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Comparison of McGurk Effect across Three Consonant-Vowel Combinations in Kannada

  • Devaraju, Dhatri S;U, Ajith Kumar;Maruthy, Santosh
    • Korean Journal of Audiology
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    • v.23 no.1
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    • pp.39-48
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    • 2019
  • Background and Objectives: The influence of visual stimulus on the auditory component in the perception of auditory-visual (AV) consonant-vowel syllables has been demonstrated in different languages. Inherent properties of unimodal stimuli are known to modulate AV integration. The present study investigated how the amount of McGurk effect (an outcome of AV integration) varies across three different consonant combinations in Kannada language. The importance of unimodal syllable identification on the amount of McGurk effect was also seen. Subjects and Methods: Twenty-eight individuals performed an AV identification task with ba/ga, pa/ka and ma/ṇa consonant combinations in AV congruent, AV incongruent (McGurk combination), audio alone and visual alone condition. Cluster analysis was performed using the identification scores for the incongruent stimuli, to classify the individuals into two groups; one with high and the other with low McGurk scores. The differences in the audio alone and visual alone scores between these groups were compared. Results: The results showed significantly higher McGurk scores for ma/ṇa compared to ba/ga and pa/ka combinations in both high and low McGurk score groups. No significant difference was noted between ba/ga and pa/ka combinations in either group. Identification of /ṇa/ presented in the visual alone condition correlated negatively with the higher McGurk scores. Conclusions: The results suggest that the final percept following the AV integration is not exclusively explained by the unimodal identification of the syllables. But there are other factors which may also contribute to making inferences about the final percept.

Analysis and performance evaluation of the parallel typed for a vehicle driving simulator (병렬구조형 차량운전 모사장치의 성능평가 및 분석)

  • 박일경;박경균;김정하;이운성
    • 제어로봇시스템학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 1997.10a
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    • pp.1481-1484
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    • 1997
  • The vehicle driving simulator expects vehicle motion with real-time simulation arise from driver's steering, accelerating, stopping and simulates motion of vehicl with visula, audio and washout algorithm. And it gives a vivid feeling to driver in reality. Vehicle driving simulator with vehicle integration control system is used for analysis of analysis of vehicle controllaility, steering capacity and safety in various pseudo environment alike. basides, it analyzeds vehicle safety factor dirver's reaction and promotes traffic safety without driver's own risks. The main proceduress of development of the vehicle driving simulator are classified by 3 parts. first the motion base system which can be generated by the motion queues, should be developed. Secondly, real-time vehicle software which can afford the vehicle dynamics, might be constructed. The third procedure is the integration of vehicle driing simulator which can be interconnected between visual systems with motion base. In this study, we are to study of the motion base for a vehicle driving simulator design and that of its real time control and using an extra gyro sensor and accelerometers to find a position and an orientatiion of the moving platform except for calculating forward kinematics. To drive the motion base, we use National Instruments corp's Labview software. Furthemore, we use analysis module for the vehicle motionand the washout algorithm module to consummate driving simulator, which can be driven by human in reality, so we are doing experimentally process about various vehicle motion conditon.

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Applications of artificial neural networks;Detections of the location of a sound-source

  • Oobayashi, Koji;Yuan, Yan;Aoyama, Tomoo
    • 제어로봇시스템학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 2003.10a
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    • pp.1036-1041
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    • 2003
  • Non-destruction examinations are required in medical sciences and various engineering now. We wish to emulate the examinations in very simplified experiments. It is an educational program. We show a neural network analysis to predict the locations of a sound-source or a body irradiated by sound-waves in audio-region. The sound is an interest flux, and it enables to clear local-structures in a non-transparent space. However, the sound-propagation equations are not solved easily, therefore, we consider to adopt multi-layer neural-networks instead of the direct solutions. We used detected intensities and coordinates for input data and teaching data. A neural network learned them. The neural-network analysis decomposed the distance of 50cm. The resolution is rather rough; however, it is caused by the limitation of our equipments. Since there is no problem in the neural network processing, if we could revise experiments, then, progress of the resolution would be got. Thus, the proposed method functioned as an educational and simplified non-destruction examination.

