• Title/Summary/Keyword: eye

Search Result 5,330, Processing Time 0.041 seconds

The Effects of the Postural Movement Normalization and Eye Movement Program on the Oculomotor Ability of Children With Cerebral Palsy (자세·움직임 정상화 및 안구운동 프로그램이 뇌성마비아동의 안구운동 기능에 미치는 효과)

  • Han, Dong-Wook;Kong, Nam-Ho
    • Physical Therapy Korea
    • /
    • v.14 no.3
    • /
    • pp.32-40
    • /
    • 2007
  • Although many children with cerebral palsy have problems with their eye movements available data on its intervention is minimal. The purpose of the study was to determine the effectiveness of the postural movement normalization and eye movement program on the oculomotor ability of children with cerebral palsy. Twenty-four children with cerebral palsy (12 male and 12 female), aged between 10 and 12, were invited to partake in this study. The subjects were randomly allocated to two groups: an experimental group received the postural movement normalization and eye movement program and a control group which received conventional therapy without the eye movement program. Each subject received intervention three times a week for twelve weeks. The final measurement was the ocular motor computerized test before and after treatment sessions through an independent assessor. Differences between the experimental group and control group were determined by assessing changes in oculomotor ability using analysis of covariance (ANCOVA). The changes of visual fixation (p<.01), saccadic eye movement (p<.01) and pursuit eye movement (p<.01) were significantly higher in the experimental group than in the control group. These results show that the postural movement normalization and eye movement program may be helpful to treat children with cerebral palsy who lose normal physical and eye movement.

  • PDF

Effects of dry eye syndrome symptoms and asthenopia on vision-related quality of life in middle-aged patients with dry eye syndrome (중년기 안구건조증 환자의 안구건조 증상정도와 안구피로가 시력관련 삶의 질에 미치는 영향)

  • Yoon, Hye Sook;Kim, Hyun Kyoung
    • Journal of Korean Academic Society of Home Health Care Nursing
    • /
    • v.29 no.3
    • /
    • pp.310-318
    • /
    • 2022
  • Purpose: This is a cross-sectional study aimed to investigate the effects of dry eye syndrome symptoms and eye fatigue on the vision-related quality of life (QOL) of middle-aged patients with dry eye syndrome. Methods: The participants of this study were 94 ophthalmology clinic outpatients aged 40-59 years who were diagnosed with dry eye syndrome at A and S Ophthalmology Clinics in D City, South Korea, and were exhibiting dry eye syndrome symptoms. Data were collected from July 5, 2021 to July 22, 2021, and analyzed using independent t-test, analysis of variance, Scheffe test, Pearson's correlation coefficient, and multiple regression analysis using the SPSS/WIN 25.0 program. Results: The severity of dry eye syndrome symptoms and asthenopia (r=.73, p<.001) in the participants were positively correlated, whereas the severity of dry eye syndrome symptoms and vision-related quality of life (r=-.76, p<.001) were negatively correlated. Additionally, there was a negative relationship between eye fatigue and vision-related QOL (r=-.55, p<.001). It was found that the final factors affecting the vision-related QOL of middle-aged patients with dry eye syndrome were the severity of dry eye syndrome symptoms (β=-0.76, p<.001) and dry eye stress (β=-0.14, p=.048). The explanatory power of vision-related QOL in the participants was 56.0%. Conclusion: To develop indices that can objectively measure patients' subjective symptoms for improving their vision-related QOL is necessary.

Biochemical Properties of Lactate Dehydrogenase Eye-Specific C4 Isozyme: Lepomis macrochirus and Micropterus salmoides (젖산탈수소효소 eye-specific C4 동위효소의 생화학적 특성: 파랑볼우럭(Lepomis macrochirus)과 큰입우럭(Micropterus salmoides))

