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A Mobile Stress Management System utilizing Variable Voice Information According to the Wearing Area

  • Kang, Byeongsoo;Vannroath, Ky;Kang, Hyun-syug
    • Journal of the Korea Society of Computer and Information
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    • v.22 no.6
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    • pp.95-100
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    • 2017
  • Recently, as stress has become a major threat to people's health, there is a growing interest in wearable stress management services for stress relief. In this paper, we developed a wearable device(Care-on) capable of extracting changeable human voice information at each site and a Healthcare App(S-Manager) that enables stress management in real time using the wearable device. It collects and analyzes variable real-time voice information for each part of the person's body. And It also provides the ability to monitor stress conditions in a mobile environment and provide feedback on the analysis results in step by step in the mobile environment. We tested the developed wearable devices and app in a mobile environment and analyzed the results to confirm their usefulness.

Deterministic Multi-dimensional Task Scheduling Algorithms for Wearable Sensor Devices

  • Won, Jong-Jin;Kang, Cheol-Oh;Kim, Moon-Hyun;Cho, Moon-Haeng
    • KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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    • v.8 no.10
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    • pp.3423-3438
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    • 2014
  • In recent years, wearable sensor devices are reshaping the way people live, work, and play. A wearable sensor device is a computer that is subsumed into the personal space of the user, and is always on, and always accessible. Therefore, among the most salient aspects of a wearable sensor device should be a small form factor, long battery lifetime, and real-time characteristics. Thereby, sophisticated applications of a wearable sensor device use real-time operating systems to guarantee real-time deadlines. The deterministic multi-dimensional task scheduling algorithms are implemented on ARC (Actual Remote Control) with relatively limited hardware resources. ARC is a wearable wristwatch-type remote controller; it can also serve as a universal remote control, for various wearable sensor devices. In the proposed algorithms, there is no limit on the maximum number of task priorities, and the memory requirement can be dramatically reduced. Furthermore, regardless of the number of tasks, the complexity of the time and space of the proposed algorithms is O(1). A valuable contribution of this work is to guarantee real-time deadlines for wearable sensor devices.

Design and Implementation of a Wearable LED Display Device

  • Shin, Seung-Hyeok
    • Journal of the Korea Society of Computer and Information
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    • v.20 no.10
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    • pp.7-13
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    • 2015
  • Wearable device, next generation smart device, is consistently growing. The flexible display will be a kind of display in the wearable device. The flexible display technology is now evolving with end-user requirement such as portability and easy installation. Previous wearable display products still have some difficulties in manufacturing and in flexibility whole device. But it can be a flexible display with LED device and utilized in commercial area. In this paper, we propose a driver to control the LED display and implement a flexible LED display system.

Continuous Human Activity Detection Using Multiple Smart Wearable Devices in IoT Environments

  • Alshamrani, Adel
    • International Journal of Computer Science & Network Security
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    • v.21 no.2
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    • pp.221-228
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    • 2021
  • Recent improvements on the quality, fidelity and availability of biometric data have led to effective human physical activity detection (HPAD) in real time which adds significant value to applications such as human behavior identification, healthcare monitoring, and user authentication. Current approaches usually use machine-learning techniques for human physical activity recognition based on the data collected from wearable accelerometer sensor from a single wearable smart device on the user. However, collecting data from a single wearable smart device may not provide the complete user activity data as it is usually attached to only single part of the user's body. In addition, in case of the absence of the single sensor, then no data can be collected. Hence, in this paper, a continuous HPAD will be presented to effectively perform user activity detection with mobile service infrastructure using multiple wearable smart devices, namely smartphone and smartwatch placed in various locations on user's body for more accurate HPAD. A case study on a comprehensive dataset of classified human physical activities with our HAPD approach shows substantial improvement in HPAD accuracy.

Quality Assessment Model for Practical Wearable Computers (실용적 웨어러블 컴퓨터 품질평가모델)

  • Oh, Cheon-Seok;Choi, Jae-Hyun;Kim, Jong-Bae;Park, Jea-Won
    • The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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    • v.39B no.12
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    • pp.842-855
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    • 2014
  • Recently, the progress of smart phone market has retarded by oversupply therefore wearable computer has been the focus of new growth engine. Wearable computing system is a complex fusion of a variety of technologies such as wireless network, embedded, sensor and new material. Because these technologies involves utilization and mobility in addition to quality characteristic in existing software, application of ISO/IEC 9126 is not perfect when assessing quality of wearable computer. In this study, author suggested new quality assessment model for wearable computer by sorting quality attribute in ISO/IEC 9126 and adding new quality attribute. For this, author investigated features and functional requirements related to wearable computer. and then author suggested quality standard and metrics by identifying quality characteristic. Author confirmed practicality of quality assessment model by using suggested model in scenario and comparing quality assessment of three goods such as company S, L, G. This quality assessment model is expected to use guidelines for assessing quality of wearable computer.

