• Korean Journal of Culture and Social Issue
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• v.17 no.3
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• pp.305-320
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• 2011

The objectives of the present research are twofold. First, this research aims to compare the effect of trait characteristics(sensation seeking, social resistance and type-A behavior) with that of driving specific characteristics(driving anger and type-A driving) on problematic driving behavior. Second, the role of life stress as a mediator in the relationships between general trait characteristics and traffic safety index was examined. 1158 licensed commercial vehicle drivers were surveyed and their accident-related records were obtained in this research. Results showed that driving specific characteristics were significant indicators of traffic safety and life stress mediated the relationships between general trait characteristics and traffic safety index. These findings implicate that understanding drivers' driving specific characteristics and their levels of life stress is important to reduce problematic driving behaviors and enhance traffic safety.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of IIIuminating and Electrical Installation Engineers Conference
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• 2008.05a
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• pp.192-195
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• 2008

차량에서 전조등의 밝기 변화가 운전자에게 불쾌감과 스트레스를 제공한다면 운전자 및 보행자의 안전에 위협이 될 수 있을 뿐만 아니라 차량의 전체성능에 의구심을 유발시킬 수 있다. 그러므로 차량 전조등의 밝기변화 패턴에 영향을 미치는 전조등의 전압과 시간을 변수로 하여, 순간적으로 밝기변동이 발생하였을 경우, 연령대별(20/60대)로 운전자가 느끼는 심리적인 반응(불쾌감)이 어떠한 경향을 갖는지를 파악하는 것이 중요하다. 따라서 본 논문에서는 운전자가 순응하고 있는 전조등에 의한 노면상황을 모의하고 전조등의 전압이 13.6[V]에서 12[V]까지 변동하는 빔 패턴을 화면으로 구성하여 전조등의 순간적인 밝기변동을 모의하였다.

• Journal of Korean Society of Transportation
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• v.31 no.6
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• pp.34-42
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• 2013

The reasons of traffic accidents can be classified into the vehicle, road environment and human factors. In development of vehicle and road technologies, the human factor is the most important. The emotion research recently carried out showed that emotions play an important role in human judgment and decision making. They are also expected to partly determine driving behavior. The purpose of this study was to investigate the effects of drivers' emotions on their driving behavior. The results of this study showed that positive emotions do not affect driving behavior. As for negative emotions, however, safe driving(SD) and comfort driving(CD) factors have a negative correlation, and violence driving(VD) and regulation violation(RO) factors have a positive correlation. This study is significant as a basic study for establishing and determining a policy for reducing traffic accidents and for educating drivers.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.14 no.5
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• pp.1303-1310
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• 2010

Recently, researches related with automative mechanism have been widely studied to increase the driver's safety by continuously monitoring the driver's health condition to prevent driver's drowsiness. This paper describes the design of wearable chest belt for ECG and reflectance pulse oximetry for SpO2 sensors based on wireless sensor network to monitor the driver's healthcare status. ECG, SpO2 and heart rate signals can be transmitted via wireless sensor node to base station connected to the server. Intelligent monitoring system is designed at the server to analyze the SpO2 and ECG signals. HRV (Heart Rate Variability) signals can be obtained by processing the ECG and PPG signals. HRV signals are further analyzed based on time and frequency domain to determine the driver's drowsiness status.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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• 2009.10a
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• pp.545-548
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• 2009

Recently, researches related to automative mechanism have been widely studied to increase the driver's safety by continuously monitoring the driver's health condition to prevent driver's drowsiness. This paper describes the design of wearable chest belt for ECG and reflectance pulse oximetry for $SpO_2$ sensors based on wireless sensor network to monitor the driver's healthcare status. ECG, $SpO_2$ and heart rate signals can be transmitted via wireless sensor node to base station connected to the server. Intelligent monitoring system is designed at the server to analyze the $SpO_2$ and ECG signals. HRV(Heart Rate Variability) signals can be obtained by processing the ECG and PPG signals. HRV signals are further analyzed based on time and frequency domain to determine the driver's drowsiness status.

• The Journal of the Korea institute of electronic communication sciences
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• v.13 no.3
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• pp.677-684
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• 2018

Recently, negative emotional responses by drivers are a growing problem, which leads to not only a traffic accident but a crime so called 'road rage' in countries with heavy traffics including South Korea. Under such a circumstance, measuring stress- and fatigue-induced emotional responses by means of wireless communication and a wearable system would be useful. The purpose of this study is to implement a system that measures various signals from a driver, derives and monitors his emotional responses from the measurements and verify its derivations with reliability. This paper, as a first part of the research, describes how the system has been implemented with experimental methods.

