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Design and Implementation of Smart Device Application for Instructional Analysis (스마트 디바이스 기반 수업분석 프로그램 설계 및 구현 -한국어 특성 반영과 교사활용도 증진을 위한 UI설계를 적용하여-)

  • Kang, Doo Bong;Jeong, Ju Hun;Kim, Young Hwan
    • The Journal of Korean Association of Computer Education
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    • v.18 no.4
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    • pp.31-40
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    • 2015
  • The objective of this study is to develop and implement a smart device based instructional analysis application to enhance the efficiency of teaching in class. The main design features for this application are as follows: first, User Interface(UI) has been simplified to provide teachers a clear and easy-to-understand way to utilize the application. Second, the characteristics of Korean language were considered, such as sentence structure. Third, multi-aspect analysis is possible through adopting three analysis types - Flanders' interaction analysis, Tuckman's analysis, Mcgraw's concentration of instruction analysis. The practical instructional analysis application has been developed through this study, and this user-oriented application will be able to help teachers improve the quality of teaching in class. Also, this study can be a starting point for further researches on design principles of instructional analysis, especially with the recent technology and theories, such as a voice-recognition system, an edutainment applied instruction and an experiential learning.

A Study on Experiences of Caring for Children with Autistic Disorder - Focused on Experiences of Parents of the Adult Children - (자폐성 장애인을 자녀로 둔 부모의 돌봄 경험에 관한 연구 - 성인기 자녀를 둔 부모의 경험을 중심으로 -)

  • Lim, Haeyoung;Song, Keumyeol
    • Korean Journal of Social Welfare
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    • v.67 no.3
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    • pp.227-252
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    • 2015
  • This study conducted in-depth interviews of seven parents with autistic adults and analyzed them using qualitative case study methods in order to understand overall meaning of care experiences of parents with autistic adult children. Thus, four key topics which are 'experience of embracement', 'experience of anticipation', 'experience of despair', 'experience of resistance' were constructed. Under these key topics, 12 subcategories which are 'accepting reality', 'positive experience', 'gradual improvement', 'desire to provide better quality of life', 'expectation towards the society', 'strenuous lives', 'psychological exhaustion', 'predicted anxiety', 'defensive attitude', 'distrust of social welfare', 'confronting injustice', 'active behaviors' were constructed. According to the analysis, care experiences of parents with autistic adults are not segmentary, but they are intertwined which make them more dynamic. Thus, easing their despair, empowering positiveness to them, and assisting them to have healthy resistant voice are needed to support the parents with autistic adults. Based on the analysis, we suggest an intervention plan to support autistic adults and their parents.

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A Study of Enemy Aptitude of Pistol Sound Source for Space Estimation (공간평가를 위한 피스톨음원의 적정성에 관한 연구)

  • Shon, Jang-Ryul;Kim, Jung-Joong
    • Transactions of the Korean Society for Noise and Vibration Engineering
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    • v.15 no.3 s.96
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    • pp.320-328
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    • 2005
  • Last target of architectural acoustics is that people wish to convey voice effectively from the space adaptively in use purpose in building. But, how exactly through space sound (sound source) that wish to deliver from indoor can be passed method to do quantification and evaluate quantity of sound by method to serve indoor architectural acoustics estimation summer period and methods to estimate definition propose. This Study searches special quality of sound source about MLS signal that is occurred short-answer sound source (pistol sound source) and nondirectional speaker among indoor sound estimation method, and measure and analyzed reverberation time (RT60), definition (C80, D50) by regulation of each ISO 3382 in age place (classroom, hall, gymnasium). Analysis result and sound factor among could know that d of two sound sources converges in measurement error extent about reverberation time (RT60) of analysis incidental and sound factors and value shows change irregularly about sound factor of D50, C80, pistol sound source judged there is problem. Also, could know that problem is happened in deflection except reverberation time is in deflection analysis with wave that measure each in fixed distance in branch. Finally, when differ size of sound source and measure about change of sound pressure level in case measure sound pressure level giving difference about 10 dB, sound factor could know that there is no different effect.

