• Journal of KIISE:Computing Practices and Letters
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• v.16 no.5
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• pp.525-530
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• 2010

Currently, most context-aware services are built by developers. Some researchers argued that services should be defined by end users, who understand their own needs best. We view that the significance of enabling the user to define his/her personalized services will multiply as our living spaces grow smarter. This paper introduces a novel method called CASPER, which is capable of deriving personalized services from the log of user's activities of daily living. CASPER can generate useful services that even the user may not perceive, mining causality of events in the log. We present the algorithm of CASPER in detail and discuss the result of an experiment which we conducted as a proof of concept.

• Journal of Korean Physical Therapy Science
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• v.30 no.4
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• pp.1-8
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• 2023

Background: This study evaluates the usability of the Motion-Tracking Gait Assistive Walker (MTGAW) designed for elderly individuals and those with disabilities, identifying areas for improvement through interviews with physical and occupational therapists. Design: A survey study involves the usability test for MTGAW. Methods: Usability evaluations were conducted with 37 physical therapists and occupational therapists. The process included explanation, product usage, satisfaction surveys, and interviews. A satisfaction survey covering 19 items across safety, maneuverability, usability, and management areas was administered. Individual interviews identified areas for improvement. Results: Overall, high satisfaction was reported across the four areas, but interviews highlighted the need for improvements, such as addressing discomfort due to slow speed and enhancing safety measures to prevent rear-end falls. Adjusting the walker's height and width to suit the user's physique was also suggested. Conclusion: MTGAW enhances walking support and hand movement freedom but needs refinement in speed control, fall prevention, and customization based on the user physique. Future efforts should focus on developing an improved MTGAW, considering recommendations from physical therapy experts, and conducting studies to analyze its clinical effectiveness for commercialization.

• International Journal of Contents
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• v.10 no.2
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• pp.37-41
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• 2014

This study defined the pre-elderly as middle age people from 50 to 59. Because it is difficult to produce a design to satisfy the pre-elderly without deeply understanding them, their financial and physical characteristics and persona-based scenario method was studied. An experimental study about persona based scenario method was conducted, and as a result, the types of personas found were as follows: 1) Users enjoy the same games online and offline. 2) Users enjoy playing alone on the computer. 3) Users prefer games that end quickly with win or loss. Writing the situation scenario for each type, the pre-elderly's problems and needs occurring while they play web board games were obtained. The obtained user requests were as follows: users would like the level of difficulty to be simpler in the game of baduk; users wanted unlimited credit and refrainment from using English words in go-Stop; and there were simple comments about game screen design.

• International Journal of Computer Science & Network Security
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• v.23 no.10
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• pp.73-80
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• 2023

The recent growth in the use of mobile devices has contributed to increased computing and storage requirements. Cloud computing has been used over the past decade to cater to computational and storage needs over the internet. However, the use of various mobile applications like Augmented Reality (AR), M2M Communications, V2X Communications, and the Internet of Things (IoT) led to the emergence of mobile cloud computing (MCC). All data from mobile devices is offloaded and computed on the cloud, removing all limitations incorporated with mobile devices. However, delays induced by the location of data centers led to the birth of edge computing technologies. In this paper, we discuss one of the edge computing technologies, i.e., cloudlet. Cloudlet brings the cloud close to the end-user leading to reduced delay and response time. An algorithm is proposed for scheduling tasks on cloudlet by considering VM's load. Simulation results indicate that the proposed algorithm provides 12% and 29% improvement over EMACS and QRR while balancing the load.

• Journal of The Korea Institute of Healthcare Architecture
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• v.21 no.4
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• pp.27-36
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• 2015

Purpose: Of late, the focus of service design is moving toward emphasizing customer satisfaction and taking users' experience more seriously. In addition to the change in perspective in service design, scholars in this area are paying more attention to service design methodology and process, as well as its theory and real-world case studies. In the case of medical space, there have been few studies in attempting to apply service design methods useful for deriving user-focused results. The author of this paper believes, however, case study-oriented approaches are more needed in this area rather than ones focusing on theoretical aspects. The author hopes thereby to expand the horizon to practical application of spatial design beyond service design methodology. Methods: In order to incorporate the strengths of service design methodology that can reflect a variety of user opinions, this study will introduce diverse tools in the framework of double diamond process. In addition, it will present field cases that successfully brought about best results in medical space design. It will end with summarizing the ideal process of medical space design which is reasonable and comprehensive. Results: Medical service encompasses preventive medicine as well as treatment of existing medical conditions. A study in establishing the platform of medical service design consists of a wide range of trend research, followed by the summary of two-matrix design classification based on results of the trend research. The draft of design process is divided into five stages composed of basic tools for establishing spatial flow lines created by matching service design tools with each stage of space design processes. In all this, most important elements to consider are communication and empathy. When service design is actually applied to space design, one can see that output has reflected the users' needs very well. The service design process for user-oriented medical space can thus be established by interactions on the final outcome and feedback on the results. Implications: One can see that the service design with the hospital at its center produces the result that encompasses the user's needs best. If the user-focused service design process for medical space can be extended to other space designs, the author believes that it would enhance the level of satisfaction for users and minimize trials and errors.

