• 한국감성과학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국감성과학회 2003년도 춘계학술대회 논문집
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• pp.84-89
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• 2003

The virtual reality(VR) technology can provide various stimuli, including, visual and auditory stimuli, simultaneously in the virtual environment and encourage the user to interact. Virtual reality is a set of computer technologies, which when combined, provide an interactive interface to a computer generated world. In this world the subject can see, hear and navigate in a dynamically changing environment in which he participates as an active player, by modifying the environment according to his will. Moreover, the subject can get a feeling for the virtual environment in much the same way as one feels real life situations. In the real world, a plethora of information from various modalities may be in conflict, and modulate each other to form an illusion. In this study we investigated whether a tactile illusion on a real hand could be evoked by a virtual stimulus, the time required to generate this illusion and its duration. This study shows that the illusion occurred, and that was correlated with presence score in the virtual environment.

• Fibers and Polymers
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• 제5권1호
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• pp.6-11
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• 2004

The purpose of this study is to analyze the subjective fabric hand of sleepwear fabrics, and to assist in developing sleepwear fabrics that offer maximum comfort in wearing sensation. In general, the respondents noted that sleepwear fabrics made with polyester had better tactile sensation than those made with cotton, while satin weave fabrics felt better than plain weave fabrics. As regards the difference in fabric hand according to gender, female students responded with more receptiveness and sensitivity than male students in the category of woven fabric evaluation. As regards the same textile materials, the evaluations of female students and male students differed in fabric hand descriptors, particularly for the evaluation on cotton fabrics. Male students responded that both plain weave fabrics and satin weave fabrics were stiff while female students replied that satin weave fabrics had better tactile sensation.

• 한국감성과학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국감성과학회 1997년도 한국감성과학회 연차학술대회논문집
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• pp.91-94
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• 1997

Objective of this stuey was to find the corrdlation between emotiona changes and the parameters of HRV spectrum evoked by tactile stimualtion. Twenty-one subjects were useds and five different types of materials, dry cottn, wet cotton, paper, sandpaper, and vinyl were applied to the left hand of each subject as a tactile stimulation. The results showed that HF/LF(ratio of high to low frequency amplitude calculated from power spectrum of HRV) decreased as the subject experienced the unpleasant emotion caused by wet cotton and sandpaper. On the othr hand, when the subject experienced the comfort, HF/LF increased. It was concluded that the proprsed methods can be applied to evaluate the characteristic changes in the autonomic nervous system which regulates the human emotion in the psychological aspects.

• 한국정밀공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국정밀공학회 2002년도 추계학술대회 논문집
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• pp.1029-1032
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• 2002

This paper describes a design of a tactile sensor, which can measure three components force and temperature due to thermal conductive. The bio-mimetic tactile sensor, alternative to human's finger, is comprised of four micro force sensors and four thermal sensors, and its size being 10mm$\times$10mm. Each micro force sensor has a square membrane, and its force range is 0.1N - 5N in the three-axis directions. On the other hand, the thermal sensor for temperature measurement has a heater and four temperature sensor elements. The thermal sensor is designed to keep the temperature. $36.5^{\circ}C$, constant, like human skin, and measure the temperature $0^{\circ}C$ to $50^{\circ}C$. The MEMS technology is applied to fabricate the sensing element of the tactile sensor.

• 한국음향학회지
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• 제38권4호
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• pp.467-475
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• 2019

고출력의 초음파는 매질을 진행하면 음향 흐름과 음향 방사힘을 만들어낸다. 공기를 매질로 하는 3차원 공간상에 음향 방사힘을 발생시키면 입체적인 촉감을 형성할 수 있으므로 공간적인 정보를 직접 피부에 촉각으로 전달할 수 있다. 본 논문은 40 kHz의 작은 초음파 송신자 154개를 묶어 오목한 형태로 배열시켜서 초음파를 송신하여 집속초점에서 음향 방사힘을 발생시켰다. 초음파 음장의 초점의 근처에서 음향 방사힘에 의한 촉각을 확인하였다. 촉각 감도를 올리기 위하여 송신 초음파를 60 Hz의 구형파로 진폭 변조를 하였다. 초음파 촉각의 응용으로 음향 방사힘이 형성되는 허공에 촉각이 감지되는 영역을 형성시켜서, 손의 위치를 지정하는 지시자로 사용하였다. 촉각이 감지되는 초점위치에 있는 손의 모양을 영상 입력으로 받아서 손가락의 개수를 기계에 피드백하는 시스템을 구현함으로써 초음파를 이용한 촉각의 유용성을 확인하였다.

• Journal of Electrical Engineering and Technology
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• 제13권4호
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• pp.1732-1739
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• 2018

With the explosion of digital devices, interaction technologies between human and devices are required more than ever. Especially, hand gesture recognition is advantageous in that it can be easily used. It is divided into the two groups: the contact sensor and the non-contact sensor. Compared with non-contact gesture recognition, the advantage of contact gesture recognition is that it is able to classify gestures that disappear from the sensor's sight. Also, since there is direct contacted with the user, relatively accurate information can be acquired. Electromyography (EMG) and force-sensitive resistors (FSRs) are the typical methods used for contact gesture recognition based on muscle activities. The sensors, however, are generally too sensitive to environmental disturbances such as electrical noises, electromagnetic signals and so on. In this paper, we propose a novel contact gesture recognition method based on Flexible Epidermal Tactile Sensor Array (FETSA) that is used to measure electrical signals according to movements of the wrist. To recognize gestures using FETSA, we extracted feature sets, and the gestures were subsequently classified using the support vector machine. The performance of the proposed gesture recognition method is very promising in comparison with two previous non-contact and contact gesture recognition studies.

