• Electronics and Telecommunications Trends
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• v.39 no.2
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• pp.24-32
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• 2024

Wearable metaverse devices have sparked enthusiasm as innovative virtual computing user interfaces by addressing a major source of user discomfort, namely, motion-to-photon latency. This kind of latency occurs between the user motion and screen update. To enhance the realism and immersion of experiences using metaverse devices, the vergence-accommodation conflict in stereoscopic image representation must be resolved. Ongoing research aims to address current challenges by adopting vari-focal, multifocal, and light field display technologies for stereoscopic imaging. We explore current trends in research with emphasis on multifocal stereoscopic imaging. Successful metaverse visualization services require the integration of stereoscopic image rendering modules and content encoding/decoding technologies tailored to these services. Additionally, real-time video processing is essential for these modules to correctly and timely process such content and implement metaverse visualization services.

• Journal of the Korean Institute of Intelligent Systems
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• v.16 no.5
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• pp.544-549
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• 2006

This research is to introduce about Judgment System for Intelligent Movement(JSIM) that can perform assistance work of human brain. JSIM can order autonomous command and also it can be directly controlled by user. This research assumes that control object is limited to Mobile Robot(MR) Mobile robot offers image and ultrasonic sensor information to user carrying JSIM and it performs guide to user. JSIM having PDA and Sensor-box controls velocity and direction of the mobile robot by soft-computing method that inputs user's command and information that is obtained to mobile robot. Also it controls mobile robot to achieve various movement. This paper introduces wearable JSIM that communicates with around devices and that can do intelligent judgment. To verify the possibility of the proposed system, in real environment, the simulation of control and application problem lot mobile robot will be introduced. Intelligent algorithm in the proposed system is generated by mixed hierarchical fuzzy and neural network.

• 한국HCI학회:학술대회논문집
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• 2007.02a
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• pp.591-597
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• 2007

웨어러블 컴퓨팅의 지속적인 발전과 함께, 이들이 지원하는 기능은 점점 다양화되고 전문화되었다. 하지만 기기의 종류와 기능이 늘어나면서 각 기기의 상태를 확인하는 작업 자체가 복잡하고 불필요한 시간을 소요하기도 한다. 또한 이를 시각 디스플레이에만 의존하면, 디스플레이 크기의 한계와 더불어 시각적인 과부하가 발생할 수 있다. 본 연구에서는 이러한 문제를 극복하기 위해 웨어러블 각 기기의 상태정보 피드백으로서 소리를 이용하였다. 실험의 순서는 먼저 시각정보에 더하여 청각정보를 추가적으로 제시하는 방식의 유용성을 검증한 다음, 기기 특정적인 청각 아이콘(Auditory Icon)의 효과를 확인하였다. 청각정보의 유용성을 확인하는 단계에서는 참가자에게 특정 기기의 위치와 그 상태에 관한 정보를 시각 디스플레이를 통해 제시하면서, 조건에 따라 다양한 형태의 청각 디스플레이를 제시하고 기기 및 상태정보 확인에 소요되는 시간을 측정하였다. 시각디스플레이의 방식은 다양하지만, 본 연구에서는 사람의 몸을 나타내는 그림 위에 기기가 장착된 위치를 붉은 점으로 표시하고, 그 상태를 텍스트로 표시하는 방식(실험 1)과 텍스트를 통해 기기의 종류와 상태를 알려주는 방식(실험 2)을 적용하였다. 기기 확인에 소요되는 반응시간을 기록한 실험결과는 시각디스플레이를 통해서만 제시하는 조건보다 시각디스플레이와 청각디스플레이를 동시에 제시하는 조건에서 나은 수행을 보여주며, 정보의 내용이 일정 범위 내에서 구체적으로 제시될 수록 수행이 증가하는 경향을 보여주고 있다. 이어지는 기기 특정적인 청각 아이콘의 효과를 확인하는 단계에서는, 소리의 높낮이를 통해 기기의 위치를 표현하는 대신, 소리만 듣고 기기가 무엇인가를 알려줄 수 있도록, 참가자 평정을 통해 기기 특정적인 청각 아이콘을 선정하고, 이를 상태정보 디스플레이에 추가하였다. 기기의 수와 제시조건은 앞선 실험과 동일하였으며, 역시 기기 및 상태정보 확인에 소요되는 반응시간을 체크하였다. 실험결과는 이전의 실험과 비슷하게 시각과 청각 디스플레이의 중복제시 조건에서 높은 수행을 보였으며, 청각 아이콘의 사용으로 인한 수행의 증가도 확인할 수 있었다. 실험 2에서는 추가적으로 청각 디스플레이의 내용에 대한 주관적인 평정을 실시 하였는데, 기기 특정적인 청각 아이콘은 참가자에게 편의성, 효용성, 적합성, 확신도에서도 높은 점수를 얻었다. 이러한 결과는 청각 피드백을 이용한 정보의 디스플레이는 착용자의 시선을 자유롭게 함으로써 일상생활의 수행을 높이고, 웨어러블 컴퓨터 디스플레이 크기의 제약을 해결하는 방법이 될 수 있는 동시에 주관적인 사용성 측면에서 발전가능성이 있음을 보여준다.

