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Emotional Model Focused on Robot's Familiarity to Human

  • Choi, Tae-Yong;Kim, Chang-Hyun;Lee, Ju-Jang
    • 제어로봇시스템학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 2005.06a
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    • pp.1025-1030
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    • 2005
  • This paper deals with the emotional model of the software-robot. The software-robot requires several capabilities such as sensing, perceiving, acting, communicating, and surviving. and so on. There are already many studies about the emotional model like KISMET and AIBO. The new emotional model using the modified friendship scheme is proposed in this paper. Quite often, the available emotional models have time invariant human respond architectures. Conventional emotional models make the sociable robot get around with humans, and obey human commands during robot operation. This behavior makes the robot very different from real pets. Similar to real pets, the proposed emotional model with the modified friendship capability has time varying property depending on interaction between human and robot.

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A Study on the Evaluation Methods for s Personal Robot from the Viewpoints of Language, Teaching, and Learning Ability (언어, 교시 및 학습능력 관점에서 본 퍼스널 로봇의 평가 기준 설정에 대한 연구)

  • Kim, Yong-Jun;Yi, Keon-Young;Kim, Jin-Oh
    • Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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    • 2004.07d
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    • pp.2465-2467
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    • 2004
  • In this paper we present the guideline to evaluate the easiness of using personal robots and their learning abilities based on the analysis of their built-in commands, user interfaces, and intelligences. Recently, we are breathing with robots that can be able to do lots of roles. cleaning, security, pets and education in real life. They can be classified as home robots, guide robots, service robots, robot pets, and so on. There are, however, no standards to evaluate their ability, so it is not easy to select an appropriate robot when a user wants to buy it. Thus, we present, as a guideline that can be a standard for the evaluation of the personal robots, the standards by means of analyzing existing personal robots and results of the recent research works. We will, also, describe how to apply the evaluation method th the personal robot.

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The Developmental Aspect of Emergence in Naoko Tosa's Artificial Life Art (인공생명 예술의 창발적 발전양태 - 나오꼬 토사의 작품을 중심으로)

  • Kim, Hee-Young;Lee, Wang-Joo
    • Journal of Digital Contents Society
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    • v.9 no.4
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    • pp.645-652
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    • 2008
  • The study of Artificial Life Art has affected the development of art using artificial life. Artificial Life Art started as a concern for microscopic organisms and has developed into works producing some creativities through the choices of spectators. The interests in real animals have resulted in the production of artificial animals such as cyber pets, and the interests in humans have been led to the creation of avatars. We will analyze the invisible emotional field of Naoko Tosa's works which use cyber pets and avatars, and clarify how the creative changes of Artificial Life Art affect the development of interactive art.

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Development of process-oriented education tool for Statistics with Excel Macro (엑셀 매크로를 이용한 절차 중심 통계교육도구 개발)

  • Choi, Hyun-Seok;Ha, Jeong-Cheol
    • Journal of the Korean Data and Information Science Society
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    • v.22 no.4
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    • pp.643-650
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    • 2011
  • Recently the needs for education on Statistics is growing bigger, but a mathematics-oriented education makes college students loose interest in Statistics. On the hypothesis that motivating interest is the key factor for learning, we need to develop an education tool for Statistics that makes learners to study independently but throughly. By using Excel Macro, we develop and introduce add-in program, called PETS, which supplies not only results but also process to get them.

High-level mupirocin resistance in Gram-positive bacteria isolated from diseased companion animals

  • Sum, Samuth;Park, Hee-Myung;Oh, Jae Young
    • Journal of Veterinary Science
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    • v.21 no.3
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    • pp.40.1-40.8
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    • 2020
  • The purpose of this study was to investigate the high-level mupirocin resistance (HLMR) in Gram-positive bacteria isolated from companion animals. A total of 931 clinical specimens were collected from diseased pets. The detection of mupirocin-resistant bacteria and plasmid-mediated mupirocin resistance genes were evaluated by antimicrobial susceptibility tests, polymerase chain reactions, and sequencing analysis. Four-hundred and six (43.6%) bacteria were isolated and 17 (4.2%), including 14 staphylococci and 3 Corynebacterium were high-level mupirocin-resistant (MICs, ≥ 1,024 ug/mL) harboring mupA. Six staphylococci of HLMR strains had plasmid-mediated mupA-IS257 flanking regions. The results show that HLMR bacteria could spread in veterinary medicine in the near future.

Implementation of a pet product recommendation system using big data (빅 데이터를 활용한 애완동물 상품 추천 시스템 구현)

  • Kim, Sam-Taek
    • Journal of the Korea Convergence Society
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    • v.11 no.11
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    • pp.19-24
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    • 2020
  • Recently, due to the rapid increase of pets, there is a need for an integrated pet-related personalized product recommendation service such as feed recommendation using a health status check of pets and various collected data. This paper implements a product recommendation system that can perform various personalized services such as collection, pre-processing, analysis, and management of pet-related data using big data. First, the sensor information worn by pets, customer purchase patterns, and SNS information are collected and stored in a database, and a platform capable of customized personalized recommendation services such as feed production and pet health management is implemented using statistical analysis. The platform can provide information to customers by outputting similarity product information about the product to be analyzed and information, and finally outputting the result of recommendation analysis.

