• The Journal of the Institute of Internet, Broadcasting and Communication
• /
• v.20 no.6
• /
• pp.41-50
• /
• 2020

This paper deals with the Braille Education System which complements the shortcomings of the existing Braille Learning Products. An application dedicated to the blind is configured to perform full functions through touch gestures and voice guidance for user convenience. Braille kit is produced for educational purposes through Arduino and 3D printing. The system supports the following functions. First, the learning of the most basic braille, such as initial consonants, final consonant, vowels, abbreviations, etc. Second, the ability to check learned braille by solving step quizzes. Third, translation of braille. Through the experiment, the recognition rate of touch gestures and the accuracy of braille expression were confirmed, and in case of translation, the translation was done as intended. The system allows blind people to learn braille efficiently.

• The Journal of the Institute of Internet, Broadcasting and Communication
• /
• v.20 no.6
• /
• pp.51-58
• /
• 2020

The blind people have difficulty living an independent clothing life. The furniture and home appliance are adding AI or IoT with the recent growth of the smart appliance market. To support the independent clothing life of the blind, this paper suggests a smart wardrobe with closet control function, voice recognition function and clothes information recognition using CNN algorithm. The number of layers of the model was changed and Maxpooling was adjusted to create the model to increase accuracy in the process of recognizing clothes. Early Stopping Callback option is applied to ensure learning accuracy when creating a model. We added Dropout to prevent overfitting. The final model created by this process can be found to have 80 percent accuracy in clothing recognition.

• YAKHAK HOEJI
• /
• v.52 no.3
• /
• pp.201-211
• /
• 2008

All pharmacists must provide the drug consultation whenever dispense drugs to patients by the Korean Pharmacy Law. Drug consultation is very important procedure for increasing pharmacotherapy. Because it maximizes the therapeutic effects or/and minimizes adverse drug reaction during the drug therapy. However, it is not easy to do because of the dynamic and hectic pharmacy environment. Especially, if someone has a disabling body function, they required more time and efforts to perform consultation by pharmacist. Currently several auxiliary labels for helping drug consultation are using in pharmacy practice but not for disabling patients. Therefore we developed the total 53 auxiliary labels with size of 0.7 cm (width) and 1 cm (length) by Braillewriter letters for blind patients. This research has been performed for total 12 months (Mar. 15ts, 2007$\sim$Feb. 25th, 2008) and the developing methods are consisted of 4 steps: 1) selection of essential informations, 2) simplification of information, 3) changing for Braillewriter letters, 4) application and revising by blindness patients. Also the labels are consisted of 12 for adverse reactions and precautions, 8 for directions, 2 for storages, 9 for duration, 9 for dosage forms, and 12 for common names. After developed those labels, we revised those labels by discussion with 2 blind people. In conclusion, the new auxiliary labels for blind patients can increase therapeutic effects and decrease risks from pharmacotherapy besides decreasing of pharmacist's work load in the future.

• Journal of the Korea Convergence Society
• /
• v.11 no.3
• /
• pp.45-52
• /
• 2020

In this study, we propose a new Relative position pattern unlocking solution based on blind interaction, which is a new unlocking method, and compared it with existing unlocking methods to verify usability and security improvement. And verified the practical value of the proposed new unlocking solution. The relative position pattern unlock method is easily remembered than the numeric code method and is worth practical enough to show a degree of learning ease similar to the drawing pattern method. The new method is safer to steal than other two methods. It can be manufactured at a low cost and can also be used by special users such as blind people. Therefore, the practical value is relatively high.

• Science of Emotion and Sensibility
• /
• v.23 no.1
• /
• pp.41-56
• /
• 2020

This study suggests multisensory interaction techniques to help visually impaired people appreciate and understand artworks through non-visual senses such as tactile, auditory, and olfactory senses. A user study was conducted on the basis of a qualitative interview about the experience of appreciating artwork through the multisensory interaction system to visually impaired people so as to verify the development of the interaction techniques. The user test shows that the multisensory interactions in artwork generally not only help them appreciate and understand it but also give them satisfaction through artwork appreciation. However, it also indicates that some multisensory interactions caused the visually impaired people confusion and could not be perceived during the appreciation. On the basis of these outcomes, implications in this study are as follows. This study has contributed to providing specific development guidelines and indicators of non-visual multisensory interactions as a technical alternative to improve accessibility to cultural and artistic activities for the visually impaired. Furthermore, this study is expected to contribute to building a technical background, which can provide comprehensive sensory experiences with not only blind people but also non-blind people such as children and the elderly through universal interaction techniques beyond existing visual-oriented fragmentary experience.

• Journal of Korea Multimedia Society
• /
• v.16 no.4
• /
• pp.510-519
• /
• 2013

In this paper, we propose a voice-annotation browsing system that make the reading-disabled people to be able to find and play the existing voice-annotations. The proposed system consists of 4 steps: input, ranking & recommendation, search, and output. For the reading-disabled people depending only on the auditory sense, all steps can accept voice commands. To evaluate the effectiveness of our system, we design and implement an android-based mobile e-book application supporting the voice-annotation browsing ability. The implemented system is tested by a number of blind-folded users. As a result, we can see almost all the reading-disabled people can successfully and easily reach the existing voice-annotations they want to find.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Broadcast Engineers Conference
• /
• 2015.07a
• /
• pp.94-95
• /
• 2015

본 논문에서는 시각장애인에 대한 미디어 접근성에 관한 설문 조사와 그 결과를 제시하고 시각장애인용 미디어 콘텐츠 제작과 관련하여 접근성을 향상시키기 위한 기술의 연구개발 동향 및 개발 방향을 제시한다.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Broadcast Engineers Conference
• /
• 2015.11a
• /
• pp.137-138
• /
• 2015

본 논문에서는 시각장애인이 외국어로 된 미디어 콘텐츠를 이해하는데 필수적인 음성자막 서비스용 콘텐츠 저작방법을 제안하고 그 구현 예를 제시한다. 제안하는 방법은 저작 단계별로 편의 기술을 제공하여 저작자로 하여금 편리하고 경제적으로 음성자막 콘텐츠를 제작할 수 있도록 한다.

• Journal of Korean Library and Information Science Society
• /
• v.40 no.3
• /
• pp.295-315
• /
• 2009

This study suggested a scheme of revitalization and development of digital talking books(DTB) for the print disable people. In Korea, the number of print disabled people is quickly increasing because of increasing of the acquired blind and the elderly in population. To promote information service and to encourage active participation from the group categorized as print disabled people, library is required two distinctive considerations, design and implementation of authoring tool for DTB and policy and administrative consideration for revitalization for DTB service to the print disable people.

• Journal of East-West Nursing Research
• /
• v.27 no.2
• /
• pp.195-204
• /
• 2021

Purpose: The purpose of this study was to understand the experiences and problems of sexual and reproductive health among Korean lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer or questioning, and intersex (LGBTQI) people. Methods: Phenomenological methodology was employed in this study, which comprised 14 LGBTQ participants. Data were collected using individual in-depth interviews from May to June, 2021, and were analyzed using Colaizzi's method. Results: Four categories-comprising nine theme clusters-emerged from the data, as follows: 1) hard-to-recognize gender identity, 2) blind spots in the healthcare system, 3) empathy and support in the community, and 4) new challenges to protect my precious self. Conclusion: This study provides valuable and detailed insights into the meaning of sex and reproductive health among Korean LGBTQI people. This finding could be utilized to develop effective questions for understanding not only sexual and reproductive health but also overall health problems of LGBTQI people.