• Journal of Magnetics
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• 제16권4호
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• pp.449-452
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• 2011

A wrist wearable cuffless pulsimeter with a portable and small size apparatus using Hall effect is fabricated. The analysis of the pulse wave measured by the testing product of pulsimeter is done to measure the pulse rate and blood pressure. The blood pressure obtained by the puslimeter is compared with the practical values measured by electronic or mercury liquid blood pressure meters. The detail analysis of a pulse wave measured by a wrist wearable cuffless pulsimeter detecting the changes of the magnetic field can be used to develop a new diagnostic algorithm of blood pressure applying for oriental medical apparatus.

• 패션비즈니스
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• 제14권6호
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• pp.70-83
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• 2010

With the rapid development of science and technology and the increased preference by consumers for high-function products, many products are being developed through the fusion of technologies in different industries. Among such fusion technologies, digital clothing which combines clothing with computer functions is being examined as a new growth item. The objectives of this study are to examine the concept, history, development, and market of intelligent clothing, in order to discuss future directions for the development of digital clothing technology. intelligent clothing (wearable computers) originated in the 1960s from the concept of separating computing equipment and attaching it to the body. This technology was studied intensively from the early 1980s and to the early 1990s. In the late 1990s, studies on wearable computers began to develop intelligent/digital clothing that was more comfortable and beneficial to users. Depending on the user and purpose, intelligent/digital clothing is now being developed and used in diverse industrial areas that include sports, medicine, military, entertainment, daily life, and business. Many experts forecast a huge growth potential for the digital textile/clothing market, and predict the fastest market growth in the field of healthcare/medicine. There exists a need to find solutions for many related technological, economic, and social issues for the steady dissemination and advancement of intelligent/digital clothing in various industries. Further, research should be continued on effective fusion technologies that reflect human sensitivity and that increase user convenience and benefits.

• 패션비즈니스
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• 제25권1호
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• pp.133-149
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• 2021

This study presents a new fashion wearable product, a classical music stage costume design, using an Arduino LilyPad that can control light-emitting diodes(LEDs) and a sound sensor that can set an environmental range of LED light. As a theoretical background, LED fashion design research and stage costume design research status were reviewed, and Arduino LilyPads, sensors, LEDs, and batteries required for LED stage costume production were investigated. Based on prior research, the LED stage costume design for the soprano stage was presented in a three-step process of design planning, development, and production, and an actual prototype was produced. This process produced meaningful information and materials for making clothes with the added function of a wearable computer. In particular, fashion designers or fashion majors can easily access the Arduino LillyPad and use not only LEDs, but other light emitting materials. It is expected that it will be used as a basic material for the use of the Arduino LillyPad that can develop new creations that have been utilized.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제17권11호
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• pp.3064-3082
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• 2023

During the last decade, several Electronic Orientation Aids devices have been proposed to solve the autonomy problems of visually impaired people. When hearing is considered the primary sense for Visually Impaired people (VI) and it is generally loaded with the environment, the use of tactile sense can be considered a solution to transmit directional information. This paper presents a new wearable haptic system based on four motors implemented in shoes, while six directions can be played. This study aims to introduce an interface design and investigate an appropriate means of spatial information delivery through haptic sense. The first experiment of the proposed system was performed with 15 users in an indoor environment. The results showed that the users were able to recognize, with high accuracy, the directions displayed on their feet. The second experiment was conducted in an outdoor environment with five blindfolded users who were guided along 120 meters. The users, guided only by the haptic system, successfully reached their destinations. The potential of tactile-foot stimulation to help VI understand Electronic Orientation Aids (EOA) instructions was discussed, and future challenges were defined.

• 한국인터넷방송통신학회논문지
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• 제16권4호
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• pp.41-46
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• 2016

최근 들어 국내외 대기업에서는 웨어러블 디바이스 사업에 전폭적으로 투자하고 있으며, 지난해 대비 26% 가량 많은 사용자들이 웨어러블 디바이스 기반의 다양한 서비스를 제공받고 있다. 기존의 헬스케어, 스마트워크, 스마트 홈 환경에서 폭넓게 사용되고 지고 있으며 융합서비스 환경에서 접목할 수 있도록 도입되어지고 있다. 그러나 G사의 제품이 상용화 되면서 개인정보보호 이슈가 사회적으로 큰 파장을 불러일으키고 있으며, 통신의 데이터 관리 및 보안 쪽에서 위험성이 증대되고 있다. 또한 기존의 무선 환경에서 사용되었던 암호체계를 사용하고 있어 신규 및 변종 보안 위협에 대한 취약성이 발생하고 있다. 본 논문에서는 웨어러블 디바이스 기반에서 안전한 통신을 수행할 수 있는 프로토콜에 대해서 연구를 한다. 등록 및 인증과정에서 코드 값을 기반으로 서명값을 생성한다. 서명 값을 기반으로 안전한 통신을 수행할 수 있도록 통신기법을 설계하도록 한다. 웨어러블 디바이스환경에서 발생하는 공격기법에 대해서 안전성을 분석하여, 기존의 암호시스템과 제안시스템의 성능평가를 수행하여 대략 14%의 효율성을 확인할 수 있었다.