• Journal of Internet Computing and Services
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• v.16 no.5
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• pp.11-17
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• 2015

In the general transmission power control model that is used for wearable sensor systems, if RSSI value gets out of the Target RSSI Margin, then the sink node finds new transmission power by using TPC(Transmission Power Control) Algorithm. At this time, the sink node sends the control packet to the sensor node for delivering the newly calculated transmission power. However, when the wireless network channel condition is poor, even it is consuming a lot of control packets, the sink node could not find an appropriate transmission power so it only waste of energy. Therefore, we proposed a new control packet transmission decision method that the sink node changes the transmission power when the wireless network channel condition is stabilized. It makes waste of energy decline. In this paper, we apply control packet transmission decision method to Binary TPC algorithms and analyze the results to evaluate the proposed method. We propose three methods that judge the state of wireless network channel. We experiment that methods and analysis the results.

• The Transactions of The Korean Institute of Electrical Engineers
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• v.58 no.6
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• pp.1186-1193
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• 2009

Wearable ECG monitoring is regarded as one of the most essential part in the ubiquitous healthcare environment and subsequently day-life monitoring of a heart condition has been pursued especially for the elder people. However, there are many problems to accomplish this task such as; i) implementation of long-term monitoring device, ii) development of non-irritating electrode on skin and iii) stable signal acquisition. With these aims, we have focused on implementing a non-irritating electrode with an endurable monitoring device for day-life. To accomplish our tasks, we basically developed four different types of textile electrodes that are adapted by both shape and the composed material; flat or convex shape and Ag-conductive paste material or not. It turns out to be that a convex shape and Ag-paste textile electrode has the best performance in terms of both signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) and Impedance/Phase characteristics. Furthermore, ECG amplifier (35 ${\times}$ 35 mm) has developed to resolve the ECG signal and transfer the signal to desktop computing device or portable one by RF serial communication.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• v.10 no.1
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• pp.221-237
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• 2016

The wireless body area networks (WBANs) consist of wearable computing devices and can support various healthcare-related applications. There exist two crucial issues when WBANs are utilized for healthcare applications. One is the protection of the sensitive biometric data transmitted over the insecure wireless channels. The other is the design of effective medical management mechanisms. In this paper, a secure medical information management system is proposed and implemented on a TinyOS-based WBAN test bed to simultaneously address these two issues. In this system, the electronic medical record (EMR) is bound to the biometric data with a novel fragile zero-watermarking scheme based on the modified visual secret sharing (MVSS). In this manner, the EMR can be utilized not only for medical management but also for data integrity checking. Additionally, both the biometric data and the EMR are encrypted, and the EMR is further protected by the MVSS. Our analysis and experimental results demonstrate that the proposed system not only protects the confidentialities of both the biometric data and the EMR but also offers reliable patient information authentication, explicit healthcare operation verification and undeniable doctor liability identification for WBANs.

