• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• v.10 no.11
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• pp.5654-5673
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• 2016

Participatory sensing applications rely on recruiting appropriate participants to share their surrounding conditions with others, and have been widely used in many areas like environmental monitoring, health care, and traffic congestion monitoring, etc. In such applications, how to ensure the privacy of a participant is important, since incentive mechanisms are used to maintain their enthusiasm for sustainable participation by offering certain amount of reward. In this paper, we propose a pseudonym-based privacy protection scheme, that takes both privacy protection and user incentives into consideration. The proposed scheme uses the pseudonym mechanism and one-way hash function to achieve user incentives, while protecting their identity. We also show extensive analysis of the proposed scheme to demonstrate that it can meet the security and performance the requirement of a participatory sensing application.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• v.12 no.1
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• pp.159-177
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• 2018

Participatory sensing is becoming popular and has shown its great potential in data acquisition for ambient assisted living. In this paper, we propose an incentive mechanism in participatory sensing for ambient assisted living, which benefits both the platform and the mobile devices that participated in the sensing task. Firstly, we analyze the profit of participant and platform, and a Stackelberg game model is formulated. The model takes privacy, reputation, power state and quality of data into consideration, and aims at maximizing the profit for both participant and publisher. The discussion of properties of the game show that there exists an unique Stackelberg equilibrium. Secondly, two algorithms are given: one describes how to reach the Stackelberg equilibrium and the other presents the procedures of employing the incentive strategy. Finally, we conduct simulations to evaluate the properties and effectiveness of the proposed mechanism. Simulation results show that the proposed incentive mechanism works well, and the participants and the publisher will be benefitted from it. With the mechanism, the total amount of sensory data can be maximized and the quality of the data can be guaranteed effectively.

• Journal of Information Processing Systems
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• v.14 no.2
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• pp.286-308
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• 2018

The availability of powerful and sensor-enabled mobile and Internet-connected devices have enabled the advent of the ubiquitous sensor network (USN) paradigm. USN provides various types of solutions to the general public in multiple sectors, including environmental monitoring, entertainment, transportation, security, and healthcare. Here, we explore and compare the features of wireless sensor networks and USN. Based on our extensive study, we classify the security- and privacy-related challenges of USNs. We identify and discuss solutions available to address these challenges. Finally, we briefly discuss open challenges for designing more secure and privacy-preserving approaches in next-generation USNs.

• The Journal of the Institute of Internet, Broadcasting and Communication
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• v.13 no.3
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• pp.33-38
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• 2013

Smart phones that are equipped with various types of sensors can monitor human beings, and their social activities and environments. Smart phone sensing systems are inevitable to lose sensing data at a certain region. It is more severe effect on opportunistic sensing because this sensing scheme is designed to read values from sensors when the state of numberous users meets pre-defined conditions. In this paper, we suggested an estimation model of missing data considering features of smart phone sensing to solve lower quality of collected data. This proposed model does not only reflect a temporal and spatial correlation, but also give high priority to participants who provide high quality data to improve the accuracy of estimated values. The experimental results show that our scheme is more accurate than previous scheme.

• The Journal of The Korea Institute of Intelligent Transport Systems
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• v.17 no.2
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• pp.1-17
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• 2018

The living lab is a user-participatory innovation space where users can solve problems by themselves. Living Lab members are able to participate in all aspects of product development from technology conception. In this study, to prevent pedestrian accidents, auto-image sensing signal system was developed in Jeonju City, using the Living Lab method. In addition, we measured effectiveness of the auto-image sensing signal system with respect to pedestrian waiting time, pedestrian and driver signal violation, and pedestrian jaywalking. It was also compared the measures before installation, after installation and after applying Living Lab method. As a result, all of the three measures of effectiveness appeared to be more effective after Living Lab than after installation. Overall, this study is very significant in that it is the first case where the living lab is applied in transportation.