  • Yum, Jung-Joo;Ku, Bo-Ra
    • Journal of Life Science
    • /
    • v.22 no.2
    • /
    • pp.209-219
    • /
    • 2012
  • The properties of lactate dehydrogenase (LDH, EC 1.1.1.27) eye-specific $C_4$ isozyme were studied by polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis, Western blotting, immunoprecipitation, and enzyme kinetics. Furthermore, we proposed the optimal conditions for measuring the activity of LDH eye-specific $C_4$ isozyme. The isozymes were detected in the cytosol of eye tissues from Lepomis macrochirus and Micropterus salmoides and were more similar to the $A_4$ than the $B_4$ isozyme. LDH/CS in the eye tissue of L. macrochirus was increased in September, so the ratio of anaerobic metabolism was high. The electrophoretic patterns of mitochondrial LDH were similar to those of cytosolic LDH in the eye tissues of L. macrochirus and Micropterus salmoides. LDH eye-specific $C_4$ isozyme from eye tissue was purified by preparative native-PAGE. The activities of LDH eye-specific $C_4$ isozymes in L. macrochirus and M. salmoides were reduced at concentrations greater than 0.2 mM and 0.1 mM of pyruvate, respectively. These concentrations remained at 5.2% and 15.8% as a result of the inhibition by 10 mM of pyruvate, so the degree of inhibition was very high. The LDH activities of eye tissues were reduced at concentrations greater than 22 mM and 24 mM of lactate, respectively, in L. macrochirus and M. salmoides. The ${K_m}^{PYR}$ of eye-specific $C_4$ was 0.088 mM in L. macrochirus and it was 0.033 mM in M. salmoides. The activities of cytosolic and mitochondrial eye-specific $C_4$ isozymes were high in ${\alpha}$-ketobutyric acid. Furthermore, the activities of eye tissue and eye-specific $C_4$ isozyme had to be measured with 0.5 mM of pyruvate and a buffer solution of pH 7.5. As a conclusion, the eye-specific $C_4$ isozyme in M. salmoides has a high affinity for pyruvate and exhibits maximum activity at a lower concentration of pyruvate and at higher concentration of lactate than that in L. macrochirus. Therefore, it seems that the energy produced by the LDH eye-specific $C_4$ isozyme in M. salmoides was used at the first stage of predatory behavior.

Comparison of Dynamic Stereoacuity According to Dominant Eye and Degree of Dominant Eye (우세안의 방향과 강도에 따른 동적 입체시 비교)

  • Shim, Moon-Sik;Shim, Hyun-Suk;Kim, Young-Cheong
    • Journal of Korean Ophthalmic Optics Society
    • /
    • v.21 no.3
    • /
    • pp.227-233
    • /
    • 2016
  • Purpose: On this study, we compared the relationship of dynamic stereoacuity according to the dominant eye, degree of dominant eye, and dominant agreement eye and hand. Methods: For 130 adults (male 70, female 60), mean age of $21.06{\pm}2.21years$ old, dominant eye, degree of dominant eye were measured by objective examination by using the diameter $3.8cm{\times}3.8cm$ thin ring, the dynamic stereoacuity were measured by three-rods test (iNT, Korea). Results: Dynamic stereoacuity according to the dominant eye was center dominant eye without dominance was $14.97{\pm}13.80sec$ of arc, right eye $22.10{\pm}20.01sec$ of arc, left eye $22.31{\pm}20.39sec$ of arc. Dynamic stereoacuity was better when there was no dominance, but the correlation of the dominant eye with dynamic stereoacuity was very low. When Dynamic stereoacuity was separated by in the Center, Mild, Strong, dynamic stereoacuity was $14.97{\pm}13.80sec$ of arc, $20.76{\pm}15.73sec$ of arc and $24.45{\pm}25.60sec$ of arc respectively. The dynamic stereoacuity results were worse when dominance was stonger. However dynamic stereoacuity was better than Center when the degree of dominant eye was rather strong in the dominant left eye. Dynamic stereoacuity according to the dominant eye and hand showed that right eye and hand was $22.63{\pm}20.54sec$ of arc, left eye and hand was $17.36{\pm}10.13sec$ of arc, right eye and left hand was $14.79{\pm}7.05sec$ of arc, left eye and right hand was $22.97{\pm}21.42sec$ of arc so dynamic stereoacuity was comparatively good when the dominant hand was left. Conculsions: Correlation between the dynamic stereoacuity according to the dominant eye, degree of dominant eye was low, however when degree of dominant eye was Center 14.97 sec of arc, Strong 24.45 sec of arc, the dynamic stereoacuity tended to worse when degree of dominant eye was strong. As a result, dominant eye, degree of dominant eye would have to be considered in a more comfortable binocular balance between prescribed for the wearer in binocular vision correction in binocular function such stereoacuity, sports vision training, presbyopia correction and mono vision.

A Study of Eye Blinking : I (눈의 깜박임에 대한 연구 : I)

  • Gong, Myeong-Ok;Kim, Yeon-Min
    • Journal of the Ergonomics Society of Korea
    • /
    • v.4 no.1
    • /
    • pp.7-10
    • /
    • 1985
  • Eye blinking in case of three visual tasks is studied; wall hard-copy and color monitor. The eye blinking is checked by eye-status detector. The data observed are (1) the average number of eye blinking (2) the average time of eye blinking for three minutes in case of all three visual tasks. The results are as follows: (1) The average times (or numbers) of eye blinking are different among three tasks. (2) The average time (or number) of eye blinking of wall is different from hard-copy and color monitor tasks. (3) But the average time (or number) of eye blinking of hard-copy is not different from that of color monitor.