• Korean Journal of Culture and Social Issue
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• v.15 no.4
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• pp.547-563
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• 2009

This study was conducted to examine the stress effects of time pressure and induced driver-anger on driving performance. The participants in the four different stress conditions(i.e., control condition, time pressure, induced anger, and mixed condition where induced-anger and time pressure were combined) were asked to drive the driving simulator, and their driving performances(i. e., lane crossing, signal violation, speeding, and deviation form designated path) were measured as the dependent variable. The results can be summarized as followings. (1) Induced-anger alone and the mixed driver stresses tended to yield deteriorated driving performances as well as awareness for designated path, (2) Time pressure alone appeared to have only limited effect both on the driving and path awareness. And (3) the effects of induced-anger alone and the mixed condition on driving performance and path awareness did not show ant significant difference. The results of the present study indicated that drivers' basic vehicle control and keeping awareness to destination could be affected differently by the types of driver stress.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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• 2018.10a
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• pp.171-173
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• 2018

The poor working conditions of transit drivers not only lead to mental stress and fatigue accumulation of workers, but also to the main causes of mass transit accidents. Stress and fatigue accumulation are closely related to the vital signs because they affect the psychological and physical health. In this paper, we designed a digital garment which can measure driver's health condition by measuring electrocardiogram, pulse rate and body temperature. Also proposed a system that transmits the measured bio-signal to the smartphone app via Bluetooth and transmits the current position of the driver to the server by using the built-in GPS of the smartphone, assuming there is something wrong.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Disaster Information Conference
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• 2017.11a
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• pp.123-124
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• 2017

최근에 장시간 근무로 인한 대중교통 운전자들의 부족한 휴식과 수면, 통증, 정신적 스트레스 등은 피로 누적를 초래하여 대중교통 사고의 주요 원인으로 대두되고 있다. 이에 2016년 산업통상자원부 산업융합촉진사업의 일환으로 대중교통 운전자용 다중 생체 신호측정 스마트 의류 및 관련 시스템이 개발중에 있으며 본 논문에는 현재 개발중인 스마트웨어러블 의류의 내세탁성능에 대한 성능 시험방법을 제안하고자 한다. 성능시험 방법은 국내외 생체신호측정 스마트 의류의 care label(취급표시사항)을 통하여 hand wash의 조건으로 세탁을 표시하고 있으나, 1년의 warranty를 위한 시험을 위해서는 오랜기간이 필요하기 때문에, 좀더 가혹한 조건으로 진행하여 시간을 줄이고, 고객의 빠른 시장출시를 지원하도록 시험방법을 제안하였다.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of IIIuminating and Electrical Installation Engineers Conference
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• 2007.11a
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• pp.17-22
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• 2007

차량에서 전조등의 밝기 변화가 운전자의 장애물 인식능력을 저하시키고, 운전자에게 불쾌감과 스트레스를 제공한다면 운전자 및 보행자의 안전에 위협이 될 수 있다. 그러므로 차량 전조등의 밝기변화 패턴에 영향을 미치는 전조등의 전압과 시간을 변수로 하여, 순간적으로 밝기변동이 발생하였을 경우, 연령대별(20/60대)로 운전자가 느끼는 심리적인 반응(불쾌감)이 어떠한 경향을 갖는지를 파악하는 것이 중요하다. 따라서 본 논문에서는 운전자의 야간 주행시 전조등의 밝기변동에 대한 경향을 파악하기 위해 전조등의 밝기변동 영상을 제작한 다양한 전조등의 밝기패턴(전압패턴 A/B)을 제공하여 본 시험을 위한 1차 예비 시험을 실시하였다. 예비시험 결과, 전압패턴 A에 대해서는 전압과 시간변이 대해서 모두 영향을 받는 것으로 나타났으며, 반면, 전압패턴 B의 경우에 있어서는 시간변이 보다 전압변이가 더 큰 요소로 작용하는 것으로 나타났다. 또한 불쾌감을 느끼는 것을 수치적으로 표현하였을 경우에, 전압패턴 A보다 B패턴에서 더 많은 불쾌감을 느끼는 것으로 파악되었다. 현재, 본 연구는 진행중에 있으며, 앞으로, 2차/3차 예비시험을 통해, 연령대별 시인능력평가 및 심리적 반응 평가, 도로조명의 유무에 따른 운전자의 시인능력 평가, 그리고 전조등의 밝기변동 빈도 수에 대한 심리적 반응을 모의시험하고 경향을 파악하고 있으며, 이를 통해서 본 시험을 준비중에 있다.