• International Journal of Costume and Fashion
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• 제4권2호
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• pp.45-55
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• 2004

Rapid informatization and technology advance in the 21st century has invited a new paradigm and changed many things in human life pattern. The impact of mobility seen in this digital nomadism has brought about, when it comes to clothing, a change in its unique meaning, that is, the graftage of high technology onto present nomad's life style who live moving around all the time due to the expansion of mobile environment. As the fruits of this expansion of mobile environment and technology advance in wireless telecommunication, easy-to-carry smaller sized devices such as cell phones, PDA, and MP3 players represent the present times, while the future would be an 'era of wearing' in which kinds of electronic devices and systems are integrated into clothing. Thus in this study, concept of wearable computer seen in the 21st century's digital nomadism was reviewed, and figurativeness and anesthetic value of wearable computer were discussed in association with the change in high style image resulted from technology advance and change of life style. By drawing a justice from which, value of future fashion was also prospected.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제9권1호
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• pp.318-330
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• 2015

In wearable sensor systems (WSSs), sensor nodes are deployed around human body parts such as the arms, the legs, the stomach, and the back. These sensors have limited lifetimes because they are battery-operated. Thus, transmission power control (TPC) is needed to save the energy of sensor nodes. The TPC should control the transmission power level (TPL) of sensor nodes based on current channel conditions. However, previous TPC algorithms did not precisely estimate the channel conditions. Therefore, we propose a new TPC algorithm that uses an accelerometer to directly measure the current channel condition. Based on the directly measured channel condition, the proposed algorithm adaptively adjusts the transmission interval of control packets for updating TPL. The proposed algorithm is efficient because the power consumption of the accelerometer is much lower than that of control packet transmissions. To evaluate the effectiveness of our approach, we implemented the proposed algorithm in real sensor devices and compared its performance against diverse TPC algorithms. Through the experimental results, we proved that the proposed TPC algorithm outperformed other TPC algorithms in all channel environments.

• Journal of Multimedia Information System
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• 제8권4호
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• pp.295-300
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• 2021

Recent advances in Internet-of-Things and wearable computing have established computationally sufficient infrastructure to remove the barriers of physical locations. The recent COVID-19 pandemic has accelerated the use of remote collaboration, work-from-home, teleconferencing, online education, digital twin, and metaverse enriched with various configurations of augmented reality, virtual reality, mixed reality, and extended reality. Beyond specialized niche wearable applications in the medical and entertainment domains, we aim to identify the underlying characteristics of smartglass-enabled killer applications for everyday use. In this paper, we analyze intermediary roles in remote collaboration consisting of authoritative supervisors, synergetic collaborators, and speculative explorers. We also propose technical components for smartglass-assisted interactive remote collaboration composed of personal tracking, teleconference, and interaction components. More specifically, the application tasks of each intermediary role and objectives of three functional components are defined and elaborated.

• 센서학회지
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• 제31권6호
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• pp.403-410
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• 2022

Flexible and wearable sensing technologies have emerged as a result of developments in interdisciplinary research across several fields, bringing together various subjects such as biology, physics, chemistry, and information technology. Moreover, various types of flexible wearable biocompatible devices, such customized medical equipment, soft robotics, bio-batteries, and electronic skin patches, have been developed over the last several years that are extensively employed to monitor biological signals. As a result, we present an updated overview of new bio-implantable sensor technologies for various applications and a brief review of the state-of-the-art technologies.

• 한국컴퓨터정보학회논문지
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• 제11권6호
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• pp.133-141
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• 2006

최근 많은 착용형 컴퓨터가 개발되었지만, 아직도 입력 및 출력 관점에서 보면 사용자 인터페이스에 많은 문제를 가지고 있다. 본 논문에서는 EOG 감지 회로와 마커 인식에 기반한 착용형 사용자 인터페이스를 제안한다. 제안된 사용자 인터페이스에서 EOG 감지 회로는 지시 장치로 사용되는데, 눈 주위의 전위차를 감지함으로써 눈동자의 움직임을 추적한다. 사용자가 다루고자 하는 객체는 사람이 인지 가능한 마커로 표시되며 마커 인식 시스템은 카메라 영상으로부터 마커를 검출하고 인식한다. 마커가 인식되면 해당하는 객체에 대한 속성창과 마커 창이 HMD에 디스플레이되고 사용자는 원하는 속성이나 메소드를 선택함으로써 객체를 다루게 된다. EOG 감지 회로와 마커 인식 시스템을 이용함으로써 사용자는 착용형 컴퓨팅 환경에서 눈동자의 움직임만으로 객체의 조작을 손쉽게 수행할 수 있다.

