• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Interior Design Conference
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• 2005.10a
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• pp.119-123
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• 2005

New paradigm of the 21st is 'Ubiquitous'. And great changes arises from the digital environment and technology. Also, our living environments are changing very rapidly. Because of rapid developments, we didn't have enough time to examine our current situation. So we had to look around the current living spaces. The main purpose of this research was to know about the home network service and environmental context in our living spaces and to explore the outlook in the forseeable future. To search them, four recent digital home exhibition houses were examined. The findings showed that many kinds of common network systems were suggested and were acted in limited spaces. And when we examined the environmental context, we found most of the instruments were installed fixed ones or integrated information appliances. Therefore, the plan of digital home needs to consider environmental context and the combination of residents and living spaces.

• The Journal of the Institute of Internet, Broadcasting and Communication
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• v.15 no.3
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• pp.85-90
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• 2015

As the population in Korea is feastly aging, various issues for living environment for elderly people are reported. Context-aware-based smart home system is also considered as one of the issues and the needs of it increases. Even though many researches are recently reported about context-aware-based smart home system, it is hardly found for elderly-people-optimized system. Therefore, in this paper, we surveys in three categories: general context-aware system, system for smart home, and context-aware home system for elderly people. After analyzing the surveys, we address issues to be solved for elderly-people-optimized context-aware-based smart home system and proposed appropriate research directions for the system.

• Proceedings of the Korea Society of Information Technology Applications Conference
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• 2005.11a
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• pp.225-228
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• 2005

A context-aware services platform supporting mobile agents consists of sensor nodes and a sensor coordinator. Sensor nodes collect environmental information and transmit the collected information to the sensor coordinator through wireless sensor networks. The sensor coordinator passes the information to the context-aware service module, and the mobile agent. The context-aware service module or the mobile agent performs services suitable for a user's situation based on the environmental information and a service actuation message is delivered to an actuation node through the sensor coordinator. In this paper, we present a context-aware services platform structure employed in our project, and describe context-aware services platform interfaces with a context-aware service module and mobile agents.

• Journal of Korea Society of Digital Industry and Information Management
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• v.5 no.3
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• pp.77-86
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• 2009

This paper proposes an ontology-based context-aware home healthcare platform employing environmental factors obtained from home. The proposed platform manages the health of home residents, and notifies relatives or a medical team of critical condition through context-awareness based on home ontology by using information sensed from various sensors. The ontology definition of context-awareness from the sensed information provides technically more precise decision for us. Therefore the platform can be aware of the health state of residents and environment by reasoning exactly from data gathered from various sensors and heterogeneous devices. The platform also can individually provide the customized service for users by setting priority for critical status that can be occurred in the health state of residents.

• Journal of the Korean Institute of Intelligent Systems
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• v.15 no.2
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• pp.143-148
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• 2005

In this paper, we introduce smart home service based on ubiquitous environment and context awareness. We define the multi- context environment and the context collision caused by many user that the existing study of smart home is unconcerned with. Heal home is the space where various contexts are created and disappeared in. Smart home appliances are restricted within their service. We divide the home space by main uses of rooms and group smart service by sensory organ. And we introduce the multi-context manager consist with context interpreter, context collision manager and smart service manager.

• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.7 no.4
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• pp.74-82
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• 2007

Context awareness using intelligent system is emphasized in order to provide automatic services in home automatic system. In this paper, we propose the intelligent context-aware system for home automation. To implement home automation, we first collect various events occuring in user's home, which are saved as a case form. We use the saved data as a training data of a neural network algorithm and then apply to intelligent context aware system for home automation. This system provide "right situations do right things" for user. Also this system has intelligent ability.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Broadcast Engineers Conference
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• 2009.01a
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• pp.311-315
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• 2009

The ubiquitous smart home is the home of future that takes advantage of context information from user and home environment and provides automatic home services for the user. User's location and motion are the most important contexts in the ubiquitous smart home. This paper presents a method positioning user's location using four cameras and some home context parameter together with user preferences provided. Some geometry math problems would be raised to figure out approximately which area is monitored by cameras. The moving object is detected within the image frames and then simulated in a 2D window to present visually where user is located and show his moving. The moving ways are statistically recorded and used for predicting user's future moving.

• Journal of the Ergonomics Society of Korea
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• v.26 no.2
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• pp.61-66
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• 2007

The networked home is connected to the external world using a high speed network. The devices inside the house are connected using a wired and wireless network. Acquiring the user data is an essential step for designing the user interface in user centered design. In networked home, the numbers of use cases are exponentially increased because connected use cases are considered. Because the user data for networked home are too complicated, they are acquired and analyzed by a structured methodology. We surveyed 40 people to acquire the context data home and analyzed by 5W1H (Who, Where, What, When, Why, How). We established a framework for the user data using tasks, user, time, space, objects and environment. The data for home context was structured by our framework. This framework makes simple the home context and is helpful for user interface design in home network.

• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.8 no.7
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• pp.17-25
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• 2008

The smart home environment focuses on recognizing the context and physical entities. And this is mainly focused on the personalized service supplied conversational interactions. In this paper, we proposed the recommendation using the context awareness based information filtering that dynamically applied by the context awareness as well as the meta data in the smart home. The proposed method defined the context information and recommended the profited service for the user’s taste using the context awareness based information filtering. Accordingly, the satisfaction of users and the quality of services will be improved the efficient recommendation by supporting the distributed processing as well as the mobility of services. Finally, to evaluate the performance of the proposed method, this study applies to MovieLens dataset in the OSGi framework, and it is compared with the performance of previous studies.

• The KIPS Transactions:PartD
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• v.15D no.3
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• pp.411-420
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• 2008

This paper implemented the u-Healthcare Context Information System (HCIS) supporting ubiquitous healthcare by using location, health and titrating environment information collected from sensors/devices equipped in home for healthcare home service. The HCIS is based on the Distributed Object Group Framework (DOGF), a management model which can customize distributed resources, and manages various context information, applications and devices as a group in healthcare home environment, as one more logical units. Also, this system provides continuous healthcare multimedia service considering a resident's location using Mobile Proxy, and the healthcare context information through Context Provider to a resident in home. For verifying execution of our system, we implemented the seamless multimedia service based on resident's location and the prescription/advice and schedule notification/alarm service as healthcare applications in home. And we showed the executing results of healthcare home service by using service device existed in the residential space on which the resident is located according to the healthcare scenario.