• Transactions of the Korean Society of Automotive Engineers
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• v.13 no.2
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• pp.1-9
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• 2005

An end beam is one of the most important structural members supporting uncovered freight under in-service loading. In general, it needs to endure over 25 years. However fatigue fracture has occurred at dynamic stress concentration location of the end beam because user's specifications demanded high speed and vehicle manufacturer made the uncovered freight car with comparatively low strength and stiffness. For durability analysis, finite element analysis is performed to evaluate the problem of uncovered freight structure and local strain. The uncovered freight car was operated on actual problematic railroad line to measure dynamic stress versus time history on the critical part from which a crack is initiated often. Rainflow cycle counting method was used to estimate fatigue damage at dangerous area under operating condition. Therefore, this study shows that analytical fatigue life at the end beam can be predicted on the basis of S-N curve and structure analysis and has a fairly good correlation with experimental fatigue life.

• Journal of Korean Ophthalmic Optics Society
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• v.11 no.3
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• pp.249-258
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• 2006

There are many functions of glasses. Not only as a medical instrument but also for decorative purpose and individuality as a mean of expression. The concept of glasses applied according to various purposes and use. Following the designers' point of view, the most important research task is to make products substantial and convenient rather than external beauty after analysis problems and the needs of customers. Because customers ask for the best quality of design all the time. The best design of glass includes essential conditions like; creativity, satisfaction, convenience of use, identity. These conditions are common elements of glasses in both domestic and foreign markets. Also they can be a catalyst to stimulate glasses industry in Korea. First of all to study tho parts of glasses "End Piece", it is essential to consider for a better design. Because it adjusts the center of glasses weight balance for user's comfort. Since many brands are imitated, the significance of "End piece" is of a great importance resulting in a more successful competitiveness.

• Journal of the Korea Society of Computer and Information
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• v.14 no.12
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• pp.147-156
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• 2009

This paper proposes a SRTP key exchange scheme using split transfer of divided RSA public key in SIP-based VoIP environment without PKI. The existing schemes are hard to apply to real VoIP environment, because they require a PKI and certificates in the end devices. But in case of ZRTP. which is one of existing schemes, it's able to exchange SRTP Key securely without PKI, but it is inconvenient since it needs user's involvement. To solve these problems, the proposed scheme will split RSA public key and transmit them to SIP signaling secession and media secession respectively. It can defend effectively possible Man-in-The-Middle attacks, and it is also able to exchange the SRTP key without the user's involvement. Besides, it meets the requirements for security of SRTP key exchange. Therefore, it's easy to apply to real VoIP environment that is not available to construct PKL.

• Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society
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• v.13 no.2
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• pp.834-841
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• 2012

In order to the mobile service uses the wireless terminal including the development of the wire wireless network and Smart phone, and etc. use including mobile office, which and etc. increases. Because in order that the u-Healthcare service using this appeared before the footlights and the existing quality measurement reference considered the speed, error rate, and etc. just, guarantees the stability of the u-Healthcare, the quality control by service are necessary. In this paper, the quality measurement reference by mobile service considering the radio environment as the method for satisfying the quality guarantee of the u-Healthcare mobile service user and user needs was presented. The WiBro u-Healthcare wireless data service quality based system in the end user perspective was established through the main performance index and entrepreneur case presented in the international standardization institute including 3GPP, WiMAX forum, GSMA, and etc. through the related research and the validity of the quality index establishment was presented according to each service.

• Journal of KIISE:Information Networking
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• v.36 no.5
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• pp.425-436
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• 2009

In recent years, the user demands have increased for multimedia service of high quality over the broadband convergence network. These rising demands for high quality multimedia service led the popularization of various user terminals and large scale display equipments, which needs a variety type of QoS (Quality of Service). In order to support demands for QoS, numerous research projects are in progress both from the perspective of network as well as end system; For example, at the network perspective, QoS guaranteeing by improving of internet performance such as Active Queue Management, while at the end system perspective, SVC (Scalable Video Coding) encoding scheme to guarantee media quality. However, existing AQM algorithms have problems which do not guarantee QoS, because they did not consider the essential characteristics of video encoding schemes. In this paper, it is proposed to solve this problem by deploying the TS- AQM (Temporal Scalability Active Queue Management) which employs the differentiated packet dropping for dependency of the temporal level among the frames, based on SVC encoding characteristics by exploiting the TID (Temporal ID) field of the SVC NAL unit header. The proposed TS-AQM guarantees multimedia service quality through video decoding reliability for SVC streaming service, by differentiated packet dropping when congestion exists.