• Journal of Audiology & Otology
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• 제23권3호
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• pp.121-128
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• 2019

Background and Objectives: There is a scant evidence on the use of simulations in audiology (especially in Malaysia) for case-history taking, although this technique is widely used for training medical and nursing students. Feedback is one of the important components in simulations training; however, it is unknown if feedback by instructors could influence the simulated patient (SP) training outcome for case-history taking among audiology students. Aim of the present study is to determine whether the SP training with feedback in addition to the standard role-play and seminar training is an effective learning tool for audiology case-history taking. Subjects and Methods: Twenty-six second-year undergraduate audiology students participated. A cross-over study design was used. All students initially attended two hours of seminar and role-play sessions. They were then divided into three types of training, 1) SP training (Group A), 2) SP with feedback (Group B), and 3) a non-additional training group (Group C). After two training sessions, the students changed their types of training to, 1) Group A and C: SP training with feedback, and 2) Group B: non-additional training. All the groups were assessed at three points: 1) pre-test, 2) intermediate, and 3) post-test. The normalized median score differences between and within the respective groups were analysed using non-parametric tests at 95% confidence intervals. Results: Groups with additional SP trainings (with and without feedback) showed a significantly higher normalized gain score than no training group (p<0.05). Conclusions: The SP training (with/without feedback) is a beneficial learning tool for history taking to students in audiology major.

• 대한청각학회지
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• 제23권3호
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• pp.121-128
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• 2019

Background and Objectives: There is a scant evidence on the use of simulations in audiology (especially in Malaysia) for case-history taking, although this technique is widely used for training medical and nursing students. Feedback is one of the important components in simulations training; however, it is unknown if feedback by instructors could influence the simulated patient (SP) training outcome for case-history taking among audiology students. Aim of the present study is to determine whether the SP training with feedback in addition to the standard role-play and seminar training is an effective learning tool for audiology case-history taking. Subjects and Methods: Twenty-six second-year undergraduate audiology students participated. A cross-over study design was used. All students initially attended two hours of seminar and role-play sessions. They were then divided into three types of training, 1) SP training (Group A), 2) SP with feedback (Group B), and 3) a non-additional training group (Group C). After two training sessions, the students changed their types of training to, 1) Group A and C: SP training with feedback, and 2) Group B: non-additional training. All the groups were assessed at three points: 1) pre-test, 2) intermediate, and 3) post-test. The normalized median score differences between and within the respective groups were analysed using non-parametric tests at 95% confidence intervals. Results: Groups with additional SP trainings (with and without feedback) showed a significantly higher normalized gain score than no training group (p<0.05). Conclusions: The SP training (with/without feedback) is a beneficial learning tool for history taking to students in audiology major.

• 한국콘텐츠학회논문지
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• 제22권9호
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• pp.520-530
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• 2022

본 연구는 무발화 자폐스펙트럼장애 중재에 관한 언어재활사의 현황과 인식, 요구에 대하여 설문조사를 통하여 살펴보고자 하였다. 조사 대상으로는 언어재활사협회 회원으로 등록되어 있는 언어재활사 116명을 대상으로 하였다. 이에 결과는 다음과 같다. 첫째, 현장 언어재활사 중 96.6%가 무발화 자폐스펙트럼장애를 의뢰받은 적이 있다고 하였고 SELSI를 가장 많이 사용하는 평가도구로 의사소통기능과 사회적 상호작용을 가장 많이 사용하는 중재 목표인 것으로 나타났다. 둘째, 전체 중 86.2%가 언어치료에 어려움이 있다고 하였으며 부담이 되는 이유에 대해서는 언어치료 방법의 부족이라고 답을 하였다. 또한, 무발화 자폐스펙트럼장애에 대한 언어치료의 지식 정도에서는 치료영역에서 낮게 나타났으며 자신감 정도는 의사소통기능과 사회적 상호작용에서만 긍정적으로 응답하였다. 셋째, 교과 과정 내에서 필요하다고 생각하는 교육은 치료 방법에 대한 교육이었으며, 정규 과정 외 교육의 개선점으로는 전문가 과정이나 워크숍과 같은 교육 증가와 슈퍼비전 활성화인 것으로 나타났다. 본 연구결과로부터 추후 관련 교과 과정의 확대 및 개선이 이루어지기를 기대해 본다.

