• Journal of Magnetics
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• v.16 no.4
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• pp.449-452
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• 2011

A wrist wearable cuffless pulsimeter with a portable and small size apparatus using Hall effect is fabricated. The analysis of the pulse wave measured by the testing product of pulsimeter is done to measure the pulse rate and blood pressure. The blood pressure obtained by the puslimeter is compared with the practical values measured by electronic or mercury liquid blood pressure meters. The detail analysis of a pulse wave measured by a wrist wearable cuffless pulsimeter detecting the changes of the magnetic field can be used to develop a new diagnostic algorithm of blood pressure applying for oriental medical apparatus.

• Journal of Fashion Business
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• v.14 no.6
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• pp.70-83
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• 2010

With the rapid development of science and technology and the increased preference by consumers for high-function products, many products are being developed through the fusion of technologies in different industries. Among such fusion technologies, digital clothing which combines clothing with computer functions is being examined as a new growth item. The objectives of this study are to examine the concept, history, development, and market of intelligent clothing, in order to discuss future directions for the development of digital clothing technology. intelligent clothing (wearable computers) originated in the 1960s from the concept of separating computing equipment and attaching it to the body. This technology was studied intensively from the early 1980s and to the early 1990s. In the late 1990s, studies on wearable computers began to develop intelligent/digital clothing that was more comfortable and beneficial to users. Depending on the user and purpose, intelligent/digital clothing is now being developed and used in diverse industrial areas that include sports, medicine, military, entertainment, daily life, and business. Many experts forecast a huge growth potential for the digital textile/clothing market, and predict the fastest market growth in the field of healthcare/medicine. There exists a need to find solutions for many related technological, economic, and social issues for the steady dissemination and advancement of intelligent/digital clothing in various industries. Further, research should be continued on effective fusion technologies that reflect human sensitivity and that increase user convenience and benefits.

• Journal of Fashion Business
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• v.25 no.1
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• pp.133-149
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• 2021

This study presents a new fashion wearable product, a classical music stage costume design, using an Arduino LilyPad that can control light-emitting diodes(LEDs) and a sound sensor that can set an environmental range of LED light. As a theoretical background, LED fashion design research and stage costume design research status were reviewed, and Arduino LilyPads, sensors, LEDs, and batteries required for LED stage costume production were investigated. Based on prior research, the LED stage costume design for the soprano stage was presented in a three-step process of design planning, development, and production, and an actual prototype was produced. This process produced meaningful information and materials for making clothes with the added function of a wearable computer. In particular, fashion designers or fashion majors can easily access the Arduino LillyPad and use not only LEDs, but other light emitting materials. It is expected that it will be used as a basic material for the use of the Arduino LillyPad that can develop new creations that have been utilized.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• v.17 no.11
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• pp.3064-3082
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• 2023

During the last decade, several Electronic Orientation Aids devices have been proposed to solve the autonomy problems of visually impaired people. When hearing is considered the primary sense for Visually Impaired people (VI) and it is generally loaded with the environment, the use of tactile sense can be considered a solution to transmit directional information. This paper presents a new wearable haptic system based on four motors implemented in shoes, while six directions can be played. This study aims to introduce an interface design and investigate an appropriate means of spatial information delivery through haptic sense. The first experiment of the proposed system was performed with 15 users in an indoor environment. The results showed that the users were able to recognize, with high accuracy, the directions displayed on their feet. The second experiment was conducted in an outdoor environment with five blindfolded users who were guided along 120 meters. The users, guided only by the haptic system, successfully reached their destinations. The potential of tactile-foot stimulation to help VI understand Electronic Orientation Aids (EOA) instructions was discussed, and future challenges were defined.

• Journal of the Korean Society of Clothing and Textiles
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• v.48 no.6
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• pp.1320-1330
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• 2024

Electronic textiles (e-textiles) provide a great platform for creating stretch sensors in wearable applications as they are inherently flexible and stretchable allowing them to conform to the shape and movements of the human body. This study explores the integration of laser cut and 3D printed auxetic patterns into textile-based stretch sensors, investigating their design, fabrication, and sensing capabilities to develop a novel approach for creating flexible and highly sensitive e-textile stretch sensors for wearable applications. We employed two different biostable auxetic patterns to realize the stretch sensor structures and tested impedance change of the samples under repeated movements of stretching and relaxing. 3D printing of conductive filaments directly on fabric in an auxetic pattern resulted in reliable and repeatable stretch sensing capability. The study demonstrated that the stable and repeatable performance of e-textile stretch sensors depends on a combination of factors such as the fabrication method, conductive material, optimized auxetic geometry, base fabric recovery characteristics and the application of pre-stretching during fabrication.