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Experiences of Diabetes Education among Educators of Diabetes : a content analysis approach (당뇨병 교육자의 당뇨교육 경험: 내용분석적 접근)

  • Kang, Soo Jin;Chang, Soo Jung
    • Journal of Korean Public Health Nursing
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    • v.30 no.2
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    • pp.221-235
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    • 2016
  • Purpose: This study explored experiences of diabetes education among educators of diabetes. Methods: Data were collected from individual in-depth interviews with 10 nurses and 2 dieticians with had at least 3 years of experience in diabetes education. Data collection was conducted between May 2014 and February 2015. All interviews were recorded and stored as digital audio files, which were then transcribed verbatim. Data were analyzed through qualitative content analysis. Results: Analysis showed that four categories could be derived from the data: 1) barriers of diabetes education from an educator's perspective, 2) barriers of diabetes education form a patient's perspective, 3) facilitating factors of diabetes education from an educator's perspective, and 4) facilitating factors of diabetes education from a patient's perspective. Conclusion: This study suggests the necessity to strengthen the policy systems and financial support at a national level to provide diabetes education with higher quality to patients. In addition, it is required to develop various diabetes education programs with consideration to patient characteristics.

A Statistical Approach to Screening Product Design Variables for Modeling Product Usability (사용편의성에 영향을 미치는 제품 설계 변수의 통계적 선별 방법)

  • Kim, Jong-Seo;Han, Seong-Ho
    • Journal of the Ergonomics Society of Korea
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    • v.19 no.3
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    • pp.23-37
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    • 2000
  • Usability is one of the most important factors that affect customers' decision to purchase a product. Several studies have been conducted to model the relationship between the product design variables and the product usability. Since there could be hundreds of design variables to be considered in the model, a variable screening method is required. Traditional variable screening methods are based on expert opinions (Expert screening) in most Kansei engineering studies. Suggested in this study are statistical methods for screening important design variables by using the principal component regression(PCR), cluster analysis, and partial least squares(PLS) method. Product variables with high effect (PCR screening and PLS screening) or representative variables (Cluster screening) can be used to model the usability. Proposed variable screening methods are used to model the usability for 36 audio/visual products. The three analysis methods (PCR, Cluster, and PLS) show better model performance than the Expert screening in terms of $R^2$, the number of variables in the model, and PRESS. It is expected that these methods can be used for screening the product design variables efficiently.

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A Multivariate Analysis of Variance Applied to the Subjective Test of the Sound Quality of the Car Audio (차량 음향 시스템의 음질평가를 위한 다변량 분산분석)

  • Choi, Kyung-Mee;Doo, Se-Jin
    • The Korean Journal of Applied Statistics
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    • v.20 no.3
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    • pp.475-485
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    • 2007
  • In this work we measured and analyzed the subjective opinions of consumers towards the sound quality of car audios through a questionnaire. First of all, we chose eight controllable factors which had been known to affect the quality of reproduced sound. An orthogonal design of experiments was used to imitate the objective sound environments by reproducing the combinations of 8 sound characteristics, each with two levels. Then we defined 8 corresponding response variables to measure the subjective opinions towards the quality of reproduced sound. Finally, we applied the Multivariate Analysis of Valiance to explore the significant sound characteristics which affected the subjective opinions towards the quality of reproduced sound.

Comparison of alarm systems for advanced control room

  • Lee, H.C.;Oh, I.S.;Sim, B.S.;Koo, I.S.;Kim, J.T.;Lee, K.Y.;Park, J.K
    • Proceedings of the ESK Conference
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    • 1997.10a
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    • pp.303-309
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    • 1997
  • This study is carried out to investigate performance differences between two alarm presentation methods from the viewpoint of human factors and to provide items to be improved. One of the alarm display methods considered in this study displays alarm lists on VDT combined with hardwired alarm panels. The other method displays alarms on plant mimic diagrams of VDT. This alarm display method has other features for operator aid with which operator can get detailed information on the activated alarm in the mimic diagrams, and the capability for alarm processing such as alarm reduction and prioritization. To compare the twodisplay methods, a human factor experiment was performed with a plant simulator in the ITF(Integrated Test Fcility) that plant operators run for 4 event scenarios. During the experiment, physiological measurements, system and operator action log, and audio/video recordings were collected. Operators' subjective opinion was collected as well after the experiment. Time, error rate and situation awareness were major human factor criteria used for the comparison during the analysis stage of the experiment. No statistical significance was found in the results of our statistical comparison analysis. Several findings were identified, however, through the analysis of subjective opinions.

