• Journal of Biomedical Engineering Research
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• v.21 no.6
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• pp.615-621
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• 2000

A social phobia is an anxiety disorder characterized by extreme fear and phobic avoidance of social and performance situations. Medications or cognitive-behavior methods have been mainly used in treating it. These methods have some shortcomings such as being inefficient and difficult to apply to treatment. Lately the virtual rcality technology has been applied to dcal with the anxiety disorders in order to compcnsate for these defects. A virtual environment provides a patient with stimuli which cvokes a phobia. and the patient's exposure to the virtual phobic situation make him be able to overcome it. In this study, we suggested the public speaking simulator based on a personal computer for the treatment of social phobia. The public speaking simulator was composed of a position sensor. head mount display and audio system. And a virtual environment for the treatment was suggested to be a seminar room where 8 avatars are sitting. The virtual environment includes a tracking system the trace a participant's head-movement using a HMD with position sensor and 3D sound is added to the virtual environment so that he might fcel it realistic. We also made avatars' motion and facial expression change in reaction to a participant's speech. The goal of developing public speaking simulator is to apply to treat fear of public speaking efficiently and economically. In a future study. we should get more information about immergence and treatment efficiency by clinical test and apply it to this simulator.

• Journal of the Korea Society of Computer and Information
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• v.25 no.11
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• pp.59-65
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• 2020

Lately the VR (Virtual Reality) game genre is becoming increasingly more popular and it has been cementing its place in the market as its own independent game genre. The key advantage of VR is that it lowers the barrier between player and the virtual world, thus creating an immersive experience. The suggested method develops a game that allows the player to experience what it is like to be visually impaired using the unique characteristics of VR. A distinctive feature of this game is that the character is provided only a limited range of sight, which is created using silhouette outlines. This restrictive visual field is then grafted onto VR and the player can indirectly experience blindness in a highly immersive manner. The silhouette outline along with the particle system is created using Oculus Rift, a headset highly used in VR game development, and Unity 3D game engine. We will also explain in detail regarding the removal of borders between the objects.

• Journal of the Korea Society of Computer and Information
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• v.29 no.4
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• pp.63-72
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• 2024

The size of the home interior market is growing rapidly as interest in interiors and self-interiors has increased due to the recent rapid increase in single-person households. Most of the Bathroom remodeling is done by requesting an offline interior contractor and then visually checking it in the final completion stage, so it is not easy to re-construct even if the customer is dissatisfied. Therefore, this study developed an immersive virtual reality-based Bathroom self-remodeling system that can visually check space and design from the design stage to the final stage by incorporating VR technology to feel realistic in virtual reality. The bathroom structure may select the basic structure of the predefined bathroom space or freely set the size of the bathroom space. For furniture items, you can choose the washbasin, toilet, bathtub, shower booth that are essential elements of the bathroom and others(mounting rack, trash bin, handle). The tile texture may change the texture of the selected tile at a desired wall position by selecting various textures. In particular,, the texture of the wall tile can be varied by selecting horizontal, vertical and inclined directions at the desired angle according to the needs of the user and the contractor. As a future research project, this system will enable indoor sharing between users who are physically far away in real-time, allowing direct experience in virtual spaces, connection to purchases, and request estimates.

• Journal of Industrial Convergence
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• v.17 no.4
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• pp.69-75
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• 2019

In this study, we developed a world map learning system for elementary education that uses Google Cloud platform STT, Dialog Flow, and fan holograms to recognize the voices of learners and to show and explain three-dimensional images of suitable results as holograms. As a result of the experiments and interviews, it is expected to be helpful for improving the learning effect by inducing students' interest and immersion and is expected to be effectively used for collaborative learning and education for students with disabilities.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.11 no.2
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• pp.229-238
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• 2007

Cyber shopping mall is based on technique of the Internet that is purpose in a new business form from cyber space. Cyber shopping mall's economic activity will be much grow up and upswing compare than past object economy. Therefore we proposed the interactive Internet shopping mail system. Especially, the proposed shopping mali is 3D interaction Cyber Shopping mall based on 'Rich media Technique' and it different with existing shopping mall. This system is represent to Hyper view when the customer click the object what they want to buy during cyber space tour. This system can be Move, Rotate, Zoom in, Zoom out and Play the object. This system can increase customer's feeling more interesting, immersion, etc. And 3D objects look like a real thing get out of the conventional 2D image form is great contribute to increase customer's interest.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea CI
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• v.44 no.2 s.314
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• pp.37-46
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• 2007

In this paper, we propose technologies for enhancing the immersive realization of virtual objects in AR-based product design. Generally, multimodal senses such as visual/auditory/tactile feedback are well known as a method for enhancing the immersion in case of interaction with virtual objects. By adapting tangible objects we can provide touch sensation to users. A 3D model of the same scale overlays the whole area of the tangible object so the marker area is invisible. This contributes to enhancing immersion. Also, the hand occlusion problem when the virtual objects overlay the user's hands is partially solved, providing more immersive and natural images to users. Finally, multimodal feedback also creates better immersion. In our work, both vibrotactile feedback through page motors, pneumatic tactile feedback, and sound feedback are considered. In our scenario, a game-phone model is selected, by way of proposed augmented vibrotactile feedback, hands occlusion-reduced visual effects and sound feedback are provided to users. These proposed methodologies will contribute to a better immersive realization of the conventional AR system.

