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Innovative Inclusive Design by Emotional Design (감성디자인적 접근을 통한 혁신적 포괄적 디자인)

  • Choi, Soo-Shin
    • Science of Emotion and Sensibility
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    • v.11 no.4
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    • pp.645-652
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    • 2008
  • First question: what makes inclusive design truly inclusive? Most inclusive design products are far from being appealing to their intended customers. This is mainly because designers are typically concerned with enhancing the usability, and not the emotional value that creates the connection between the product and the users. Typical solutions are larger displays and larger buttons, and these solutions often make the product less tasteful, graceful, and favorable. As a result, such products become less inclusive, veering from the original intention of the designers. Emotional design is not about making fun products, but about enjoyable products. Positive emotional design increases the affection value in products that enable users to create emotional connection with products. With the emotional connection, the user can engage in learning about the product as well as enjoy using the product. This can also resolve most usability issues by increasing the attention level and decreasing boredom. When more people feel that a product is enjoyable, it becomes more inclusive. Second question: Can't inclusive design have innovative value? Most inclusive design products are far from being innovative, and thus, they cannot create market opportunities. While emotional design approach increases value for users, innovative design approach creates value for the businesses. This will eventually promote development of inclusive products. This paper discusses the benefits of emotional design approach in inclusive design. It also argues how emotional design can help make inclusive design more innovative. Accompanied exemplar design process illustrates how emotional design contributes to inclusive design and how it leads to innovative products.

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Discussion for Improvement of Decision System of Total Risk in Off-site Risk Assessment (화학사고 장외영향평가 제도의 종합위험도 결정 체계 개선을 위한 고찰)

  • Choi, Woosoo;Ryu, Taekwon;Kwak, Sollim;Lim, Hyeongjun;Jung, Jinhee;Lee, Jieun;Kim, Jungkon;Baek, Jongbae;Yoon, Junheon;Ryu, Jisung
    • Journal of Environmental Health Sciences
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    • v.44 no.3
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    • pp.217-226
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    • 2018
  • Objectives: Despite the positive effects of Off-site risk assessment (ORA) system such as prevention of chemical accidents, some problems have been constantly raised. The purpose of this study is to analyze the problems that have occurred through the implementation of the ORA system for the past three years and to suggest reasonable directions for improvement in the future. Methods: In order to identify the problems with the methodology and procedure of ORA system, we analyzed statutes, administrative rules and documents related to the ORA system. A survey of ORA reviewers in National Institute of Chemical Safety was conducted to investigate the weight of determinants considered when judging the level of total risk in ORA. Results: In this study, we found out the uncertainty of the estimation of the number of people in the impact range in the procedure of the risk assessment of individual handling facilities, the lack of quantitative risk analysis methods for environmental receptors, and the ambiguity of the criteria for the total risk. In addition to suggesting solutions to the problems mentioned above, we also, suggested a decision tree for total risk in ORA. Conclusion: We anticipate that the solutions including the systematic decision tree for total risk suggested will contribute to the smooth operation of the ORA system.

Effect of Nonionic Surfactant Solutions on Wetting and Absorbency of Polyethylene Terephthalate(PET) Fabrics (Part II) -Surfactants Characteristics and Fabric Properties- (비이온계 계면활성제 수용액이 PET직물의 습윤특성에 미치는 영향 (제2보) -계면활성제와 직물의 특성-)

  • Kim, Chun-Hee
    • Journal of the Korean Society of Clothing and Textiles
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    • v.29 no.12 s.148
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    • pp.1546-1553
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    • 2005
  • The wetting behavior and liquid transport of nonionic surfactant solutions; Span 20 and Tween 20, 40, 60, 80, 21, 61, 81, 65 & 85: in polyethylene terephthalate(PET) fabrics are reported. Five different PET fabrics are used in this study. PET 1, 2 & 3 have different compactness in structure. PET 4 & 5 have similar physical properties to PET 2, however, PET 4 has heat set finish and PET 5 with rewetting agent. The wetting and water retention properties of PET fabrics are greatly improved by addition of nonionic surfactants. The aqueous liquid retention(W) vs. cosq and W vs. adhesion tension has positive linear relationship. Hydrophilic surfactants which have short hydrophobes and surfactants with unsaturated hydrophobe structures are more efffctive in improving the wetting properties of PET fabrics. PET fabric which has larger thread spacing shows greater value of water retention ratio(W/H) than PET fabric with smaller thread spacing if there are no surfactants present in the system, however, W/H values become very similar among these PET fabrics when the surfactants are added. If there are no surfactants present in the system, PET with heat set finish has smaller value and PET with rewetting agent has greater value of W/H than PET without finish even though the fabrics have the similar physical properties.

