• 대한인간공학회지
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• 제29권1호
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• pp.25-31
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• 2010

It is known from consumer surveys that the interior design of cars greatly influences on consumers' affection. Most notably, the instrument panel which occupies the driver's attention while driving would be one of the main components that affect consumer's affection, but the designer does not often put due importance to this design component. The purpose of this study is to define consumers' affection on the instrument cluster panel in terms of its design factors: color of panel lighting and layout of meters as independent factors. Semantic differentials or affective adjectives that are related to the instrument panel were first derived from surveys, existing studies and the available literature. Then, representative affective factors were drawn using factor analysis and multi-dimensional scaling (MDS). Evaluation of the instrument panel was performed and analyzed by Taguchi's robust design to provide more robust results under various noise factors which are color and material of car interior. Experiment revealed that consumers had five affective factors on the instrument panel and luxurious, charming, and visible affections are grouped into a factor and unique and dynamic affections in another factor. Evaluation of the instrument panel by Taguchi's robust design found that the white color of panel lighting and the panel with four meters was the most preferred design in terms of both the affection of luxury and uniqueness.

• 한국생산제조학회지
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• 제19권2호
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• pp.260-266
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• 2010

Today's consumers are looking for emotional design which can fulfill their own potential desire. Emotion varies according to individual circumstance, age, sex, culture, education, profession and so on. Automotive instrument panel design is the most important part of interior design, because it affects the impression of interior design and has the equipments for safety, entertainment and various information. Thus, this study was performed to apply emotional design to automotive instrument panel which is the most important part of automotive interior, and find the best bonding conditions to build instrument panel efficiently by comparing mechanical properties in thermoplastic resin of polyethylene (PE) adhesion. Satisfactory adhesion was executed in ultrasonic welding for the same materials of PE. The best welding conditions were found to be welding time of I second, welding pressure of 250 kPA for PE-PE welding. Dissimilar materials were adhered when adhesion and ultrasonic welding were performed at the same time.

• 디자인학연구
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• 제12권4호
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• pp.99-108
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• 1999

승용차의 실내공간은 다수의 부품들로 구성되어 있으며, 그들 중 인스트루먼트 패널은 그 디자인에 따라 실내공간의 활용과 이 , 그리고 운전자의 조작성과 실내공간의 안전도까지도 좌우하는 중요한 부품이다. 초기 자동차에서의 인스트루먼트 패널은 엔진실과 실내공간을 구분 짓는 벽체에 운전에 필요한 엔진의 상태를 알리기 위한 계기를 부탁하는 개념에 출발하였다. 그러므로 운전석의 좌우 위치에 관게없이 패널 중앙부에 계기류를 장착하는 개념이 주류를 이루었다. 차량의 기능 향상과 장착품의 증가로 운전석 중심의 독립된 계기판과 충격 흡수제를 부탁한 구조가 등장하였으며, 이것은 오늘날의 다양한 형태의 계기판의 출발점이 되었다. 최근의 승용차의 계기판은 차량 안전 법구의 강화와 신공법의 개발, 그리고 운전 편의성 향상 등을 위하여 중앙부에 클러스터를 장착한 유형이 몇몇 차종에서 다시 등장하고 있다. 이러한 승용차 인스트루먼트 패널의 디자인 특징과 기능성 특성들을 분석하면 다음과 같은 결과를 얻을수 있다. -전방 시인성의 향상을 위한 I/P 전체의 부피 감소 -강화된 충돌 규제를 위한 보조 장치와 완충 구조의 설정 -운전 편의성과 초점 거리 차이 감소를 통한 안전성 향상을 위한 중앙부 클러스터 장착 유형의 재등장유형의 재등장

• 공업화학
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• 제10권1호
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• pp.118-123
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• 1999

본 연구에서는 자동차의 instrument panel로부터 분리, 회수된 재생 PC/ABS계에 흡착되어 있는 PU foam이 가공온도조건에 따라 PC/ABS계의 모폴로지 및 기계적 물성에 미치는 영향을 조사함으로써 상용화제 첨가없이 PU의 열적성질을 이용한 모폴로지 제어에 의해 큰 폭의 물성저하를 막아 재생 PC/ABS를 자동차 라디에디터 그릴 소재로 적용하고자 하였다. 가공 온도조건에 따른 PU의 열적특성에 초점을 맞추어 고온 ($260^{\circ}C$) 및 저온 ($220^{\circ}C$)에서 재생PC/ABS와 신재 PC/ABS를 다양한 조성으로 용융 블렌드하여 고차구조 및 기계적 물성을 조사하였다. 신재 함량이 증가함에 따라 물성이 향상되었고, 고온 및 저온용융 블렌드물의 물성에는 큰 차이가 없었으나 충격강도는 고온용융 블렌드물이 월등히 우수하였다. 이것은 PU foam이 고온에서 높은 전단응력을 받아 보다 미세하고 균일하게 분산되었기 때문이라는 것을 발견했다.

