• Journal of the Korea Safety Management & Science
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• v.17 no.1
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• pp.139-148
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• 2015

For design research of teenagers' posture correcting shirt, postures of teenagers were analyzed and became the base of inventing suitable patterns. The subjects of this study were 198 of both female and male middle school students from the city of Seoul. Students' postures in classroom and length change of body surface were observed and analyzed; based on this, total of 5 postures was selected, and length changes of body surface were applied. The patterns in this study were designed with stretch material to help antagonism by muscle movements. Each fabric that was used in this study had 110% of stretch, 120~140% of stretch, and 150~170% of stretch. Both of one-way-fabric and duplex-fabric were used in this study, depending on application site.

• Nuclear Engineering and Technology
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• v.41 no.3
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• pp.225-236
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• 2009

This study has identified human performance research issues associated with the implementation of new technology in nuclear power plants (NPPs). To identify the research issues, current industry developments and trends were evaluated in the areas of reactor technology, instrumentation and control technology, human-system integration technology, and human factors engineering (HFE) methods and tools. The issues were prioritized into four categories based on evaluations provided by 14 independent subject matter experts representing vendors, utilities, research organizations and regulators. Twenty issues were categorized into the top priority category. The study also identifies the priority of each issue and the rationale for those in the top priority category. The top priority issues were then organized into research program areas of: New Concepts of Operation using Multi-agent Teams, Human-system Interface Design, Complexity Issues in Advanced Systems, Operating Experience of New and Modernized Plants, and HFE Methods and Tools. The results can serve as input to the development of a long-term strategy and plan for addressing human performance in these areas to support the safe operation of new NPPs.

• 한국HCI학회:학술대회논문집
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• 2006.02b
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• pp.619-626
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• 2006

본 연구는 웹이라는 환경에서의 감성에 대해 연구하고자 하였으며, 크게 2단계로 진행되었다. 첫 번째 단계로, 웹에서의 감성요인과 감성구조모형을 개발 하였다. 두 번째 단계에서는 위 연구를 바탕으로 웹 디자인에서의 감성요인과 조형요소 간의 상관관계를 알아보고자 하였다. 감성구조모형 내에서 4 가지 대표적인 감성을 분석하고, 그 표본 사이트를 선정하여, 감성이 다른 이 4 가지 사이트가 조형요소의 변형을 통해 어떻게 감성이 달라지는지를 조사 분석하였다. 감성요소와 조형요소 간의 상관관계를 밝힘으로서, 디자이너가 감성적 디자인을 함에 있어서 제작과 평가에 보다 이성적인 가이드 라인을 제시, 성공적인 감성디자인 구현에 도움이 될 것으로 기대된다.

• Proceedings of the ESK Conference
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• 1997.10a
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• pp.109-113
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• 1997

The purpose of this study is to survey colors of background, marker, and pointer being used in passenger car's display panel, and to suggest ergonomic design guidelines of car's display panel to enhance driver's visibility. An experiment was conducted, in which reading time of display was measured as dependent variable, and colors of black, white, blue and green were selected as background colors of display, and black, white, yellow, and green as marker's colors, and black white, yellow, green and red as pointer's colors. The results showed that reading time of display with white background, yellow marker and pointer was shortest. It was expected that this results could be used as valuable design guidelines in car's display panel.

• Proceedings of the ESK Conference
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• 1993.10a
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• pp.252-262
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• 1993

The subject on office automation is gradually gaining more improtance due to the fact that the efficiency of office systems contribute to the increase of productivity as much as manufactoring systems themselves. For successful implementation of office automation, one must carefully plan and execute various steps such as the analysis of office tasks, personnel training, workplace design, equipment design, and so on. The previous studies related to the subject has not been concrete enough to be practically helpful for the actual realization of office automation. In this paper, a new analysis method of the office task is proposed. This analysis method is based on the Rasmussen's and Bennette's methods. The Rasmussen's method describes a way of quantifying mental workload while the Bennette's method provides a tool for the analysis of the office task. The posner's and Rouse's methods are also employed for the detailed division of tasks. The method proposed in this paper is believed to be easier for use and expected to be more helpful for us to cope with the clear definition of office tasks that is vital to successful implementation of office automation.

