• Journal of Broadcast Engineering
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• v.7 no.2
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• pp.153-167
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• 2002

With the advent of digital broadcasting, a large number of program channels become available at the user terminals such as set-top-box or PC. Channel navigation and searching become more difficult at TV terminal sides using a conventional device such as a TV remote controller. The MPEG-7 MDS (Multimedia Description Scheme) and TV Anytime set up a standard about how to describe user preferences for genre, channel, actor/actress, keyword, etc. of the TV programs, and how to describe usage history for user's program consumption behaviors and preferences. But they do not describe how to use them. In this paper, we describe an IPG (Intelligent Program Guider) system that provides TV program and channel information based on user preferences and suggest easy access to TV program that user wants. The IPG monitors user's behaviors of interacting to programs and automatically updates the user's preference changes according1y. The IPG utilizes user preferences description scheme specified in both MPEG-7 MDS and TV Anytime metadata specifications.

• Convergence Security Journal
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• v.11 no.3
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• pp.67-74
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• 2011

One of the major requisites for the success of the smart-TV is to create a circumstance where smart-TV app's are produced and purchased on a large scale. However, the smart TV app's may succeed only under the condition that the user interface of the smart TV is greatly evolved from the typical TV remote controller. Several equipments have been devised to tackle the problem of the poor user interface of the smart-TV; however, they are not satisfactory in the aspects that they usually increase the costs of TV-set and they do not help practically the app developers. The equipments are pre formed so that it is hard for the app developers to design their own user interface using them. In the paper, sMartUX, a method for developing the smart-TV app is introduced. sMartUX provides a new paradigm and development environment for designing, implementing, and operating the user interface of the smart TV app using a smart-phone. With sMartUX, app developers can design their own user interface using the various facilities of a smart-phone, and they need not to care the details of various smart-phones and how to launch their user interface onto a smart-phone.

• 한국HCI학회:학술대회논문집
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• 2008.02a
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• pp.579-583
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• 2008

Web pages with complex layout and small font size do not display well on large screen display such as TV because it has limited capabilities: long distance view, passive user attitude, limited input device like a legacy remote controller. We have designed and implemented new semantic zoom browsing facilities to support effective navigation on Internet-connected digital television with limited capabilities. Our browser performs partitioning of an HTML document content into semantic blocks. Semantic blocks present summarized information with more readable style and modified layout for optimal reading and browsing. Individual blocks can be selected by the user and zoomed in more detail information by the user. The scrolling on large display device needs more user interaction. Our browser modifies the layout of an HTML document with removing horizontal scrolling and minimizing vertical scrolling. This method allows users to easily view the web page by converting into optimal reading style and layout and to easily seek the information just with zooming.

• Journal of Korea Multimedia Society
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• v.12 no.2
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• pp.219-230
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• 2009

With the development of broadcasting technology from analogue to interactive digital, the number of TV channels and TV contents provided to audiences is increasing in a rapid speed. In this multi-channel world, it is difficult to adapt to the increase of the TV channel numbers and their contents merely using remote controller to search channels. For these reasons, the EPG system, one of the essential services providing convenience to audiences, is proposed in this paper. Collaborative filtering method with multi-step filtering is used in EPG to recommend contents according to the preference of audience groups with similar preference. To implement our designed TV contents recommendation EPG, we prefer DiTV and use JavaXlet programming based on MHP. The European DVB-MHP specification will be also our domestic standard in DiTV. Finally, the result is verified by OpenMHP emulator.

• The KIPS Transactions:PartC
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• v.13C no.6 s.109
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• pp.717-724
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• 2006

This paper describes the design and implementation of architecture for convergence of home network services and data broadcasting services based on UMB and ACAP middleware; the one is used for interoperability of home networked devices, and the other for data broadcasting services. The proposed architecture provides TV-centric user interface capable of managing home network services and data broadcasting services together using a remote controller and TV sets TV applying Java TV Xlet interface and HAVi user interface for home network services like data broadcasting services. Besides, we define the service proxy for accessing home network services in a set-top box and the service broker for providing data related to home network services in a home server. Finally, the application manager in ACAP middleware manages the lifecycle of home network services through service events from the service proxy to the application manager.

• 한국HCI학회:학술대회논문집
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• 2006.02a
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• pp.1025-1030
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• 2006