• 한국콘텐츠학회논문지
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• 제8권9호
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• pp.42-54
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• 2008

오늘날의 내장형 시스템은 군사 무기체계, 로봇, 인공위성 등과 같이 전통적인 내장형 시스템과 휴대폰, PMP(Portable Multimedia Player), PDAs(Personal Digital Assistants)와 같이 통신과 멀티미디어 기기가 결합된 디지털 컨버전스 시스템에서 먹는 PC, 웨어러블 컴퓨터와 같은 차세대 PC 개념으로 진화하고 있다. 차세대 PC는 문서작성 인터넷 검색 데이터 관리 등에서 사용되었던 기존의 PC에서 분기된 네트워크 기반의 인간중심 디지털 정보기기이다. 웨어러블 컴퓨터는 극히 전력과 메모리 제한적인 시스템으로, 구성 하드웨어의 제약 사항을 극복하고 사용자 서비스의 QoS를 제공하기 위해 초소형이면서 저전력 기능을 갖춘 실시간 운영체제를 사용해야만 한다. 본 논문에서는 웨어러블 컴퓨터를 위한 저전력 실시간 운영체제 eRTOS를 설계 및 구현하였다. 본 논문에서 구현한 eRTOS는 18KB의 풋프린트(footprint)로 동적 전력 관리 기법(Dynamic Power Management)과 장치 전력 관리 기법(Device Power Management)의 저전력 기법이 구현되어 있다. 웨어러블 컴퓨터의 응용프로그램을 실험하여 47%의 전력 소모 감축효과를 확인하였다.

• 한국멀티미디어학회논문지
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• 제18권2호
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• pp.244-252
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• 2015

This paper describes the design and implementation of a System-on-a-Chip (SoC) for face recognition to use in wearable/mobile products. The design flow starts from the system specification to implementation process on silicon. The entire process is carried out using a FPGA-based prototyping platform environment for design and verification of the target SoC. To ensure that the implemented face recognition SoC satisfies the required performances metrics, time analysis and recognition tests were performed. The motivation behind the work is a single chip implementation of face recognition system for target applications.

• 제어로봇시스템학회논문지
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• 제21권6호
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• pp.524-530
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• 2015

Early wearable robotic devices were big, powerful and manipulator-like. Recently, various applications of wearable robotics have shown a greater demand for lower weight and compliancy. One approach to achieve these objectives is the use of novel actuators such as twisted string actuators. These actuator are very light, quiet, mechanically simple and compliant. Therefore, they can drastically decrease the weight and size of robotic systems such as exoskeletons. However, one drawback of this actuator is its nonlinear transmission ratio, which is established as a ratio between the angle of twisting of the strings and their resulting contraction. In this paper, we propose a transmission mechanism with rotational motion as the output incorporating a twisted string actuator (TSA). The designed mechanism allows the linearization of the relationships between the input and output displacements and forces of a TSA. The proposed design has been validated theoretically and through a set of computer simulations. A detailed analysis of the performance of the proposed mechanism is presented in this paper along with a design guideline.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제14권2호
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• pp.757-770
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• 2020

We propose a hand gesture recognition method that is compatible with a head-up display (HUD) including small processing resource. For fast link adaptation with HUD, it is necessary to rapidly process gesture recognition and send the minimum amount of driver hand gesture data from the wearable device. Therefore, we use a method that recognizes each hand gesture with an inertial measurement unit (IMU) sensor based on revised correlation matching. The method of gesture recognition is executed by calculating the correlation between every axis of the acquired data set. By classifying pre-defined gesture values and actions, the proposed method enables rapid recognition. Furthermore, we evaluate the performance of the algorithm, which can be implanted within wearable bands, requiring a minimal process load. The experimental results evaluated the feasibility and effectiveness of our decomposed correlation matching method. Furthermore, we tested the proposed algorithm to confirm the effectiveness of the system using pre-defined gestures of specific motions with a wearable platform device. The experimental results validated the feasibility and effectiveness of the proposed hand gesture recognition system. Despite being based on a very simple concept, the proposed algorithm showed good performance in recognition accuracy.

• 한국전자통신학회논문지
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• 제11권11호
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• pp.1141-1148
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• 2016

본 논문은 웨어러블 시스템을 이용하여, ECG 전기 패턴을 QRS을 이용하여 급성 심장마비 예측 감지 시스템으로, 웨어러블 심장 이상 징후 감지 스마트 워치와, 이를 포함 하고 디지털 ECG (X, Y) 패턴 좌표 DB를 이용하여 비정상 패턴을 즉시 감지하고, 급성 심장마비 예방 시스템 및 그 방법을 보여준다. 특히, 디지털 ECG(X, Y) 패턴 정보를 이용한 이상 징후 유형과 대비하는 단계를 통해서 급성 심장마비 발생 시, 골든타임을 놓치지 않고 응급 처치할 수 있음을 보여 준다.