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A Study on the Continuing Education & Training Program for the Disabled Users Service Special Librarian (도서관장애인서비스 담당사서를 위한 계속교육 프로그램 개발에 관한 연구)

  • Kim, Hye-Joo
    • Journal of the Korean BIBLIA Society for library and Information Science
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    • v.26 no.2
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    • pp.173-197
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    • 2015
  • The purpose of this study proposes continuing education program development for disability services librarian training. To this end, there was researched and analysed the Curriculum for the librarian disability service training courses and the library services with disability and LIS curriculums in abroad and domestic. Based on the research results obtained by the more comprehensive study developed a model for continuing education programs to strengthen disability services librarian competencies. Models were divided program is being offered to Track 1, 2. There are Education types which are organized cyber-shaped form of education training, set-type training, and was organized in blended learning.

A Study on Accessibility of the Walk Environment in University Campus Facilities (대학교 캠퍼스 내·외부 보행환경의 '접근성'에 관한 연구)

  • Won, Sun-Young;Kim, Sung-Jun;Lee, Hyo-Chang;Kim, Dae-Jin;Park, Jung-Ah;Ha, Mi-Kyoung
    • KIEAE Journal
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    • v.9 no.1
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    • pp.11-21
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    • 2009
  • Today the realization of a welfare society is urgently needed as growing of economy. To promptly meet the needs of the times, the ratio of a matriculation of the physically disabled is getting higher, stretching opportunities of a higher education. But, the walk environment in university educational facilities is still insufficient because of the indifference to the education of the physically disabled. The purpose of this research is to suggest the direction to improve the walk environment for all users through evaluation of the accessibility of the walk environment in university educational facilities, and the scope of the research is the internal and external walk environment of university educational facilities. The first step of the research is preparatory study review to extract the elements of the accessibility of the Universal Design Principles. And then, we evaluate the accessibility of university educational facilities through the site visits. The results of this research are as following: 1) The internal and external walk environment of university educational facilities needs more physical improvement for keeping accessibility. 2) We need to provide consistent guidances from the external sidewalks to main entrances, slopes, staircases, elevators, and corridors. 3) The walk environment of university educational facilities needs to maintain continuously.

Estimation of remodeling of small-scale houses to improve the residential environment for the underprivileged - case study on the TV program 'Love House' for free residential remodeling - (소외계층의 주거환경개선을 위한 소규모 주택 리모델링에 관한 평가연구 - TV 방송 무료주택 리모델링 프로그램 '러브하우스' 사례조사를 중심으로-)

  • Yang, Se-Eun
    • Korean Institute of Interior Design Journal
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    • v.17 no.3
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    • pp.34-42
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    • 2008
  • The objective of this research is not only making the planning guides regarding a small-scale residential remodeling but also examining closely the social roles of the interior design for the poor and the underprivileged class by analyzing the residential remodeling cases. The scope of research includes 40 remodeling houses free of charge which are broadcasted in the TV program 'Love House'. Taking in consideration the characteristics of users like parentless or single-parent families and families with disabled persons, this study uses the spatial approach, user's convenience approach and psychological problem solving approach, in terms of the methodology. In result of the analysis of their interior design, first of all, it is essential solving the problem of limited house space by comparison with the family number. Second, the universal design concept for the family with disabled persons(72.5%), old persons or children is strengthened guaranteeing privacy in small and old interior space. Third, the interior design is focused in increasing communication among family members, because mental and physical obstacle would obstruct accessibility among them. This research shows the importance of the interior design which makes wide social roles contributing to create "welfare society".

