구에서 도출한 다섯 가지 디자인 지침은 차후 고령자용 보행기를 제작 및 디자인하는데 있어, 고령자의 관점과 니즈를 반영한 보행기 제작의 기초적인 자료로써 활용될 수 있을 것이다.

• 대한건축학회논문집:계획계
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• 제34권10호
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• pp.75-82
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• 2018

This study suggests the general support center with comprehensive services for the elderly. In general, the modifications of the elderly housing have a direct influence on the "Quality of life" and "Aging in place" for the elderly. But until now, the elderly housing modification has been carried out separately on the elderly welfare category. It is very inefficient and inconvenient for the elderly. Therefore, it is necessary to have a comprehensive organization that includes the implementation of modifications. To provide reasons for this insistence, this study analyzed the previous research, legal system guidelines, and others related things. And it researched the perception of the comprehensive institution and the need for housing modification through the recognition survey of the elderly and the early elderly. The study found that the current domestic legal system does not have an integrated system to carry out the entire process of applying and implementing the elderly housing modification. On the other hand, the results of the survey showed that the elderly hoped to introduce a comprehensive and user-friendly institution for housing modification.

• 한국주거학회논문집
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• 제9권3호
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• pp.13-24
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• 1998

The increasing population of the elderly is a serious problem in our communities, and a large supply of an apartment house are to accelerate rise of elderly population in apartment house massed areas. The living Pattern of the aged is different from other generations. Accordingly, the living arrangements are induces many problems in the housing life of elderly, sometimes it lower in quality of life. The purpose of this study was to search for the actual family life and needs of the elderly in apartment house. And it was to seize discrepancy between three-generation family and elderly living alone. Also by a user of housing for the elderly, it was to search for an acknowledged and an preference degree about that.

• 한국실내디자인학회논문집
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• 제29호
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• pp.137-144
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• 2001

The purpose of this study was to suggest the design guidelines for healthcare facilities for the elderly. D healthcare facility for the elderly in Busan was case studied. Subjects were 34 elderly patients, 35 families, and 36 nurses who were in this facility. The elderly Patients and their families were interviewed and the nurses were answered through self-administered questionnaires. Generally, the users of this facility were positively responded to the building and interior design of this facility. Also, the elderly patients and the families were mere satisfied with the design of this healthcare facility than the nurses. All users responded the functional aspects and the whole interior design of this healthcare facility positively and the environmental psychological aspects negatively Also, the nurses responded this facility's ambient environments negatively and the patients and the families positively. The elderly patients and their families wanted to share the inpatient room with 3-6 persons because of their economical conditions and social contacts. Almost half of them preferred to sit down on the floor Also, they tended to prefer to light interior color, wall papers, and the familiar and home-like environments.

• The Journal of Korean Physical Therapy
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• 제30권4호
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• pp.151-157
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• 2018

Purpose: This study was conducted to identify the characteristics of physical therapy service utilization and user satisfaction depending on the experience with therapeutic exercise or ultrasound intervention among elderly persons using senior centers. Methods: The subjects were adults aged over 60 years (total 215) recruited in 40 senior centers located in each province in South Korea. Subjects responded to questions concerning overall demographics factors, utilized characteristics of physical therapy service and 12 variety user satisfactions with effectiveness, facilities, and therapist using a survey instrument. The collected data were analyzed by Fishers' exact tests and t-tests using the SPSS 21.0 program to compare the results of elderly persons who had or had not experienced exercise therapy or ultrasound therapy. Results: The participants that experienced ultrasound therapy or therapeutic exercise reported significantly higher overall results pertaining to effectiveness of physical therapy and a clear explanation from physical therapist's satisfaction than those who were non-experienced. Satisfaction with pain relief was significantly higher among elderly who experienced therapeutic exercise than those who did not. Those who underwent ultrasound therapy showed significantly higher satisfaction with facilities and location than those who did not. Conclusion: The results of this study suggest that satisfaction among users differs by type of physical therapy. In the future, physiotherapy services provided in senior centers needs to be designed to improve the effectiveness of physical therapy, professionalism of physical therapists and comfort of facility.