• The Journal of Korean Association of Computer Education
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• v.16 no.5
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• pp.9-16
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• 2013

Computational thinking is an ability to resolve problems that may be applied to the various real world problems and is regarded as the core of computer science. Computational thinking may be improved through experiences of analyzing problems and of selecting, applying, and modeling strategies appropriate for problem-solving. In order to enhance computational thinking of learners, it is important to provide experiences of solving various problems. This study designed puzzle based learning in order to educate learners principles of problem solving, let them have experiences of interest and insight, and provide them with problem solving experiences. The puzzle questions used for learning were classified into six types - constraints, optimization, probability, statistics, pattern recognition, and strategies. These questions were applied to Informatics gifted elementary students and, after their education, their computational thinking and problem solving inventory significantly improved.

• Journal of the Korean Society for information Management
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• v.24 no.2
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• pp.29-44
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• 2007

The purpose of this study was to explore whether the concept of amount of invested mental effort (AIME) developed in the field of educational psychology can help explain why people put so little effort into online searching. In this experimental study, two information retrieval systems - a web search engine and a university library system - were used to make a comparison. The data were collected from 15 undergraduate students through background questionnaires, think-aloud protocols, search logs, post-search questionnaires, and post-task interviews. The findings indicate that perception of the web's "easy-ness" and high levels of self confidence in searching capability led the subjects to put less effort into web searching than they do into library system searching. In addition, the perceived difficulty of search task influenced the extent of mental effort invested. The AIME proved a useful framework for understanding search behavior and user experience for both web search engines and library systems.

• Journal of Industrial Convergence
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• v.22 no.3
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• pp.39-49
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• 2024

The purpose of this study was to explore the meaning of the teaching experience of middle school physical education teachers, listening to in-depth statements related to teaching experience based on the physical education teacher's teaching identity, and analyzing the meaningful content and meaning structure found therein. The study participants were four current middle school physical education teachers. The research method used Colaizzi's phenomenological method to analyze the meaning structure through in-depth interviews with research participants, group interviews, additional interviews, and field records. In order to solve the research questions, the interviews were conducted as semi-structured interviews, and the individual interviews were terminated when there were no more duplicate cases or similar phenomena related to teaching experience. As a result of the study, the meaning of experience was constructed based on narrative statements through interviews with research participants, and a collection of 2 items, 6 categories, and 12 themes were extracted by exploring concepts from the constructed meaning. The reasons for going into the teaching profession were categorized into 'motivation' and 'beliefs', and the meaning of teaching experience was categorized into 'mission', 'relationships', 'exhaustion', and 'overcoming'. In conclusion, although the research participants faced numerous difficulties, they experienced challenges and recovery by pursuing the joy and value of sharing within the school community.

• Journal of Digital Convergence
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• v.18 no.8
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• pp.469-478
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• 2020

The objective of this study is to verify the effects of shopping tendencies and information search on the shopping mall satisfaction and repurchase intention of fashion clothing consumers at this point in time when the mobile shopping has been routinized. To verify this, this study selected male and female university students with experiences in purchasing fashion clothing in mobile shopping mall within the last one year as its samples. For the verification of hypotheses, the factor analysis, multiple regression analysis, and simple regression analysis were conducted. The results of this study are as follows. First, the shopping tendencies of consumers who had experiences in mobile shopping included the economic shopping tendency, entertaining shopping tendency, convenient shopping tendency, and trend-pursuit shopping tendency. Second, the convenient shopping tendency, entertaining shopping tendency, and economic shopping tendency of consumers' mobile shopping tendencies had positive effects on the mobile shopping mall satisfaction and repurchase intention. Third, the information search for purchasing fashion clothing in mobile shopping mall had positive effects on the shopping mall satisfaction and repurchase intention.

• Journal of Information Management
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• v.26 no.1
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• pp.80-98
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• 1995

Search strategies is a means to make an efficient search. Among several studies of search strategy, Bates' $\ulcorner$Search Tactics$\lrcorner$ has been often cited and introduced, but their studies have been superficial. In this paper, the contents of Bates' $\ulcorner$Search Tactics$\lrcorner$ are examined in detail, and we try to represent the actual online search process based upon Bates' $\ulcorner$Search Tactics$\lrcorner$. The following three kinds of survey are made in order to clarify which and how tactics are used: (1) Interview with 7 searchers who belong to different types of organizations, and use different kinds of databases (2) Analysis of some online search records. (3) Analysis of written applications for a newspaper database during one year. In conclusion, Bates' tactics falls into categories and new several tactics which often used are added. The following five factors affect online search activities, search strategy, and search tactics. (1) the difficulty of search requests (2) the kinds of databases (3) the charging policy for each online search (4) the presence of the user during the search (5) the searcher' online experience In the limited condition, typical tactics are suggested, but in order to generalize the pattern of using tactics, further investigation is necessary.

