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Barrier Free Design Methods applied in Passenger Terminals based on Characteristics of Transportation Poor & Barrier Free Elements - Focused on the Gunsan International*Coastal Passenger Boat Terminal - (교통약자의 행동특성과 이동편의시설 설치요소를 통한 여객시설 디자인방법에 관한 연구 - 군산 국제·연안여객선 터미널을 대상으로 -)

  • Park, Byung Min;Shim, Eun Ju
    • Korean Institute of Interior Design Journal
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    • v.22 no.5
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    • pp.344-356
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    • 2013
  • Due to implementation of legislations for translation poor such as handicapped people, elderlies, children most public buildings are now integrating barrier free design methods. However, barrier free design is still considered as constraints of physical elements that only serve to meet functional aspects for minors and conflict with designs of the space. The authors believe that it is time that barrier free design is considered not as constraints but opportunities that both meet functional and aesthetical needs serving the growing population of transportation poor and others as well. This paper has looked into characteristics of transportation poor and barrier free design elements of passenger terminals and developed 4 categories of design methods. applied by using human sense, form, furniture, and architectural elements. Then the authors analyzed Gunsan International and coastal passenger terminal existing conditions which is considered to be designed to meet barrier free guidelines and legislations through the developed design categories and elements. The result turned out that the subject in regard of barrier free designs for transportation poor lack various applications such as forms that can be used as symbolic and directional elements that assists as wayfinding cues. Also, flexible and multi functional approaches in furniture arrangements, structural approaches are needed.

A Study on the Proper Large Print for the Development of Books for the Elderly (노인용 큰글자도서 개발을 위한 적정문자 연구)

  • Youk, Keun-Hae
    • Journal of the Korean Society for Library and Information Science
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    • v.43 no.2
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    • pp.171-192
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    • 2009
  • To date, large print books have been published in Korea only for partially-sighted persons. However, as a recent explanation in the Reading Culture Promotion Act indicates, people who cannot use reading materials due to old age are now also considered to be reading-handicapped. This study is aimed at investigating the proper characteristics for the improvement of print publication for elderly people using data from a survey of 80 elderly persons. This study identified elderly people's preferences on the major characteristics of large format books such as font style, character size, line width, and page layout, derived from both quantitative and quantitative research methods.

Design and Implementation of Bus notification using IoT and location information (IoT 및 위치 정보를 활용한 버스 알리미 설계 및 구현)

  • Lee, Yeeun;Kim, Eunyoung;Yun, Hyejin;Kim, Jiyoun;Kwon, Koojoo
    • Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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    • 2020.11a
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    • pp.292-295
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    • 2020
  • In the modern society, people can easily reach destination by using the rapidly developed public transportation services. Recently, location information is provided through the network, but this is useless to the weak people on transportation like the handicapped. This paper proposes a bus alert terminal system equipped with the arrival information of public buses based on location information and distance measurement sensor. By using this system, we look forward to providing more convenient and accessible services for the weak people on transportation.

Learning Process Support Experience of Cerebral Palsy Children's mothers (뇌성마비 아동 어머니의 학업과정 지지 경험)

  • Baek, Kyoung-Seon
    • Journal of East-West Nursing Research
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    • v.7 no.1
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    • pp.48-60
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    • 2002
  • This study was conducted to understand and analyze experience of learning process support toward mothers of children who suffer from Cerebral Palsy, to generalize and structurize the meaning of practical learning process support, and to use the study results as basic materials for development of support model. Study subjects were 12 mothers who have Cerebral Palsy children attending an ordinary school and a school for handicapped children. Data were collected from November 10, 1999 to December 29, 2000 and from January 20 to March, 2001, for 2 months. Data were collected from un-structural and open questions. And the collected data were analyzed with the phenomenological analysis method proposed by van Kaam(1969). Study results obtained from this report were as follows; As for original materials about learning process support experience of cerebral palsy children's mothers, 48 technical expressions were derived from 97 pieces of original materials, they were categorized into 10 common elements. Those common elements were , , , , , , , , , . Based on the above results, it is suggested that the concept of learning process support toward children suffering from Cerebral Palsy should be structureized, and proper models should be developed.

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Design and Implementation of Voice EPG Platform within Voice EPG Generator for Terrestrial DMB (음성 EPG 생성기를 내장한 지상파 DMB용 음성 EPG 플랫폼 설계 및 구현)

  • Kim, Kyung-Nam;Lim, Choong-Soo;Cheon, Kyeong-Jae;Kim, Hwan-Chul;Choi, Jung-Hoon
    • Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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    • 2007.04a
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    • pp.275-277
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    • 2007
  • Recent activation of DMB has enabled various high quality video, audio and data services. And there are various user facilities functions using digital data transmission. One of the various user facilities functions is EPG(Electronic Program Guide). EPG supports schedule of programs on screen for. audiences. EPG is composed to time, title, channel, genre etc. Users can select a program what they want to browsing. Currently EPG services are displaying program schedule on screen visually and make users to input ke:ywords with keypads, remote control devices or touch screen etc. However, this approach could cause a serious restriction to some users like to drivers or visually handicapped persons. A standard for a voice EPG to T-DMB is proposed. This method must be transferred VoiceXML based EPG files from the transmitter to receivers. This approach has a problem to process a standardization because the transmitter and receivers should be modified. We proposed and implemented a voice EPG platform that generates the voice EPG files from T-DMB SI without transferring voice EPG file from the transmitter.