  • PDF

A Review of Eye-tracking Method in Elementary Science Education Research (초등과학 교육연구에서 시선추적 연구방법의 고찰)

  • Shin, Won-Sub
    • Journal of Korean Elementary Science Education
    • /
    • v.35 no.3
    • /
    • pp.288-304
    • /
    • 2016
  • The purpose of this study is a review of previous studies and principles of eye-tracking techniques that are actively applied in recent elementary science education. Also it proposes to utilize the direction of eye tracking techniques in elementary science education research. Recent eye-tracking technology was developed, using the infrared pupil and the corneal reflection can be safely and accurately track the eye movements of the participants. Eye tracking has the advantage of higher temporal resolution, accessibility, convenience, objectivity, stability and safety. Analysis of the previous studies, there was a difference in the study design and analysis. The workshops and seminars are needed for accurate understanding of eye-tracking method in elementary science education research. In conclusion, the eye-tracking can be utilized such as effectiveness analysis of teaching materials and media, behaviors analysis of teachers and students in a real class, cognitive strategies and attention analysis of the student, discriminating tool of various education evaluation, etc.

Drowsiness Detection using Eye-blink Patterns (눈 깜박임 패턴을 이용한 졸음 검출)

  • Choi, Ki-Ho
    • The Journal of The Korea Institute of Intelligent Transport Systems
    • /
    • v.10 no.2
    • /
    • pp.94-102
    • /
    • 2011
  • In this paper, a novel drowsiness detection algorithm using eye-blink pattern is proposed. The proposed drowsiness detection model using finite automata makes it easy to detect eye-blink, drowsiness and sleep by checking the number of input symbols standing for closed eye state only. Also it increases the accuracy by taking vertical projection histogram after locating the eye region using the feature of horizontal projection histogram, and minimizes the external effects such as eyebrows or black-framed glasses. Experimental results in eye-blinks detection using the JZU eye-blink database show that our approach achieves more than 93% precision and high performance.

Lens Design of the Eyepiece Combined with the Accommodation-dependent Navarro Eye at an On-axis Point

  • Choi, Ka-Ul;Song, Seok-Ho;Kim, Sang-Gee
    • Journal of the Optical Society of Korea
    • /
    • v.14 no.1
    • /
    • pp.55-62
    • /
    • 2010
  • We introduce a new method for lens design that combines an eyepiece with the finite model eye, to make a corrected version of the accommodation-dependent Navarro eye. The optical system that we designed, which includes a human eye, takes into account the aberration of the eye and increases the performance of the image in the retina. In the design results, for the optimized eyepiece combined with the corrected Navarro eye, visual acuity is 1.40. Compared with the existing method of eyepiece design using inverse ray tracing with the corrected Navarro eye, MTF value was recorded as 0.079 to 0.283 at 160 lp/mm and visual performance was improved.

Measuring Visual Attention Processing of Virtual Environment Using Eye-Fixation Information

  • Kim, Jong Ha;Kim, Ju Yeon
    • Architectural research
    • /
    • v.22 no.4
    • /
    • pp.155-162
    • /
    • 2020
  • Numerous scholars have explored the modeling, control, and optimization of energy systems in buildings, offering new insights about technology and environments that can advance industry innovation. Eye trackers deliver objective eye-gaze data about visual and attentional processes. Due to its flexibility, accuracy, and efficiency in research, eye tracking has a control scheme that makes measuring rapid eye movement in three-dimensional space possible (e.g., virtual reality, augmented reality). Because eye movement is an effective modality for digital interaction with a virtual environment, tracking how users scan a visual field and fix on various digital objects can help designers optimize building environments and materials. Although several scholars have conducted Virtual Reality studies in three-dimensional space, scholars have not agreed on a consistent way to analyze eye tracking data. We conducted eye tracking experiments using objects in three-dimensional space to find an objective way to process quantitative visual data. By applying a 12 × 12 grid framework for eye tracking analysis, we investigated how people gazed at objects in a virtual space wearing a headmounted display. The findings provide an empirical base for a standardized protocol for analyzing eye tracking data in the context of virtual environments.

Design of the Finite Schematic Eye with GRIN Crystalline Lens Considering Iris Eccentricity (홍채 편심을 고려한 GRIN 수정체를 갖는 정밀모형안 설계)

  • Kim, Bong-Hwan;Han, Sun-Hee
    • Journal of Korean Ophthalmic Optics Society
    • /
    • v.16 no.1
    • /
    • pp.61-64
    • /
    • 2011
  • Purpose: The purpose of this study was to design the finite model eye with GRIN lens similar to actual eye, which considered the effect of iris eccentricity on eyes. Methods: By using the finite model eye with Radial GRIN and Spherical GRIN, which were designed previously, the location of iris was eccentrically located by 0.5 mm in the direction of nose to show the same eye as actual one. For ray trace and design, Code V program of Optical Research Associates (ORA) was adopted. Results: Designed model eye was compared to actual eye depending on iris eccentricity and the model eye which showed reduced value was corrected according to actual eye to design the finite model eye. Conclusions: Ocular optical systems considered the point that iris was a rotational asymmetry and designed the finite model eye with GRIN lens, which was similar to actual eye, by considering the effect of iris eccentricity on eye.