• The Journal of the Institute of Internet, Broadcasting and Communication
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• v.10 no.5
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• pp.223-227
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• 2010

Since the most of existing virtual model house used non-immersive type virtual reality technology, it was made to control using direct input type device such as keyboard and mouse. But in this paper realized not only direct data entry method but also indirect data entry method using eyetracking technology through universal webcam for virtual model house based upon modeling. In this paper showed the position of pointer controlled according to the relative movement of pupils or the part of function related to the equipment entry called by comparing the value of gray after extracting the area of pupil in the user' video data received from webcam. Such a method provided the convenience of navigation and interface to the user.

• 한국HCI학회:학술대회논문집
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• 2009.02a
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• pp.99-104
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• 2009

최근 멀티미디어 기술과 가상/증강현실 기술의 발전으로 사용자에게 몰입감 있는 콘텐츠를 제공하는 여러 시스템들이 제안되고 있다. 또한 기존의 시각과 음향효과만으로 이루어진 시스템의 한계를 넘어서 실제와 같은 느낌을 전달할 수 있는 햅틱기술을 적용하여 보다 몰입감있는 체험형 실감책들이 고안되고 있다. 본 논문은 과학교과서를 중심으로 과학적 이론을 보다 효과적으로 가르치고 배우기 위해 필요한 다양한 촉감(Haptic)을 분류하고, 이를 실감책에 적용하여 책이 담고 있는 주요 내용 또는 삽화와 관련된 다양한 멀티미디어 콘텐츠를 가상/증강환경에서 시청각정보와 함께 촉각콘텐츠를 독자에게 제공함으로써 보고, 듣고 만질 수 있는 적극적인 촉감 상호작용이 가능한 실감책 ('Sil-Gam' Book) 시스템의 기본 프레임워크를 제시한다. 제시된 실감책은 크게 세 부분으로 구성된다. 첫째, 실감책을 읽고 있는 사용자의 손가락의 위치, 시선과 같은 사용자의 움직임을 추적하고 책의 크기, 페이지 등을 인식하는 센서가 부착된 센싱 부; 둘째, 장비에 따라 적용 가능한 촉감 속성, 물체의 움직임에 따라 적용할 수 있는 촉감 속성등 다양한 촉감콘텐츠의 속성을 저작하고 편집하는 소프트웨어 부; 마지막으로 사용자에게 저작된 실감 콘텐츠를 사용자가 쉽고 직관적으로 체험하게 하기 위한 디스플레이부로 구성된다. 여기서 디스플레이 부는 세부적으로 시청각 콘텐츠를 전달하는 시청각 디스플레이 부와 역촉감 콘텐츠를 전달하는 역촉감 디스플레이부로 구성된다. 본 논문에서는 또한 실감책 촉감 저작도구를 사용하여 제시할 수 있는 다양한 촉감을 중고등학교 교육과정에서 배우는 과학 이론에 적용하여 과학 실험시 경험할 수 있는 다양한 역/촉감을 전달하는 몇 가지 시나리오를 예시하였다.

• Journal of the Korea Society for Simulation
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• v.22 no.4
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• pp.57-66
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• 2013

The needs for reusable 3D visualization tool has been being raised in various industries. Especially in the defense modeling and simulation (M&S) domain, there are abundant researches about reusable and interoperable visualization system, since it has a critical role to the efficient decision making by offering diverse validation and analyzing processes. To facilitate the effectiveness, states-of-the-arts M&S systems are applying VR (Virtual Reality) or AR (Augmented Reality) technologies. To reduce the work burden authors design a collaborative visualization environment based on a commercial game engine Unity3D. We define the requirements of the warfare simulation by analyzing pros and cons of existing tools and engines such as SIMDIS or Vega, and apply functionalities of the commercial game engine to satisfy the requirements. A prototype has been implemented as the collaborative visualization environment of iCAVE at KAIST, which is a facility for immersive virtual environment. The facility is intraoperative with smart devices.

• Journal of KIISE:Computing Practices and Letters
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• v.8 no.6
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• pp.679-691
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• 2002

Volume visualization is an important subarea of scientific visualization, and is concerned with techniques that are effectively used in generating meaningful and visual information from abstract and complex volume datasets, defined in three- or higher-dimensional space. It has been increasingly important in various fields including meteorology, medical science, and computational fluid dynamics, and so on. On the other hand, virtual reality is a research field focusing on various techniques that aid gaining experiences in virtual worlds with visual, auditory and tactile senses. In this paper, we have developed a visualization system for CAVE, an immersive 3D virtual environment system, which generates stereoscopic images from huge human volume datasets in real-time using an improved volume visualization technique. In order to complement the 3D texture-mapping based volume rendering methods, that easily slow down as data sizes increase, our system utilizes an image-based rendering technique to guarantee real-time performance. The system has been designed to offer a variety of user interface functionality for effective visualization. In this article, we present detailed description on our real-time stereoscopic visualization system, and show how the Visible Korean Human dataset is effectively visualized on CAVE.