• Proceedings of the KSRS Conference
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• 2007.03a
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• pp.92-96
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• 2007

전라남도 국민참여형 위성영상 블로그 시스템은 2006년도 행정자치부 자치단체정보화지원사업의 일환으로 구축된 것으로서， 사용자가 고해상도 위성영상 위에 직접 자신의 글，사진， 동영상을 올리고，이를 다른 사용자나 시스템과 공유할 수 있도록 구축된 시스템이다. 본 시스템이 궁극적으로 구현하고자 했던 과제는 다음과 같다. (1)지리정보 혹은 기타 정보의 고정성을 탈피하고，(2)지리정보와 멀티미디어 자료의 효율적 통합을 통해 geoUCC를 구축하며，(3)사용자의 참여를 통한 지리정보 제공 방식의 쌍방향성을 구현하여，(4) 사용자를 일방적 자료 활용자에서 자료 생성자로 발전시키고 궁극적으로는 자치단체와 국민 간 새로운 방식의 소통 방식을 생성하는 것이다. 본 시스템 구축의 결과로서 본 시스템에서 일반 국민에게 서비스되는 내용은 다음과 같다. (1) 전라남도 전역의 1m급 고해상도 위성영상의 대국민 서비스，(2)전라남도 전역에 대한 지번 단위까지의 주소 검색 서비스，(3)웹 상에서의 실시간 3차원 GIS 서비스，(4)Web2.0의 철학을 반영한 RSS, Trackback 및 Tag 검색 기능，(5)사용자가 직접 고해상도 위성영상 위에 자신의 글， 사진，동영상，홈페이지 등을 올릴 수 있는 "위성영상 블로그 쓰기 기능"，(6)국내 거의 모든 포털 사이트의 블로그와 홈페이지를 지원하는 시스템 연계(퍼가기) 기능 등이다. 결론적으로 본 시스템의 사용자는 고해상도 위성영상 기반의 지도 위에 자신의 여행기，사진， 동영상을 올림으로써 자신만의 사용자제작콘텐츠(UCC)를 생성할 수 있을 뿐만 아니라， 이를 다른 사용자와 공유， 활용함으로써 실질적인 쌍방향，참여형 지리정보시스템을 이용하게 된 것이다.

• Korean Journal of Remote Sensing
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• v.23 no.2
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• pp.125-130
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• 2007

This paper introduce a satellite image based blog system built by JeonNam local province. Main goals of this system are as follows : (1)Overcome the static aspect of traditional Web-GIS, (2)Providing a geoUCC generating platform by combining multimedia technology and GIS in a single web environment, (3)Building a two-way Web-GIS through user's participation, (4)Creating a new communicative way between government and citizen by using this system. As a result of the system building, this system enables users to create his/her own UCC(User Created Contents) on high-resolution satellite image and enables users to share his/her own UCC with other system using Web2.0 technology.

• Journal of Science and Technology Studies
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• v.18 no.1
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• pp.177-217
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• 2018

This study examines the case of living lab applied in the R&D initiatives for solving societal problems and challenges. It discusses how to use the living lab in national R&D projects. The analyzed cases are 'Develop portable fundus camera for eye disease screening test to resolve health inequalities' and 'Auto-sensing integrated system development in rural pedestrian crosswalk'. As a result of the analysis, both cases were designed as a user participatory R&D structure by utilizing living lab. In other words, living lab has operated as a system that evolves technology-products-services into an infrastructure. It can realize final demand specification, product, service improvement and demonstration through continuous interaction of end users. As a result of the case analysis, the following policy tasks can be derived. First, living lab is a new concept and it is in the early stage of implementation in Korea. Therefore, it is necessary to monitor and evaluate living lab experiments and build suitable models for Korean society by sharing cases and achievements. Second, the strategic niche management are necessary for the introduction of living lab. Third, living lab can be used as a tool to transform the existing technology acquisition centered innovation policy to the policy for customer needs and problem solving. Fourth, there is a need for flexibility and adaptability in strategy and system to correct errors that appear in the living lab processes.