Validity of a new information and communication technology platform for oral health care of persons with disabilities

  • Lee, Jae-Young;Paik, Hye Ran;Kim, Young-Jae;Jin, Bo-Hyoung
    • Journal of Korean society of Dental Hygiene
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    • v.21 no.3
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    • pp.211-225
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    • 2021
  • Objectives: To validate the role of a new information and communication technology platform that we created for the betterment of the oral health of persons with disabilities and for providing appropriate health care services. Methods: A Delphi survey was conducted among 16 people in various professions, including academia, government agencies, and dentistry, to evaluate the validity of the information and communication technology platform. Moreover, platform satisfaction was evaluated using a user experience questionnaire among 200 people, including persons with disabilities, parents, and public institutions. Results: Experts in consensus indicated a high validity for the categories of service provider (CV=0.29, CVR=0.69), service target (CV=0.29, CVR=0.38), service contests (CV=0.27, CVR=0.63), and financial support (CV=0.30, CVR=0.63) in our information and communication technology platform. In addition, information from questionnaires on user experience and communication technology satisfaction analysis showed that both users and providers were highly satisfied with the platform. Conclusions: The provision of oral health services based on the new information and communication technology platform has numerous advantages, in addition to providing adequate oral health care for the disabled. Furthermore, the social safety net for improved oral health may be further strengthened.

Survival of Mothers with Disabled Children in Social Welfare Institutions : Growing from Passive Actors to Active Actors (뇌병변 장애자녀 어머니들의 사회복지제도 속에서 생존하기 : 수동적 행위자에서 능동적 행위자로 거듭나기)

  • Cho, Yu-Jin;Kim, Suyoung
    • Korean Journal of Social Welfare Studies
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    • v.47 no.1
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    • pp.93-121
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    • 2016
  • The aim of this study is to reveal development processes of mothers with disabled children as active human agents utilizing social welfare institutions. Many social welfare studies have generally described welfare service users as passive subjects alienated from welfare information and subordinate to dominant welfare system. However, this investigation indicates that they do not merely remain as passive policy targets. They also perform as active actors who seek for useful information, strategically acquire profits in the given system despite institutional constraints, and create new welfare institutions. Through in-depth interviews with 11 mothers of disabled children with brain lesions, this study has derived a grounded theory on the mothers' maturation processes in interaction with social welfare institutions, which consist 6 stages(entering, awakening, exploring, struggling, resigning and utilizing period). This substantive analysis on the survival processes of mothers with disabled children in the social welfare system provides empirical knowledge and evidence about relationship between the structure and agents. It also suggests a practical policy proposal for disabled people and their families based on these stages.

Analysis of the Evacuation Safety in a Fire at Welfare Center for Disabled (장애인복지관 화재 시 피난안전성 분석)

  • Park, Sunah;Lee, Jai Young
    • Journal of the Korea Convergence Society
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    • v.12 no.12
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    • pp.315-322
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    • 2021
  • This study analyzes the Required Safe Egress Time (RSET), in the event of a fire at a welfare center for the disabled, using the emergency passage according to the floor arrangement of users to evaluate the safety and the difference in RSET for each emergency passage using the Pathfinder simulation program to suggest an efficient evacuation method. As a result of RSET, it was found that there is no problem in evacuation safety for the current state of the facility's personnel allocation by satisfying the standard RSET in case of fire, and evacuation can be completed safely by evacuating through stairs rather than using elevators if possible. It is necessary for employees to be provided sufficient education and training in advance so that they can evacuate effectively with the disabled in case of fire. This study gives significance in saving many precious lives and safely evacuate in case of fire as evacuation routes were secured through the design, construction and operation of facilities for the disabled and the RSET was shortened through regular evacuation practices. It is necessary to discuss the further RSET studies based on the automatic fire shutters open or not when a fire occurs at a specific location following the installation of automatic fire shutter at the entrance of each floor of the facilities.

