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Effects of Wearing a Microcurrent Wrist Guard on Pain Scale, Range of Motion, and Muscle Strength in Elderly Women with Carpal Tunnel Syndrome (미세전류 손목 보호대 착용이 손목터널증후군 노인 여성의 통증 척도, 관절가동범위 및 근력에 미치는 영향)

  • Hyesun Park;Jinhee Park;Jooyong Kim
    • Journal of Fashion Business
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    • v.27 no.5
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    • pp.1-12
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    • 2023
  • The purpose of this study was to investigate impact of wearing low-level current wrist guards on pain scale, range of motion (ROM), and muscle strength in elderly women with Carpal Tunnel Syndrome (CTS). Subjects were 12 elderly women aged between 65 and 85 years who were diagnosed with CTS symptoms. Measurements included grip strength and wrist ROM. Wrist ROM was assessed through flexion and dorsiflexion. Wrist guards were worn. After two weeks, pain level was assessed using the Visual Analogue Scale (VAS). Results showed a significant reduction in VAS score in the MES group after stimulation, whereas there was no difference in the control group. However, there was no significant difference in ROM between the MES group and the control group. Grip strength increased in the MES group after two weeks (p ≤ 0.001). In conclusion, clinical trials suggest that MES wrist guards might be provided as an adjunctive treatment method for CTS patients. This study provides foundational data for the design and use of auxiliary devices such as gloves in the field of MES research for pain reduction, ROM improvement, and muscle strength enhancement resulting from CTS.

A Feedback Clue Model for Dynamically Updating e-book Content from User Feedback (전자책에서 동적 사용자 피드백의 편집을 위한 피드백 클루 모델의 제안)

  • Choi, Ja-Ryoung;Hwang, JungSoo;Sin, Eun-Joo;Lim, Soon-Bum
    • Journal of Korea Multimedia Society
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    • v.20 no.2
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    • pp.313-321
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    • 2017
  • The emergence of E-book have allowed readers to interact with other readers and to actively participate (e.g. social reading). Furthermore, there is a growing demand in writer's community to take the advantage of the feedback from their readers to update the content of E-book. To do that, they require the service that utilizes the user feedback while creating or updating the e-book content. This study aims to let authors collect and to apply the reader's feedback on E-book content. However, in order to apply the user feedback, users first need to explicitly type the feedback, and even if they do, authors need to develop the software to automatically analyze and to apply the user feedback. This makes difficult for authors without programming background to produce E-book with automatic content adaptation. In this paper, we propose Feedback Clue Model to generate, analyze and apply the user feedback into E-book content. Based on this model, we develop the block editor which allows easy implementation of E-book that can be dynamically updated.

Automatic Generation Subtitle Service with Kinetic Typography according to Music Sentimental Analysis (음악 감정 분석을 통한 키네틱 타이포그래피 자막 자동 생성 서비스)

  • Ji, Youngseo;Lee, Haram;Lim, SoonBum
    • Journal of Korea Multimedia Society
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    • v.24 no.8
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    • pp.1184-1191
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    • 2021
  • In a pop song, the creator's intention is communicated to the user through music and lyrics. Lyric meaning is as important as music, but in most cases lyrics are delivered to users in a static form without non-verbal cues. Providing lyrics in a static text format is inefficient in conveying the emotions of a music. Recently, lyrics video with kinetic typography are increasingly provided, but producing them requires expertise and a lot of time. Therefore, in this system, the emotions of the lyrics are found through the analysis of the text of the lyrics, and the deep learning model is trained with the data obtained by converting the melody into a Mel-spectrogram format to find the appropriate emotions for the music. It sets properties such as motion, font, and color using the emotions found in the music, and automatically creates a kinetic typography video. In this study, we tried to enhance the effect of conveying the meaning of music through this system.

Analysis of Technical Limitation in Psychological Counseling Service Using AI Chatbot Technology (AI 챗봇 기술을 활용한 심리상담 서비스의 기술적 한계점 분석)

  • Hye-In Lee;Hyun-Che Song;Il-Gu Lee
    • Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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    • 2024.05a
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    • pp.875-877
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    • 2024
  • AI 기술의 발전으로 상담 및 심리치료 분야에서도 인공지능을 활용하려는 움직임이 활발해지고 있다. 정신건강 지원에 대한 수요가 증가하면서 인공지능, 특히 챗봇을 활용한 심리상담은 효율성과 접근성 측면에서 많은 이점을 가지지만 한계점 또한 존재한다. 본 연구에서는 AI 챗봇을 활용한 상담 및 심리치료 서비스의 국내 현황과 기술적 측면에서의 한계점을 분석한다.

