• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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• 2007.10a
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• pp.141-144
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• 2007

유비쿼터스시대에 발맞추어 사용자가 언제 어디서나 편리하게 사용할 수 있는 컴퓨팅 환경의 제공이 가능해졌고 이에 따라 차세대 컴퓨팅으로서 휴대형 PC가 실용화될 전망이다. 차세대 휴대형 PC에서는 지금까지의 시각, 청각에 의한 인터페이스 외에도 촉각, 후각, 미각과 같은 인간의 오감을 통한 실감형 서비스를 제공할 수 있는 인터페이스가 등장할 것으로 예상된다. 따라서 본 연구에서는 사용자 중심의 실감형 인터페이스를 구현하기 위하여 다른 삼감 즉 촉각, 후각, 미각 가운데에서 후각에 대하여 이를 어떻게 부호화 할 것이며 또한 MPEG7 기반에서 XML로 기술하는 방법과 활용문제에 대해 기술한다. 본 논문에서는 인간의 오감 가운데 기억과 밀접한 관계가 있는 후각정보를 기반으로 이를 표현, 재생, 검색할 수 있는 방법에 관하여 기술한다.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Broadcast Engineers Conference
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• 2013.06a
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• pp.229-232
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• 2013

영상실감증대를 위한 시각, 청각정보의 제시방식에 대해서는 많은 진보가 이루어 졌다. 반면 후각은 정의하기 어렵고 다루기 까다롭기 때문에 관련연구를 찾아보기 어렵다. 본 연구에서는 후각정보를 통한 영상실감증대 연구의 첫걸음으로 후각정보에 대한 사용자 수용도를 조사한 후 이에 근거하여 다양한 영상을 분류하였다. 이를 위해 먼저 영상에 냄새가 존재하는지 (냄새존재여부), 영상과 함께 해당 냄새를 경험하고 싶은지 (냄새제시선호), 영상에 어울리는 냄새가 내가 좋아하는 냄새인지 (냄새자체선호), 그리고 영상에 어울리는 냄새가 얼마나 구체적인지 (냄새의 구체성)라는 네 가지 질문을 선정하였다. 각 질문들에 높은 혹은 낮은 점수를 받을 만한 다양한 장르의 영상 (51)개를 수집한 후, 참가자들에게 하나씩 영상을 시청하게 한 후 위의 네 가지 질문에 대해 7점 척도로 평정하게 하였다. 영상분류를 위해 두 질문씩 쌍으로 묶어 각 질문의 척도를 2차원 평면의 X, Y축으로 설정한 후 평정값을 이용하여 영상분류를 위한 산포도를 구성하였다. 2차원 평면의 서로 다른 사분면에 위치한 영상군집들은 영상실감증대를 위한 후각정보 제시에 중요한 시사점을 줄 것으로 기대한다.

• Information Systems Review
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• v.8 no.2
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• pp.155-172
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• 2006

The importance and meaning of smell/taste information on online shopping are studied. The first hypothesis deals with this issue directly. We measure the perceived quality and purchase intention at the context of online shopping with/without smell and taste information. As expected, subjects show higher perceived quality/stronger purchase intention of a bar soap and vitamin C product when smell and taste information are provided. Following Peck and Childers(2003), the moderating effects of Need for Smell and Need for Taste are tested at the second hypothesis. Subjects with High in Need for Smell/Touch show stronger responses in terms of perceived quality and purchase intention. The level of trust about the online shopping mall provides interesting results. When the trust level of the online shopping mall is low, the smell/taste information play more important roles in improving the perceived quality and purchase intention. Subjects at the not-so-trusted shopping mall context result in higher perceived quality and purchase intention if perceptual information is provided. One of the theoretical contributions of this study includes the identification of critical information in online purchase decision making-smell and taste. On top of vision and hearing information, smell and taste information also can play critical roles when consumers do online shopping even at the shopping malls of low trust. In addition, managerial implications are provided.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.11 no.7
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• pp.1275-1282
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• 2007

With the rapid spread of smart mobile products and practical use of wireless network, it became possible to offer the computing environment people can use anytime anywhere and it is predicted that portable computer as the next generation computing is to be put to practical use. This computer will be expected to have the new interface which provides realistic service through human's five senses as well as the interface through the visual and auditory senses. Accordingly, in this study, we are going to talk about the technology that expresses and reproduces what is based on olfactory information - closely related with memory among honan's five senses - in order to embody the lifelike user interface.

• Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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• 2015.10a
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• pp.1849-1850
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• 2015

본 논문에서는 사람들이 일상생활에서 빈번히 접하는 후각 자극 물질(냄새)에 따른 스트레스 요인 분석을 위한 보조도구 장치인 후각 자극기를 제안한다. 기존 후각 자극 물질에 대해 피시험자의 정신적 요인 분석 연구에서는 실험자가 직접 손 등을 이용하여 수동으로 자극을 제시하여 주변환경내에서의 냄새 물질의 오염, 정확한 시간 동기화할 수 없는 문제점 등이 있다. 본 논문에서 후각 자극에 따른 피시험자의 정신적 요인 분석을 보다 정확하게 할 수 있는 후각 자극기를 구현하였다.

