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WRITER | 대외협력과 | WRITE DAY | 2023-01-04 |
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Academia’s ‘attention’ to PKNU’s research on architecture and fire and disaster safety
- phd. candidate Gu Ji-Won won the best thesis presentation award for research on ‘noise-canceling earphones’
- the team of doctoral students Oh Chan-Wook, Jeong Sung-Hee, and Gu Ji-Won received the award at the competition
A research result has been published showing that ‘active noise canceling (ANC) earphones’, which users are increasing in recent years, can cause danger by blocking not only noise but also fire alarms.
Pukyong National University (President Jang Young-Soo) announced that Gu Ji-Won (2nd year candidate in doctoral course) from the department of fire protection engineering in the division of architectural and fire protection, won the best paper presentation award at the recently held fall of 2022 conference of the Korean institute of fire science & engineering and the 19th Asian society of urban environment.
Gu Ji-Won conducted an experiment in which 20 men and women in their 20s listened to music unrelated to the experiment and randomly transmitted fire alarms such as alarm bells or emergency broadcasts without prior notice.
Especially, the analysis of fire alarm recognition and response delay time by measuring EEG when wearing ANC earphones was recognized as an excellent research achievement at domestic and international academic conferences.
According to her research, the reaction time required for people to recognize the alarm sound and start evacuation was delayed by about 40 to 50 seconds when wearing ANC earphones compared to when the ANC function did not work.
Her advisory professor Choi Joon-Ho said, “Until now, research related to ANC earphones has been conducted only with the focus on technology research on attenuation of ambient noise and prevention of hearing loss, but this study was initiated to inform the dangers of car horns and fire alarms as they can be offset,” he added, “I expect that this study not only has an academic meaning of attempting convergence research by combining brain and cognitive engineering with traditional architecture and fire protection engineering, but can also be used as a basis for improving domestic fire protection facility laws and national fire safety standards from a human-centered perspective.”
Along with this, a team of phd candidate Oh Chan-Wook, Jeong Sung-hee, and Gu Ji-Won awarded the 3rd prize in the 10th HVAC (heating, ventilation, and air conditioning) competition hosted by the society of air-conditioning and refrigerating engineers of Korea in recognition of original ideas and creativity for their research on ‘improvement plan for air conditioning control system through indoor environment and fire risk evaluation of clean room’.
These studies were carried out with the support of the BK21 FOUR project, the mid-level researcher support project of the national research foundation of Korea, and the field support technology development project for the initial response of the national fire cooperation funded by the national fire agency and the ministry of science and ICT. <Pukyong Today>