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Conceptualizing Safety Systems Human Performance improvement using Augmented Reality

  • Murungi, Mwongeera;Jung, JaeCheon
    • Journal of the Korean Society of Systems Engineering
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    • v.12 no.2
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    • pp.81-90
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    • 2016
  • The system performance of Engineered Safety Features is of utmost importance in a nuclear power plant. The human performance is identified as most critical to assurance of the optimal operability of safety systems during an emergency. The aim of this study is to determine how the performance of safety system could be evaluated using Augmented Reality technology. The paper presents a description of how a systems engineered approach could be used to develop the necessary operating conditions needed to conduct this measurement. Augmented Virtual Reality (AVR) interface technology is achieving ease of availability and widespread use in many applications today as illustrated by the launch of several AR and VR devices aimed at media consumption. As such, environments that incorporate such AVR hardware have become invaluable tools in designing human interface systems because of the high fidelity and intuitive response to natural human interaction that can be achieved [2]. The outcome of the measurement undertaken is to determine whether 1.) Operator(s) performance can be enhanced by introducing an improved cognitive method of monitoring plant information during an Emergency Operating Procedures (EOP) and 2.) In correlation, inform the performance of the diverse safety systems on the basis of human factors.

Development of the 3D Virtual Fitting Room Simulator using Augmented Reality (증강현실을 이용한 3D 가상 피팅룸 시뮬레이터의 개발)

  • Kim, Sung-Ho
    • Journal of Digital Convergence
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    • v.11 no.11
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    • pp.449-454
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    • 2013
  • Recent, the number of consumers using home shopping are in increase. So, there have been a lot of effort to provide services that meet the consumer's eye level in each store. In particular, apparel stores have been conducted the research for virtual fitting room based on augmented reality technology that consumers can simulate in real time costumes that meet the tastes of consumers in online and offline market. In addition, some services has already progress. The general virtual fitting room simulator built the user interface based on OpenCV, augmented reality API, Kinect, and so on. But, it has the disadvantage that the equipment is expensive. In this paper, we have developed a 3D virtual fitting room simulator based on augmented reality technology using OpenCV and libsigc$^{++}$. This simulator can simulate easily in general home without any special equipment. This simulator is expected to be available very efficient in online and offline market as well as home shopping.

Authoring Personal Virtual Studio Using Tangible Augmented Reality (탠저블 증강현실을 활용한 개인용 가상스튜디오 저작)

  • Rhee, Gue-Won;Lee, Jae-Yeol;Nam, Ji-Seung;Hong, Sung-Hoon
    • Korean Journal of Computational Design and Engineering
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    • v.13 no.2
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    • pp.77-88
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    • 2008
  • Nowadays personal users create a variety of multi-media contents and share them with others through various devices over the Internet since the concept of user created content (UCC) has been widely accepted as a new paradigm in today's multi-media market, which has broken the boundary of contents providers and consumers. This paradigm shift has also introduced a new business model that makes it possible for them to create their own multi-media contents for commercial purpose. This paper proposes a tangible virtual studio using augmented reality to author multi-media contents easily and intuitively for personal broadcasting and personal content generation. It provides a set of tangible interfaces and devices such as visual markers, cameras, movable and rotatable arms carrying cameras, and miniaturized set. They can offer an easy-to-use interface in an immersive environment and an easy switching mechanism between tangible environment and virtual environment. This paper also discusses how to remove inconsistency between real objects and virtual objects during the AR-enabled visualization with a context-adaptable tracking method. The context-adaptable tracking method not only adjusts the locations of invisible markers by interpolating the locations of existing reference markers, but also removes a jumping effect of movable virtual objects when their references are changed from one marker to another.