• International Journal of Human Ecology
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• 제8권1호
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• pp.27-37
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• 2007

The purpose of this study is to investigate the preference of the hand and the sensibility image of underwear textiles according to seasons. According to a recent survey of 109 college students, using a 7 scale evaluation to the preference of the hand and the sensibility image among 13 summer and 10 winter underwear textiles. The data was analyzed through mean, SD, factor analysis, t-test, Person correlation analysis and regression analysis using SPSS Win 11.0. The summer underwear textiles were classified according to six tactile factors: stiffness/surface unevenness, weight, elasticity, moistness, extension, and warm-cool and 3 sensibility image factors: elegant individual, modern, and sporty-casual. The winter textiles were classified according to six tactile factors: stiffness/surface unevenness, elasticity, warm-cool, drapability, moistness and flexibility and divided into 2 sensibility images: modern elegant and sporty-casual. Factors expressing hand and sensibility image according to season showed significant difference. In the summer, weight, in the winter, drapability and flexibility showed significant difference at the hand factor evaluation. The hand factors: weight, warm-cool and modern sensibility image factors effect the preference of summer underwear textile, also the hand factors-elasticity, stiffness/surface unevenness and the sensibility image factor-easy-sport-casual-effect the preference of winter textiles. Therefore, the thin, light, and cool textiles which are also gorgeous and sporty-casual are preferred for summer underwear textiles while soft, simple and comfortable textiles are preferred for winter textiles.

• 한국소음진동공학회논문집
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• 제22권12호
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• pp.1220-1226
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• 2012

This paper proposes a novel type of tactile device utilizing magnetorheological(MR) fluid which can be applicable for haptic master of minimally invasive surgery(MIS) robotic system. The salient feature of the controllability of rheological properties by the intensity of the magnetic field(or current) makes this potential candidate of the tactile device. As a first step, an appropriate size of the tactile device is designed and manufactured via magnetic analysis. Secondly, in order to determine proper input magnetic field the repulsive forces of the real body parts such as hand and neck are measured. Subsequently, the repulsive forces of the tactile device are measured by dividing 5 areas. The final step of this work is to obtain desired force in real implementation. Thus, in order to demonstrate this goal a neuro-fuzzy logic is applied to get the desired repulsive force and the error between the desired and actual force is evaluated.

• 한국소음진동공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국소음진동공학회 2012년도 추계학술대회 논문집
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• pp.415-420
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• 2012

This paper proposes a novel type of tactile device utilizing magnetorheological (MR) fluid which can be applicable for haptic master of minimally invasive surgery (MIS) robotic system. The salient feature of the controllability of rheological properties by the intensity of the magnetic field (or current) makes this potential candidate of the tactile device. As a first step, an appropriate size of the tactile device is designed and manufactured via magnetic analysis. Secondly, in order to determine proper input magnetic field the repulsive forces of the real body parts such as hand and neck are measured. Subsequently, the repulsive forces of the tactile device are measured by dividing 5 areas. The final step of this work is to obtain desired force in real implementation. Thus, in order to demonstrate this goal a neuro-fuzzy logic is applied to get the desired repulsive force and the error between the desired and actual force is evaluated.

• 한국지능시스템학회논문지
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• 제8권3호
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• pp.95-103
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• 1998

접촉센서가 제공하는 tactile영상을 이용하여 접촉면의 형태를 인식할 때 영상의 모양은 접촉면에 가해지는 힘의 크기에 따라 변화된다. 따라서 많은 노력에도 부루하고 tactile 센서만을 이용하여 접촉면의 형태를 완전히 인식하는 것은 매우 어려운 일로 인식되고 있다. 본 논문에서는 이러한 문제를 해결하기 위해 tactile 영상이 얻어지는 때의 힘을 동시에 측정하고 힘에 따라 변화하는 영상의 모양을 퍼지융합 알고리즘을 이용하여 인식하는 방법을 제안한다. 접촉센서의 tactile 영상은 eigen vector해석 방벅을 적용하여 장축과 단축의 길이로 표현된다. 이들은 접촉 시에 가해지는 힘의 분포에 따른 경계선의 변호를 측정하여 만들어진 소속함수에 의해 퍼지화되며 Averaged Minkowski's distance를 이용하여 융합된다. 제안된 알고리즘은 다중센서시스템에 구현하여 실험하였으며 측정 시에 가해지는 힘의 크기 및 측정면의 종류에 고르게 86% 이상의 인식률을 보여 주었다. 제안된 알고리즘은 복수개의 손가락을 갖는 로봇의 손에 구현하면 작은 힘에도 변형되는 물체의 정밀한 조자이나 인식에 응용될 수 있다.