Modelling a Virtuous Cycled U-City for the Sustainable U-City (지속가능한 U-City 운영을 위한 선순환 U-City모델의 개발방향 연구)

  • Kim, Bok-Hwan;Koo, Jee-Hee;Kwak, In-Young
    • Journal of Korea Spatial Information System Society
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    • v.11 no.1
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    • pp.145-156
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    • 2009
  • Ubiquitous City(U-City) in Korea is not a fantastic wonderland but an on-going real phenomenon. Many researchers so far have mainly dealt with a rosy future where U-City would potentially promise the high Quality of Life and positive economic effects. However, a suspicion of unexpected disadvantages can be able to take place in the bright future of U-City : the running cost of U-City. Without full consideration of it, descendants living in the U-City in near future will suffer from the heavy burden in operating the U-City. Given this circumstantial background, the aim of this study is to indicate potential solutions to address a sustainable U-City controlled by the virtuous cycled mechanism toward a self-sufficient city, which will illuminate a new paradigm of the city history. Solutions were sought from the several viewpoints, which were behavioral and institutional aspects, developing profitable business models and core technologies applicable to U-City, and building self-owned networks. Based on this preliminary study, further efforts and devotion to seeking virtuous-cycled U-City model will contribute to bringing a prominent future of U-City whose belongings will be able to manage to enjoy better quality of life.

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Effects of soluble silicon on development powdery mildew(Sphaerotheca fuliginea) in cucumber plants (규소 시용에 의한 오이 흰가루병 발병억제)

  • Lee, Jung-Sup;Yiem, Myeong-Sun
    • The Korean Journal of Pesticide Science
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    • v.4 no.2
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    • pp.37-43
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    • 2000
  • Effects of silicon application on development of colonies of Sphaerotheca fuliginea were examined. Cucumber plants were applied with nutrient solutions amended with different concentrations of soluble silicon and selected leaves were inoculated with known concentrations of conidia of the pathogen. Colony number per leaf, colony area per leaf, and germination rate of conidia of S. fuliginea collected from the inoculated leaves were reduced as silicate concentrations in the nutrient solutions increased from 0.05 to 4.10 mM. The increase in resistance of plants to mildew infection was apparently due to silicate accumulation in leaves, and there was no correlation between cation or ionic strength effects and the silicate treatments. Silicate treatment in growth medium remarkably suppressed powdery mildew development on cucumber. Colonies of mildew fungus were visible with over approx. 38.3% of the mature leaf surface, while that of the leaves in high Si plants was 2.3% observed at 51 days after transplanting. No significant differences were observed between 1.7 mM and 3.4mM silicate treatments. Conidial germination rates were significantly reduced by increasing Si amendments. Conidial germination ranged from 14.7 to 20.3% for plants grown in low Si solution(<1.40 mM), and from 9.0 to 12.4% for plants grown in high Si solution(>1.8 mM). Foliar applications of Si with ${\geq}$ 17.0 mM decreased the number of powdery mildew colonies. Persistence of Si foliar sprays effects on cucumber demonstrated that the 17 mM Si spray applied 4 days before inoculation with S. fuliginea reduced mildew colony formation. The relationship was positive and linear.

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The 4th.industrial revolution and Korean university's role change (4차산업혁명과 한국대학의 역할 변화)

  • Park, Sang-Kyu
    • Journal of Convergence for Information Technology
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    • v.8 no.1
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    • pp.235-242
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    • 2018
  • The interest about 4th Industrial Revolution was impressively increased from newspapers, iindustry, government and academic sectors. Especially AI what could be felt by the skin of many peoples, already overpassed the ability of the human's even in creative areas. Namely, now many people start fo feel that the effect of the revolution is just infront of themselves. There were several issues in this trend, the ability of deep learning by machine, the identity of the human, the change of job environment and the concern about the social change etc. Recently many studies have been made about the 4th industrial revolution in many fields like as AI(artificial intelligence), CRISPR, big data and driverless car etc. As many positive effects and pessimistic effects are existed at the same time and many preventing actions are being suggested recently, these opinions will be compared and analyzed and better solutions will be found eventually. Several educational, political, scientific, social and ethical effects and solutions were studied and suggested in this study. Clear implication from the study is that the world we will live from now on is changing faster than ever in the social, industrial, political and educational environment. If it will reform the social systems according to those changes, a society (nation or government) will grasp the chance of its development or take-off, otherwise, it will consume the resources ineffectively and lose the competition as a whole society. But the method of that reform is not that apparent in many aspects as the revolution is progressing currently and its definition should be made whether in industrial or scientific aspect. The person or nation who will define it will have the advantage of leading the future of that business or society.

Levying Garage Option on Car Buyers (Jejusi Case Studies and the Way to Success) (제주시 차고지증명제 사례소개와 성공을 위한 방안 연구)

  • Hwang, Gyeong-Su
    • Journal of Korean Society of Transportation
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    • v.27 no.4
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    • pp.91-100
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    • 2009
  • The purpose of this study is to introduce the Levying Garage Option on Car Buyers which has become operative firstly in Korea, and to suggest the way to activate the system, hearing the view of Jeju residents with positive and negative function of parking. Levying Garage Option on Car Buyer is the system to apply a law for establishing garages to all of vehicles. Especially this is proposed to correct the disorder of Local street night parking, to improve the fine view of street, and to recover the original function of street to residents. To make this system successful there should be separate solutions at the densely built up area as a result of survey. This study conduct the Logistic Regression Analysis for and against the system. If the more residents approve the system, we should concern about the several solutions such as easing the distance between the garage and street, regulating, and special plan for an apartment house, etc. The suggestions are as follows. First, the policy needs to ease the distance between the garage and street gradually. Second, the Jeju government need to offer the residents the incentive such as reduce or exempt the tax and make them establish the private parking lot with supplying the low interest loan. Third, there should be connected with the project to break up the fences of their houses.

