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Technology Acceptance of Industry 4.0 Applying UTAUT2: Focusing on AR and Drone Services (UTAUT2를 응용한 4차 산업 기술수용에 관한 연구: 증강현실(AR)과 드론 서비스를 중심으로)

  • Kim, Ki-Bong;Chung, Byoung-Gyu
    • Journal of Information Technology Applications and Management
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    • v.26 no.6
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    • pp.29-46
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    • 2019
  • This study analyzed the factors influencing the technology acceptance of the general public in the drones and ARs, one of the key technologies of the industry 4.0. The theoretical basis was the extended unified theory of acceptance and use of technology model(UTAUT2), which uses performance expectancy, effort expectancy, social influence, facilitating conditions, and hedonic motivation as factors common to both services. The price value factor was excluded considering that most ARs were free, and the perceived risk factors, including privacy, which were not in UTAUT2, were included because they are important factors for ICT technology acceptance. The hypothesis was tested by structure equation model. Social influence and hedonic motivation had a positive(+) effect on intention to use technology. On the other hand, in the case of effort expectancy, neither the AR nor the drone had a significant influence on intention to use technology. Furthermore, performance expectancy had a positive(+) effect on intention to use in AR, but no significant influence was found out in drones. On the contrary, in the case of the facilitating conditions, the influence of the drones was positive (+), but the relation of AR was not investigated. The perceived risk was tested for the negative (-) influence of use intention of AR, but no significant relationship was found out for the drones. Among the significant influencing factors, hedonic motivation was the most powerful factor in AR and drones. Theoretical and practical implications are presented based on these results.

An alternative method for smartphone input using AR markers

  • Kang, Yuna;Han, Soonhung
    • Journal of Computational Design and Engineering
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    • v.1 no.3
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    • pp.153-160
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    • 2014
  • As smartphones came into wide use recently, it has become increasingly popular not only among young people, but among middle-aged people as well. Most smartphones adopt capacitive full touch screen, so touch commands are made by fingers unlike the PDAs in the past that use touch pens. In this case, a significant portion of the smartphone's screen is blocked by the finger so it is impossible to see the screens around the finger touching the screen; this causes difficulties in making precise inputs. To solve this problem, this research proposes a method of using simple AR markers to improve the interface of smartphones. A marker is placed in front of the smartphone camera. Then, the camera image of the marker is analyzed to determine the position of the marker as the position of the mouse cursor. This method can enable click, double-click, drag-and-drop used in PCs as well as touch, slide, long-touch-input in smartphones. Through this research, smartphone inputs can be made more precise and simple, and show the possibility of the application of a new concept of smartphone interface.

AR-based Tangible Interaction Using a Finger Fixture for Digital Handheld Products (손가락 고정구를 이용한 휴대용 전자제품의 증강현실기반 감각형 상호작용)

  • Park, Hyung-Jun;Moon, Hee-Cheol
    • Korean Journal of Computational Design and Engineering
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    • v.16 no.1
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    • pp.1-10
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    • 2011
  • In this paper, we propose an AR-based tangible interaction using a finger fixture for virtual evaluation of digital handheld products. To realize tangible interaction between a user and a product in a computer-vision based AR environment, we uses two types of tangible objects: a product-type object and a finger fixture. The product-type object is used to acquire the position and orientation of the product, and the finger fixture is used to recognize the position of a finger tip. The two objects are fabricated by RP technology and AR markers are attached to them. The finger fixture is designed to satisfy various requirements with an ultimate goal that the user holding the finger fixture in his or her index finger can create HMI events by touching specified regions (buttons or sliders) of the product-type object with the finger tip. By assessing the accuracy of the proposed interaction, we have found that it can be applied to a wide variety of digital handheld products whose button size is not less than 6 mm. After performing the design evaluation of several handheld products using the proposed AR-based tangible interaction, we received highly encouraging feedback from users since the proposed interaction is intuitive and tangible enough to provide a feeling like manipulating products with human hands.

