• Journal of the Semiconductor & Display Technology
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• v.23 no.2
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• pp.33-37
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• 2024

Recently, wearable virtual reality devices are widely used. These instruments include a 3-axis accelerometer. User's heart rate information in virtual reality contents can be useful for measuring user experience. In this paper, we propose a method to measure the heart rate through a 3-axis accelerometer based on the principle of ballistocardiography without additional sensors. The angular velocity was successively measured in a time series by the 3-axis accelerometer mounted to the head. The frequency of the maximum magnitude is determined as the heart rate through frequency transform and band pass filtering of the time series signal. For verification, the heart rate calculated from photoplethysmography sensors acquired at the same time was compared as ground-truth. In the virtual reality, the user's heart rate information can be extracted without additional heart rate sensor, and the emotional state and fatigue can be measured.

• The Journal of Korean Institute for Practical Engineering Education
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• v.3 no.1
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• pp.76-83
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• 2011

In this paper we suggest an effective teaching plan for measurement engineering by utilizing the NI-ELVIS(National Instrument Educational Laboratory Virtual Instrumentation Suite). ELVIS is a development platform for LabVIEW-based design and prototyping environment. It consists of LabVIEW-based virtual instruments, a multifunctional data acquisition device, and a custom-designed benchtop workstation and prototyping board. Therefore it can replace the expensive instruments for the effective education in the area of electrical engineering. This platform can be applicable for the sensor instrumentation engineering study, though it is a multidisciplinary learning including electrical engineering, sensor technology, signal processing and data analysis. We hope this approach can be used for the other educational area related the electrical experimental education.

• Proceedings of The Korean Society of Agricultural and Forest Meteorology Conference
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• 2003.09a
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• pp.189-201
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• 2003

Grid is a new Information Technology (IT) concept of "super Internet" for high-performance computing: worldwide collections of high-end resources - such as supercomputers, storage, advanced instruments and immerse environments. The Grid is expected to bring together geographically and organizationally dispersed computational resources, such as CPUs, storage systems, communication systems, real-time data sources and instruments, and human collaborators. The term "the Grid" was coined in the mid l990s to denote a proposed distributed computing infrastructure for advanced science and engineering. The term computational Grids refers to infrastructures aimed at allowing users to access and/or aggregate potentially large numbers of powerful and sophisticated resources. More formally, Grids are defined as infrastructure allowing flexible, secure, and coordinated resource sharing among dynamic collections of individuals, institutions and resources referred to as virtual Organizations. GRID is an emerging IT as a kind of next generation Internet technology which will fit very well with Agrometeorological services in the future. I believe that it would contribute to the resource sharing in AgroMeteorology by providing super computing power, virtual storage, and efficient data exchanges, especially for developing countries that are suffering from the lack of resources for their agmet services at national level. Thus, the establishment of CAgM-GRID based on existing RAMINSII is proposed as a part of FWIS of WMO.part of FWIS of WMO.

• The Transactions of The Korean Institute of Electrical Engineers
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• v.56 no.10
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• pp.1770-1774
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• 2007

In this paper we deal with a design of the evaluation system to assess the vehicle operational control algorithm for Personal Rapid Transit(PRT) system. PRT system is different from the conventional rail traffic system in such that the station is off-line so as to guarantee a very short headway. In this study we propose an evaluation system to assess the performance of the proposed vehicle control algorithm. The evaluation system is composed of virtual vehicles, central control system, virtual wayside facilities, monitoring equipments. The virtual vehicles are made up by the laptop computers and the central control system employs Power PC process of Motorola Inc. The wayside facilities are implemented by employing the PXI module of the National Instruments Corporation. In order to test the proposed evaluation system a test algorithm is used, which has been simulated in the combined simulation system between Labview Simulation Interface Toolkit and Matlab/Simulink.

• Journal of the Korean Society for Aeronautical & Space Sciences
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• v.39 no.7
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• pp.660-665
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• 2011

Reconfigurable Flight Simulator for an airborne tactical mission based on virtual reality technology is developed as a software configurable cockpit with computer display as virtual instruments. It can simulate F-15K, KF-16, T/A-50 class fighter and depending on simulated cockpit, control stick and throttle are replaceable. For effective immersion, Video See-Through type HMD is applied.

• Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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• 2005.05a
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• pp.155-158
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• 2005

본 논문은 가상 계측 단말기 (Virtual Instrument) 제작을 위해 만들어진 가상 계기 스크립팅 툴킷 (VIST)의 구현과 설계를 보여준다. 가상 계기는 가상현실에서 휴대용 컴퓨터에 탑재되어 실행되는 응용 프로그램들을 일컫는다. 가상 계기는 가상환경의 특성에 대해 조사하고 보여주는 데 사용되고 가상환경에서 사용자와 가상현실 시스템의 상호 작용을 개선시키는 데에도 사용할 수 있다. VIST 는 가상 계기를 구성하는 컴포넌트를 쉽게 생성하도록 해주고, 그 컴포넌트들을 사용하여 프로토타입을 빠르게 제작할 수 있게 한다. 또한 가상환경 안에서 가상환경의 특성과 가상객체의 속성을 보여 주고 그것들을 쉽게 파악하도록 하는 메커니즘을 제공한다. 본 논문은 VIST 의 설계 원리와 구조를 기술하고, 실제로 어떻게 가상 계측 단말기를 제작하였는지 보여준다.

• Journal of Digital Contents Society
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• v.14 no.2
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• pp.161-169
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• 2013

Experiments and practices are critical instructional activities for teaching and learning natural sciences. However, by learning the experimental procedures in advance with the help of Virtual Experiments, natural science majors may address danger of handling chemicals before carrying out experiments in the laboratories. Virtual Experiments, a mobile learning app, provides learners with interactions between the learners and the contents by using the sensor built-in Android-platform smart phones. With the app, learners may handle the chemicals and experiment apparatuses, verify the reactions and assembly of the chemicals and instruments in advance. This paper describes the design and development of the Virtual Experiments in hope to promote the integration of mobile learning apps in order to better engage learners in the laboratories.

• Journal of Institute of Control, Robotics and Systems
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• v.9 no.8
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• pp.577-584
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• 2003

Traditional ankle rehabilitation procedures are tedious, repetitive, and require therapist's help. Therefore, they do not provide patients with good motivation to actively participate in the rehabilitation exercises. In addition, objective diagnosis and evaluation of the treatment progress have been difficult because records of exercise history are made by passive instruments from time to time. The virtual reality technology can make these procedures more fun so that patients can perform everyday rehabilitation exercises more actively. Moreover, haptics technology can give active resistance to the patients ankle motion to improve strength of muscles as well as can record ankle's motion and force histories for objective diagnosis and evaluation. This paper summarizes development of a virtual environment fur reforming the conventional ankle rehabilitation procedures. First of all, conventional rehabilitation procedures have been summarized. Secondly, haptic design and control, user interface design, virtual environment contents design are described. Lastly, mutual cooperation among many developers including medical doctors and therapists and future works are commented.

• The Journal of Korean Institute for Practical Engineering Education
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• v.1 no.1
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• pp.99-105
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• 2009

Computer-based learning with the access to World Wide Web has become a fundamental base for adopting beneficial education. It provides significant facilities such as animation and interactive processes that are not possible with textbooks. Web/Internet-enabled applications which is fully controlled and monitored from remote locations are extensively used by a number of Universities, national laboratories and companies for different kinds of applications all over the world. Continuous advances in computers and electronics coupled with drooping prices of hardware have made Web/Internet-based technologies less costly than before, particularly for educational organizations. Thus, it is more affordable to invest in these technologies that are essential for both expanding education over Web and further improving and advancing such technologies the application of remote virtual instruments will be demonstrated in this context along with experiments that can be adopted to be educational experimental lab for Engineering Education students.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.9 no.2
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• pp.268-276
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• 2005

This paper presents the motivation, design, and a preliminary evaluation of a virtual world builder, CLOVES. CLOVES is designed to support rapid construction of data-rich virtual environments and instruments for young children's science inquiry teaming. It provides a three-tiered programming Interface: a visual design environment, scripting layer, and low-level application programming interface targeting for multiple levels of programming expertise. It is also intended to be a collaborative medium among interdisciplinary domain experts such as educators, 3D modelers and software developers. A preliminary case study was conducted to evaluate the capabilities and effectiveness of CLOVES. The results showed that designers actively participated in decision making at every stage of the design process and shared knowledge among one another.