• 한국정보시스템학회지:정보시스템연구
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• 제29권1호
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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.

• 산경연구논집
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• 제10권2호
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• pp.17-23
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• 2019

Purpose - This study aims to clarify the impact of smart health gadgets (specfically, smart watches/sports wristbands) on promoting healthy behavior. It also aims to understand the use and characteristics of the devices, to explore the relationship between device factors and factors that affect healthy behavior, and to discuss the development of health promotion. Research, design, data, and methodology - Smart device users were investigated through a random sampling method of 185 respondents, including all ages and all levels of occupation, education, and income. The SmartPLS 3.0 software enabled the path analysis and the descriptive statistical analysis; the theoretical model was evaluated for the parameter analysis. Results - The size and path of each factor impacting health promoting behavior were ascertained. The objective factors that attract users to the smart wristband were investigated as well as the methods by which the device and the HPM are bound to each other and the correlation factors to seek out the closest relationship. Conclusions - According to the analysis, the real-time smart watch/sports wristband exerts a positive impact on one's health promoting behavior. Health awareness is increasingly promoted in the process of using the device, and the impact of health awareness and self-efficacy effects on healthy behavior is considerable.

• 로봇학회논문지
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• 제18권1호
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• pp.18-28
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• 2023

This study introduces a smart wrist band system with pressure measurements using wrist skin curvature variation due to finger motion. It is easy to wear and take off without pre-adaptation or surgery to use. By analyzing the depth variation of wrist skin curvature during each finger motion, we elaborated the most suitable location of each Force Sensitive Resistor (FSR) to be attached in the wristband with anatomical consideration. A 3D depth camera was used to investigate distinctive wrist locations, responsible for the anatomically de-coupled thumb, index, and middle finger, where the variations of wrist skin curvature appear independently. Then sensors within the wristband were attached correspondingly to measure the pressure change of those points and eventually the finger motion. The smart wrist band was validated for its practicality through two demonstrative applications, i.e., one for a real-time control of prosthetic robot hands and the other for natural human-computer interfacing. And hopefully other futuristic human-related applications would be benefited from the proposed smart wrist band system.

• IEIE Transactions on Smart Processing and Computing
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• 제6권1호
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• pp.21-26
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• 2017

In this paper, we suggest an automated sleep scoring method using machine learning algorithms on accelerometer data from a wristband device. For an experiment, 36 subjects slept for about eight hours while polysomnography (PSG) data and accelerometer data were simultaneously recorded. After the experiments, the recorded signals from the subjects were preprocessed, and significant features for sleep stages were extracted. The extracted features were classified into each sleep stage using five machine learning algorithms. For validation of our approach, the obtained results were compared with PSG scoring results evaluated by sleep clinicians. Both accuracy and specificity yielded over 90 percent, and sensitivity was between 50 and 80 percent. In order to investigate the relevance between features and PSG scoring results, information gains were calculated. As a result, the features that had the lowest and highest information gain were skewness and band energy, respectively. In conclusion, the sleep stages were classified using the top 10 significant features with high information gain.

• 문화기술의 융합
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• 제10권1호
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• pp.525-532
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• 2024

본 연구에서는 스마트팔찌와 스마트워치의 물리적 특성이(예: 모양, 색상, 소재, 크기, 무게, 기술적 기능) 소비자의 기능적, 심미적, 상징적 가치 지각에 미치는 영향을 확장된 기술수용모형을 사용하여 탐색하였다. 스마트팔찌나 스마트워치를 사용한 경험이 있는 미국 거주 성인 남녀를 대상으로 온라인 설문조사를 실시하였고, 최근 1년 사용했거나 현재 사용중인 제품에 대한 다양한 물리적 특성과 그에 대한 평가를 질문하였다. 연구 결과, 전면 디스플레이 모양이 상징적 가치에 유의한 영향을 미쳤는데, 구체적으로 원과 정사각형은 직사각형보다 유의하게 높은 상징적 가치를 보였다. 손목밴드의 소재 역시 상징적 가치에 유의한 영향을 미쳤으며, 여러 소재 중에서도 금속과 가죽의 상징적 가치가 높게 나타났다. 또한, 제품의 크기가 클수록 높아지는 상징적 가치를 확인하였다. 이 외에도 활동 추적, 알람 시계, 거리 추적과 같은 기술적 기능은 기능적 가치를, 시계, GPS, 이메일 같은 기술적 기능은 심미적 가치를, 보폭계, GPS, 이메일은 상징적 가치를 높게 지각하도록 했다. 이러한 결과는 스마트팔찌와 스마트워치에 대한 소비자 욕구를 이해하여 제품을 개선하거나 신제품 개발하는 자료로 사용될 수 있다.

• 한국정보통신학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국정보통신학회 2021년도 추계학술대회
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• pp.104-105
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• 2021

ICT의 급속한 발전과 더불어 고령화 사회와 COVID-19로 인한 비대면의 시대에서 다양한 스마트헬스케어디바이스를 기반으로 건강관리를 지속하고 있다. 본 논문에서는 개인 맞춤형 건강관리를 지원하기 위하여 실시간으로 분당 심장 박동수 측정함으로써 수시로 자신의 건강 상태를 확인하고 건강한 생활을 유지할 수 있도록, 아두이노 기반으로 DF Robot SEN0203 심박센서를 이용하여 심박 측정기를 제작하였다. 본 논문을 통해 제작한 기기는 손목 밴드나 스마트 워치 등 다양한 방법으로 활용될 수 있다.

• 사물인터넷융복합논문지
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• 제9권1호
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• pp.33-39
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• 2023

고령화 사회로 인한 만성질환자의 증가로 그들의 질병 예방과 관리가 시급하다. 이러한 문제를 해결하기 위한 생체인증 방법과 원격의료시스템들이 소개되고 있으나 의료정보와 개인인증의 보안성 문제를 해결하는데에는 어려움이 있다. 스마트 헬스케어는 대상자의 개인 의료정보를 포함하고 있으므로 무엇보다 개인정보의 보안이 중요한 분야이다. 따라서 본 논문에서는 프라이빗 블록체인 환경에서 손목 밴드 형태의 스마트 웨어러블 디바이스 ECG와 얼굴 개인인증을 활용한 원격의료시스템을 제안하고자 한다. 이 시스템에서는 다양한 의료인과 전 지역 만성질환자를 대상으로 하였으며, 데이터의 무결성과 투명성을 높일 수 있는 프라이빗 블록체인을, 위변조가 어렵고 개인식별성이 높은 ECG와 얼굴인증을 활용하여 보안성과 신뢰성이 높일 수 있는 시스템을 구성하였다. 이를 통해 재가 만성질환자의 질병 예방과 건강관리에 힘써 만성질환 관리의 효율성을 높이는데 기여하고자 한다.