A Novel High Performance List Scheduling Algorithm for Distributed Heterogeneous Computing Systems (분산 이기종 컴퓨팅 시스템을 위한 새로운 고성능 리스트 스케줄링 알고리즘)

  • Yoon, Wan-Oh;Yoon, Jun-Chul;Yoon, Jung-Hee;Choi, Sang-Bang
    • Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea CI
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    • v.47 no.1
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    • pp.135-145
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    • 2010
  • Efficient Directed Acyclic Graph(DAG) scheduling is critical for achieving high performance in Distributed Heterogeneous computing System(DHCS). In this paper, we present a new high-performance scheduling algorithm, called the LCFT(Levelized Critical First Task) algorithm, for DHCS. The LCFT algorithm is a list-based scheduling that uses a new attribute to efficiently select tasks for scheduling in DHCS. The complexity of LCFT is $O(\upsilon+e)(p+log\;\upsilon)$. The performance of the algorithm has been observed by its application to some practical DAGs, and by comparing it with other existing scheduling algorithms such as PETS, HPS, HCPT and GCA in terms of the schedule length and SpeedUp. The comparison studies show that LCFT significantly outperforms PETS, HPS, HCPT and GCA in schedule length, SpeedUp.

A study on the Recognition of Pet Dogs between Companion Animal Majors and Non-Majors (애완동물 전공자와 비전공자 간 애견의 인지도에 관한 연구)

  • Shin, Yeun-Ho
    • Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society
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    • v.15 no.2
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    • pp.777-784
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    • 2014
  • The purpose of this study is to understand the recognition of pet dogs between companion animal majors and non-majors regarding preference, knowledge, competence, role, image, use of pet dogs. A survey was conducted among 164 high school and college, university students from rural areas, medium and large cities, comprised of both companion animal majors and non-majors. The collected data was processed with $X^2$-test to see statistical significance between the two groups. The result showed a significance of (p<0.05) in competence as companion and working dogs and in Animal-Assisted Therapy for physically and psychologically challenged patients. Also, there was a great gap between two groups in recognizing pets and companion animals. Therefore, it is required to develop and implement policy programs that expand people's understanding on roles and competence of companion animals so that they can be identified as a real life companion beyond pets.

A study on the development of virtual reality for disaster prevention in households living with companion animals (반려동물 동거가구의 재난예방을 위한 가상현실 개발 연구)

  • Han, Dong-Ho
    • The Journal of the Convergence on Culture Technology
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    • v.7 no.3
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    • pp.583-589
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    • 2021
  • This study is a study on the development of virtual reality to prepare for the increase in disasters of households living with companion animals due to the increase of companion animals. The increase in single-person households and DINKs(Double Income, No Kid) along with the low birth rate and aging population is raising the risk of disasters caused by companion animals in particular. Among these disasters, there is an increase in the occurrence of fires primarily due to the raising of companion animals. Electric stove fires caused by pets are the most common fires. In particular, the frequency of electric stove fires caused by cats is the highest. Careful precautions by the owner are necessary to reduce fires caused by pets. Parenting of companion animals causes pet loss syndrome due to emotional exchange. There are injuries to pets in escalators and injuries to owners in elevators due to disasters caused by the owner's negligence. In order to reduce injuries on escalators and elevators, basic etiquette for using escalators and elevators with pets is required as basic etiquette. It is necessary to utilize virtual reality to reduce disasters caused by such companion animals. Virtual reality can be experienced without a physical space in advance training to overcome disasters, so real disaster cases can be experienced immersively. Therefore, learning how to reduce fires caused by companion animals, disasters caused by owner's negligence, and petloss syndrome through virtual reality will greatly contribute to disaster prevention and reduction of social costs.

A Human Case of Zoonotic Dog Tapeworm, Dipylidium caninum (Eucestoda: Dilepidiidae), in China

  • Jiang, Peng;Zhang, Xi;Liu, Ruo Dan;Wang, Zhong Quan;Cui, Jing
    • Parasites, Hosts and Diseases
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    • v.55 no.1
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    • pp.61-64
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    • 2017
  • We described a human case of zoonotic dog tapeworm, Dipylidium caninum (Eucestoda: Dilepidiidae), rarely occurring in China. The mother of a 17 month-old boy noted the appearance of small white and active worms over a month period in her son's feces, but the boy was asymptomatic except mild diarrhea. We observed 3 tapeworm proglottids resembling cucumber seeds in his stool sample. Microscopically, each proglottid had 2 genital pores, 1 on each lateral edge, and numerous egg capsules in the uterus. The patient was successfully treated with a single oral dose of praziquantel. Adult worms were recovered in the diarrheic stool after praziquantel treatment and purgation. His family had household pet dogs for several years, and he might have acquired the infection by ingestion of infected fleas of his pet dogs. A history of dog or cat pets and flea bites may be important clues to diagnosis of D. caninum infection. The infected pets should also be treated.