• Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society
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• v.20 no.7
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• pp.571-577
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• 2019

This study examined the usability of express buses for wheelchair users to identify the effectiveness, efficiency and satisfaction of wheelchair boarding systems. The usability of 11 manual wheelchair users and nine powered wheelchair users was evaluated using the following three scenarios: boarding the wheelchair accessible bus, moving inside, and alighting the bus. The results showed that 20 wheelchair users completed three scenarios, which was distributed between 0.33 and 1.36 in the difficulty rating scale of the efficiency. The task effort of the efficiency was measured from 8.36 to 11.78. The acceptability of the satisfaction was distributed between 1.00 and 2.00, and the system usability scale was measured in an acceptable boundary of the C grade at 70.7 points with manual wheelchair users and a B grade at 73.1 points with powered wheelchair users. This study has academic significance because it provides basic evidence for accessibility, securing the right to movement and research methods of public transportation for people with disabilities. To improve the quality level of usability in the future, more study with a larger number of research participants and various wheelchair types should be studied.

• Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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• 2010.04a
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• pp.123-126
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• 2010

장애인 및 노인인구의 증가로 이동성의 확보를 위해 일반 휠체어를 포함한 전기휠체어 사용자가 증가하고 있다. 본 논문에서는 실내에서 장애인 및 노약자가 휠체어를 사용 시 대처하기 어려운 갑작스러운 위험 등에 대해 보다 효율적인 관제 및 관리를 위한 위치 기반 서비스 플랫폼을 제시하며, 실험을 통해 기능 및 성능을 검증한다. 제안하는 플랫폼은 단순 관제, 관리뿐만 아니라 사용자가 원하는 목적지까지 경로를 안내하며 사용자의 스케줄에 따라 목적지를 알려주는 등 생활 전반에 도움이 될 수 있다.

• Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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• 2023.11a
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• pp.162-163
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• 2023

본 논문은 휠체어 사용자들이 직면하는 안전, 이동성 자립성 등의 문제를 해소하는 것을 목적으로 하는 internet of things(IoT) 기반 스마트 휠체어를 연구하였다. 본 연구에서는 휠체어의 중요한 기능인 경사로에 따라 자동으로 기울기가 조정되는 기능을 중점적으로 개발했다. 이 기능은 사용자의 안전을 보장하며, 동시에 이동의 편의성을 증가시키는 역할을 한다.

• Archives of design research
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• v.16 no.2
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• pp.209-218
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• 2003

The increase of wheelchair users due to the rapid growth of elderly population, traffic accidents, and industrial disaster etc. becomes a major issue in our society. Thus, the Convenience Promotion Law was enforced to facilitate the use and installation of convenient facilities for the disabled, the elderly and pregnant women. Currently, not only newly built buildings but also roads and parks are accessed and used by all the people without any hindrance. In contrast to this, so far not many studies on residential space design for wheelchair users have been carried out except for public facilities. So, wheelchair users have to bear the inconvenience in their houses made upon the standards of the general people. Therefore, it is necessary to develop design guideline considering the physical characteristics of wheelchair users and their family members to lead a convenient life. This study was conducted in universal design perspective and intended to establish design guideline of convenient residential space for wheelchair users and general people. To accomplish the objective, surveys for wheelchair users' actual conditions and needs, and video observation were carried out.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Computer Information Conference
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• 2020.07a
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• pp.259-260
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• 2020

기존의 전동휠체어를 사용하는 약자 또는 중증 장애인 등 지체(肢體)가 불편한 사람들이 휠체어 사용 시 생기는 문제점을 해소할 목적으로 시작되었다. 이는 전동휠체어가 보행 기구임에도 자동차에 준하는 교통사고에 대해 무방비하게 노출되고, 중증 장애인에 대한 이동권 보장이 아직 미흡하여 생기는 문제이다. 따라서 본 연구에서는 이러한 문제로 인한 불편함을 해소하고자 아이트래킹을 이용한 스마트 전동휠체어 기술을 적용하고자 한다. 루게릭병 등으로 인해 지체(肢體)의 움직임에 제한이 있는 사람들에게 보호자가 밀어주는 휠체어에 의존하는 것이 아닌 Eye-Tracker를 이용한 시선 추적(Eye-Tracking) 기술로 휠체어 동작이 가능하다. Web-Cam과 라즈베리 파이를 통해 얻은 전·후·좌·우의 영상정보를 디스플레이 화면에 송출한다. 그 후 Eye-Tracking 기술을 이용해 디스플레이 화면에 표시된 전·후·좌·우 이동에 관한 UI(User Interface)룰 사용자가 송출된 영상을 보면서 눈의 움직임만으로 선택해 휠체어의 방향을 제어한다. 또한 전동휠체어의 조작 실수로 다른 행인 또는 장애물과 충돌하는 문제점을 초음파 센서를 이용하여 일정 거리 내에 사물이나 사람이 있을 경우 디스플레이 화면에 경고표시 및 경고음, 각 초음파 센서 위치에 맞는 LED작동으로 사용자들에게 추돌 위험경고와 함께 장애물의 위치파악이 가능하도록 한다. 따라서 스마트 전동휠체어를 통하여 수동적인 움직임이 아닌 능동적이고, 초음파 센서로 인해 안전한 이동이 가능하게 한다.