A Study on Virtual Reality Media Exhibition using HMD (HMD를 활용한 가상현실 미디어 전시회에 관한 연구)

  • Kim, Hyun-Jung;Lee, Jong-Ho;Song, Eun-Jee
    • Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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    • 2017.10a
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    • pp.658-660
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    • 2017
  • 가상현실은 실감형 콘텐츠를 제작하는 대표적인 분야로 교육, 엔터테인먼트, 의료, 국방, 항공 등 다양한 분야에서 활용할 수 있는 가능성을 보여주고 있어 주목을 받고 있다. 가상현실을 이용한 예술전시는 디지털 미디어를 극대화한 형태라 할 수 있어 최근에 가상현실 전시회로써 다양한 콘텐츠의 구현이 가능하다. 본 연구는 관람객에게 HMD를 이용한 미디어 가상전시를 경험하게 하고 작가의 의도와 보여주고자 하는 시나리오의 의미가 잘 전달될 수 있도록 하는 방법론을 제안한다. 제안한 방법에 의해 콘텐츠를 개발하는데 있어 체험의 몰입도를 높이기 위해 실제 크기의 3D 모델링을 진행하였고, 범프맵(bump map), 노말맵(normal map)과 큰 해상도의 텍스쳐를 제작하여 사용함으로 대중(관람객들)에게 하여금 현실의 오브젝트와 차이점을 느끼지 못하도록 구현 한다.

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Trend of Technologies and Standardizations for Mobile Augmented Reality (모바일 증강현실 기술 및 표준화 동향)

  • Lee, Yong-Hwan;Lee, Yukyong;Park, Je-Ho;Yoon, Kyoungro;Kim, Cheong Ghil;Kim, Youngseop
    • Journal of Satellite, Information and Communications
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    • v.8 no.1
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    • pp.83-88
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    • 2013
  • Recently, by increasing the number of smartphone users, the applications for product brochure and advertising service using a technology of augmented reality are also taking place exponentially. The term, augmented reality, is an application of providing composite view with real world and virtual world, and synthesizing the information to make it look-like things that exist in the actual environments of the original real world. In this paper, we present the trends of core technologies and the standardization related on augmented reality in the mobile environment, and discuss the necessary of standards related to image-based augmented reality.

Children's Education Application Design Using AR Technology (AR기술을 활용한 어린이 교육 어플리케이션 디자인)

  • Chung, HaeKyung;Ko, JangHyok
    • Journal of the Semiconductor & Display Technology
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    • v.20 no.4
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    • pp.23-28
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    • 2021
  • Augmented reality is a technique for combining virtual images into real life by showing information of virtual 3D objects on top of a real-world environment (Azuma et al., 2001). This study is an augmented reality-based educational content delivery device that receives user input that selects either a preset object or a photographed object for augmented reality-based training; It includes a three-dimensional design generation unit that generates a stereoscopic model of the augmented reality environment from an object, a three-dimensional view of the scene, a disassembly process of the developing road from a three-dimensional model, and a content control unit provided by the user terminal by generating educational content including a three-dimensional model, a scene chart, a scene, a decomposition process, and a coupling process to build a coupling process from the scene to the three-dimensional model in an augmented reality environment. The next study provides a variety of educational content so that children can use AR technology as well as shapes to improve learning effectiveness. We also believe that studies are needed to quantitatively measure the efficacy of which educational content is more effective when utilizing AR technology.

Client-Centered Mobile Augmented Reality System for Virtual Building Simulation (가상 건축물 시뮬레이션을 위한 클라이언트 중심의 모바일 증강현실 시스템)

  • Kim, Eun-Mi;Lim, Soon-Bum
    • Journal of Korea Multimedia Society
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    • v.11 no.2
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    • pp.228-236
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    • 2008
  • Recently augmented reality technology has been researched to view the virtual shape of buildings before construction or cultural heritages under recovery. Those researches used special devices or markers that are not applicable in long distanced outdoor environment. Also the server had to compute a lot of transformations for the location changes of virtual objects. This paper proposed a mobile augmented reality system that uses GPS and accelerometer sensors in order to compute the virtual object's locations without using markers. The server determines the position and orientation by comparing the GPS data obtained from the client with the predefined 3D object informations in the server. If the server sends the virtual object informations such as the position, orientation and matching information, then the client matches the virtual object on the screen of mobile camera phone. In addition, the client computes the transformations of location change detected by the accelerometer derived from the user's movement without additional connection to the server.