• JSTS:Journal of Semiconductor Technology and Science
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• v.16 no.4
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• pp.436-442
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• 2016

An electroencephalogram (EEG)-connectome processor to monitor and diagnose mental health is proposed. From 19-channel EEG signals, the proposed processor determines whether the mental state is healthy or unhealthy by extracting significant features from EEG signals and classifying them. Connectome approach is adopted for the best diagnosis accuracy, and synchronization likelihood (SL) is chosen as the connectome feature. Before computing SL, reconstruction optimizer (ReOpt) block compensates some parameters, resulting in improved accuracy. During SL calculation, a sparse matrix inscription (SMI) scheme is proposed to reduce the memory size to 1/24. From the calculated SL information, a small world feature extractor (SWFE) reduces the memory size to 1/29. Finally, using SLs or small word features, radial basis function (RBF) kernel-based support vector machine (SVM) diagnoses user's mental health condition. For RBF kernels, look-up-tables (LUTs) are used to replace the floating-point operations, decreasing the required operation by 54%. Consequently, The EEG-connectome processor improves the diagnosis accuracy from 89% to 95% in Alzheimer's disease case. The proposed processor occupies $3.8mm^2$ and consumes 1.71 mW with $0.18{\mu}m$ CMOS technology.

• Proceedings of the Korean Information Science Society Conference
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• 2005.07a
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• pp.754-756
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• 2005

이동통신 기술과, 반도체 기술의 발전으로 인해 기존의 컴퓨팅 패러다임이 데스크 탑에서 PDA, 스마트 폰 등의 모바일 환경으로, 그리고 입는 컴퓨터로의 이동이 급격하게 진행되고 있다. 또한 유비쿼터스 컴퓨팅 개념이 도입되고 발전하면서 입는 컴퓨터는 사용자와 편재된 컴퓨팅 환경의 인터페이스로써 중요성이 부각되고 있다. 그러나 웨어러블 컴퓨팅 환경에서의 사용자 간, 또는 주변 컴퓨팅 환경과의 데이터 공유와 관련된 연구는 활발히 진행되고 있지 못하다. 따라서, 본 논문에서는 웨어러블 컴퓨팅 환경의 Distributed, Dynamic, Heterogeneous한 특성에 대한 기존의 분산 파일 시스템/서비스가 가진 한계점을 제시하고, 웨어러블 컴퓨팅 환경에서 자유로운 데이터 공유를 실현하기 위한 분산 파일 서비스를 제시하였다. 마지막으로, 본 논문에서는 웨어러블 컴퓨팅에서의 제한적인 입출력 환경을 극복하기 위한 상황 인지 분산 파일 시스템/서비스와 관련된 연구들을 소개하고, 기존의 연구들이 가지는 한계점을 극복하기 위한 분산 파일 서비스 구성 기법을 제시하였다.

• Journal of Korea Multimedia Society
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• v.22 no.2
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• pp.322-333
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• 2019

After the launch of smart phones, various miniaturized smart devices such as wearable and IOT devices have deeply embedded in human life, and have created a technology-oriented society. In this technology-oriented society, technology development itself is important, however it seems more important to utilize existing technology appropriately and deliver effectively to human life. As the computer became personalized after the appearance of PC, human-centered computing such as HCI and UCD had begun to appear. However, most of the researches focused on technology that made human being convenient to interact with computer such as computer systems design and UX development. In the technology-oriented society, it seems more urgent to apply existing technology to human life. In this paper, we propose a methodology, 'Digital Leveraging' which guides how to effectively apply technology to human life. Digital Leveraging is the way of convergence between technology and humanities.

• Journal of Korea Multimedia Society
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• v.22 no.1
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• pp.70-78
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• 2019

The smart festival costume developed in this study maximizes the design elements by attaching electronic device to clothing, and uses voice, movement, and light sensor to utilize as expression elements. In addition, as a way to maximize cultural exchanges between Korea and China, smart festival costume was developed by applying smart clothing technology to the traditional costumes of both countries. and it was exhibited for 10 days at the 'Andong International Mask Dance Festival 2018'. The smart festival costume has the effect of multiplying the dynamism and excitement of the festival by the use of colorful lighting and it has been evaluated that the experience of wearing traditional costume of both countries contributes greatly to promote international cultural exchange. However, since smart clothing is inconvenient to wear due to the use of electronic products, meticulous research for consumer safety is required for practical use. Smart devices is expected to utilize for the development of traditional culture resources and the fashion industry in the future.