Wearable Technology with Future Fabrics (웨어러블 테크놀로지와 미래 소재)

  • Park, Hye-Sook;Lee, Jae-Jung
    • Journal of the Korean Society of Clothing and Textiles
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    • v.30 no.12 s.159
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    • pp.1800-1809
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    • 2006
  • The wearable technology takes the concept of clothing over its limits -integrating software, communication devices, and sensors into the garments to enable them to 'think' for the wearer. A dress is no longer just a dress, but a dress as well as a wearable computer interface. This wearable computer network transports the data power and control signals within the wearer's personal space. The purpose of this thesis is to explore the wearable technology from a commercial perspective. On this theme I made a survey and interviewed 20 men and 20 women in London to find out if many people are familiar with the concept of the wearable technology. The main results of this study include: Firstly, according to the survey, people are not familiar with the concept of the wearable technology, and further people thought negatively about the wearable computer rather than positively they worried about hish prices, inappropriate technology and side effects. Secondly, people are especially interested in items related to health and security, so in this area there are huge potential opportunities for the wearable technology, Finally, wearable technology needs to be a simplified set of interactive devices, which are in a user friendly format for marketability because convenience was one of the biggest concern for consumers. Therefore, development of the wearable computer should be promoted not only through computer engineering but also through the connection with human lift.

On Issue and Outlook of wearable Computer based on Technology in Convergence (융합환경에서 웨어러블 컴퓨터 기술 중심의 시장 및 발전 방향에 관한 연구)

  • Lee, Seong-Hoon;Lee, Dong-Woo
    • Journal of the Korea Convergence Society
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    • v.6 no.3
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    • pp.73-78
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    • 2015
  • In information society, Convergence means a service or new product which appeared through fusion of unit technologies in information and communication regions. The effects of convergence technologies and social phenomenons are visualized in overall regions of society such as economy, society, culture, etc. In this paper, we described a wearable computer which was leading case in digital convergence. Wearable computer is unit that you can literally wear on your body to enhance recognition abilities and problem-solving abilities by processing various types of integrated information. Therefore, we studied the issues, market and outlookof wearable computer in this paper.

Group Decision Algorithm for Convergence Oriented Group Display of Several Wearable Devices (복수 개의 웨어러블 디바이스들의 융합지향 그룹 디스플레이를 위한 그룹결정 알고리즘)

  • Kim, Yong-Gil;Kim, Yong-Ki;Kim, Mi-Hye
    • Journal of the Korea Convergence Society
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    • v.8 no.8
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    • pp.27-32
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    • 2017
  • The several wearable devices are not able to communicate through cable due to its portability. The wireless communication method is used because of its good communication quality and group action features when the several wearable devices communicate with each other. In this paper, we proposed the group decision algorithm for grouping display of the several wearable devices. It means that recognize as a group member after measuring distance in the wireless communication environment. The result of experience showed that the group-type display of several wearable devices method overcome the limit of the display of single wearable device.

Development of the wearable ECG measurement system for health monitoring during daily life (일상생활 중 건강모니터링을 위한 착용형 심전도계측 시스템 개발)

  • Noh, Yun-Hong;Jeong, Do-Un
    • Journal of Sensor Science and Technology
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    • v.19 no.1
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    • pp.43-51
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    • 2010
  • In this study, wearable ECG measurement system was implemented for health monitoring during daily life. A wearable belt-type ECG electrode worn around the chest by measuring the real-time ECG is produced in order to minimize the inconvenience in wearing. The measured ECG signal is transmitted via an ultra low power consumption wireless data communications unit to personal computer using Zigbee-compatible wireless sensor node. The ECG monitoring program is developed at end user which is personal computer. The measured ECG contains many noises mainly due to motion artifacts. For ECG signal processing, adaptive filtering process is proposed which can reduce motion artifacts efficiently and accurately than digital filter. The experimental results show that a reliable performance with high quality ECG signal can be achieved using this wearable ECG monitoring system.