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Effect of Immersion on Field Applicability and Safety Accident Prevention in Experience Safety Education Using Virtual/augmented Reality : Focusing on Shipbuilding Workers (가상·증강현실을 활용한 체험안전교육의 몰입도가 현장 적용성 및 안전사고예방에 미치는 영향: 조선산업 종사자를 중심으로)

  • Moon, Seok-In;Jang, Gil-Sang
    • Journal of the Korea Safety Management & Science
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    • v.23 no.4
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    • pp.31-42
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    • 2021
  • Recently, virtual reality (VR) and augmented reality (AR) technologies are attracting attention as core technologies in the era of the 4th industrial revolution. These virtual and augmented reality technologies are being used in a variety of industries, including the construction industry, healthcare industry, and manufacturing industry, to innovate in communication and collaboration, education and simulation, customer service and reinvention of the customer experience. In this paper, VR-based experiential safety education was conducted for workers of shipbuilding companies in Ulsan city, and for them, the educational effectiveness such as immersion, site applicability, safety accident prevention, education satisfaction, overall performance, and safety behavior in VR-based safety experience education were measured. In addition, we examined whether the immersion of VR-based safety experience education affects site applicability, safety accident prevention, educational satisfaction, overall performance, and safety behavior. Furthermore, it was analyzed whether site applicability plays a mediating role in the relationship between immersion and safety accident prevention. As a result, it was found that the immersion of VR-based safety experience education affects site applicability, safety accident prevention effect, education satisfaction, overall performance, and safety behavior, and that site applicability mediates between immersion and safety accident prevention. Based on these results, we suggests a direction for the development of VR-based contents in the field of safety and health and the transformation of safety and health education in the future.

Recent Advances in Virtual and Augmented Reality for Broadcast Production: Focused on In-depth Interviews (차세대 방송 제작을 위한 가상 및 증강현실 기술의 적용 사례 및 동향 분석: 전문가 심층 인터뷰 중심으로)

  • Lee, Deokwoo;Kwon, Jounghuem
    • Journal of Broadcast Engineering
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    • v.23 no.1
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    • pp.11-18
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    • 2018
  • In these days, technologies of virtual reality (VR) and of augmented reality (AR) have applied to diverse areas such as medicine, defense, education that are closely related to real-life practice. In contrast to the previous applications of game or sports, the technologies of VR and AR tends to expand the areas of applications according to development of the imaging or video techniques. This paper introduces VR and AR techniques and some examples of applications. In addition, this paper introduces how the differences between VR and AR technologies affect to the applications of broadcasting systems. In the last, this paper introduces the results of interviews about suitability and future feasibility of VR and AR techniques for broadcasting systems from korean broadcasting companies.

An Application Method of Augmented Reality Technology for Layout Planning of Housing Complex (주거단지 배치계획을 위한 증강현실 기술의 활용방안에 관한 기초연구)

  • Ryu, Jung-Rim;Choo, Seung-Yeon;Jo, Jin-Sung
    • Journal of the Korean housing association
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    • v.21 no.4
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    • pp.89-97
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    • 2010
  • Digital convergence era has been already started and is rapidly developed. Recently, convergency technology became an essential issue in all industries, and is expected to accelerate. This means that we can experience growth and change of architecture using new technology and approaching method. The AR (Augmented Reality) technology, among these convergence technology, is a kind of virtual reality technology that user can see a scene of real world which is overlapped by virtual world with additional information. It has been used in manufacturing and management in the whole industry fields including medical, mechanical, military field and so on because it can provide higher sense of reality. Thus, in this paper, we suggest the utilization of AR technology for organically connecting the roads, facilities, green area, landscape and others in the layout planning of housing complex. Users can see real world with virtual object by overlap computer graphic on the real world. This method provides users with various information about territoriality and openness. As the result of this study it is expected that this technology will help the layout planning of housing complex to become more reasonable in the aspect of design, time and cost.