• Proceedings of the Korea Water Resources Association Conference
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• 2008.05a
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• pp.583-587
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• 2008

수도권에 거주하는 60세 이상 589명을 대상으로 설문조사를 실시하여 고령자의 하천이용행태 및 하천이용의 영향요인을 분석하였다. 조사결과, 하천으로 이동하는데 가장 큰 불편사항은 경사로, 계단, 경계턱 등의 교통장애물이며, 이용에 불편한 하천시설은 화장실과 휴식공간으로 나타났다. 기대하는 하천복원의 형태는 인위적인 시설을 제한하는 친자연형 또는 자연형 하천에 대한 선호도가 높은 것으로 나타났다. 고령자의 하천이용 영향요인 모형추정결과, 고령자의 성별, 배우자 유무, 하천으로의 이동시간, 방문시점, 이용 교통편의 요인이 하천이용횟수에 영향을 미치는 것으로 분석되었다. 따라서 향후 고령자의 하천이용의 접근성 및 친수성을 향상하기 위해 장애물을 최소화하고, 교통 연계성을 향상시켜야 할 것이다. 또한, 고령자는 편의시설에 대한 요구와 동시에, 하천의 생태적 요소도 선호하는 것으로 분석되므로, 하천복원 시 적정 편의시설에 대해 고려하되, 가능한 환경적으로 설계될 수 있다면 다양한 고령자의 기대를 만족시킬 수 있을 것이다.

• Journal of the Korea Society of Computer and Information
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• v.28 no.11
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• pp.147-154
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• 2023

In this paper, we propose a barrier-free course route navigation service named "Theme Road" aimed at improving the mobility and convenience for elderly electric wheelchair users with walking disabilities. To achieve this goal, we conducted a user survey through shadowing and in-depth interviews to gather insights on the challenges experienced by elderly electric wheelchair users. We identified potential solutions for each inconvenience through co-creation workshops, resulting in a set of design considerations and app functionalities. Using persona development and service scenarios, we designed and implemented the "Theme Road" service as a dedicated navigation application for barrier-free course navigation. Unlike conventional route navigation and mapping services, our study stands out by offering a unique approach that combines recommended destinations and safe routes based on experiential analysis from elderly electric wheelchair users.

• Journal of the Korean Society of Surveying, Geodesy, Photogrammetry and Cartography
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• v.34 no.3
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• pp.273-282
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• 2016

There has been growing social interest recently in the movement rights of people with reduced mobility. However, it simply eliminates the temporary inconvenience of walking of people with reduced mobility because it focuses only on supply of institutional facilities. Therefore, we look forward to improving movement welfare by proposing an optimized path finding algorithm for people with reduced mobility that takes into consideration physical elements affecting their movement, such as slope, steps etc. We selected Walking barrier factor by analyzing previous studies and calculated the relative importance of Walking barrier factors using an Analytic Hierarchy Process(AHP). Next, through the fuzzy system, the Walking disturbance level of link, which integrates the weights of Walking barrier factors and the attributes of each link, is derived. Then, Walking path cost that takes into consideration the ‘length’ factors is calculated and an optimized path for people with reduced mobility is searched using Dijkstra’s Algorithm. Nineteen different paths were searched and we confirmed that the derived paths are meaningful in terms of improving the mobility of people with reduced mobility by conducting a field test. We look forward to improving movement welfare by providing a navigation service using the path finding algorithm proposed in this study.

• Journal of rehabilitation welfare engineering & assistive technology
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• v.5 no.1
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• pp.17-25
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• 2011

This paper aims to find the optimal control gain for enhancing the convenience of electric walking frames and design a control algorithm. With the recent advances in medical technology, there has been a rapid increase in the aging population and a variety of mobile walking frames have been developed for improvement of the quality of life. However, the manual walking frames of such mobile aids don't have any electric motor which helps facilitate elderly users' walking and thus are not efficient enough for the old people of weak strength to use especially when moving on uneven surfaces such as slopes or thresholds. The types of electric walking frames have been developed to overcome such inefficiency. Electric walking frames require users' control operations for motor driving unlike manual frames. Therefore, when they are not properly handled, it causes considerable inconvenience to their users. The present study compared the electric walking frames with manual ones in terms of operational convenience and attempted to improve the user convenience of walking frames varying the control value for user convenience based on certain standards. This paper presented a haptic sensor designed to recognize the will to walk and measure the degree of convenience and proposed a control algorithm for improvement of convenience. For user convenience, this paper evaluated the relative convenience of walking frames in view of changing differences between the center of vehicle (COV) and the center of position (COP). With the employment of an electric walking frame and a new measuring method, all the processes were experimentally tested and validated.