• Journal of Computing Science and Engineering
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• 제2권1호
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• pp.1-25
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• 2008

Spoken dialog tasks incur many errors including speech recognition errors, understanding errors, and even dialog management errors. These errors create a big gap between the user's intention and the system's understanding, which eventually results in a misinterpretation. To fill in the gap, people in human-to-human dialogs try to clarify the major causes of the misunderstanding to selectively correct them. This paper presents a method of clarification techniques to human-to-machine spoken dialog systems. We viewed the clarification dialog as a two-step problem-Belief confirmation and Clarification strategy establishment. To confirm the belief, we organized the clarification process into three systematic phases. In the belief confirmation phase, we consider the overall dialog system's processes including speech recognition, language understanding and semantic slot and value pairs for clarification dialog management. A clarification expert is developed for establishing clarification dialog strategy. In addition, we proposed a new design of plugging clarification dialog module in a given expert based dialog system. The experiment results demonstrate that the error verifiers effectively catch the word and utterance-level semantic errors and the clarification experts actually increase the dialog success rate and the dialog efficiency.

• 동의신경정신과학회지
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• 제24권4호
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• pp.393-402
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• 2013

Objectives: This study is a clinical report of a patient with ADHD and learning disorders who is being treated with hyperbaric oxygen, scalp acupuncture, cognitive enhancement therapy and speech-language therapy. Methods: The BASA-R, BASA-M and REVT tests were used for the diagnosis of learning disorders. For the treatment, hyperbaric oxygen therapy, scalp acupuncture, cognitive enhancement therapy and speech-language therapy were all being used. The Raven's matrix tests were compared for between before and after the abovementioned therapies. Results: After the treatment, Raven's matrix test grade improved from 4 to 5. The improvement of the patient's concentration, communication, motion, confidence, and sleep conditions were observed. Conclusions: These therapies including the hyperbaric oxygen therapy are efficient for the treatment of ADHD and learning disorders.

• 한국치위생학회지
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• 제19권4호
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• pp.577-589
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• 2019

Objectives: The purpose of this study was to investigate the effects of general and oral health on quality of life in the elderly living alone and with family. Methods: We analyzed data from the $6^{th}$ Korea National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey. Distribution of the elderly living alone and with family based on the general characteristics and general and oral health was analyzed using complex-sample chi-square tests. Multiple logistic regression was used to analyze the factors affecting quality of life by calculating the 95% confidence intervals. Results: In the elderly living alone, the quality of life significantly correlated with restriction of activity, perceived general and oral health status, perceived stress, and speech difficulties. Further, in the elderly living with family, lower quality of life significantly correlated with restriction of activity, perceived health status, walking days per week, life time smoking history, Community Periodontal Index, and chewing and speech difficulties. Conclusions: The elderly are concerned with self-maintenance of general and oral health. Therefore, systematic policies related to health services need to be developed and operated at the national level. It is especially necessary to take social interest in the elderly living alone and a more continuous and professional approach in their health care.

• 한국멀티미디어학회논문지
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• 제11권11호
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• pp.1471-1479
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• 2008

본 논문에서는 음성인식 분야에서 많이 사용되고 있는 가변어휘 단어 인식 시스템에서 미등록어에 대한 거절 성능을 향상시키는 방법을 제안한다. 거절 기능을 구현하는 방식은 핵심어 검출(keyword spotting)방식과 발화검증(utterance verification)으로 구분이 된다. 발화 검증 방식은 각 음소마다 이와 유사한 반음소모델(anti-phoneme model)을 생성한 후 정상적인 음소 모델과 반음소 모델의 유사도를 비교하여 결정하는 방식이다. 본 논문에서는 화자가 발성할 때마다 구해지는 화자확인 확률값을 신뢰도 문턱치를 결정할 때 적용하는 방법에 대하여 제안하였다. 제안한 방법을 사용하였을 때, 사무실 환경에서 CA(Correctly Accepted for keyword)가 94.23%, CR(Correctly Rejected for out-of-vocabulary)이 95.11%로 나타났고, 잡음 환경에서는 CA가 91.14%, CR이 92.74%로 나타나서 성능이 향상됨을 확인할 수 있었다.