• 한국국방경영분석학회지
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• 제2권1호
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• pp.127-143
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• 1976

The purpose of this thesis is to study the optimal arrangement of aircraft instrument panels through the human factors approach. Human factors engineering is the process of effectively fitting the human component to the machine component in any man-machine system. The human factors. are especially important to an aircraft pilot who must constantly shift his attention between the instrument panel within the cockpit and the surrounding area of the aircraft. The preliminary part of this study is to find the general patterns of the Korean pilot's eye movements during their various flying maneuvers, and which instruments require the most attention while in flight. It is assumed that all pilots have a general pattern of eye movement when observing the aircraft instrument panel and that an optimum arrangement would be to minimize the eye travel distance between instruments. In this thesis the arrangements of instruments is taken to be the independent variable and the eye travel distance between instruments the dependent variable. la order to compile the information necessary for this study, sixty Korean Air Force pilots were interviewed and requested to complete information forms. These information forms listed various flying maneuvers and listed each instrument used on the instrument panel. The compilation of the information on these completed forms listed the instruments most frequently used by the pilots. The second part of this study was to determine the optimum instrument arrangement. It was necessary to study the various number of possible arrangements of instruments depending upon the number of instruments involved. Therefore, these instruments are grouped by two major functions, The flight instruments were subdivided into three groups, and the engineering instruments were subdivided into six groups. With this subdivision we arrive at the possible number of arrangements of 4,320. Through the simulation method, total eye travel distance for each of these 4,320 arrangements is calculated and the arrangement which appears to be of optimum distance between the most frequently used aircraft instruments is determined. The results of this study indicate that the optimum distance between instruments would be 33,028cm and that the corresponding distance of the instrument panel now being used is 34,288cm. Therefore, an increased efficiency of $3.8\%$ would be realized if the existing aircraft instrument panel were re-arranged according to layout proposed in this thesis.

• 한국정밀공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국정밀공학회 2012년도 추계학술대회 논문집
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• pp.421-422
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• 2012

• 한국소음진동공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국소음진동공학회 2010년도 춘계학술대회 논문집
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• pp.330-331
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• 2010

In this paper, BSR noise from an instrument panel of a vehicle are investigated with integrated experimental methods. First, potential source regions of the instrument panel for BSR are localized by using the module-excitor and near-acoustic field visualization system. Then, subjective evaluation of BSR nosie from the detected potential noise source regions is made with the Zwicker's loudness and time-varying loudness methods.

• 산업경영시스템학회지
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• 제22권52호
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• pp.33-41
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• 1999

More than 90 percent of traffic accidents were caused by human errors in driving situation. However, the ergonomic studies were not enough to prevent these human errors. Especially, drivers acquire more than 70 percent of information using the vision, and this shows the importance of consideration about the driver's visual cognition characteristics. Consequently, the driver's cognition time and the cognition accuracy were measured for the Instrument Panel(IP) of vehicle cockpit in this study. For the experiment, subjects were divided in two groups. The first group of subjects had their own vehicles and the driver license, and the second group of the subjects didn't have own vehicle but had the driver license. IP Images were used in the experiment and the each image was made by changing layout of objects within devices. The results showed that there were no differences for the cognition time and the accuracy between images within the group, and the results between the groups showed the same trend.

• 한국소음진동공학회논문집
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• 제20권7호
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• pp.644-650
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• 2010

Among various elements to affect customer's evaluation of vehicle quality, BSR(Buzz, Squeak, Rattle) are considered to be a mostly contributing factor. In this paper, we provide the test method which can be used to reduce the BSR noise of instrument panel in a vehicle. First, potential source regions of the instrument panel for BSR are localized by using the vibration-excitor and near-acoustic field visualization system. Then, subjective evaluation of BSR noise from the detected potential noise source regions is made with the Zwicker's loudness and time-varying loudness methods. This illustrative analysis reveals that current experimental methods can be used as a test procedure to systematically tackle BSR issues in early stage of the vehicle development cycle, which can result in the reduction of the production cost.

• 대한인간공학회지
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• 제18권2호
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• pp.35-45
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• 1999

Driver centered vehicle design is the important factor for driver's safety, product quality, and so on. Therefore, people has recently recognized the importance of driver centered vehicle design. Especially, in the focus of driver-vehicle interaction system, it is very important factor to ergonomic design of vehicle cockpit. In this study, Sketch Map method was used to measure of driver's cognitive map on IP(Instrument Panel) that is the basic factor to ergonomic design for vehicle cockpit. The compatibility of Sketch Map method was validated for the measurement of driver's cognitive map and then the accuracy between two groups was analyzed using Sketch Map method. Subjects were divided in two groups, the first group of subjects has their own vehicles and driver license, and the second group of subjects doesn't have own vehicle but has driver license. The result showed that for the case of the first group, the shape of IP in the cognitive map was influenced by IP of their each vehicle. However, for the case of the second group, it showed the difference between IP in the cognitive map and IP of experienced vehicle many times because they have been driving various type of vehicle. So, the shape of IP in the cognitive map was influenced by various type of IP.