A Study on the Current Status Analysis of Reasonable Accommodations at Exhibition Facilities (전시시설의 정당한 편의 제공 실태에 관한 연구)

  • Lee, Kyoo Il;Kim, In Soon;Lee, Ki Jung;Lee, Tae Eun
    • 재활복지
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    • v.17 no.4
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    • pp.311-338
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    • 2013
  • The Act of Disability Discrimination and Rights Restriction was enacted in 2008 states that all services including cultural and artistic activities should be fair and easily accessible for disabled. The aim of this study was to determine how to improve the facilities and services for the disabled in exhibition facilities and provide complementary guidelines for amenities designed for people with disabled. The conclusions identified through this study are as follows: 1) It should be installed pedestrian safe passage so that visitors could access from the entrance of the ground to inside of the exhibition facility. 2) The floor of the exhibition hall should be installed not slip, and dangerous obstacles placed in the corridor should be removed. 3) It Should be considered that visually impaired and wheelchair users are use different facilities at toilet and elevator. 4) To guide the visually impaired and hearing impaired it should be prepared palpable map, braille signage, miniature and brochures. 5) Visually impaired and hearing impaired can experience the exhibits by using a variety of senses, therefore it may need to provide assistive devices and human services.

Design of Contactless Gesture-based Rhythm Action Game Interface for Smart Mobile Devices

  • Ju, Da-Young
    • Journal of the Ergonomics Society of Korea
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    • v.31 no.4
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    • pp.585-591
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    • 2012
  • Objective: The aim of this study is to propose the contactless gesture-based interface on smart mobile devices for especially rhythm action games. Background: Most existing approaches about interactions of smart mobile games are tab on the touch screen. However that way is such undesirable for someone or for sometimes, because of the disabled person, or the inconvenience that users need to touch/tab specific devices. Moreover more importantly, new interaction can derive new possibilities from stranded game genre. Method: In this paper, I present a smart mobile game with contactless gesture-based interaction and the interfaces using computer vision technology. Discovering the gestures which are easy to recognize and research of interaction system that fits to game on smart mobile device are conducted as previous studies. A combination between augmented reality technique and contactless gesture interaction is also tried. Results: The rhythm game allows a user to interact with smart mobile devices using hand gestures, without touching or tabbing the screen. Moreover users can feel fun in the game as other games. Conclusion: Evaluation results show that users make low failure numbers, and the game is able to recognize gestures with quite high precision in real time. Therefore the contactless gesture-based interaction has potentials to smart mobile game. Application: The results are applied to the commercial game application.

Design of Case-based Intelligent Wheelchair Monitoring System

  • Kim, Tae Yeun;Seo, Dae Woong;Bae, Sang Hyun
    • Journal of Integrative Natural Science
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    • v.10 no.3
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    • pp.162-170
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    • 2017
  • In this paper, it is aim to implement a wheelchair monitoring system that provides users with customized medical services easily in everyday life, together with mobility guarantee, which is the most basic requirement of the elderly and disabled persons with physical disabilities. The case-based intelligent wheelchair monitoring system proposed in this study is based on a case-based k-NN algorithm, which implements a system for constructing and inferring examples of various biometric and environmental information of wheelchair users as a knowledge database and a monitoring interface for wheelchair users. In order to confirm the usefulness of the case-based k-NN algorithm, the SVM algorithm showed an average accuracy of 84.2% and the average accuracy of the proposed case-based k-NN algorithm was 86.2% And showed higher performance in terms of accuracy. The system implemented in this paper has the advantage of measuring biometric information and data communication regardless of time and place and it can provide customized service of wheelchair user through user friendly interface.

A Study on Life-log Analysis and Monitoring System for Disabled Person Using Smart Media (스마트 미디어를 활용한 장애인 라이프 로그의 분석 및 모니터링 시스템에 관한 연구)

  • Hwang, Myong-Gu;Lee, Sang-Moon;Seo, Jeong-Min
    • Journal of the Korea Society of Computer and Information
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    • v.17 no.8
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    • pp.99-106
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    • 2012
  • In recent years, many researchers studies to promote the welfare of disabled people using IT technology. In particular, their suggestions are used a lot of mobile sensor installed on the street. These systems are acquired and to store the data sent to the server over the network, and by analyzing the users life log to judge of their risk state. In particular, persons with disabilities are exposed to various risks. So, they must need to the guardians if he go out. Thus, this study is a method for alleviating these so much pressure to smart appliances and impaired life log analysis system.