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Development and Evaluation of Smart Secondary Controls Using iPad for People with Hemiplegic Disabilities

  • Song, Jeongheon;Kim, Yongchul
    • Journal of the Ergonomics Society of Korea
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    • v.34 no.2
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    • pp.85-101
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    • 2015
  • Objective: The purpose of this study was to develop and evaluate smart secondary controls using iPad for the drivers with physical disabilities in the driving simulator. Background: The physically disabled drivers face problems in the operation of secondary control devices that accept a control input from a driver for the purpose of operating the subsystems of a motor vehicle. Many of conventional secondary controls consist of small knobs or switches that physically disabled drivers have difficulties in grasping, pulling or twisting. Therefore, their use while driving might increase distraction and workload because of longer operation time. Method: We examined the operation time of conventional and smart secondary controls, such as hazard warning, turn signal, window, windshield wiper, headlights, automatic transmission and horn. The hardware of smart secondary control system was composed of iPad, wireless router, digital input/output module and relay switch. We used the STISim Drive3 software for driving test, customized Labview and Xcode programs for interface control of smart secondary system. Nine subjects were involved in the study for measuring operation time of secondary controls. Results: When the driver was in the stationary condition, the average operation time of smart secondary devices decreased 32.5% in the normal subjects (p <0.01), 47.4% in the subjects with left hemiplegic disabilities (p <0.01) and 38.8% in the subjects with right hemiplegic disabilities (p <0.01) compared with conventional secondary devices. When the driver was driving for the test in the simulator, the average operation time of smart secondary devices decreased 36.1% in the normal subjects (p <0.01), 41.7% in the subjects with left hemiplegic disabilities (p <0.01) and 34.1% in the subjects with right hemiplegic disabilities (p <0.01) compared with conventional secondary devices. Conclusion: The smart secondary devices using iPad for people with hemiplegic disabilities showed significant reduction of operation time compared with conventional secondary controls. Application: This study can be used to design secondary controls for adaptive vehicles and to improve the quality of life of the people with disabilities.

Improved control structure to enhance user experience of smart phone (스마트 폰의 사용자 경험 증진을 위한 컨트롤 구조개선)

  • Lee, Youngju
    • Journal of Korea Society of Digital Industry and Information Management
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    • v.13 no.4
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    • pp.163-170
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    • 2017
  • As the usage of smart phones continues to increase, the control UI, which users have to continue to use, sometimes finds a heavy burden on users. Therefore, in this study, we have studied the control user interface structure along with the theoretical background of the control user interface, and we have studied the role and usage of the control component based on it. Typical commonly used controls are button controls for transmission, selection controls for various selections, link controls for navigation, text controls for inputting characters, indicator controls for feedback on progress, A message control that displays information about warnings and errors, and a window control such as a dialog box. The structure of the control should be designed according to the use of the separated control to help the user efficiently use the control user interface. Based on the analysis of the theoretical usage of representative components belonging to the separated controls, we presented a new and correct way to use the control to improve the user experience. The use of improved control components will help to design the control structure efficiently and to improve the user experience.

Development of Smart Laundry Drying System

  • Kim, Nuri;Lim, Huhnkuk
    • Journal of the Korea Society of Computer and Information
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    • v.27 no.3
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    • pp.99-104
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    • 2022
  • In this paper, we first intend to develop and introduce a smart laundry drying system for verandas that controls the drying rack by actively responding to climate change. The developed smart laundry drying system receives laundry location information through the app, then detects climate change in real time through data from the Korea Meteorological Administration such as temperature and humidity according to the location information, and automatically controls the laundry on the drying rack in case of rain. It acquires weather information through the Arduino humidity sensor and the Korea Meteorological Administration Open-API, which is used to control the switch bot by the Raspberry Pi. The user interface uses Blynk, and the switch bot controls the laundry. Our proposed system can detect bad weather and automatically control the laundry at a remote location to prevent damage to the laundry.

Suppression Design of Smart Room Garden·Aquaculture System using PIC (스마트 Aquaponix 시스템 설계)

  • Choi, Yang-il;Kim, Byeong-Jun;Jeong, Hui-Tae;Shin, Kyoo-Jae
    • Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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    • 2018.10a
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    • pp.350-352
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    • 2018
  • In this paper, we propose a smart indoor garden aquaculture system using PIC. In the proposed smart indoor garden aquaculture system, the aquaphonics system circulates the nutrient solution of the aquarium, the filtrate tank, and the flowerpot. The automated control system that controls the state of the nutrient solution through the various sensors and controls the pump and valve is designed. As a result of the verification of the smart indoor garden aquaculture system proposed in this paper, it was confirmed that the environment suitable for the survival of fish and plants was maintained by monitoring water temperature, DO, pH measured in real time. The water level in aquarium and flower pot was controlled through automatic operation of the Electric vale and pump.

