• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
• /
• 제12권7호
• /
• pp.3356-3374
• /
• 2018

The healthcare and fitness wearable-device market is considered as the driving force of the entire wearable device market. However, there are concerns with respect to information privacy because wearable devices constantly collect sensitive data such as individuals' health information. Thus, there is a need for a comprehensive understanding from the perspective of information privacy concerns and related behavior. This study investigates factors considered in the privacy calculus of wearable fitness devices, and verifies differences obtained by the privacy calculus process according to the frequency of exercise. The results obtained from a survey of 248 undergraduate students in Korea revealed that service providers should consider users' interests and exercise characteristics in order to mitigate their privacy concerns and encourage continuous use of wearable devices. This study provides useful insights pertaining to users of wearable fitness devices, and targets researchers and practitioners.

• 한국멀티미디어학회논문지
• /
• 제20권2호
• /
• pp.322-329
• /
• 2017

Recently, the importance of personalized healthcare(wellness) services is increasing in the era of the 4th Industrial Revolution. However, the authoring of wellness contents fused with variety of contents and the study of the system which provides the customized recommendation are insufficient. In this paper, we proposes the recommendation service system for the customized convergence wellness contents. The proposed system makes to the wellness contents by the existing cultural/tourism/leisure contents and recommends the customized wellness contents based on a user's profile and the situation information such as location and weather. The proposed systems is expected to contribute to designing the innovative and new service models for the tailored wellness content.

• 한국정보통신학회논문지
• /
• 제16권7호
• /
• pp.1549-1558
• /
• 2012

위치 인식 시스템은 물류, 의료, 홈 네트워크, 군사, 교통 시스템 등 다양한 분야에서 활용된다. 본 논문에서는 무선 RF만으로 정밀한 위치 인식이 가능한 IEEE802.15.4a의 CSS(Chirp Spread Spectrum)방식을 기반으로 다양한 환경에서 사용할 수 있는 위치인식 시스템을 설계하였다. 실험 결과 20m의 반경을 가지는 공간에서 0.5m 미만의 오차범위를 가지는 위치 인식 시스템을 구현하였다.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
• /
• 제6권5호
• /
• pp.1267-1285
• /
• 2012

Wireless Body Area Networks (WBANs) deal with variety of healthcare services with diverse Quality of Service (QoS) requirements. However, QoS handling is a challenging problem in such networks. In general, QoS related problems can be addressed from different layers in the networking protocol suite. Design of an efficient QoS aware Medium Access Control (MAC) protocol can address this problem in MAC layer. This paper analyzes the QoS requirements of WBAN, identifies the requisites of QoS handling system, and outlines the trends that are being followed for its advancement with focus on QoS issues at MAC layer. We review some prior works, compare them, and analyze the current research concerned with problem of providing QoS in WBAN. We also explore some open issues and discuss them.

• 가정∙방문간호학회지
• /
• 제20권2호
• /
• pp.141-151
• /
• 2013

Purpose: The purpose of this study was to examine the economic effectiveness of by conducting a literature review of published articles, masters theses, and doctoral dissertations. Method: Prior to the literature review, inclusion-exclusion criteria were established. We then reviewed 1,029 CINAHL, MEDLINE, and Cochrane DB papers, and 153 RISS papers collected between Results: A total of 12 studies met the inclusion-exclusion criteria.-effectiveness: 6 cost-effectiveness studies, 1 cost-utility studies, and 5 cost-benefit studies. Each of the 12 reviewed studies concluded that home care nursing had greater economic benefits than other compared healthcare services. Conclusion: Home care nursing has significant economic benefits in multi health care service settings and for various patient groups. Therefore these results will be used a critical evidence for the development of economically effective home based health care systems for future policy making.

• 세라미스트
• /
• 제22권1호
• /
• pp.4-16
• /
• 2019

Recently, wearable sensors have received considerable attention in a variety of research fields and industries as the importance of wearable healthcare systems, soft robotics and bio-integrated devices increased. However, expensive and complex processes are hindering the commercialization of wearable sensors. Nanoparticle presents some of solutions to these problems as its adjustable for processability and tunable properties. In this paper, the recent development of nanoparticle based pressure and strain sensors was reviewed, and a discussion on their strategies to overcome the conventional limitation and operating principles is presented.

• 한국컴퓨터정보학회:학술대회논문집
• /
• 한국컴퓨터정보학회 2010년도 제42차 하계학술발표논문집 18권2호
• /
• pp.183-186
• /
• 2010

유비쿼터스 환경에 대한 기술적 발전에 따라 다양한 u-Health 서비스 시스템이 개발되어 시행되고 있다. u-Health 시스템은 서비스 인프라인 병원, 의료기관의 의료정보시스템 연동을 통한 의료정보활용이 불가피하다. 그러나 HL7 의료정보 표준안은 헬스케어 시스템에서 활용하는 의료정보에 대한 명세를 제시하지 못하고 있다. 즉 의료정보시스템으로부터 정보를 요청/제공 받기 위한 HL7 표준 메시지가 명시되어 있지 않다. 따라서 본 논문에서는 헬스케어 시스템에서 필요로 하는 병원 내 의료정보를 분석하고 적합한 HL7 표준 메시지 구조를 설계하였다.

• 산업경영시스템학회지
• /
• 제32권2호
• /
• pp.112-119
• /
• 2009

Telecare, one of the e-healthcare services with lCT, is a promising technology which aims to monitor the state of patients and then provide the medical services appropriately in remote sites. Virtual telecare team based on the concept of virtual collaborative teams which consist of a patient, a doctor, and a telecare team, operates on a temporary basis in need. Reputation, which means the degree of a patient's belief to a doctor in consideration, is the most important factor to make the virtual telecare team trustable. In this paper, we propose the fuzzy reputation model of a virtual telecare team, which is a reputation-based trust model based on fuzzy set theory. An illustrative example is also given in order to show the applicability of the model to the concept of a virtual telecare team.

• Journal of Communications and Networks
• /
• 제13권2호
• /
• pp.142-148
• /
• 2011

Because currently available wireless technologies are not appropriate for wireless body area networks (WBANs), the IEEE 802.15.6 standard was introduced by the IEEE 802.15.6 Task Group to satisfy all the requirements for a monitoring system that operates on, in, or around the human body. In this work, we develop an analytical model for evaluating the performance of an IEEE 802.15.6-based WBAN under saturation condition and a noisy channel. We employ a three-dimensional Markov chain to model the backoff procedure as specified in the standard. Probability generating functions (PGFs) are used to compute the performance descriptors of the network. The results obtained from the analytical model are validated by simulation results. Our results indicate that under saturation condition, the medium is accessed by the highest user priority nodes at the vast majority of time while the other nodes are starving.

• Smart Structures and Systems
• /
• 제21권2호
• /
• pp.225-234
• /
• 2018

E-Health allows you to supersede the central patient wireless healthcare system. Wireless Body Sensor Network (WBSN) is the first phase of the e-Health system. In this paper, we aim to understand e-Health architecture and configuration, and attempt to minimize energy consumption and latency in transmission routing protocols during restrictive latency in data delivery of WBSN phase. The goal is to concentrate on polling protocol to improve and optimize the routing time interval and schedule communication to reduce energy utilization. In this research, two types of network models routing protocols are proposed - elemental and clustering. The elemental model improves efficiency by using a polling protocol, and the clustering model is the extension of the elemental model that Destruct Supervised Decision Tree (DSDT) algorithm has been proposed to solve the time interval conflict transmission. The simulation study verifies that the proposed models deliver better performance than the existing BSN protocol for WBSN.