• Proceedings of the ESK Conference
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• 1994.04a
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• pp.124-135
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• 1994

A biomechanical model of lower extremity in seated postures was developed to assess muscular activities of lower extremity involved in a variety of foot pedal operations. It is found that nonlinear optimization method which has been used for modeling the articulated body segments does not predict the forces generated from biarticular muscles reasonably, so the revised nonlinear optimization scheme was employed to consider the synergistic effects of biarticular muscles in the model, assuming that the muscle forces are distributed proportionally based on their physiological cross sectional area and moment arm. The model incorporated four rigid body segments with the nine muscles to represent lower extreimity. For the model valida- tion, three male subjects performed the experiments in which EMG activities of the nine lower extremity muscles were measured. Predicted muscle forces were compared with the corresponding EMG amplitudes and it showed no statistical difference. The developed model can be used to design and to assess the pedals and foot-related equipments design.

• Proceedings of the ESK Conference
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• 1996.04a
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• pp.151-151
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• 1996

컴퓨터 기술의 급격한 발전은 현실세계의 각종 현장을 컴퓨터 가상공간 내에서 시험할 수 있도록 하고 있다. 최근들어급격한 발전이 이루어지고 있는 가상현실(Virtual Reality) 기술과 인간의 감성을 중시한 감성공학적 접근방법 론의 활용은 그 적용범위가 점차 확대되어 가고 있는 상황으로, 제조기업에서 사용되고 있는 통합생산 정보시스템 (Computer Integrated Manufacturing)과의 접목으로 가상공장(Virtual Factory) 시스템을 구현할 수가 있다. 가상공장시스 템은 제조기업의 Businiss를 Design & Engineering, Production Planning & Control, Manufacturing의 3가지 프로세스로 분류한다. 그리고 각 프로세스별로 현재의 CIM시스템에 대한 하부시스템을 검토하고, 인간 중심의 가상기업시스템을 구현 하는데 보완이 되어야 할 사항과 이에 대한 해결 대안으로 Design & Engineering Process에서는 Virtual Engineering(VE) Sub-system, Manufacturing Process에서는 Virtual Manufacturing(VM) Sub-system으로 분류하여 각 Sub-system별 구성모듈을 설계하고 상호간의 Interface 사항을 설계하므로서 가상공장시스템 구현을 위한 기본 요구사항과 조건을 제시하고자 한다.

• Journal of the Korean Society for Precision Engineering
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• v.33 no.8
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• pp.655-660
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• 2016

Self-closing drawers are used in high-end products, such as furniture, home appliances, and a range of other storage devices. In this study, a self-closing mechanism is proposed. A system consisting of a friction latch, constant force spring, rotary damper with rack, and pinion is developed. The retracting drawer can be latched at any position and can be reactivated by simple touch. The constant force spring and rotary damper offer smooth closing action. The ergonomic quality of the closing action is quantified by an index based on velocity-time behavior. The effects of various design parameters are analyzed with a dynamics model and experimentally validated by prototype testing.

• Journal of the Korean Society of Safety
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• v.8 no.2
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• pp.94-98
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• 1993

This study discusses a possible ergonomics application for adult wheelchair design in consideration of anthropometry, physical load, control ability, posture, subjective analysis, security and so on. Korean normal adults who ever used wheelchairs are examined. And anthropometric data and basic data to make standard wheelchair are provided.

• Proceedings of the ESK Conference
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• 1992.10a
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• pp.84-89
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• 1992

This study is to develop a cognitive paradigm including a new model of common cause human behavior error domain and to analyze their causal factors and their properties of common cause huamn error characteristics in software engineering.l A laboratory study was performed to analyze the common causes of human behavior domain error in software develoment and to indentify software design factors contributing to the common cause effects in common cause failure redundancy. The results and analytical paradigm developed in this resuarch can be applied to reliability improvement and cost reduction in software development for many applications. Results are also expected to provide training guideliness for software engineers and for more effective design of ultra-high reliabile software packages.