• The Journal of the Institute of Internet, Broadcasting and Communication
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• v.16 no.4
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• pp.41-46
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• 2016

Recently, many domestic and foreign corporates are concentrating in investment to wearable devices and users are provided with various service based on wearable devices 26% more than compared to last year. It is widely used in previous healthcare, smart work, smart home environment, and it is now introduced to get connection to fused service environment. However, as products of G company are commercialized, the security issue of personal information is causing dispute in society, and the danger of data management and security regarding telecommunication is increasing. Also, because the password system used in previous wireless environment is still in use, there are possible vulnerability considering the new and mutant security threat. This thesis conducted study about protocols that can exercise safe telecommunication in the basis of wearable devices. In the registration and certification process, the signature value is created based on the code value. The telecommunication method is designed to conduct safe telecommunication based on the signature value. As for the attack method occurring in the wearable device environment, the safety was analyzed and conducted performance evaluation of previous password system and proposal system, and verified about 14% of efficiency.

• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.8 no.9
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• pp.42-54
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• 2008

In recent years, embedded systems have been expanding their application domains from traditional embedded systems such as military weapons, robots, satellites and digital convergence systems such as celluar phones, PMP(Portable Multimedia Player), PDAs(Personal Digital Assistants) to Next Generation Personal Computers(NGPCs) such as eating PCs, wearable computers. The NGPCs are network-based, human-centric digital information devices diverged from the traditional PCs used mainly for document writing, internet searching and database management. Wearable computers with battery capacity and memory size limitations have to use real-time operating systems with small footprints and low power management techniques to provide user's QoS in spite of hardware constraints. In this paper, we have designed and implemented a low-power RTOS (called eRTOS) for wearable computers. The implemented eRTOS has 18KB footprints and the dynamic power management and the device power management schemes are adapted in it. Experimental results with wearable computer applications show that the low power techniques could save energy up to 47 %.

• Journal of Korea Multimedia Society
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• v.18 no.2
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• pp.244-252
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• 2015

This paper describes the design and implementation of a System-on-a-Chip (SoC) for face recognition to use in wearable/mobile products. The design flow starts from the system specification to implementation process on silicon. The entire process is carried out using a FPGA-based prototyping platform environment for design and verification of the target SoC. To ensure that the implemented face recognition SoC satisfies the required performances metrics, time analysis and recognition tests were performed. The motivation behind the work is a single chip implementation of face recognition system for target applications.

• 한국HCI학회:학술대회논문집
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• 2006.02a
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• pp.1-6
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• 2006

촉감 제시 방법은 다른 사람에게 방해를 주지 않고 은밀하게 정보를 전달할 수 있는 장점이 있으며, 특히 시각 혹은 청각 장애인에게는 반드시 필요한 정보 전달의 수단이다. 또한 촉감을 이용한 정보의 전달은 시청각을 이용한 정보전달의 방법을 보완하거나 때로는 대체할 수도 있다. 본 논문에서는 웨어러블, 모바일, 또는 유비쿼터스 컴퓨팅 환경에서 사용할 수 있는 착용 가능한 진동촉감 제시 장치를 제안한다. 이 진동촉감 제시 장치는 25개의 진동모터를 $5{\times}5$의 형태로 배열하여 문자, 숫자뿐만 아니라 다양하고 복잡한 패턴을 표시할 수 있다. 코인형 진동모터 각각을 스펀지로 감싸고 푹신푹신한 재질의 패드에 세워서 배열하여 진동의 퍼짐을 최소화하고 사람의 글씨 쓰는 순서에 따라 진동모터를 순차적으로 구동시키는 새로운 추적모드를 제안하여 사용자의 문자 및 숫자 인식률을 크게 향상시켰다. 사용자 성능 평가에서는 사용자의 발등에 영문 알파벳을 표시하여 86.7%의 인식률을 얻었다. 또한 진동촉감 제시 장치를 이용하여 핸드폰에서의 발신자 정보표시를 한다거나 네비게이션 시스템에 적용할 수 있는 등의 유용한 응용분야를 제시하였다.

• International journal of advanced smart convergence
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• v.9 no.1
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• pp.202-208
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• 2020

Body balance necessary for ordinary daily activities can be undermined by diverse causes. In this study, as a way to control such a problem, we have produced smart insole as a wearable device in the form of insole and developed analysis software evaluating body balance, which measures ground reaction force applied to each area of sole and Center of Pressure (COP). The software visualized changes in COP positions while a user was moving and average COP positions, and it is also capable of measuring the COP values in the Anterior-Posterior (AP) and Medial-Lateral (ML) areas of feet. Through gait analysis, it can analyze the time of walking, strides, speed, COP trajectory while walking, etc. In addition, we have developed training contents for body balance improvement designed in consideration of Y-Balance Test and Timed Up and Go (TUG) Test. They were established in virtual reality similar to daily living environment so that people can expect more effective training results regardless of places.