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Soft-Remote-Control System based on EMG Signals for the Intelligent Sweet Home

  • Song, Jae-Hoon;Han, Jeong-Su;Pak, Ji-Woo;Kim, Dae-Jin;Jung, Jin-Woo;Bien, Z. Zenn;Lee, He-Young
    • 제어로봇시스템학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 2005.06a
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    • pp.1163-1168
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    • 2005
  • This paper proposes a soft-remote-control (soft-remocon) system based on EMG signals for the Intelligent Sweet Home. The proposed system is applied to Intelligent Sweet Home which was developed to help the independence living of the elderly and physically handicapped individuals. The goal of proposed system is to control home-installed electronic devices such as TV, air-conditioner, curtain and lamp in Intelligent Sweet Home using EMG signals. Features such as VAR and DAMV having good separability performance are selected for pattern classification. FMMNN is adopted as a pattern classifier. Classification results are allowed to a developed remote control module and then corresponding infrared pulses can operate home-installed electronic devices. We concluded that EMG as an input interface for home-installed electronic devices in Intelligent Sweet Home.

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Development of Ubiquitous-based Monitoring Service System (유비쿼터스 기반의 모니터링 서비스 시스템의 개발)

  • Noe, Chan-Sook;Kim, Ki-Young
    • Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society
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    • v.10 no.11
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    • pp.3170-3175
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    • 2009
  • In this paper, we developed u-Care service system using technologies of USN and LBS to help construct social welfare infrastructure and social safety net for lone seniors and handicapped people. This service not only monitors the in-house and outdoor activities of those disabled people but also sends the messages, whenever abnormal behaviors are detected, to the people related to them as well as the social welfare organizations and public safety institutions such as police and emergency services and etc in order to alert them.

Unconstrained e-Book Control Program by Detecting Facial Characteristic Point and Tracking in Real-time (얼굴의 특이점 검출 및 실시간 추적을 이용한 e-Book 제어)

  • Kim, Hyun-Woo;Park, Joo-Yong;Lee, Jeong-Jick;Yoon, Young-Ro
    • Journal of Biomedical Engineering Research
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    • v.35 no.2
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    • pp.14-18
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    • 2014
  • This study is about e-Book program based on human-computer interaction(HCI) system for physically handicapped person. By acquiring background knowledge of HCI, we know that if we use vision-based interface we can replace current computer input devices by extracting any characteristic point and tracing it. We decided betweeneyes as a characteristic point by analyzing facial input image using webcam. But because of three-dimensional structure of glasses, the person who is wearing glasses wasn't suitable for tracing between-eyes. So we changed characteristic point to the bridge of the nose after detecting between-eyes. By using this technique, we could trace rotation of head in real-time regardless of glasses. To test this program's usefulness, we conducted an experiment to analyze the test result on actual application. Consequently, we got 96.5% rate of success for controlling e-Book under proper condition by analyzing the test result of 20 subjects.

A Study on Evacuation of Patients in Hospital : Part I (병원 피난에 관한 연구 : Part I)

  • Kim Eung-Sik;Lee Jeong-Su;Kim Myeong-Hun;You Hee-Kwon;Song Yong-Ho;Min Kyung-Chan
    • Fire Science and Engineering
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    • v.19 no.2 s.58
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    • pp.20-28
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    • 2005
  • The existing algorithms or programs of egress time estimations rule out the walking velocity of each single person. But this algorithm can not be applied to estimation of evacuation in a hospital, because most patients are handicapped or walking on various kinds of tools. This study measured the moving velocities of patients according to different types of physical handicap. Also evacuation drills in several hospitals were carried out to establish an algorithm for prediction of total egress time of wards. Besides these measurements awareness of staffs about safety was investigated with the questionnaire. The results of this study is divided into two serial papers.

Making of Electronic Wheelchair Body For the Disabled (장애인과 보호자를 위한 전동휠체어 바디 제작)

  • Jung, Hyun-Woo;You, Jae-Jun;Kim, Duck Sool;Lee, Dong-Hoon
    • Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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    • 2014.05a
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    • pp.503-506
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    • 2014
  • This research notes dramatic increase of wheelchair usage along with rapidly aging population and handicapped people in Korea. Differentiated from existing electronic wheelchairs, we invented an electronic wheelchair that is collapsible even when the battery is installed and a guardian can ride along with a patient, It is also easy to put in a small space such as car trunks. We simulated to wheelchair body for Stress, Strain, fatigue Analysis. Additionally, we improved stoic design to be preferable for patients. The model ensures there's neither abrupt acceleration nor sudden stop and lastly, is much cheaper than other imported models.

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