• 한국컴퓨터정보학회논문지
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• 제29권5호
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• pp.101-110
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• 2024

이 연구의 목적은 웨어러블 디바이스를 활용한 걷기 활동에 대한 모니터링과 피드백이 중년 여성의 체성분 및 대사증후군 지표 변화에 미치는 영향을 분석하고자 실시하였다. 연구 대상자는 6개월간 모바일 연동 웨어러블 디바이스를 사용하였으며, 지원하는 모바일 앱을 통해 자동 전송된 보행 수 및 활동량 정보를 모니터링을 통해 피드백을 제공하였다. 연구 결과 체중, 골격근량, 그리고 체지방률에서 통계적으로 유의한 차이가 나타났다(p<.001). 대사증후군 지표 변화는 수축기 혈압(p<.05), 공복 혈당(p<.01), 복부둘레(p<.001)에서 유의한 차이가 나타났고, TC(p<.001)와 LDL-C(p<.05)에서 유의한 차이가 나타났다. 따라서 쉽고 편리하게 적용 가능한 웨어러블 디바이스는 좌업적인 생활습관을 가진자들의 신체활동량 증가와 대사증후군 예방을 위한 효과적인 도구로 볼 수 있다.

• 제어로봇시스템학회:학술대회논문집
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• 제어로봇시스템학회 2003년도 ICCAS
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• pp.1633-1637
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• 2003

Existing input devices for desktop computers are not suitable for wearable computers because they are neither easy to carry nor convenient to use in a mobile working environment. Different input devices for wearable computers must be developed. In this paper, a wireless glove-based input device for wearable computers is proposed. The proposed input device consists of a pair of chording gloves. Its keys are mounted on the fingers and their chording methods are similar to those of a Braille keyboard. RF (Radio Frequency) and IrDA (Infrared Data Association) modules are used to make the proposed input device wireless. Since the Braille representation for numbers and characters is efficient and has been well established for many languages in the world, the proposed input device may be one of good input devices to computers. Furthermore, since the Braille has been used for visually impaired people, the proposed one can be easily used as an input device to computers for them.

• 한국지능시스템학회논문지
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• 제14권3호
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• pp.304-309
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• 2004

본 논문에서는 편리한 방식으로 착용할 수 있으며 지능을 지니고 있는 시스템을 구현하고자 한다. 인간을 보조하는 역할을 수행함과 동시에 착용할 수 있는 장점을 지닌 시스템의 구현은 다양한 제어기에 적용될 수 있다. 이동 중인 로봇의 상태를 파악하고 인간을 대신하여 명령을 전달해주는 시스템의 구현이 가능해진 것이다. 본 논문에서는 이동 로봇의 주행 정보를 받아들여 충돌 회피 주행에 필요한 속도와 회전각을 판단하여 명령을 전달하는 시스템을 착용 형태의 장치를 이용하여 구현하였다. 웨어러블 장치의 지능을 구현하기 위해 계층적 퍼지 논리와 신경망의 학습 능력을 결합하였다.

• 한국정보통신학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국해양정보통신학회 2009년도 춘계학술대회
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• pp.337-340
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• 2009

Wireless tele-home-care application gives new possibilities for ECG (electrocardiogram) monitoring system with wearable biomedical sensors. Thus, continuously development of high convenient ECG monitoring system for high-risk cardiac patients is essential. This paper describes to monitor a person's ECG using wearable approach. A wearable belt-type ECG electrode with integrated electronics has been developed and has proven long-term robustness and monitoring of all electrical components. The measured ECG signal is transmitted via an ultra low power consumption wireless sensor node. ECG signals carry a lot clinical information for a cardiologist especially the R-peak detection in ECG. R-peak detection generally uses the threshold value which is fixed thus it bring errors due to motion artifacts and signal size changes. Variable threshold method is used to detect the R-peak which is more accurate and efficient. In order to evaluate the performance analysis, R-peak detection using MIT-BIH databases and Long Term Real-Time ECG is performed in this research. This concept able to allow patient to follow up critical patients from their home and early detecting rarely occurrences of cardiac arrhythmia.

• 대한의용생체공학회:의공학회지
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• 제39권6호
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• pp.278-283
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• 2018

Nowdays, many people suffer from the neck pain due to forward head posture(FHP) and text neck(TN). To assess the severity of the FHP and TN the craniovertebral angle(CVA) is used in clinincs. However, it is difficult to monitor the neck posture using the CVA in daily life. We propose a new method using the cervical flexion angle(CFA) obtained from a wearable sensor to monitor neck posture in daily life. 15 participants were requested to pose FHP and TN. The CFA from the wearable sensor was compared with the CVA observed from a 3D motion camera system to analyze their correlation. The determination coefficients between CFA and CVA were 0.80 in TN and 0.57 in FHP, and 0.69 in TN and FHP. From the monitoring the neck posture while using laptop computer for 20 minutes, this wearable sensor can estimate the CVA with the mean squared error of 2.1 degree.