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A Study on the Smart Jacket Design Based on the Concept of Wearable Technology (웨어러블 테크놀로지를 기반으로 한 스마트 재킷디자인 연구)

  • Kim, Yu-Kyung
    • Journal of the Korea Fashion and Costume Design Association
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    • v.9 no.1
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    • pp.149-159
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    • 2007
  • With the help of the cooperative efforts made in the interdisciplinary studies among the different fields of computers, textiles and computer in the modem society based on knowledge-information, Smart Clothing, which is the combination of wearable Technology and clothing has been drawn. This study is to inspect the design of Smart school uniform, which if based on Wearable Technology, to meet the need for the PDG(Post Digital Generation) who want to require rapid and the convenient information. This study is aimed to quest for the direction of study in Wearable Technology through theoretical studies made in the field the Computer information communications Engineering, seminars in the field of Smart Textile and documentary study. In addition to them, this study is to search for the value for the school uniform in the PDG who are a group of potential consumers for the Smart Clothing, the environment in digitalized life and the need for the Wearable Technology. Based on this research, the concept of design reflecting the need for the characteristic and functions in the PDG was drawn and Design Prototype of Smart Jacket on the base of Wearable Technology was presented.

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Wearable and Implantable Sensors for Cardiovascular Monitoring: A Review

  • Jazba Asad;Jawwad Ibrahim
    • International Journal of Computer Science & Network Security
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    • v.23 no.7
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    • pp.171-185
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    • 2023
  • The cardiovascular syndrome is the dominant reason for death and the number of deaths due to this syndrome has greatly increased recently. Regular cardiac monitoring is crucial in controlling heart parameters, particularly for initial examination and precautions. The quantity of cardiac patients is rising each day and it would increase the load of work for doctors/nurses in handling the patients' situation. Hence, it needed a solution that might benefit doctors/nurses in monitoring the improvement of the health condition of patients in real-time and likewise assure decreasing medical treatment expenses. Regular heart monitoring via wireless body area networks (WBANs) including implantable and wearable medical devices is contemplated as a life-changing technique for medical assistance. This article focuses on the latest development in wearable and implantable devices for cardiovascular monitoring. First, we go through the wearable devices for the electrocardiogram (ECG) monitoring. Then, we reviewed the implantable devices for Blood Pressure (BP) monitoring. Subsequently, the evaluation of leading wearable and implantable sensors for heart monitoring mentioned over the previous six years, the current article provides uncertain direction concerning the description of diagnostic effectiveness, thus intending on making discussion in the technical communal to permit aimed at the formation of well-designed techniques. The article is concluded by debating several technical issues in wearable and implantable technology and their possible potential solutions for conquering these challenges.

Study on Visual Communication Design of Wearable Computing Devices (웨어러블 컴퓨팅 디바이스를 이용한 시각 디자인 구현 및 연구)

  • Lee, Su Jin
    • Korea Science and Art Forum
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    • v.34
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    • pp.251-262
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    • 2018
  • The purpose of this study is to understand how wearable computing devices are designed and how to design them in a technology based wearable device design research. Research is premised on the consideration of producers and consumers. There is wearable computer of eyeglasses, watches, clothes, and so on. The user can always wear these products comfort and use as part of the body without any sense of discomfort, and the goal is to supplement or double the ability of the human being. It should be easy to use them convenient, wear comfortable, safe and sociable at any time. For the satisfaction these conditions, the wearable computing devices have several factors. There are technical performances, visual aesthetics, Human body system and devices communication and safety. Furthermore, these factors have to match to operating system, real-time operating system and applied software. To comprehend wearable computing devices should be offered the design of the both software and hardware designed.

Design and Implementation of Trackball Based UI for Efficient Text Entry on Smartwatch (스마트워치에서의 효율적인 문자입력을 위한 트랙볼 센서 기반 UI 설계 및 구현)

  • Lee, Ji-eun;Ahn, Jung-eun;Park, Kyeongsoo;Choi, Go-eun;Moon, Il-Young
    • Journal of Advanced Navigation Technology
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    • v.19 no.5
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    • pp.452-457
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    • 2015
  • Recently, wearable devices have gained popularity with familiar form factors and designs of eye-wear and watch to satisfy wearers' various preferences. Since UI/UX of smartphones can not be applied directly on smaller wearable devices, text entry on wearable devices is still problematic. In this paper, we first identify UI/UX problems of existing input methods and propose a new input method for wearable devices specifically targeting smartwatch platforms. We design and implement an efficient text entry method for wearable devices using trackball sensor and evaluate its performance and usability.

Development of an EMG-based Wireless and Wearable Computer Interlace (근전도기반의 무선 착용형 컴퓨터 인터페이스 개발)

  • Han, Hyo-Nyoung;Choi, Chang-Mok;Lee, Yun-Joo;Ha, Sung-Do;Kim, Jung
    • 한국HCI학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 2008.02a
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    • pp.240-244
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    • 2008
  • This paper presents an EMG-based wireless and wearable computer interface. The wearable device contains 4 channel EMG sensors and is able to acquire EMG signals using signal processing. Obtained signals are transmitted to a host computer through wireless communication. EMG signals induced by the volitional movements are acquired from four sites in the lower limb to extract a user's intention and six classes of wrist movements are discriminated by employing an artificial neural network (ANN). This interface could provide an aid to the limb disabled to directly access to computers and network environments without conventional computer interface such as a keyboard and a mouse.