• Journal of Digital Contents Society
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• v.19 no.8
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• pp.1507-1514
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• 2018

The purpose of this study was to propose a functional improvement solution of integrated control board for safe driving of Smart electric wheelchair for a single person. In the case of existing electric wheelchair products in Korea and elsewhere, safety-related functions or devices are not included in many cases. Therefore, the incidence of electric wheelchair-related accidents is continuously increasing in the current situation in which the elderly and the disabled people have been continuously increased. However, currently only high and middle-priced products are equipped with basic safety devices in electric wheelchairs, so low-priced products require safety related functions. Therefore, sensing obstacles that the user can not recognize while moving an electric wheelchair and detecting automatically the terrain change to control the motor by developing a smart control platform. This provides an integrated control board that can be applied to various electric wheelchairs for more stable driving.

• Journal of KIISE:Software and Applications
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• v.36 no.2
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• pp.161-168
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• 2009

In this paper, we develop an Intelligent Wheelchair(IW) control system for the people with various disabilities. The aim of the proposed system is to increase the mobility of severely handicapped people by providing an adaptable and effective interface for a power wheelchair. To facilitate a wide variety of user abilities, the proposed system involves the use of face-inclination and mouth-shape information, where the direction of an Intelligent Wheelchair(IW) is determined by the inclination of the user's face, while proceeding and stopping are determined by the shape of the user's mouth. To analyze these gestures, our system consists of facial feature detector, facial feature recognizer, and converter. In the stage of facial feature detector, the facial region of the intended user is first obtained using Adaboost, thereafter the mouth region detected based on edge information. The extracted features are sent to the facial feature recognizer, which recognize the face inclination and mouth shape using statistical analysis and K-means clustering, respectively. These recognition results are then delivered to a converter to control the wheelchair. When assessing the effectiveness of the proposed system with 34 users unable to utilize a standard joystick, the results showed that the proposed system provided a friendly and convenient interface.

• Journal of the Korea Society of Computer and Information
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• v.20 no.5
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• pp.83-89
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• 2015

we suggest a shopping cart system following the wheelchairs autonomously for the disabled to do shop easily. This system have been developed in order for a cart to follow the disabled using wheelchairs automatically without pulling a cart directly. This system use kinnect and an radio control car (RC-car). The kinnect detect whether movement of disabled is right turn, left turn or straight and according to this result the RC-car can be controlled autonomously. By this system, the disabled using wheelchairs can do shopping more easily than before.

• Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society
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• v.15 no.9
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• pp.5738-5743
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• 2014

This paper evaluated an electric wheelchair control algorithm by slope recognition on uneven terrain. Nowadays, the population using wheelchair has been increasing rapidly due to increases in the elderly population. On the other hand, most wheelchairs are directly controlled by the user without any device capable of securing the safety of the user. This causes difficulties in wheelchair control from the influence of gravity on the slope. This paper proposes a vehicle control algorithm that can move a wheelchair similar to moving on a plane. At that time, sensors are not used to recognize the degree of the slope. All processes were verified by simulation.

• Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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• 2010.11a
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• pp.369-372
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• 2010

휠체어 사용자의 이동을 방해하는 요소에는 도로의 경사도, 보도 턱과 같은 물리적인 장벽이 있다. 하지만 물리적 장벽을 직접적으로 제거하기에는 한계가 있고, 힘든 곳들도 많다. 이러한 도로사정 속에서 휠체어 사용자들의 이동상의 어려움을 줄이기 위해 목적지까지 안전하게 이동 가능한 길에 대한 정보를 제공하는 시스템, 가디안을 제안한다. 가디안은 웹 상의 지도 서비스에 수치지도의 정보를 추가하여 도로 경사도 및 기타 장애시설의 정보를 제공한다. 또한, 도로마다 색상의 농도에 따른 안전함의 정도를 표시하고, 사용자 참여기능을 이용하여 도로의 돌발상황 상태를 입력하고 확인할 수 있으며, 보호자와의 실시간 연결 기능을 통해 혼자서 이동하는 두려움을 제거하여 안전한 이동의 완성도를 추구하였다. 여기서는 가디안 시스템의 구조 및 구현을 보인다.