• 대한인간공학회지
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• 제26권1호
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• pp.47-53
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• 2007

The uncanny valley is a hypothesis about robotics concerning the emotional response of humans to robots and other non-human entities. Although it stands today as one of the robots and synthetic characters, the uncanny valley was speculative and few studies have been performed to test the theory. In two experiments, a total of 183 participants were employed to explore this hypothesis. The results of experiment 1 indicate that the perceived human likeness of a robot is not a key factor causing uncanny valley. And the results of experiments 2 suggest that even if the appearance and motion of a robot become fully human, the emotional response of humans could not reach human-human empathy levels.

• 제어로봇시스템학회:학술대회논문집
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• 제어로봇시스템학회 2003년도 ICCAS
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• pp.360-365
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• 2003

In this paper, we have developed a general purpose motion controller using an FPGA(Field Programmable Gate Array). The multi-PID controllers on a single chip are implemented as a system-on-chip for multi-axis motion control. We also develop a PC GUI for an efficient interface control. Comparing with the commercial motion controller LM 629 it has multi-independent PID controllers so that it has several advantages such as space effectiveness, low cost and lower power consumption. In order to test the performance of the proposed controller, robot finger is controlled. The robot finger has three fingers with 2 joints each. Finger movements show that position tracking was very effective. Another experiment of balancing an inverted pendulum on a cart has been conducted to show the generality of the proposed FPGA PID controller. The controller has well maintained the balance of the pendulum.

• 제어로봇시스템학회논문지
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• 제20권6호
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• pp.599-605
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• 2014

This paper presents the interactive behavior modeling method based on POMDP (Partially Observable Markov Decision Process) for HRI (Human-Robot Interaction). HRI seems similar to conversational interaction in point of interaction between human and a robot. The POMDP has been popularly used in conversational interaction system. The POMDP can efficiently handle uncertainty of observable variables in conversational interaction system. In this paper, the input variables of the proposed conversational HRI system in POMDP are the input information of sensors and the log of used service. The output variables of system are the name of robot behaviors. The robot behavior presents the motion occurred from LED, LCD, Motor, sound. The suggested conversational POMDP-based HRI system was applied to an emotional robot KIBOT. In the result of human-KIBOT interaction, this system shows the flexible robot behavior in real world.

• Journal of Multimedia Information System
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• 제4권2호
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• pp.83-88
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• 2017

The era of the fourth industrial revolution, which will bring about a great wave of change in the 21st century, is the age of super-connection that links humans to humans, objects to objects, and humans to objects. In the smart city and the smart space which are evolving further, emotional engineering is a field of interdisciplinary researches that still attract attention with the development of technology. This paper proposes an emotional object prototype as a possibility of emotional interaction in the relation between human and object. By suggesting emotional objects that produce color changes and movements through the emotional interactions between humans and objects against the current social issue-loneliness of modern people, we have approached the influence of our lives in the relation with objects. It is expected that emotional objects that are approached from the fundamental view will be able to be in our lives as a viable cultural intermediary in our future living space.

• 문화기술의 융합
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• 제6권2호
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• pp.561-566
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• 2020

본 논문은 우울증 진단 환자의 증상 완화를 위한 참참참 놀이 및 끝말잇기 놀이 로봇을 설계 및 구현한다. 우울증의 핵심 증상은 삶에 대한 흥미와 관심을 상실하는 것으로, 우울증 진단 환자가 로봇을 통해 자신의 표정에 드러나는 감정 분석을 확인하고 참참참 혹은 끝말잇기 놀이를 진행한다. 놀이 후 표정에 드러나는 감정을 다시 분석하여 보고 받음으로 구현 로봇의 기능을 확인한다. 간단한 놀이를 통해 우울증을 진단 받은 환자의 질환이 완벽하게 치료될 수는 없지만, 점진적인 활용을 통해 증상 완화에 기여할 수 있다. 참참참, 끝말잇기 놀이 로봇의 설계는 Thecorpora사의 상호작용이 가능한 오픈소스형 로봇 Q.bo One를 사용한다. Q.bo One의 시스템은 사용자의 얼굴을 캡쳐하여 사진을 촬영하고, Azure 서버에 값을 전달하여 축적된 데이터를 통해 놀이 전 후의 감정 분석을 확인한다. 놀이는 Q.bo One의 OS인 라즈비안에서 프로그래밍 언어 Python을 활용하여 구현하고 외부센서들과 상호작용하여 작동하도록 구현한다. 본 논문은 놀이 로봇으로 비교적 짧은 시간에 우울증 진단 환자의 증상 완화에 도움을 주는 것을 목적으로 한다.