Research on Development and Customer Response of a Virtual Wedding Experience Application (가상체험 기반 웨딩 애플리케이션 개발 및 소비자 반응 조사)

  • Choi, Jin-Eun;Kim, Kyung-Hee
    • Journal of the Korean Society of Costume
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    • v.65 no.1
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    • pp.61-75
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    • 2015
  • This study is analyzes how consumers view the market leading Virtual Wedding Application in order to contribute to the development of the wedding industry in the future. The research consists of the following steps: questionnaires with detailed items were used to develop the application, the wedding application was developed, and questionnaires were used to get consumer responses. The results are as follows: 1) paid application service providing useful information is appropriate for busy consumers. 2) Regular updates regarding wedding trend are needed. 3) Augmented reality or development of HMD based virtual experience programs should be considered as virtual experience technology on smart devices evolve. 4) Wedding consumers want all kinds of instant information to be presented in harmony, so the application should allow consumers to obtain and to purchase information at the same time. 5) The application can help consumers to share the process of total wedding coordination with others around them. 6) Since people's awareness on virtual experience is relatively low, marketing strategies such as identifying the wedding application from other applications should be used as well as promoting useful functions are important.

Implementation of Demo Program for Visual Communication in Compliance with MPEG-21 Part 22: User Description (MPEG-UD 표준을 준수하는 비쥬얼 커뮤니케이션 데모 프로그램 개발)

  • Lim, Hea-Jin;Choi, Jang-Sik;Jeon, Jin-Young;Byun, Hyung-Gi
    • Journal of Sensor Science and Technology
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    • v.25 no.4
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    • pp.297-301
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    • 2016
  • ISO/IEC JTC1/SC29WG11 MPEG has been standardizing UD(user description) to give a user personalized recommendation services. Besides, CD(context description), service description(SD), and recommendation description(RD) are recently being standardized by UD Adhoc Group in MPEG with an advanced UD to cope with needs of current and upcoming services such as augmented reality and social network. The descriptions was reflected to MPEG-UD WD(Working Draft) at MPEG $107^{th}$ meeting and the document was finally approved as international standard by national bodies with standard number(ISO/IEC IS 21000-22 UD) at $114^{th}$ MPEG meeting. In addition, reference software WD to validate conformance of UD standard was approved at $113^{th}$ MPEG meeting. In this paper, we developed a demo program for visual communication according to guideline defined in reference software WD to validate the reference software as well as UD standard.

Comparison of Drift Reduction Methods for Pedestrian Dead Reckoning Based on a Shoe-Mounted IMU

  • Jung, Woo Chang;Lee, Jung Keun
    • Journal of Sensor Science and Technology
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    • v.28 no.6
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    • pp.345-354
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    • 2019
  • The 3D position of pedestrians is a physical quantity used in various fields, such as automotive navigation and augmented reality. An inertial navigation system (INS) based pedestrian dead reckoning (PDR), hereafter INS-PDR, estimates the relative position of pedestrians using an inertial measurement unit (IMU). Since an INS-PDR integrates the accelerometer signal twice, cumulative errors occur and cause a rapid increase in drifts. Various correction methods have been proposed to reduce drifts. For example, one of the most commonly applied correction method is the zero velocity update (ZUPT). This study investigated the characteristics of the existing INS-PDR methods based on shoe-mounted IMU and compared the estimation performances under various conditions. Four methods were chosen: (i) altitude correction (AC); (ii) step length correction (SLC); (iii) advanced heuristic drift elimination (AHDE); and (iv) magnetometer-based heading correction (MHC). Experimental results reveal that each of the correction methods shows condition-sensitive performance, that is, each method performs better under the test conditions for which the method was developed than it does under other conditions. Nevertheless, AC and AHDE performed better than the SLC and MHC overall. The AC and AHDE methods were complementary to each other, and a combination of the two methods yields better estimation performance.

2D Emotion Classification using Short-Time Fourier Transform of Pupil Size Variation Signals and Convolutional Neural Network (동공크기 변화신호의 STFT와 CNN을 이용한 2차원 감성분류)

  • Lee, Hee-Jae;Lee, David;Lee, Sang-Goog
    • Journal of Korea Multimedia Society
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    • v.20 no.10
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    • pp.1646-1654
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    • 2017
  • Pupil size variation can not be controlled intentionally by the user and includes various features such as the blinking frequency and the duration of a blink, so it is suitable for understanding the user's emotional state. In addition, an ocular feature based emotion classification method should be studied for virtual and augmented reality, which is expected to be applied to various fields. In this paper, we propose a novel emotion classification based on CNN with pupil size variation signals which include not only various ocular feature information but also time information. As a result, compared to previous studies using the same database, the proposed method showed improved results of 5.99% and 12.98% respectively from arousal and valence emotion classification.