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An Asian Airline Implementation of Smartphone Collaboration: From Training to Operations (스마트폰을 활용한 항공사의 협업 사례 연구: 훈련 기간과 운영 기간의 차이 분석)

  • Dionne, Dante;Schutz, Douglas M.;Kim, Yong-Young
    • Journal of the Korea Convergence Society
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    • v.9 no.10
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    • pp.303-313
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    • 2018
  • In order to provide quality services across international airports, airline personnel must rapidly and effectively develop and share knowledge. Combining components of adaptive structuration theory (AST) and media synchronicity theory (MST), a research framework was developed to convey three distinct stages of knowledge sharing. We use the grounded theory research method for the qualitative data collected from audio transcripts of employees learning how to use and work with company issued smartphones with push-to-talk functionalities. Data was collected from 33 operations personnel. The results of the content analysis are recorded for the elements of each of the three concepts of our research framework. During the social interaction stage, the content of the audio conversations shifts mainly from conflict management to task management; for media synchronicity, from quality to quantity; for productive outcomes, from efficiency to commitment. New insights are uncovered from our analysis of data from the field as users advance from learning how to use the mobile devices, to using the devices for managing knowledge for their work in the airline industry.

Performance Analysis of PAR Reduction Method using Combined Method in OFDM (OFDM에서 혼합방법을 이용한 PAR 경감법의 성능 해석)

  • 변건식;장은영;김성곤;전제훈
    • Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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    • v.7 no.1
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    • pp.42-49
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    • 2003
  • OFDM should be used for the fourth generation communication for high speed communication. Because of high spectral efficiency and high tolerance to fading channel, OFDM is applied to many high speed wire and wireless communication such as DAB (Digital Audio Broadcast), DVB(Digital Video Broadcast), IMT 2000 etc. Inter-modulation, however, is derived from PAR(Peak to Average Power Ratio) of OFDM signals. The paper describes PTS(Partial Transmit Sequence) and SLM(Select Mapping) of an existing methods which can reduce PAR. And then this papers proposed the new method that is called "Combine method". The method proposed in this paper is to combine PTS and SLM. As a result of the simulation, Combine PAR method is better than the existing methods.

Analysis of ISO/MPEG-1 Audio Coding Method (ISO/MPEG-1 오디오 부호화 기술 분석)

  • Hong, J.W.
    • Electronics and Telecommunications Trends
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    • v.10 no.2 s.36
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    • pp.191-201
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    • 1995
  • ISO/MPEG 오디오 그룹은 2채널 스테레오 오디오에 대한 압축 부호화 알고리즘을 ISO/MPEG-1 오디오 표준으로 정하고, 국제 표준 (ISO 11172-3)으로 제정하였다. ISO/MPEG-1 오디오의 주요 목적중 하나는 한정된 용량의 저장매체나 제한된 전송채널의 조건하에서 고품질의 오디오를 저장하거나 전송할 수 있는 저비트율의 오디오 압축 부호화 알고리즘의 표준을 개발하는 것이다. 이를 위해 ISO/MPEG 오디오에서는 심리음향 특성을 모델링한 지각 부호화 방식을 사용하여 원신호와 재생신호 사이에 정보의 객관 측정량의 차이는 있으나 주관 측정량의 차이가 없도록 한다. 이 글에서는 ISO/MPEG-1 오디오 부호화의 계층 I과 계층 II를 중심으로 하여 표준의 개요, 청각 특성을 이용한 심리 음향 모델, 부호화 알고리즘, 데이타 구조, 그리고 응용분야 등에 대해 기술하였다.