• Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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• 2011.11a
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• pp.422-424
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• 2011

시각장애인이 책을 읽을 수 있는 방법은 점자책 또는 오디오북이 있다. 그러나 점자책과 오디오북은 그 개수가 한정적이다. 또한, 점자책과 오디오북을 제작하는 데에는 상당한 시간이 소요된다. 이로 인해 시각장애인의 기본적인 독서권이 침해 받고 있다. 이러한 문제점을 해결하기 위해 영상처리, OCR, TTS 기법을 적용해 시각장애인용 독서 스탠드를 개발하였다. 제안하는 시스템에서는 문자 인식률 향상을 위해 왜곡된 이미지를 보정한 후 단편 블록화 과정을 추가로 적용하여 문자 인식률을 93%까지 증가시켜 실용성을 높였다. 개발된 시스템은 도서관 및 서점 등에 설치되어 시각장애인의 독서권을 확보하는데 도움이 될 것으로 기대된다.

• Journal of Digital Contents Society
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• v.12 no.2
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• pp.253-262
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• 2011

IT skills might be just a product for people without disabilities; however it can be "another sense" that is able to give the disabled the same social abilities as non-disabled people. Library services are necessary to help disabled people have access to information. The effectiveness of the library services for the disabled depends on the level and the size of library. If 10% of the total domestic population couldn't participate in their social activities, it must be a huge individual at the same time national loss. This paper will look into supporting technologies and services for the reading disabled through literature researches and visiting domestic and international libraries. Based on this analysis, this paper suggests development plans for enhancing domestic situation. We are sure that our suggestions can contribute to give a long-term service development strategy for improving the reading disabled people's information accessibility.

• Journal of Korea Multimedia Society
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• v.15 no.7
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• pp.951-961
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• 2012

E-books produced in the country provide limited audio service for reading disables. The reason is that those books cannot translate the mathematical expressions and symbols in the context. In this paper, the 'Math Expression Reader' was implemented that can translate the expressions and symbols in the document into Korean speech for those who have reading disabilities. The math to speech generated by this program has been tested to both the public and reading disables and the results of this test has been compared whether they can exactly understand the speech and evaluated the reading rules.

• Journal of the Korean BIBLIA Society for library and Information Science
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• v.33 no.1
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• pp.279-299
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• 2022

This study tried to identify the reading and library use and requirements of children and young adults with disabilities in school age, and to suggest improvements in library policy, centered on the National Library for the Disabled Unlike the library policy centered on the creation of alternative materials and the establishment of an integrated cataloging system for alternative materials, children and young adults with disabilities mainly use paper books, and 80% of them hardly use the library. This study established a system centered on the special school library and proposed to establish a foundation for enjoying reading culture through curation of books by disability type and developmental age. In addition, based on the development of international standardization of multimedia collections, cooperation with the National Library for Children and Young Adults, and the expansion of librarian, collections, and budgets of special school libraries, linkage with students with disabilities in special classes of general schools was suggested.

• Electronics and Telecommunications Trends
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• v.31 no.6
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• pp.116-126
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• 2016

본 문서에서는 장애인 접근성을 지원하는 전자책 시스템에서 시각장애인 또는 독서장애인 사용자와 전자책뷰어간의 상호작용에 관련된 기술 전반 및 기술 개발 동향에 대해 살펴보고자 한다. 특히 '장애인 접근성', '전자책' 그리고 '인터랙션'이라는 독립된 기술 개념에 대해 살펴보고, 접근성 관련 국내 외 표준 및 가이드라인과 전자책 뷰어 및 스크린리더 제품군, 그리고 새로운 인터랙션 연구 문헌 등의 조사 분석을 통하여 장애인 접근성 전자책의 인터랙션 기술개발 방향에 참고할 사용자의 요구사항과 사용자 및 시스템 특성 고려사항을 분석해본다. 이를 근거로 접근성을 지원하는 전자책 인터랙션 기술의 향후 개발 방향을 함께 제시함으로써 시각장애인 및 독서장애인을 위한 모바일 전자책 응용 등 관련된 기술개발에 참고가 되고자 한다.