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Development of Wearable Assistance Suite for Interaction with Ubiquitous Environment (유비쿼터스 환경과 상호작용을 위한 착용형 도움 슈트 개발)

  • Seo, Yong-Ho;Han, Tae-Woo
    • The Journal of the Institute of Internet, Broadcasting and Communication
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    • v.9 no.5
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    • pp.93-99
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    • 2009
  • The wearable computer that can understand the context of human life and intelligently communicate with various electronic media in ubiquitous computing environment would be very useful as an assistant for humans. In this paper we introduce an intelligent wearable assistance suite. The proposed wearable suite can interact with both humans and electronic media in ubiquitous computing environment. The developed system can sense the interactive electronic media that a user wants to use and also communicate with it. By utilizing these interaction capabilities, it intermediates between each media and the user and offers a friendlier interface to the user who wears this system. We also show the usages of the proposed system by demonstrating its interaction with the interactive electronic media in ubiquitous computing environment.

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Implementation of a MPEG-4 Video Player for Embedded Systems (임베디드 시스템을 위한 MPEG-4 동영상 플레이어 구현)

  • Kim, Soo-Han;Lee, Myeong-Won;Jhang, Seong-Tae
    • The KIPS Transactions:PartD
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    • v.14D no.3 s.113
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    • pp.311-318
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    • 2007
  • A wearable computer has appeared as the next generation computer with the development of embedded system technique in our country, although it has not been applicable well since the hardware and software capabilities are limited for multimedia service. We have implemented a MPEG-4 video player to provide with such multimedia application service using the embedded systems. This paper illustrates the development of MPEG-4 video player operating on the wearable computer named WPS(Wearable Personal Station), the wristwatch PC developed at ETRI.

Implementation of 3D Information Acquisition Device for Wearable U-Health (착용형 U-헬스용 3D 정보 입력장치 구현)

  • Kim, Yoon-Ho;Park, Ki-Hong
    • Journal of Advanced Navigation Technology
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    • v.12 no.6
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    • pp.640-645
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    • 2008
  • In progress to ubiquitous intelligent society, there are emerging technologies such smart wear related researches as wearable computer, smart fiber and smart fashion. In this paper, wearable 3D information acquisition device which improved both advanced in convenience and portable is implemented. 3D information input system is basically grouped of some modules; Gyro sensor for acquisition of 3D space coordinate, RF transmitter/receiver, and signal processing module etc. To testify the validity of designed system, some experiments are performed using lest board with respect to the communication distance, easiness of wearable and operation sensibility.

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The Development of Usability Evaluation for Wearable Computer: An Investigation of Smart Clothing (웨어러블 컴퓨팅 사용성 평가 척도 개발 - 스마트 웨어 적용사례를 중심으로 -)

  • Chae, Haeng-Suk;Hong, Ji-Young;Cho, Hyun-Seung;Lee, Young-Jin;Park, Sun-Hyung;Han, Kwang-Hee;Lee, Joo-Hyeon
    • Science of Emotion and Sensibility
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    • v.9 no.spc3
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    • pp.265-276
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    • 2006
  • The purpose of this paper is to develop usability evaluation tool for wearable computer. In this paper, we propose evaluation factor and object through context evaluation in the real environment. The basic idea of this process is to know the thought from wearable user. Also, we gathered the opinion from expert group. As a result, we adopted evaluation question categories. By examining some empirical data which is obtained from observation and wearability evaluation, we conclude usability evaluation of wearable computer, including smart clothing. The design process in creating a successful wearable usability is no longer about providing technical success, rather about creating a optimal user experience.

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A Study On The Wearable Embedded System Platform (입을 수 있는 내장형 시스템 플랫품에 관한 연구)

  • Yoo, Jin-Ho;Jeong, Hyun-Tae;Cho, Il-Yeon;Lee, Sang-Ho;Han, Dong-Won
    • The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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    • v.30 no.12B
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    • pp.831-837
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    • 2005
  • Personal general purpose computer(PC) has been evolved from desktop to portable mobile device such as tablet PC and PDA. Technology innovation on semiconductor have made it possible to package a reasonably Powerful Processor and memory subsystem with advanced input/output devices. At last these subsystems are miniaturized into wearable system. Wearable computer has recently gained attention as the post PC in the ubiquitous environment. Wearable computing becomes more and more feasible and receives growing attention throughout industry and the consumer marketplaces. This paper proposed and developed WPS that has multimedia features and network features as a wearable embedded platform. We explain the form, overall architecture, functions and user applications of this WPS. This paper also discusses the form of next generation computer platform with intuitive user interfaces and well designed applications in the future.