• Science of Emotion and Sensibility
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• v.16 no.2
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• pp.207-220
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• 2013

For video reality improvement, there has been much advancement in the methods of providing visual, auditory, and tactile information. On the other hand, there is little research on olfaction for video reality because it is difficult to define and knotty to manipulate. As a first step for video reality improvement using olfactory information, this research investigated users' acceptability of smell when they watch videos of various kinds and then classified the video clips based on their acceptability of different criteria. To do so, we first selected three questions of whether the scene in the video appears to have an odor (odor presence), whether a matching odor is likely to improve a sense of reality (effect on sense of reality), and whether s/he would like a matching odor to be present (preference for the matching odor). Then after collecting 51 video clips of various genres that would receive either high or low ratings for the questions above, we had participants to watch the videos and rate them for the above three questions on 7-point scale. For video classification, we paired each two questions to construct 2D space to draw scatterplot of video clips where the scales of the two questions represent X or Y axis. Clusters of video clips that locate at different quadrants of the 2D space would provide important insights in providing olfactory information for video reality improvement.

• Journal of the HCI Society of Korea
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• v.8 no.2
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• pp.9-19
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• 2013

There has been much advancement in reality enhancement using audio-visual information. On the other hand, there is little research on provision of olfactory information because smell is difficult to implement and control. In order to obtain necessary basic data when intend to provide smell for video reality, in this research, we investigated user perception of smell in diverse videos and then classified the videos based on the collected user perception data. To do so, we chose five main questions which were 'whether smell is present in the video'(smell presence), 'whether one desire to experience the smell with the video'(preference for smell presence with the video), 'whether one likes the smell itself'(preference for the smell itself), 'desired smell intensity if it is presented with the video'(smell intensity), and 'the degree of smell concreteness'(smell concreteness). After sampling video clips of various genre which are likely to receive either high and low ratings in the questions, we had participants watch each video after which they provided ratings on 7-point scale for the above five questions. Using the rating data for each video clips, we constructed scatter plots by pairing the five questions and representing the rating scale of each paired questions as X-Y axes in 2 dimensional spaces. The video clusters and distributional shape in the scatter plots would provide important insight into characteristics of each video clusters and about how to present olfactory information for video reality.

• Journal of Scientific & Technological Knowledge Infrastructure
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• s.21
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• pp.58-61
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• 2006

• Journal of Broadcast Engineering
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• v.19 no.6
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• pp.877-895
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• 2014

It is common sense that providing specific odor can increase the video reality when video scene has an object having specific odor. However, people still do not know how to increase video reality and emotional immersion when there is no information on specific odor in the scene. So, present study explores how we improve video reality and immersion when the scene has no concrete odor information from some objects. Especially, this research focuses on diverse previous studies about matching between odor and color and then we expect providing odor can increase video reality if the odor is well-matched with the video's color. To do this, we collected 48 odors and investigated which color was well-matched with each odor. As a result, we get 5 odors which had clearly well-matched colors and decide ill-matched colors of those 5 odors as complementary colors of well-matched colors (Experiment 1). After that, we organize 3 conditions such as coloring image and video clip with well-matched color (color-odor match condition), coloring those with ill-matched color (color-odor mismatch condition), and coloring those with achromatic color by removing color saturation (color-odor neutral condition). Under each of these three conditions, image-odor matching, increment of reality with the odor, increment of immersion with the odor, and odor preference are asked (Experiment 2; 3). The results showed that the scores of all 4 questions in color-odor match condition were higher than color-odor mismatch condition and neutral condition. These results mean that providing matching odor with the scene's color in video is very effective to increase video reality and immersion. We expect experiencing better reality and immersion with olfactory information by adding various future research.

• Broadcasting and Media Magazine
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• v.22 no.4
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• pp.34-40
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• 2017

현재 멀티미디어는 사용자의 감성을 자극하며 몰입감과 현장감을 자아내고 극대화할 수 있는 실감 미디어(Immersive media)로 발전하고 있다. 이러한 실감 미디어 내 시청각 정보의 저장과 표현을 위한 데이터 템플릿과 인터페이스들은 상당히 많은 부분에서 표준화되어 왔지만, 이와 달리 후각, 미각, 촉각 등의 실감 정보들은 관련 표준들의 부재로 인해 많은 연구 개발에도 불구하고 해당 서비스들의 상용화가 지연되고 있는 중이다. 이 문제를 해결하기 위해 이 논문에서는 후각 미디어에 초점을 맞추어 MPEG-V 표준과 현재 진행 중인 MPEG-IoMT(Internet of Media Thing) 표준을 사용하여 미디어 사물 인터넷 내 후각 인터렉션을 위해 필요한 표준 데이터 템플릿과 인터페이스를 기술하였다.