과거에는 시스템이 돌아가기만 하면 되지 편리함이나 사용자의 취향을 고려하는 것은 모두 사치라는 생각이 있었다. 그러나 현재는 단순히 사용성에 근거한 시스템만으로는 그 시스템이 좋은 시스템이라고 평가 받기에는 부족한 면이 있다. 이제는 시스템이 HCI 관점에서 평가되며, 이때 시스템개발의 최종목적은 단순히 동작하는 시스템을 만드는 것이 아니라 사용자들에게 최적의 경험을 제공할 수 있는 시스템을 개발하는 것이다. 이러한 최적의 경험은 시스템과의 상호작용이 유용하고, 편리하며, 직관적이어야 얻을 수 있다. 일반적으로 TV 리모컨은 화면에 미리 지정된 부분들을 순차적으로 이동하는 간접 이동 방식으로 매우 간단한 인터랙션만을 제공해 준다. 본 논문에서는 사용자에게 보다 직관적인 인터페이스를 제공해주기 위해 리모컨의 기능을 확장한 프로젝터 기반의 가상 리모컨을 제안한다. 가상리모컨은 사용자가 원하는 위치에 생성될 수 있으며, 기존의 TV 리모컨과 같이 미리 지정된 메뉴 사이를 이동해서 제한된 선택을 하는 것이 아니라, 보다 직관적인 인터페이스를 통해 직접 기기를 동작시키는 가상 체험을 느끼면서 조작할 수 있도록 해 준다. 실험을 통해, 기존의 TV 리모컨이 일정한 학습을 필요로 했던 것과는 달리, 체험자들은 사전 학습없이 TV의 주요 기능을 가상리모컨을 사용함으로써 쉽고 빠르게 컨트롤할 수 있음을 확인하였다.

• Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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• 2011.11a
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• pp.161-164
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• 2011

무선인터넷의 발달과 스마트 디바이스의 보급이 유비쿼터스 시대를 앞당기고 있다. 스마트 TV와 스마트 에어컨 등 네트워크 기반의 가전 기기들이 등장 하면서 모든 제품들을 네트워크 환경으로 묶어 사용하는 시대가 열린 것이다. 이러한 스마트 기기들이 등장함과 동시에 스마트 폰을 활용하여 유비쿼터스 디바이스를 제어하는 어플리케이션들도 많이 등장하였다. PC를 제어하거나 스마트 TV를 제어하는 어플리케이션은 안드로이드 마켓이나 애플 스토어에서 킬러 앱으로 각광 받고 있다. 그러나 이러한 스마트 디바이스들이 아직은 많이 보급되지 않았다. 아직도 각 가정에서는 스마트 TV가 아닌 보통 TV를 사용하는 경우가 많고, 에어컨의 경우 수명이 더 길어 스마트 에어컨 등이 보급되기 까지는 더욱 더 시간이 걸릴 것으로 보인다. 본 논문에서는 증강현실과 적외선 모듈을 이용하여 유비쿼터스 환경에 포함되지 못한 디바이스들을 스마트 폰으로 제어할 수 있는 AR Remote System을 제안한다.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.14 no.2
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• pp.462-468
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• 2010

In this paper, the new efficient drive control technology based on the conventional full-color electric display board image processing method is proposed. This technology can be applied to high-fidelity large size panel TV and LCD Display, and makes high-fidelity-display-drive control possible in those. The proposed drive control technology can strengthen the image processing function of the conventional technology. Also, the automatic or manual adjustment of contrast, bright, tint, color, gamma revision, etc. can help to achieve high-fidelity vision. This technology can be adopted with lower price.

• 제어로봇시스템학회:학술대회논문집
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• 2005.06a
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• pp.1563-1567
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• 2005

The Home network system means that information appliances, Home PCs, etc., using wired or wireless network method enable to control and share with peripheral devices such as internet, shared data, a scanner and a printer, and it is networking solution, which intelligent communication will be possible as the system which can do a remote control such as TV Set, refrigerators, air conditioners, DVD players, digital camcorders based on external network using an internet, a potable information terminal and a mobile phone whenever, wherever and freely. In this study, the home network interface solution is used one of the wired network standards, PLC (Power-Line Communication) technology, so we can construct of intelligent home network's home controller without re-build a network at home. On keeping with current waves of thought, we will focus on a home controller development with great interest which is enabled to do an effective managed control, applying intelligent home network technology which can be new paradigm like a cyber apartment.

• 한국HCI학회:학술대회논문집
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• 2008.02a
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• pp.573-578
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• 2008

Recently, we should control various devices such as TV, audio, DVD player, video player, and set-top box simultaneously to manipulate home theater system. To execute the function the user want in this situation, user should know functions and positions of the buttons in several remote controllers. Normally, people feel difficult due to these realistic problems. Besides, the number of the devices that we can control shall increase, and people will confuse more if the ubiquitous home environment is realized. Therefore, user adaptive interface that provides the summarized functions is required. Moreover there can be a lot of mobile and stationary controller devices in ubiquitous computing environment, so user interface should be adaptive in selecting the functions that user wants and in adjusting the features of UI to fit in specific controller. To implement the user and controller adaptive interface, we modeled the ubiquitous home environment and used modeled context and device information. We have used Bayesian network to get the degree of necessity in each situation. Behavior selection network uses predicted user situation and the degree of necessity, and it selects necessary functions in current situation. Selected functions are used to construct adaptive interface for each controller using presentation template. For experiments, we have implemented ubiquitous home environment and generated controller usage log in this environment. We have confirmed the BN predicted user requirements effectively as evaluating the inferred results of controller necessity based on generated scenario. Finally, comparing the adaptive home UI with the fixed one to 14 subjects, we confirmed that the generated adaptive UI was more useful for general tasks than fixed UI.