Rediscovering A Path to Aging in Place: Development of Housing Cooperatives for Rural Elderly

  • Lee, Hyun-Jeong
    • Architectural research
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    • v.13 no.3
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    • pp.31-40
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    • 2011
  • Profit-keeping behaviors naturally occur in the market to satisfy consumers, and the logic behind it lies in the economies of scale. On the flip side, some commodities transacted in the market are not available or can not be easily acquired unless the demand is high enough. Under this proposition, some consumers rise and find their own solution to meet the services at a reasonable cost or at an adequate level. The commonly adopted way is to establish a cooperative, and it stirs purchasing power by pooling resources and further bargains price and service quality. As a consumer cooperative, housing cooperatives notably found in rural towns enable the elderly to continue independent living. This study is to take a closer look at residential life of the rural elderly in housing cooperatives. Utilizing in-depth focus group interviews with 40 residents in four housing cooperatives, this qualitative research draws main factors affecting the decision to move in, residential assessment, and strengths and weakness of living in a housing cooperative. The primary factor influencing the moving decision is to continue to independent living in a familiar community, and the bottom line is planning ahead. Frailty and bereavement are found to be the leading occasions for them to move. The participants are satisfied with the independent living arrangement, and particularly, cited such features as safety and security, elderly-friendly design, common spaces, freedom, social activities and efficient living. Also, it is stated that some cooperative natures such as control over the property and giving a voice on management render positive impacts on the satisfaction with communal living. In spite of all the benefits and strengths, participants face with a public notion that an independent living arrangement like a housing cooperative has never done before in rural towns, so that most people recognize it as part of dependent living arrangements like nursing home.

Development of Remote Management and Control System for VoIP Terminal (인터넷전화 단말기 원격관리 및 제어시스템 개발)

  • Song, Han-Chun;Ban, Ku-Ik
    • The Journal of the Institute of Internet, Broadcasting and Communication
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    • v.11 no.6
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    • pp.73-80
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    • 2011
  • In this paper, we design and implementation of effective remote management system for VoIP(Voice over IP) terminal. Ordinary VoIP terminal is connected inside of NAT(Network Address Translation) assigned private IP address. NAT provides address mapping between outside public IP address and inside private IP address, for outside system telephone call is connected to inside VoIP terminal. In this paper, we also design and implementation of UDP hole punching function that the outside calls pass through the NAT, for outside management system call is connected to internal VoIP terminal, and gathered to management information of the VoIP terminal. Also, we evaluated and analysed of developed system in the test environment. As a result of test, It showed that it was well performed without any data error and data loss in the connectivity, and It showed that it was well gathered management information of the VoIP terminal.

The Effect of the Treatment on the Pre- and Post Respiration and the Oral Motor for Children with Cerebral Palsy by Acoustic Analysis (음향학적 분석을 통한 뇌성마비 아동의 호흡 및 구강 운동 전.후 치료 효과)

  • Kim, Sook-Hee;Kim, Hyun-Gi;Shin, Yong-Il
    • Speech Sciences
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    • v.15 no.2
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    • pp.131-141
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    • 2008
  • The purpose of this study was to find out the acoustic variation on the pre-and post respiration and oral motor for children with cerebral palsy. Five children with spastic CP at the age of 6 in average were practiced by a caregiver at home each for 25 minutes, in total, 45 times. The sustained of vowel /a/ and vowels /a/, /i/, /u/, /e/, /o/ were recorded on CSL and MDVP and analyzed by acoustic parameters. As a result, the maximum phonation time(MPT) was increased from 2.06 to 6.31 and the formant of vowels(F1, F2, F3) had significant differences in F1(/a, i/), F2(/i.u.o/), and F3(/a/) between the controls and the children with CP in pre-treatment. The total average value of vowels had significant differences between the pre-and post-treatment (p< .05). The energy of vowels had significant differences in the vowels /i, u, e, o/ and the total average value between the pre-and post-treatment(p< .001). The jitter percent, shimmer percent, and noise to harmonic ratio had significant differences between the pre-and post-treatment(p< .05). As the respiration and the oral motor improved MPT, voice quality, and articulation of vowel, and the variation of the formant(F1, F2, F3) showed the changes in the shape of lips, the place and the height of the tongue, the various development of therapy programs and the consistent intervention of treatment is needed for the children with cerebral palsy.