A New Perspective to Stable Marriage Problem in Profit Maximization of Matrimonial Websites

  • Bhatnagar, Aniket;Gambhir, Varun;Thakur, Manish Kumar
    • Journal of Information Processing Systems
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    • v.14 no.4
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    • pp.961-979
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    • 2018
  • For many years, matching in a bipartite graph has been widely used in various assignment problems, such as stable marriage problem (SMP). As an application of bipartite matching, the problem of stable marriage is defined over equally sized sets of men and women to identify a stable matching in which each person is assigned a partner of opposite gender according to their preferences. The classical SMP proposed by Gale and Shapley uses preference lists for each individual (men and women) which are infeasible in real world applications for a large populace of men and women such as matrimonial websites. In this paper, we have proposed an enhancement to the SMP by computing a weighted score for the users registered at matrimonial websites. The proposed enhancement has been formulated into profit maximization of matrimonial websites in terms of their ability to provide a suitable match for the users. The proposed formulation to maximize the profits of matrimonial websites leads to a combinatorial optimization problem. We have proposed greedy and genetic algorithm based approaches to solve the proposed optimization problem. We have shown that the proposed genetic algorithm based approaches outperform the existing Gale-Shapley algorithm on the dataset crawled from matrimonial websites.

Responsive Healthcare System for Posture Correction Using Webcam-Based Turtle Neck Syndrome Discrimination Algorithm (웹캠 기반 거북목 판별 알고리즘을 활용한 자세 교정 반응형 헬스케어 시스템)

  • Park, Soyeon;Ryoo, Seojin;Dong, Suh-Yeon
    • Journal of Korea Multimedia Society
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    • v.24 no.2
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    • pp.285-294
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    • 2021
  • This study developed a responsive healthcare system that users can easily use in real life to prevent turtle neck syndrome by posture correction. We propose a system that naturally induces direct posture improvement by adjusting the height with a responsive cradle through a turtle neck discrimination algorithm detecting the turtle neck posture in real time using a webcam. The turtle neck algorithm was developed based on machine learning, using the points that the distance relationship between the jaw line and the shoulder varies depending on the posture. For the younger age group, which is particularly problematic due to the increase in the use of IT devices, image data in different situations according to the height and posture of the cradle was collected and learned as a support vector machine classifier. In addition, a height-adjustable cradle that can support a laptop has been created and expanded into a responsive cradle that can be controlled with software by interlocking with the Arduino. Therefore, this service enables posture correction of many modern people suffering from turtle neck syndrome and will become an essential platform in the increasing online environment in the non-contact era.

Evaluation of Criteria for Mapping Characters Using an Automated Hangul Font Generation System based on Deep Learning (딥러닝 학습을 이용한 한글 글꼴 자동 제작 시스템에서 글자 쌍의 매핑 기준 평가)

  • Jeon, Ja-Yeon;Ji, Young-Seo;Park, Dong-Yeon;Lim, Soon-Bum
    • Journal of Korea Multimedia Society
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    • v.23 no.7
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    • pp.850-861
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    • 2020
  • Hangul is a language that is composed of initial, medial, and final syllables. It has 11,172 characters. For this reason, the current method of designing all the characters by hand is very expensive and time-consuming. In order to solve the problem, this paper proposes an automatic Hangul font generation system and evaluates the standards for mapping Hangul characters to produce an effective automated Hangul font generation system. The system was implemented using character generation engine based on deep learning CycleGAN. In order to evaluate the criteria when mapping characters in pairs, each criterion was designed based on Hangul structure and character shape, and the quality of the generated characters was evaluated. As a result of the evaluation, the standards designed based on the Hangul structure did not affect the quality of the automated Hangul font generation system. On the other hand, when tried with similar characters, the standards made based on the shape of Hangul characters produced better quality characters than when tried with less similar characters. As a result, it is better to generate automated Hangul font by designing a learning method based on mapping characters in pairs that have similar character shapes.