• The Journal of The Korea Institute of Intelligent Transport Systems
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• v.20 no.2
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• pp.58-71
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• 2021

The number of elderly people worldwide is rapidly increasing and the mobility handicapped suffering from inconvenient public transportation service is also increasing. In Korea and abroad, various policies are being implemented to provide high-quality transportation services for the mobility handicapped, and budget support and investment related to mobility facilities are being expanded. The mobility handicapped spends more time for transit transfer than normal users and their satisfaction with transit service is also lower. There exist transfer inconvenience points of the mobility handicapped due to various factors such as long transfer distances, absence of transportation facilities like elevators, escalators, etc. The purpose of this study is to find transfer inconvenience points for convenient transit transfer of the mobility handicapped using Smart card Big data. This study process traffic card transaction data and construct transfer travel data by user groups using smart card big data and analysis of the transfer characteristics for each user group ; normal, children, elderly, etc. Finally, find transfer inconveniences points by comparing transfer patterns between normal users and the mobility handicapped. This study is significant in that it can find transfer inconvenience points for convenient transit transfer of the mobility handicapped using Smart card Big data. In addition, it can be applicated of Smart card Big data for developing public transportation polices in the future. It is expected that the result of this study be used to improve the accessibility of transit transportation for mobility handicapped.

• 한국정보통신설비학회:학술대회논문집
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• 2005.08a
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• pp.333-337
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• 2005

본 논문은 이동통신 단말기(휴대폰)을 이용한 금융권의 모바일 계좌결제 서비스 플랫폼에 관한 것으로서 더 상세하게는 실명 인증된 이동통신 단말기 번호와 주요 거래은행의 계좌를 연계하여 등록하고 등록된 이동통신 단말기를 이용하여 전기요금, 가스요금 등의 지로 공과금과 홈쇼핑 구매 대금, 유무선 온라인 이용 및 구매 대금과 같은 각종 결제 요청 금액의 청구 내역을 이동통신 URL 단문 메세지 서비스(Call Back URL SMS)를 통하여 통보받고 그 청구내역을 이동통신 단말기를 통해 바로 조회하고 이용자의 선택에 따라 해당 결제요청 금액을 이동통신 단말기를 통해 이용자 및 거래처의 계좌번호 입력 없이 바로 언제 어디서나 편리하게 계좌결제 처리할 수 있도록 함으로써 각종 결제요청 금액의 납부 편의성과 이동통신 단말기의 기능성 향상을 달성하고 나아가 산업 관련업체(은행, 이동통신사, 결제청구기관)의 대고객 서비스의 향상 및 비용 절감을 도모할 수 있도록 한 이동 통신 단말기를 이용한 계좌결제방법 및 시스템에 관한 것이다.

• Proceedings of the KAIS Fall Conference
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• 2008.11a
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• pp.453-455
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• 2008

경제발전이 가속화 되고 인간의 삶의 질이 향상되면서 차량보유가 증가함에 따라, 유아용 카시트의 사용이 증가하고 있는 실정이다. 또한 주 5일제 확대 및 가정을 중요시 하는 사회적 문화의 변화에 따라 유아와의 이동이 편리한 유모차의 사용이 증대되고 있다. 이와 같이 이동 편의성을 고려한 유모차의 사용이 증대되고 있다. 기존의 유모차는 세로로 접어지는 접철식이 대부분으로 접어서 이동시와 차량에 보관할 때와 프레임이 무거운 경우 여성이나 고령자가 사용 시 많은 힘을 필요로 하므로 불편함을 호소하고 있다. 본 연구에서는 사용자가 불편함을 느끼는 중량문제와 이동시 편의성 고려를 위한 접이방식을 개선하는 방안을 연구 하고자 한다. 이를 위하여 유모차의 프레임의 경량화 설계방안 및 폴딩 접이구조에 대한 연구를 수행 하였다.

• The KIPS Transactions:PartC
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• v.16C no.2
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• pp.229-236
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• 2009

UWB signal with high resolution capability can be used to estimate ranging and positioning in wireless personal area networks. The clock frequency differences of nodes have serious affects on asynchronous ranging methods to estimate locations of mobile nodes. The specification of high rate UWB describes successive TWR method with the estimation of a relative clock frequency offset. In this paper, we complete the ranging equations using relative frequency offset and time information, and propose a method to estimate the exact frequency offsets. We evaluate the ranging algorithms with simulation. The results show that the performances of the algorithms using frequency offsets are very close without noise. But, at noise environment, the method of exact frequency offsets shows better performance than that of relative frequency offsets.

• Proceedings of the SAREK Conference
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• 2005.06a
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• pp.126-126
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• 2005

• Korean Journal of Materials Research
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• v.25 no.5
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• pp.226-232
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• 2015

High temperature plasma coating technology has been applied to recover damaged aluminum dies from wear by spraying pure aluminum and alumina powder. However, the coated mixed powder layer composed of aluminum and alumina often undergoes a detachment from the substrate, making the coated substrate die unable to maintain its expected life span. In this study, in order to increase the bonding strength between the substrate and the coating layer, a pure aluminum layer was applied as an intermediate bond layer. In order to prepare the specimen with variable bond coating conditions, the bond coat layers with a various gun speed from 10 cm/sec to 30 cm/sec were prepared with coating cycle variations ranging from three to nine cycles. The specimen with a bond coat layer coated with a gun speed of 20 cm/sec and three coating cycles exhibited ~13MPa of adhesion strength, while the specimen without a bond coat layer showed ~6 MPa of adhesion strength. The adhesion strength with a variation of bond coat layer thickness is discussed in terms of coating parameters.