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Content Distribution for 5G Systems Based on Distributed Cloud Service Network Architecture

  • Jiang, Lirong;Feng, Gang;Qin, Shuang
    • KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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    • v.9 no.11
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    • pp.4268-4290
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    • 2015
  • Future mobile communications face enormous challenges as traditional voice services are replaced with increasing mobile multimedia and data services. To address the vast data traffic volume and the requirement of user Quality of Experience (QoE) in the next generation mobile networks, it is imperative to develop efficient content distribution technique, aiming at significantly reducing redundant data transmissions and improving content delivery performance. On the other hand, in recent years cloud computing as a promising new content-centric paradigm is exploited to fulfil the multimedia requirements by provisioning data and computing resources on demand. In this paper, we propose a cooperative caching framework which implements State based Content Distribution (SCD) algorithm for future mobile networks. In our proposed framework, cloud service providers deploy a plurality of cloudlets in the network forming a Distributed Cloud Service Network (DCSN), and pre-allocate content services in local cloudlets to avoid redundant content transmissions. We use content popularity and content state which is determined by content requests, editorial updates and new arrivals to formulate a content distribution optimization model. Data contents are deployed in local cloudlets according to the optimal solution to achieve the lowest average content delivery latency. We use simulation experiments to validate the effectiveness of our proposed framework. Numerical results show that the proposed framework can significantly improve content cache hit rate, reduce content delivery latency and outbound traffic volume in comparison with known existing caching strategies.

A Vision Disabled-Aid using the Context of Internet of Things (사물인터넷을 이용한 시각 장애자 보조 방법)

  • Sahu, Nevadita;Jeong, Min Hyuk;Chun, Jonghoon;Kim, Sang-Kyun
    • Journal of Broadcast Engineering
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    • v.22 no.1
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    • pp.78-86
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    • 2017
  • The Internet of Things can offer disabled people the assistance and support, which is essential to achieve a good quality of life. The visually impaired people need assistance in finding locations, detecting obstacles on the way, and getting directions while moving around to reach their destination. Based on this persistent need, this paper proposes a navigation system for blind people using Internet of Things. The technologies used in our proposed system are: a smart cane containing an RFID reader and an ultrasonic sensor, a smart phone and Internet. The sensed data from the ultrasonic sensor for detecting obstacle is converted to International Standard format from ISO/IEC 23005-5 (MPEG-V Part 5). The system detects the blind person's location using the RFID tags implemented on the way. The system uses voice message in the smart phone to communicate with the blind person to lead him to his destination. The proposed system has been tested to navigate successfully in the campus.

A Channel estimation for multipath channel and performance of Viterbi equalizer of high speed wireless digital communication (고속 디지털무선통신에 있어서 멀티 패스 채널 추정과 비터비 등화기 의 동작특성)

  • 박종령;박남천;주창복
    • Journal of the Institute of Convergence Signal Processing
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    • v.3 no.2
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    • pp.53-57
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    • 2002
  • Recently, digital communication system becomes high speed, as communication demand dose not only increases sharply, but an image, voice various kinds data also comes multimedia. In transmitting data at a high speed, the main problem is fading by multipath. A linear or nonlinear distortion arise In multipath channel fading from ISI(Intersymbol Interference). For restoring this distorted signal, A lot of equalizer and adaptive algorithm is introduced. This paper compares and analysises, for improving communication quality in channel which is long delay spread, performance of decision feedback equalizer by RLS algorithm, a channel estimation by RLS-MLSE and viterbi equalizer Particularly, there Is exactly channel estimation of impluse response and excellent property of equalization about channel, which delay spread is long impluse response comparatively and is property of non-minimun phase.

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A Study of Way guide System Design for a Visual Handicapped in School (교육기관 내 시각장애인 목적지안내 시스템 디자인 연구)

  • Lee, Joong-Yeu;Cho, Wan-Sup
    • Journal of the Korea Society of Computer and Information
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    • v.15 no.4
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    • pp.75-82
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    • 2010
  • At this time, our country's social welfare system for the handicapped is switching to increase independence, education is the most important. This study increases the quality of Visual handicapped people's life which have limit to learn and reduces their inconvenience which may occur during their independent school life through the development of the system which helps them safely to reach their destination by themselves using IT technologies in an educational institute which helps their ability to get information and be independent. This study supports Visual handicapped people to move safely by using cell phone which is necessary items for most modern people, RFID tags and white canes with antenna and reader which read the information installed in the raised blocks outside of school buildings and in the hall or aisle inside of buildings and inform the path by voice and vibration.