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Do Wearable Devices Change Behavior? A Study of Smart Fitness Trackers

  • Wan, Lili;Zhang, Chao
    • The Journal of Information Systems
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    • v.29 no.1
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    • pp.201-224
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    • 2020
  • Purpose The study focuses on the physical activity behavior change effect of smart wristband, which is the most popular type of fitness tracker nowadays. The purpose of the research is to investigate how people's workout behavior may change after wearing a smart band and examine what kind of role persuasive design plays in behavior change. Design/Methodology/Approach This research employed an experimental study to examine whether the user's workout behaviors changed after using wristband from the "Behavior Wizard" perspective. A representative smart wristband from a major vendor was selected as the objects of experimental study. In the experiment, by comparing users' workout behavior before and after using the wristband, behavior changes of all the experiment participants were classified into one of the 15 behavior change types. Users perceived persuasive design characteristics were measured and group differences were tested among different behavior change groups. Findings This research found that nearly half of the participants changed their workout behavior while half retained their workout status or no exercise status. Half of the participants who did not do exercise in their spare time started walking in the experiment. Results also showed that participants who started working out perceived higher levels of persuasive design devised into the smart band than participants who preserved no exercise status, except for facilitation and reward strategies. Participants who retained workout and those who increased workout frequency perceived no difference in smart band persuasive design.

A Comparative Study on the Conductivity and Physical Properties of Conductive Materials for Heart Rate Monitoring (심박 모니터링을 위한 전도성 소재의 전도성 및 물성 비교 연구)

  • Kim, Jimin;Kim, Jongjun
    • Journal of Fashion Business
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    • v.22 no.4
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    • pp.118-129
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    • 2018
  • The purpose of this study is to develop ECG electrode materials for the heart rate monitoring smart band, a smart device used for ECG and heart rate measurement. The purpose of the evaluation is to assess properties and conductivity of electrodes of the existing heart rate monitoring smart band, and to determine suitability through a representative conductive sample. Because level of thickness does not differ significantly from value of conductive specimen from thickness of the smart band, it can be used as a conductive electrode. Surface conductivity of conductive samples and smart bands, is expected to be available as electrodes except for conductive film. Also, since the knit have conductivity only in the metal processing layer, it is necessary to use electrodes on the part of the metal processing layer that is conductive when applying the knit. Tensile strength and electrical conductivity of the tensile were generally revealed to have a tendency. Thickness of the specimen that can be used as an electrode for the smart band is suitable for all samples, electrical resistance, conductive woven, conductive knit, and conductive cord. In the case of conductive cord, however, the electrode attached to the human body will not conform to the flat shape of the electrode attached to the human body. Therefore, the conductive woven and the conductive knit will be available as an electrode.

A Long-term Monitoring Demonstration of Smart Home System for the Elderly (노인을 위한 스마트 홈 시스템 장기 모니터링 실증 연구)

  • Rhee, Jee Heon;Cha, Seung Hyun
    • Journal of KIBIM
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    • v.11 no.3
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    • pp.75-90
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    • 2021
  • A smart home system improves the elderly's quality of life by monitoring and analyzing their movements and health conditions with better health-care and social support services. Therefore, there has been an effort to adopt a smart home system for the independently living elderly. However, to the best of our knowledge, no study has investigated the usability of a smart home system on actual independently living elderly housing in long-term settings. Thus, this study aims to demonstrate the usability of a smart home system on independently living elders in living lab conditions. The BLE smart band and the BLE receiver were chosen for the smart home system to monitor the movement of the participants in their homes as well as to monitor the heart rates, step counts, sleep index. Nine independent living elderly from the senior welfare center in Kimjae participated in this living lab demonstration experiment for ten months. This demonstration experiment confirmed the effectiveness of low-cost and easily adoptable IoT-based BLE sensor sets on independent living elders and discussed the troubles and limitations of the experiment. By grasping the pros and cons of IoT-based BLE sensor sets, this study seeks to improve the accessibility and usability of smart home systems for the elderly population in independent living arrangements.

Effects of Aromatherapy on Sleep Quality (아로마요법이 수면의 질에 미치는 영향)

  • Cho, Youl-ga;Kim, Young-Hwa;Huh, Gyung-Hye
    • Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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    • 2019.05a
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    • pp.537-539
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    • 2019
  • The purpose of this study is to analyze sleep pattern using aromatherapy and smart band which is used as a main device of healthcare. Students who have experienced sleep disorder were selected and applied to blending essential oils to improve sleep quality. The sleep pattern is analyzed objectively by utilizing the application linked with the smart band.

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A Study on DID Implementation for Wireless Calling System using Smart-device (스마트 기기를 이용한 무선호출용 DID구현에 대한 연구)

  • Cho, Youngseok
    • Journal of Korea Society of Digital Industry and Information Management
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    • v.11 no.1
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    • pp.19-25
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    • 2015
  • In this time, as an industrial society developed to a welfare society, more and more people want their quality of lives upgraded and specially customized service by mass production/mass consumption. And it leads to an increase of requiring service. There're active developments and studies on various IT equipment as the requirement made IT devices used in service. In this paper, we try to design and realize radio paging DID by using smart device to be used as a receiver of a radio pager which is broadly used at face to face service. Firstly, we used MCU to design and implement Wireless Calling Gateway which change radio calling signal of ISM band to smart device. A receiver of wireless caller used original receiver module. Also it used bluetooth module to communicate with smart device. It was possible to have satisfactory communication since radio paging signal converter and smart device were linked in 3M. Secondly, to indicate various paging information delivered from a radio pager, we realized DID application program by using Smart PAD. As a result, we could indicate various information compared to an original receiver which only could indicate letters or numeric data. Secondly, we implemented the DID app for wireless calls that can display a variety of information sent from a wireless pager. Was implemented using the Smart Pad. As a result, it is shown that can display a variety of information than the existing receiver.

