• Journal of the Korean Home Economics Association
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• v.32 no.1
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• pp.93-102
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• 1994

The purpose of this study was to investigate the suitability of several knit fabrics for the hadicapped children's slacks. After the observation and wearing test abrasion resistance pilling liquid water transport properties and heat transport properties of the fabrics were tested. As specimens cotton/polypropylene interlock knits and sweat absorbent polyester knit fabric were selected and compared to the cotton denim and wool fabrics. As a result of observation test importance of extensibility durability and comfort related properties were recognized. Through the wearing test depending on the handicap type and orthoses different location and grade of pilling were observed. Knit fabrics used in this experiment were as durable as woven fabrics and showed excellent heat and liquid water transport properties. It was concluded therefore that cotton/polypropylene and sweat absorbent polyester knit fabrics are suitable materials for handicapped children's slacks.

• Journal of the Korean Home Economics Association
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• v.30 no.1
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• pp.115-131
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• 1992

The purpose of this study is the investigation of the physically handicapped childrens' residentical life, using furniture and opinion of auxiliary furniture ot find out alternative forms of desirable furniture. This study consists of two parts: a survey of residential life and furniture usage and a new chair design based on the survey. Documentary research, observational investigation and questionaire survey methods were used. According to the survey, a chair was chosen as the most needed piece of furniture. The alternative chair was designed to accomodate to the individual physical needs of each child. The structural charasteristics of the chair form consist of four parts: 1) basic seat 2) supporting metal frame 3) detachable chair legs 4) detachable table top. Auxilliary options include adjustable parts such as a head rest, seat belt, arm rest and pedestal.

• Journal of Industrial Technology
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• v.33 no.A
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• pp.55-60
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• 2013

In this paper, we proposed an efficient method for implementing a voice recognition elevator. Unlike the existing ones, the proposed system is based on the bluetooth communication and smartphones equipped with the google speech recognition software, which makes it possible that the speech recognition capability can be added to the previously installed elevators. In order to improve the recognition accuracy, instead of using the result of the google recognizer, we built a web server where the user data are accumulated and they are used for recognition error correction.

• Proceedings of the KSME Conference
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• 2008.11a
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• pp.548-553
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• 2008

Low Floor buses have no steps to get on or get off the main cabin to provide the old and the handicapped with easy access. The car body for the low floor bus was designed to consider Korean physical standard, passenger capacity (standee, seated, handicapped), arrangement of vehicle components, and bus law or regulations. It was designed as an one body, without any reinforcement armature, which has light-weight sandwich constructions with glass epoxy skins, aluminum honeycomb cores and inner-frames. In this paper, torsion rigidity of the designed car body was evaluated and compared with that of a car body with reinforcement armatures in the cabin. Finite element method verified that the designed car body without reinforcement armatures could satisfy requirements of torsion rigidity.

• Journal of the Korea Safety Management & Science
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• v.9 no.2
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• pp.71-83
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• 2007

This study created a computerized information system of the collected job analysis data and analyzed the computerized job analysis data to derive critical job factors. Based on the ratings on each critical job factor, possible employment opportunities for the various types of disability could be derived according to the match between job condition and handicap condition. The results can be utilized by the Employment and Vocational Training Administration to expand both the counselor and counselee's perspectives about job possibilities and job requirements.

• Journal of the korean academy of Pediatric Dentistry
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• v.10 no.1
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• pp.13-23
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• 1983

The purpose of this study was to make a comprehensive study and provide information about the oral status of handicapped. 874 (male: 540, female: 334) persons who are housed by 12 institution aged from 4 to 28 years in Seoul area was examined by considering the DMF rate, periodontal condition and occlusion. The obtained results were as follows: 1. Cerebral palsy, poliomyelitis, mental retardation, and blindness groups had a significant higher DMF rate than that occurring in any of the remaining groups. 2. Prevalence of periodontal disease in blindness, mongolism, cerebral palsy, poliomyelitis groups showed higher than that of the remaining groups. 3. Mongolism group had a significantly higher incidence of malocclusion (69.23%).

• 제어로봇시스템학회:학술대회논문집
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• 1995.10a
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• pp.195-198
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• 1995

In this paper We propose one computer interface device for handicapped people. Input signals of the interface device are movements of eyeballs and head of handicapped. The movements of the eyeballs and head are detected by an image processing system. One feature of our system is that the operator is not obliged to wear any burdensome device like glasses and a helmet. The sensing performance of the image processing of the eyeballs and head is evaluated through experiments. Experimental results reveal the applicability of our system.

• Journal of Korean Society of Transportation
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• v.13 no.1
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• pp.83-94
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• 1995

Many taxis called "Mobum" in Seoul are empty and waiting along the curb during the day time. However, it is almost impossible for elderly and handicapped people, and women carrying babies to use them .It is because they can not serve passengers who request services by phone. If taxis, expecially "Mobum" taxis which offer high quality services, can be dispatched based on requests by phone, not only elderly and handicapped people but also auto commuters will easily call and use them. This paper shows a taxi dispatching system. The system minimizes the total empty vehicle hours under given number of empty vehicles and passengers and their locations. As a result, the system maximizes number of services and revenue under given number of taxis. The system adopts a well -known linear programming model and the model can fast and easily be solved by PC level linear programming packages. Also, practical solutions of the system's constraints such as size and travel time forecast are discussed.ecast are discussed.

• Journal of Korean Physical Therapy Science
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• v.3 no.2
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• pp.997-1009
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• 1996

The purpose of this study was to identify the necessity to provide a much better and more comfortable physiotherapy than institutional physiotherapy to a number of home-keeping handicapped persons and patients with a chronic-degenerative-denile disease. Home visiting physiotherapy can be defined as a behavior which a physiotherapist himself visit home and treat patients who cannot or hardly can visit hospital. To investigate factors which might influence the necessity for introduction of home visiting physiotherapy, this survey was carried out with the out-patients of four general hospital, one Chinese-medicine hospital, one welfare institution for handicapped persons, and also for all the physiotherapists registered in Pusan physiotherapist association using the structured questionare from March 1 to March 30.

• Proceedings of the IEEK Conference
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• 2008.06a
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• pp.865-866
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• 2008

Despite the effort for affording hearing handicapped persons facility for living, the investigation of assistive devices which recognize the out of sight circumstance has been studied insignificantly. In this paper, a novel acoustic-aware system is suggested to forward the sudden noise occured by the appearance of a new context to a hearing-impaired persons.