• Journal of Korea Multimedia Society
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• v.16 no.4
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• pp.510-519
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• 2013

In this paper, we propose a voice-annotation browsing system that make the reading-disabled people to be able to find and play the existing voice-annotations. The proposed system consists of 4 steps: input, ranking & recommendation, search, and output. For the reading-disabled people depending only on the auditory sense, all steps can accept voice commands. To evaluate the effectiveness of our system, we design and implement an android-based mobile e-book application supporting the voice-annotation browsing ability. The implemented system is tested by a number of blind-folded users. As a result, we can see almost all the reading-disabled people can successfully and easily reach the existing voice-annotations they want to find.

• Journal of the Korean Society for Library and Information Science
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• v.56 no.3
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• pp.73-91
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• 2022

For everyone, books are not only a passage to break down temporal and spatial barriers, but also a passport to the world. However, books are neither a passage nor a passport for persons with print disabilities. They are suffering from a severe book famine, with only 1-7% of alternative materials in accessible formats. The Marrakesh Treaty is an international agreement promoted by the WBU and WIPO to reduce such access gaps and inequalities. Accordingly, this study intensively analyzed and linked the global book famine and the Marrakesh Treaty for the persons with print disabilities including the blind and visually impaired, and suggested strategic tasks and implementation plans to strengthen the services of the disabled in domestic libraries. The government and libraries should concentrate all their competencies on improving awareness, inducing standardization of alternative materials in the publishing industry, amending and supplementing the copyright act and related laws, strengthening the digital file collection and service of the National Library for the disabled, and developing and applying library guidelines to implement the Marrakesh Treaty. This is because if food supports the body of the disabled, reading fosters their spirit. In order to solve the global book famine for persons with print disabilities, it is necessary to improve the publishing industry's cartels, copyright holders' barricades, and the weak platform of the library industry. All copyright holders, publishers, and libraries should participate in reducing the 95% gap in access between non-disabled and disabled people. That is the mantra of the book famine.

• Proceedings of the Korean Information Science Society Conference
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• 2012.06c
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• pp.403-405
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• 2012

본 연구에서는 독서장애인을 위한 전자책용 어노테이션의 탐색 및 재생 기법을 제안하고 이를 음성 어노테이션 브라우징 시스템이라 칭하였다. 제안된 음성어노테이션 브라우징 시스템은 명령 입력, 중요도 분석 및 추천, 검색, 출력단계로 구성된다. 특히 본 연구에서는 대상 사용자가 청각 의존도가 높은 독서장애인들이기 때문에 완전히 청각에 의존해서 사용할 수 있도록 모든 단계에서 음성인식 기능을 제공한다. 제안된 음성 어노테이션 브라우징 시스템의 효율성을 검증하기 위해 안드로이드 환경에서 실행되는 전자책 소프트웨어와 음성 어노테이션 브라우징 시스템을 설계하고 구현하였다.

• Journal of Digital Contents Society
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• v.12 no.3
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• pp.291-298
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• 2011

The DAISY, an international digital talking book standard, has been established to help reading-disabled people read books normally. As many societies' interests in reading-disabled people are arising, reading environment for them is also getting improved by supplying alternative books. In the digital world, however, there is still lack of e-book playing software for them. In this paper, we design and partially implement an android smartphone e-book viewer. By analyzing the features and relations of DAISY3 files, we can find several important design points to properly implement DAISY3 viewer. We are sure, when using our results, that various DAISY3-compliant e-book viewers can be implemented easily and quickly.

• Journal of Digital Contents Society
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• v.12 no.3
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• pp.329-337
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• 2011

Digital talking book has been developed to enhance reading experiences for reading-disabled people. In the existing digital talking book, however, annotations can be created only through the screen interfaces. Screen annotation interfaces is of no use for reading-disabled people because they need reader's eyesight. In this paper, we suggest a voice annotation technique can create notes and highlights at any playing time by using hearing sense and voice command. We design a location determination technique that pinpoints where a voice annotation should be placed in the playing sentences. To verify the effectiveness of our voice annotation technique, we implement a prototype in an android platform. We can find out by the black-blindfolded users testing that our system can perfectly locate the exact position that a voice annotation should be placed into.