• Perspectives in Nursing Science
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• v.5 no.1
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• pp.17-31
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• 2008

Purpose: The purpose of this study was to evaluate the usability of a prototype personal digital assistant (PDA)-based decision support system for the management of obesity through usability testing with end-users (Advanced Practice Nurses [APNs]) prior to its implementation in clinical settings. Methods: This descriptive study used observational and think aloud techniques to address the research question: what usability problems are perceived by end-users? Five APNs were provided with the scenarios and the list of tasks to evaluate the application. Their verbalizations were recorded through Morae usabil ity software. Data analysis was based on the data captured through Morae, transcriptions, notes, and the end-user survey. Results: End-users completed all the required tasks without encountering a severe usability problem, and agreed that the system was easy to use. clear, concise, and useful. Usability issues that were unrecognized by the developer or usability experts were identified by APNs. The usability problems were categorized according to positive characteristics, negative characteristics, and recommendations. The usability issues were discussed with the project team members, and solutions were suggested to improve the user interface of the PDA-based decision support system before the final implementation. Conclusions: This approach had an important impact on making the system easier to use and more useful from the perspective of design and content. The results of this evaluation provided iterative feedback regarding the design and implementation of the PDA-based decision support system for the management of obesity.

• The Journal of the Institute of Internet, Broadcasting and Communication
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• v.21 no.5
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• pp.79-87
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• 2021

This study suggests a design process for vibrotactile interface that can apply haptic perception factors reflecting human tactile mechanisms. This process consists of 4 stages: the haptic sense requirement analysis stage, the haptic element analysis stage, the haptic perception factor analysis stage, the haptic requirement detailed design, and the prototype implementation stage. The advantage of this design process is that unnecessary tasks can be excluded in deriving and implementing user requirements, by applying haptic perception factor analysis, and the biggest feature is that research results on ergonomic mechanisms can be reflected in the haptic design, completes prototype development simultaneously while determining the haptic requirements statement by performing user evaluation, usability testing, and haptic feature optimization tasks simultaneously. This design process includes all stages from user requirements to haptic function detailed design and prototype implementation, so it is expected that general developers who lack expertise in haptic will also be able to design user-centered designs, enabling design and implementation of haptic functions at a certain level.

• Proceedings of the Korea Society for Simulation Conference
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• 2001.10a
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• pp.155-161
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• 2001

Federated process framework is introduced responding to market\\`s needs to gain benefits of process information sharing in a virtual enterprise. The framework is verified by implementing its prototype system. However, it is very difficult to integrate developed prototype system with operating legacy systems to show its applicability. Thus, a test bed approach is widely adopted to provide a system environment that imitates the operations of real legacy systems and their interactions. In this paper, we described implementation detail of test bed imitating the real-world workflow systems. We also show its contribution and results of the prototype system that was implemented on the test bed.

• Journal of the Korea Society of Computer and Information
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• v.22 no.12
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• pp.1-7
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• 2017

More new devices and technologies are recently adapted on homes to aim at enhancing our lifestyle. But though they are not interconnected each other but controlled separately. To solve this problem, we have designed and implemented a common prototype based on openHAB and RaspberryPi they could speak to each other to create a really automated and smart environment at home. The proposed prototype can merge the existing variable devices, add and remove new features at runtime because of its modular design. The proposed prototype based on a low-cost platform showed its potential as a smart home and provide a new UX to users.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society for Agricultural Machinery Conference
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• 1996.06c
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• pp.679-684
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• 1996

The work was aimed at realize the problem of seed processing . Solving this problem it was ascertained that the existing mathematical methods are reliable enough, but they are used practically very seldom. The work offers to use the expert system technology which allows to solve problems connected with practical knowledge of experts in the region of investigation effectively. The method of knowledge structuring and analizing as well as technique of knowledge acquisition which is necessary for realization of this technology are worked-out in the work. As the result applying the worked-out method the prototypes of the expert system (ES) are created : -ES " Sieves " ; research prototype for the sieve choice for the seed sorting machines -ES " Diagnostics " ; displaying prototype for the technological determination of action disrepair of seed sorting machines.

• Journal of Auto-vehicle Safety Association
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• v.15 no.2
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• pp.28-34
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• 2023

The Republic of Korea aims to complete the commercialisation of Level 4+ cooperative autonomous driving in 2027. It also plans to include V2X OBU in the K-NCAP evaluation items. Therefore, communication performance safety evaluation criteria for V2X OBU need to be established, and an OBU with necessary functions is needed to develop V2X communication performance safety evaluation technology for vehicles. In this study, we implemented a V2X OBU control board prototype that can be used to develop a V2X communication performance safety evaluation technology for Level 4+ autonomous vehicles, and confirmed that the control board prototype works normally.

• Korean Management Science Review
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• v.11 no.2
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• pp.65-77
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• 1994

One of the major issues in the implementation and maintenance of CIM databases is the sharing and exchange of information among the heterogeneous databases. This paper addresses some architectural aspects for integrating the heterogeneous multi-databases using knowledge-based expert systems. we propose a loosely integrated coupling system between databases and knowledge-based expert systems. Especially we suggest the architectural aspects of such a coupling methodology. we also present the structure and knowledge representation scheme for the proposed knowledge-based expert system. A prototype example is included to illustrate the framework and its mechanism for implementation.

• Proceedings of the KIPE Conference
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• 2004.07b
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• pp.677-681
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• 2004

This paper presents the design and implementation of a low-profile power supply developed for AC-PDP application systems. In the proposed power supply, planar magnetics and SMD devices are integrated into advanced power conversion techniques to implement a low-profile power supply applicable to most AC-PDP application systems. Engineering details on the design and fabrication of planar magnetic components are presented. The performance of the prototype power supply is also demonstrated to validate the application potentials of the proposed power supply.

• Proceedings of the KIPE Conference
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• 2004.07a
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• pp.350-354
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• 2004

This paper presents theoretical and practical details about the design, implementation, and performance of a series resonant do-to-dc converter using planar magnetics. Result of sinusoidal analysis are used to predict the voltage gain and conversion efficiency. The performance of a prototype converter is presented including the efficiency measurement and theoretical loss breakdown.

• Proceedings of the IEEK Conference
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• 2002.07b
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• pp.1346-1349
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• 2002

This paper presents the design and implementation of 16-QAM modem that can be applied to fixed broadband wireless access systenm. It is implemented in the hardware prototype that consist of FPGA(Field Programmable Gate Array) for digital signal processing and analog front end module for analog signal processing. We provide 20.48Mbps data rate using implemented modem and test the modem in KOREA 26㎓ broadband wireless local loop system including IFU(Intermediate Frequency Unit) and RFU(Radio Frequency Unit) via air interface.