A Study on Usage of Integrated Digital-Physical Structure on Physical Homeostasis Space for Stress Reduction (디지털-피지컬 구조를 이용한 신체 항상성 유지 공간 연구)

  • Kang, Min Soo
    • Journal of Korea Multimedia Society
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    • v.23 no.4
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    • pp.574-580
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    • 2020
  • Stress induces change to the body functions and causes chronic problems such as worsening a disease. Thus, humans want to evade anxiety and would try any means to reduce stressful situations. Generally, a person would handle their stress by either regulating their emotions or merely coping with the situation, for which the former is most widely used. Our research aims to effectively reduce stress by using the emotional response structure developed by Plutichik and the vitalization method. We extracted the relevant components of the stress-reduction method that would be applicable in any space using digital technologies such as sensors, IoT, and augmented reality. An architect or designer may incorporate these structural components into any structure to effectively reduce people's stress. The research aims to provide a new perspective of architectural space and to show applications of the stress-reducing architectural spaces, which should also fulfill the people's needs. Further research is needed to develop an automatic system to utilize spatial components more effectively.

A Study on the Application of the Nail Shop using Augmented Reality (증강현실을 이용한 네일 샵 적용 방안 연구)

  • Jeon, Hyoung-Bae;Hong, Seong-Yong
    • Proceedings of the Korean Information Science Society Conference
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    • 2011.06c
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    • pp.362-364
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    • 2011
  • 1990년 증강현실이라는 용어가 처음 사용된 후 2000년대 중반까지는 연구개발 및 시험적용단계에 머물러 있었으나, 최근 카메라와 그래픽 처리 능력을 높인 단말기, 충분한 속도의 무선통신, GPS 등의 기능을 갖춘 스마트 폰이 등장하면서 실용화 단계에 진입을 하였다. 국내 네일 산업은 2008년 시장규모 4830억 원으로 매년 고속 성장을 하고 있으며 일본의 경우 2010년도에 약2015억 엔으로 2009년도의 약1971억 엔에 비교하여 2.2% 증가하였다. 이처럼 시장의 규모는 매년 커지고 다양해지면서 여러 번의 시행착오를 거쳐야 마음에 드는 네일 케어를 받을 수 있기 때문에 상당히 힘들고 번거롭다. 그래서 본 논문에서는 유비쿼터스 시대를 맞이하여 증강현실을 이용한 네일 샵 적용 방안을 연구하였다. 증강현실 기술을 이용하면 색을 칠하기 전 색이 자신의 손에 맞는지를 알아볼 수 있고 예상되는 결과를 알아 볼 수 있어서 다양해진 소비자들의 니즈를 충족시켜 줄 뿐만 아니라 네일 케어를 받기 전 시행착오를 겪는 소비자들에게 도움을 줄 것이다. 따라서 본 논문에서 제시한 증강현실을 이용한 네일 샵 적용은 국내뿐만 아니라 세계적으로 네일 산업분야에 큰 발전을 도래 할 수 있을 것으로 기대한다.

Development of Mobile AR Contents for Infant English Cognitive Training (유아영어 인지 능력 개발을 위한 모바일 AR 콘텐츠 개발)

  • Oh, Yeon-Jae;Kim, Eung-Kon
    • The Journal of the Korea institute of electronic communication sciences
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    • v.10 no.2
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    • pp.297-304
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    • 2015
  • Importance and necessity is enlarged due to globalization. So, English education is diverse and recently applies AR(Augmented Reality) technology to offer immersion and interest. Contents in this paper are Mobile AR contents for training infant English cognition. Our system displays teaching aid objects into 3D models, lets infants listen to English conversation and teaches them everyday English like a play. Considering infants that like games, this system adds an English game about each object of teach aids. To attract infants and parents interest persistingly, We give them immersion and interest by suggesting a different event at each step.