An Extensible Smart Home IoT System Based on Open Hardware Platforms (개방형 하드웨어 플랫폼 기반의 확장 용이한 스마트 홈 IoT 시스템)

  • Lee, Jin-hae;Park, Gwang-il;Shin, Jong-ha;Yoo, Seong-eun
    • IEMEK Journal of Embedded Systems and Applications
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    • v.11 no.6
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    • pp.369-377
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    • 2016
  • Recently, many changes have been made to people's life patterns as the technological advances in the ICT industry. The fusion of smart phones and various IT technologies has brought people convenience and welfare. A typical example of such fusion is the smart home. However, the existing smart home systems are difficult to be changed or extended. So we design a new smart home system with extensibility that can easily adopt legacy appliances and be scaled up. Among a variety of smart home features, this paper deals with IoT Devices that are responsible for controlling power or transmitting and receiving sensing values, IoT Gateway that connects users and consumer electronics via Internet, and Smart Home Manager that monitors and controls these components in the proposed smart home system.

An Establishment of the GIS, uIT, RS based Smart Disaster Systems (GIS, uIT, RS기반 스마트 방재시스템 구축방안)

  • Oh, Jong-woo
    • Journal of the Society of Disaster Information
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    • v.6 no.2
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    • pp.87-106
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    • 2010
  • This research focused on the effect of the GIS, uIT, and RS based smart disaster systems. Ubiquitous IT strongly involved in intelligent analysis for the natural disasters. Remote sensing technologies, such as hyper-spectral imaging, MODIS, LiDAR, Radar, and optical imaging processes, can contribute many means of investigation for the natural and unnatural problems in the atmosphere, hydrosphere, and lithosphere. Recent IT trends guides abundant smart solutions, such as automatic sensing using USN, RFID, and wireless communication devices. Smart monitoring systems using intelligent LBSs will produce many ways of checking, processes, and controls for the human safeties. In results, u-smart GIS, uIT, and RS based disaster systems must be using ubiquitous IT involved smart systems using intelligent GIS methods.

Software Platform Design and Implementation for Interworking between Smart TV, PC and Smart Phone (스마트 TV, PC, 스마트 폰 간의 상호 연동을 위한 소프트웨어 플랫폼 설계 및 구현)

  • Kim, Min-Jae;Min, Sang-Won
    • The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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    • v.37B no.9
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    • pp.831-836
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    • 2012
  • To provide convenient life, we consider the situation of using the smart phone to control smart TV and PC in home and office. In this paper, we design the interworking platform between smart TV, smart phone and PC, and implement their applications. Our smart phone application controls the smart TV and PC, where our smart TV application communicates with the smart phone and PC can be booted by the login and password information given form our smart phone application. We hope that our platform design and application implementation will be contributed to be a foundation of interworking between various smart devices in the near-future real smart life.

Optimal Planning of Smart Energy System and its Applications (스마트 에너지 시스템 최적설계 및 적용사례)

  • Kim, Ki-Young;Seo, Seok-Ho;Sung, Jin-Il;Seo, Hyon-Uk;Oh, Si-Doek;Kwak, Ho-Young
    • Proceedings of the KSME Conference
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    • 2007.05b
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    • pp.3359-3364
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    • 2007
  • The smart energy system is the integrated power system in which the power components including central station generation, distributed generation, renewable power generation, energy storage, and communications and controls are complexly connected with each other. In smart energy system, it is very important how to configure the diverse power generations and how to determine the operation mode of the chosen components with economic feasibility. In this study, we introduce the optimal planning method based on both economic feasibility and load profiles and its applications for the smart energy system in apartment. This method was considered very useful to determine the configuration and to decide the optimal operation mode of the smart energy system.

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Web Based Smart Home Automation Control System Design

  • Hwang, Eui-Chul
    • International Journal of Contents
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    • v.11 no.4
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    • pp.70-76
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    • 2015
  • The development of technology provides and increases security as well as convenience for humans. The development of new technology directly affects the standard of life thanks to smart home automatic control systems. This paper describes a door control, automatic curtain, home security (CCTV, fire, gas, safe, etc.), home control (energy, light, ventilation, etc.) and web-based smart home automatic controller. It also describes the use of ARM (Advanced RISC Machines) for automatic control of home equipment, a Multi-Axes Servo Controller using FPGA (Field Programmable Gate Array) and PLC (programmable logic controller). Additionally, it describes the development of a HTML editor using web auto control software. The tab loading time (7 seconds) is faster when using ARM-based web browser software instead of Chrome and Firefox is used because the browser has a small memory footprint (300M). This system is realized by web auto controller language which controls and uses PLCs that are easier than existing devices. This smart home automatic control technology can control smart home equipment anywhere and anytime and provides a remote interface through mobile equipment.