Determination of Free Acid in U(VI)-Al(III) Solutions by Gran Plot Titration (Gran Plot 적정법을 이용한 U(VI)-AI(III) 용액의 자유산 농도 측정)

  • Suh, Moo-Yul;Lee, Chang-Heon;Sohn, Se-Chul;Kim, Jung-Suk;Kim, Won-Ho;Eom, Tae-Yoon
    • Analytical Science and Technology
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    • v.12 no.3
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    • pp.177-183
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    • 1999
  • The determination method of free acid in spent U-Al nuclear fuel solutions by Gran plot titration was described. Effect of U(VI) and Al(III) on the alkalimetric titration of nitric acid was investigated in oxalate complexing media as well as in noncomplexing media. Positive biases were observed in both titration media when the end-point was estimated by the Gran plot method. It was found that the cause of the bias was U(VI) in the oxalate complexing media, but Al(III) in the noncomplexing media. The relative error was less than 1% in the titration of 0.1 M $HNO_3$ at a U(VI) : Al(III) : $H^+$ mole ratio of up to 2:12:1 as long as the pH of the oxalate titration media was sustained to be below 5.0 at the beginning of titration. The method was successfully applied to the determination of nitric acid in a solution of HANARO reactor fuel with U:Al mole ratio of 1:6.

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Growth and Nutrient Uptake of 'Seolhyang' Strawberry (Fragaria × ananassa Duch) Responded to Elevated Nitrogen Concentrations in Nutrient Solution (질소 시비농도가 '설향' 딸기(Fragaria × ananassa Duch)의 생장과 무기원소 흡수에 미치는 영향)

  • Choi, Jong-Myung;Latigui, Ahmed;Yoon, Moo-Kyung
    • Horticultural Science & Technology
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    • v.28 no.5
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    • pp.777-782
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    • 2010
  • This research tested five modified Hoagland solutions for proper fertility management of nitrogen in 'Seolhyang' strawberry cultivations. The changes of nutrient solutions were in total nitrogen concentrations ($meq{\cdot}L^{-1}$) such as 0 (${NO^-}_3$), 2.5 (${NO_3}^-$), 5 (${NO_3}^-$), 10 ($7.5{NO_3}^-$ + $2.5{NH_4}^+$) and 15 ($10{NO_3}^-$ + $5{NH_4}^+$). The fresh weight and $NO_3$-N concentrations in petiole sap responded to the elevated nitrogen concentrations in fertilizer solution in quadratic (y=7.10+2.668x-$0.115x^2$, $R^2=0.7983^{***}$) and linear (y=26.14+5.245x, $R^2=0.6083^{***}$), respectively. The dry weight and N content of the above ground plant tissue responded to the elevated nitrogen in quadratic (y=2.140+0.492x-$0.022x^2$, $R^2=0.6110^{***}$) and linear (y=0.569+0.033x, $R^2=0.6952^{***}$), respectively. In our experiment the solution with $5meq{\cdot}L^{-1}$ of ${NO_3}^-$ showed positive results in both dry and fresh weight productions. However, a future research about modification of this solution and growth and nutrient uptake response is necessary to achieve better growth of 'Seolhyang' strawberry.

Effect of Micelles on the Reaction of RuBPCase in Maize Leaf (옥수수 잎의 RuBPCase 반응에 미치는 미셀들의 영향)

  • 김의락;김현묵
    • KSBB Journal
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    • v.9 no.3
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    • pp.325-331
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    • 1994
  • PGA is formed in a route of CO2 fixation of RuBP catalyzed by RuBPCase, followed by reduction of the PGA by NADH to GAP This reduction is enhanced in an anionic micellar solution(SDS), in which NADH is distributed in the aqueous and the micellar pseudophases in a given ratio. This micellar bounded NADH reacts to PGA, and in higher micellar concentration than $1.25{\times}10^{-2}M$, most of NADH is oxidized to NAD+ by PGA. On the other hand, in the solutions of the positive ionic(CTABr), zwitter ionic(Chaps) and nonionic (Brij and Triton X-100) micelles, the reactions are also enhanced and the concentrations of NADH reach minima with micellar concentrations. Such minima are typical of micellar catalyzed bimolecular reactions, and the fall in concentrations of the reductant followed by a gradual increase is charataristic of reactions of hydrophobic substrates: that is, the reductions of PGA by NADH are sharply enhanced in a range of the lower micellar concentrations, and NADH amounts in ca. $1.25-2.50{\times}10^{-3}M$ micellar solutions are reached to minima, followed by gradual increases of the reductant concentration.

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