• International Area Studies Review
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• v.16 no.1
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• pp.221-239
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• 2012

The purpose of this paper is to investigate the impact of internet shopping motivations on information searching intention, customer satisfaction and purchase intention. To achieve this goal, literature review and empirical studies were conducted in parallel. The results of this study are as follows: First, the motives of internet shopping of Chinese consumers were found to be in four dimensions, "seeking convenience," "seeking low-cost," "seeking variety" and "seeking pleasures", in order of large proportions, respectively. Second, Among these four internet shopping motivations "seeking convenience,""seeking variety" and "seeking pleasures" were found to have direct, significant and positive effects on information searching intention. But "seeking low-cost" has no positive effects on information searching intention. Third, information searching intention was found to have direct impact on customer satisfaction and purchase intention. Fourth, Customer satisfaction has an direct and positive effects on purchase intention.

• Journal of The Korean Association of Information Education
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• v.12 no.2
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• pp.183-194
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• 2008

This research was conducted from the perspective of student management focusing on such central topic as realization of research ethics on the basis of research ethics case study model. In this study, improvement method for research ethics education through means of application of DEVAC System, which is a paper plagiarism detection system, and survey on current status of research ethics in college education and degree of consciousness thereof were explored. Through these investigations, a topic relating to establishment of the foundation in order to foster consciousness of research ethics in the college education was established as the primary purpose of this study. To accomplish the purpose of this study, firstly, actual situation of paper plagiarism committed by the college students and their consciousness were surveyed. Secondly, the research ethics education was examined through means of applying DEVAC paper plagiarism detection system. The results from investigations revealed the followings: First, 424 students (65.43%) who participated in this research and survey on the fact of paper plagiarism had experience of report plagiarism, and the result of investigation showed that 49.3% of students among those who had experience of paper plagiarism committed report plagiarism more than three times in a semester. And, 34.1% of participants showed a positive response to the use of a paper plagiarism detection system in the college, and results from the investigation displayed that the creative education (39.0%) marked the highest scores as in the educational method to reinforce the research ethics. Second, the results from examination of paper plagiarism having applied DEVAC system indicated that use of this system can be an alternative to prevent paper plagiarism from students. It is realized through this study that there is a necessity in various respects to build up the foundation which will enable individual students to improve their consciousness to such a degree so as to make them clearly recognize the fact that plagiarism is criminal act.

• Journal of the HCI Society of Korea
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• v.11 no.1
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• pp.11-19
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• 2016

This study aimed to assess the economic value of the UX design and applied contingent valuation method (CVM) to the three smartphone screen unlock interface types: touch, fingerprint, and iris recognition. The contingent valuation method was chosen from various economic valuation approaches because the interface components such as the screen unlock are important user experience values but non-market goods which are not traded independently. Using the double-bounded dichotomous choice approach of the contingent valuation method, the survey results of the logit model showed that the economic value of touch unlock interface was 529 won, fingerprint was 4,214 won, and iris recognition was 1,316 won. That is, the fingerprint interface had the highest economic value, followed by iris recognition and touch interface. The main contribution of this research is that we examined a method for economic valuation of the UX design and generated systematic and credible results.

• Journal of Distribution Research
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• v.6 no.2
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• pp.109-133
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• 2002

This article examines how consumers in online environments depend on brand in making purchase decisions by product types. Previous research explains that the characteristics of online environments decrease the dependence on brand due to inexpensive search costs and affluent information quantity. But it is likely that in online environment, the dependence on brand will be differentiated by product types. We found that in search product, the availability of information decreased consumer's uncertainty, which, in turn, increased the dependence of brand. However, in experience products, the weakness of multi-sensory increased consumer's uncertainty, which resulted in the increase of the dependence of brand.

• Proceedings of the Korea Society for Industrial Systems Conference
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• 1998.03a
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• pp.213-219
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• 1998

Genetic Algorithms(GAs ; 유전자 알고리즘)은 자연적 선택(natural selection)의 유전적인 메카니즘에 기초한 탐색 알고리즘(search algo-rithms)이다. GA는 세대(generation)를 거듭함에 따라 어떤 최적화화하는 해에 수렴해가는 탐색 알고리즘으로 전세대의 우수개체로부터 새로운 세대의 개체들이 집합이 형성되는 과정을 이용한 탐색 알고리즘이다. GA에 대한 최근의 활발한 연구와 많은 관심은 주로 기존의 기법이 특정 영역의 지식을 많이 필요로하는데 비해서 GA는 효율적인 영역독립 탐색경험들의 집합을 제공하여 최적해를 얻는 기법으로서 전역함수 최적화와 NP 등의 문제에 유용하다는 연구결과가 제시되고 있기 때문이다. 본 연구에서는 GA에 대한 명확한 이해와 세대의 형성 , 개체를 선택하기 위한 타당한 연산자(operator)에 관한 내용을 고찰하고, GA가 언제, 어떻게 사용되는가에 대해 응용사례를 중심으로 GA의 향후 연구방향에 대해 논의하고 GA가 앞으로 어떤 분야에서 어떻게 발전해 나가야 할 지에 대한 과제에 대해 논의한다.