Smart Parenting System using FFT (FFT를 활용한 스마트 양육 시스템)

  • Kim, Jun-Hoe;Lee, Jeong-Soo;Joo, Jeong-Woo;Bae, Ji-Su;Lee, Boong-Joo
    • The Journal of the Korea institute of electronic communication sciences
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    • v.13 no.4
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    • pp.865-874
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    • 2018
  • This paper is about a smart pillow, and a smart diaper. The smart pillow analyzes the frequency of a baby's cry and applies its digital value to the band pass filter. If the crying is between 300-600Hz, the white noise comes out. The smart diaper alerts to the smart phone if the humidity outside the diaper is over 99%, or the temperature is over $29^{\circ}C$ after the defecation of the baby. The smart diaper also prevents choking of the baby by alert to smart phone if they are in a dangerous position by sensing the location of the infant.

Design of Dual-band Frequency Selective Surface Applicable to Wi-Fi 6E System (Wi-Fi 6E 시스템에 적용 가능한 이중대역 주파수 선택표면 구조 설계)

  • Yun-Seok Mun;Sung-Sil Cho;Ic-Pyo Hong
    • Journal of IKEEE
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    • v.27 no.1
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    • pp.71-77
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    • 2023
  • In this paper, a dual-band stopband frequency selective surface that can be applied to Wi-Fi 6E systems is designed to block external interfering signals with adjacent operating frequency spectrum in indoor wireless LAN environments. The proposed frequency selective surface structure has frequency blocking characteristics in the 2.4GHz and 6GHz bands, and is realized through a modified crossed dipole structure and an interlocking puzzle form between unit structures. The proposed structure is designed to have stable frequency response characteristics with respect to incident angle and polarization, and the experimental results show good agreement with the simulation results for incident waves from 0° to 45°.

A Study on the Business Model for Smart Healthcare Services: Focusing on Smart Health Band Service (스마트헬스케어서비스 비즈니스 모델 연구: 스마트 헬스밴드를 중심으로)

  • Park, So-Hee;Kim, Min-Ji;Choi, Hun
    • Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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    • 2015.10a
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    • pp.381-383
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    • 2015
  • We are entering a phase of an aged society. The societal expense on health care for the so called "silver generation", which refer to as those over the age of 65 is increasing. Although many companies provide various services based on information technology for the health of the silver generation, many have pointed out the limits of them, preventing the activation of services. This study tries to develop a new smart health band business model, which is the most common form of healthcare service that reflects the user's desire. To do this, the study will cover the smart health band and the technical functions related to it, as well as the elements of the business model and its content.

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A Implementation of Smart Band and Data Monitoring System available of Measuring Skin Moisture and UV based on ICT (ICT기반의 피부 수분 및 자외선 측정이 가능한 스마트 밴드 및 데이터 모니터링 시스템 구현)

  • Jung, Se-Hoon;Sim, Chun-Bo;You, Kang-Soo;So, Won-Ho
    • The Journal of the Korea institute of electronic communication sciences
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    • v.12 no.4
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    • pp.715-724
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    • 2017
  • Today all kinds of smart devices are being developed with various researches on wearable devices that support smart computing on the human body. Skin diseases continue to rise including freckles, pimples, atopy, and scalp trouble due to the environmental and genetic factors, and people pay bigger medical bills to treat their skin diseases. There is thus a need to develop a smart-phone or table-based smart healthcare imaging system of high portability and diagnostic accuracy capable of analyzing and managing various skin problems related to skin care. This study proposed an integrated system combining the Smart Mi Band, a wearable device using moisture and UV sensors based on IoT, on the hardware part with the sensor information monitoring software.

The development of piezoelectric smart panels for wide range transmission noise reduction (광대역 전달 소음저감을 위한 지능패널의 개발)

  • Lee, Joong-Kuen;Kim, Jae-Hwan;Cheong, Chae-Cheon;Kang, Young-Kyu
    • Proceedings of the Korean Society for Noise and Vibration Engineering Conference
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    • 2000.06a
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    • pp.1273-1279
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    • 2000
  • A new concept of piezoelectric smart panels for noise reduction in wide band frequencies is proposed and their possibility is experimentally investigated. The proposed panels are based on active and passive methods. They use piezoelectric smart structure technology for active noise reduction at low band frequencies and passive sound absorbing materials for mid-range of noise frequencies. To prove the concept of piezoelectric smart panels, an acoustic measurement experiment was performed. The smart panels exhibit a good noise reduction in middle and high frequency ranges due to the mass effects of absorbing materials or/and the air gap. The use of piezoelectric smart panel renders noise reduction large at resonance frequency. Another concept of smart panel that uses piezoelectric damping is experimentally investigated. Since piezoelectric dampings can reduce vibration and noise at resonance frequencies with simple shunt circuit, they have merits in terms of economy and simplicity. Dissipated energy method(DEM) is adopted to tune the shunt circuit precisely in piezoelectric dampings. Noise reduction at multiple resonance frequencies is demonstrated.

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