• 대한간호학회지
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• 제39권4호
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• pp.562-573
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• 2009

Purpose: The purpose of this study was to identify the effects on the cognitive function, Activities of Daily Living (ADL), mood, social behaviors, and problematic behaviors of robot pet-assisted program for elderly people with dementia. Methods: This study was a nonequivalent control group pretest-posttest design. The participants were 32 elders with dementia. Seventeen were assigned to the experimental group and 15 to the control group. The intervention was conducted twicea week for 6 weeks. Results: 1) After the program, cognitive function, ADL, and social behaviors did not show significant differences. 2) After the program, mood of experimental group was significantly better than that of the control group. 3) After the program, problematic behaviors of the experimental group were significantly more diminished than those of control group. 4) As a result of analyzing the response, robot pet-assisted program was effective such as inducing a positive emotional state and increasing communication and interaction. Conclusion: The robot pet-assisted program was effective in changing the mood and diminishing problematic behaviors and had positive effects such as increasing communication and interaction for elders with dementia. Therefore, this program should be considered as a positive program for physical and emotional support for elders with dementia.

• 한국컴퓨터정보학회논문지
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• 제17권7호
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• pp.13-22
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• 2012

본 논문에서는 Web 2.0 기반의 자유로운 저작과 전이가 가능한 유비쿼터스 소프트웨어 로봇의 플랫폼 구조를 설계하고 구현한다. 언제, 어디서든지, 임의의 장치로 전이되며 사용자에게 맞춤형 감성형 서비스를 제공하기 위해선, 소프트웨어 로봇이 표준화된 데이터와 구조를 지니는 플랫폼 형태로 개발되어야 한다. 이에 본 논문에서 제안된 소프트웨어 로봇 플랫폼 (Sobot 플랫폼)은 크게 단말 플랫폼, 서버 플랫폼, 저작 도구의 3가지로 구성되어 있으며, 이를 이용하여 PC, 휴대폰, PDA, 웹포탈, 실제 로봇 상에서 사용자가 직접 감성형 소봇 컨텐츠를 제작하고 이들 사이에 감성형 소봇의 자유로운 전이가 가능하다. Web 2.0 기반의 Sobot 플랫폼의 의의 고찰 및 다양한 실험 결과는 제안된 Sobot 플랫폼의 effectiveness와 feasibility를 입증한다.

• 공학교육연구
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• 제14권3호
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• pp.31-37
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• 2011

This article presents program development and analysis of a creative robot school for elementary school at the local university. The purpose of opening the creative robot school is to give motivation to children for having interests in science and engineering at their young ages. The creative robot school program is developed by using facilities of a local university to spread scientific knowledge to young children in their communities to draw their interests in science as well as an engineering field for future careers. Since the robot system is a popular subject to draw attention of children and has a relation with Mechatronics Engineering, a program related with robots is selected for educating children. College students are also involved in helping children to build robots within a given time. Experiences and self-evaluations from the previously held creative robot schools at Chungnam National University(CNU) are presented to share with.

• 감성과학
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• 제17권4호
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• pp.61-70
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• 2014

로봇과 인간의 상호작용에서 언어에 의한 정보 전달은 상호작용의 한계가 있으므로, 더욱 원활하고 효율적인 의사소통과 나아가 로봇의 감정 표현까지 구현하기 위해서는 비언어적 커뮤니케이션이 필요하다. 본 연구에서는 쇼핑을 지원하는 로봇을 전제로 하여 쇼핑 행태에 따른 7가지 비언어적 정보를 도출하였다. 도출된 비언어적 정보의 요소로서 표정을 선정하고, 2D 분석을 통하여 얼굴 구성요소를 코드화 하였다. 얼굴 구성요소의 코드를 조합한 3D 애니메이션을 이용하여 비언어적 정보의 표현에 대한 유의성을 분석하였다. 분석 결과, 제안된 비언어적 정보의 표현 방법은 높은 수준의 유의성을 보여 비언어적 정보 연구의 기초자료로서 활용 가능성이 확인되었다. 다만, '당황'의 경우 코드화된 얼굴 구성 요소의 모양 적용에 한계가 있으며 보다 체계적 연구가 요구된다.

• 디지털산업정보학회논문지
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• 제5권4호
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• pp.169-177
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• 2009

In come cases, people differently respond on the same joke or thoughtless behavior - sometimes like it and laugh, another time feel annoyed or angry. This fact is explained that experiences which we had in the past are remembered by emotional memory, so they cause different responses. When people face similar situation or feel similar emotion, they evoke the emotion experienced in the past and the emotional memory affects current emotion. This paper suggested the mechanism of the emotional memory using SOM through the similarity between the emotional memory and SOM learning algorithm. It was assumed that the mechanism of the emotional memory has also the characteristics of association memory, long-term memory and short-term memory in its process of remembering emotional experience, which are known as the characteristics of the process of remembering factual experience. And then these characteristics were applied. The mechanism of the emotional memory designed like this was applied to toy hammer game and I measured the change in the power of toy hammer caused by differently responding on the same stimulus. The mechanism of the emotional memory suggest in above is expected to apply to the fields of game, robot engineering, because the mechanism can express various emotions on the same stimulus.