• 한국산학기술학회논문지
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• 제15권5호
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• pp.3046-3050
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• 2014

본 연구는 음성장애 청지각적 평가인 EAI(등간척도)와 VAS(시각적 아날로그 척도)의 차이점, 각 평가방법에 대한 평가자 자가-신뢰도(confidence rating)을 알아보았다. 30명의 언어병리전공 학생들이 음성장애로 진단받은 화자(N=25)의 발성과 읽기 샘플을 듣고 EAI는 7점 척도, VAS는 0-10cm의 직선에 음성장애 정도를 표시했고, 판단에 대한 자가 신뢰도 점수는 7점 척도로 실시했다. 음성장애 정도에 대한 판단의 준거가 제시되는 상황(조건 1)과 그렇지 않은 상황(조건 2)에서 모음 연장발성과 읽기 과제에 대해 각각 실시했다. 연구 결과, 발성이나 읽기과제에서 모두 동일하게 모두 VAS평가 점수가 높게 산출되었고, 통계적으로 유의하였다. 그 외 조건 1의 읽기과제와 조건 2의 발성과제에 대한 EAI와 VAS평가 점수 간에는 차이가 없었다. 이러한 결과는 음성장애 화자들의 발화 과제와 청지각적 평가유형이 청취자들의 지각적인 판단에 영향을 미칠 수 있으며, 이에 대한 보다 집중된 임상 연구가 계속되어야 할 것을 시사한다.

• 제어로봇시스템학회논문지
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• 제9권5호
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• pp.390-397
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• 2003

We propose a humanoid active audition system which detects the direction of sound using just three microphones. Compared with previous researches, this system which has a simpler algorithm and less microphone shows better performance. Moreover, it uses the fuzzy logic system to remove the reflective sound and makes the resultant improvement of confidence. In order to verify our system's performance, we install the proposed active audition system to the home service robot, called hombot II, which has been developed at the KIST(Korea Institute of Science and Technology), and confirm its excellent performance through the experiment.

• 한국음향학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국음향학회 1998년도 학술발표대회 논문집 제17권 1호
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• pp.67-70
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• 1998

본 논문에서는 단어독립 음성인식 시스템을 위한 음성인식 거절(rejection)기능에 대해 기술한다. 음성인식 거절 기능은 음성인식기를 제작할 때 정해놓은 인식대상 단어 이외의 단어가 입력되었을 때 그 단어가 인식할 수 없는 단어임을 알려주는 기능이다. 본 연구에서는 단어독립 음성인식 시스템에 적용될 수 있는 발화 검증 방식에 의해 음성인식 거절 기능을 구현하였다. 특히 유사도를 결정함에 있어서 산술평균, 기하평균, 조화평균을 사용하고 각각을 비교하여, 기하 평균을 사용하는 방식이 우수한 성능을 보임을 알 수 있었다. 음성의 신뢰도(confidence score)를 정규화하기 위해서 Sigmoid 함수를 사용하는데 이 함수의 가중치(weight) 상수의 변화에 대해 인식률을 비교함으로써 가장 적절한 가중치 상수값을 결정하였다. 음성인식 테스트 결과에서는 신뢰도 임계치 값을 구하고 이 값을 사용하여 인식률을 계산하였으며, 거절의 오류까지 포함된 음성인식률은 약 76%였다. 이 연구결과는 현재 한국통신에서 시험 서비스 중인 음성인식 증권정보 안내 시스템에 적용될 예정이다.