• Journal of Digital Convergence
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• v.16 no.2
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• pp.1-7
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• 2018

The current study investigates whether artificially intelligent chatbots influence Korean EFL students' vocabulary learning. For eight weeks, 47 college students in Korea participated in this study. They were divided into two groups: one experimental group and one control group. Participants in the experimental group engaged in chat with a chatbot during the eight-week experimental period. Before and after the experiment, pre- and post-tests were administered to see if their English vocabulary improved. Pre- and post- surveys were also performed to understand how the participants perceived chatbot-assisted vocabulary learning. Results show that the experimental group improved their vocabulary skills as a result of engaging in chat with the chatbot. Also, their perceptions of vocabulary learning positively changed, increasing their motivation, interest, and confidence in English. Given that there have been few empirical studies to investigate the effects of chatbots on vocabulary development, the present study can provide insights on the effectiveness of chatbots.

• Journal of Digital Contents Society
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• v.13 no.3
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• pp.401-412
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• 2012

Communication through smartphones is creating a new paradigm of mobile communication beyond the restrictions of mobility and space. The mobile instant messengers of the smartphone, which began on the desktop environment, are providing various communication features, including multimedia contents, texts, and voice. Kindergartens and nurseries are using Websites, phones, SMS, printed materials, handwritten notifications, etc. to communicate with the parents. IsPlus was developed to facilitate the communication between the parents and the teachers, including exchanges of pictures and videos, chatting, and attendance management using smartphones. This is meaningful in that it is an early smartphone mobile messenger for educational institutions for infants and preschoolers. This study presented a new approach to the development of a mobile messenger for a specific group of users by analyzing the user environment, communication types, application planning process and interface design development using storytelling.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Computer Information Conference
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• 2018.01a
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• pp.127-128
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• 2018

본 프로젝트에서는 IoT를 활용한 스마트한 풋살 대관 예약 시스템이다. 최근 건강 및 취미에 관심이 많아지면서 하나의 국면으로 풋살에 대한 관심이 많아지고 있다. 이러한 관심은 관련 블로그 등과 같은 그룹 활동으로 많은 정보를 공유하고 있다. 하지만 풋살장 예약, 팀매칭, 용병에 구하기 등과 풋살장 관리에도 어려움이 있다. 이러한 문제점들을 해결하기 위해 본 프로젝트는 웹과 앱을 활용한 커뮤니티 제공, 풋살장 관리, 팀매칭, 용병 등을 실시간으로 공유하고 활용할 수 있도록 하였다. 팀매칭 및 용병은 실시간으로 상대팀과 채팅 통해 조율할 수 있고 용병게시판을 이용하여 용병을 구할 수 있다. 앱에서는 상대팀이 예약시간의 지각, 불참석을 하면 도착알림을 오게 해주고 풋살장에 도착하여 구장문을 열거나 닫고, 구장 조명을 키거나 끄거나, 구장 실시간 영상, 구장 실시간 이용현황 등을 볼 수 있는 기능들을 제공하며, IoT를 활용한 스마트하게 풋살장 관리 및 운영, 활용할 수 있는 시스템이다.

• Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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• 2012.11a
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• pp.1694-1697
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• 2012

음성 인식은 인간이 발성하는 음성을 컴퓨터 프로그램을 이용하여 문자 정보로 변환하는 기술이다. 음성은 사람마다 각기 다르기 때문에 인식률도 각각 차이가 나게 되어 범용 인터페이스로 사용되기에는 적합하지 않다. 하지만 최근 구글, 다음 등 대형 포털을 중심으로 서버 기반의 음성 인식 서비스가 제공되면서 사용자 인터페이스로 음성을 이용하는 것이 주요 이슈로 부각되고 있다. 카카오톡과 같은 메신저 프로그램은 네트워크를 이용하여 그룹 내의 사용자들 간에 메시지를 주고받는다. 여기에 사용되는 터치 자판은 간격이 좁아서 오타가 많이 발생하고, 긴 문장을 입력할 때 시간이 많이 걸리며, 운전 중에 사용할 경우 사고 위험이 높아지는 단점이 있다. 이러한 문제들을 해결하기 위해서는 음성 인식 인터페이스를 접목하는 것이 이상적이다. 본 논문에서는 음성 인식 기반의 스마트폰용 모바일 메신저 프로그램을 설계 및 구현하였다. 외부의 음성 인식 서버를 이용하여 음성을 인식하고, 인식된 음성을 텍스트로 변환하며, 채팅 서버를 통해 메시지를 전달한다.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.4 no.4
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• pp.767-773
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• 2000

As computer systems and communication technologies develop rapidly, CSCW(Computer Supported Collaborative Work) system appears nowadays, through which it is available to work on virtual space without any restriction of time and place. Most of CWCS systems depend on a special network and groupware. The systems of graphics and CAD are not so many because they are specified by hardware and application software. In this paper, we propose a web-based collaborative CAD system, which can be jointly worked on Internet WWW being independent from any platforms. It can create and modify 3D objects easily using VRML and Java 3D API, and it can send, print, and store them. The interactive work for designing objects can be also carried out through chatting with each other. This system is executed in the environment of Client/server architecture. Clients connect to the CAD sewer through Java applet on WWW. The server is implemented by Java application, and it consists of three components : connection manager which controls the contact to users, work manager which keeps viewing in concurrency and provides virtual work space sharing with others, and solid modeler which creates 3D object.

• KIPS Transactions on Software and Data Engineering
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• v.11 no.9
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• pp.381-390
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• 2022

Influenced by a culture that prefers non-face-to-face activity during the COVID-19 pandemic, chatbot usage is accelerating. Chatbots have been used for various purposes, not only for customer service in businesses and social conversations for fun but also for mental health. Chatbots are a platform where users can easily talk about their depressed moods because anonymity is guaranteed. However, most relevant research has been on social media data, especially Twitter data, and few studies have analyzed the commercially used chatbots data. In this study, we identified the characteristics of depressive discourse in user-chatbot interaction data by analyzing the chats, including the word 'depress,' using the topic modeling algorithm and the text-mining technique. Moreover, we compared its characteristics with those of the depressive moods in the Twitter data. Finally, we draw several design guidelines and suggest avenues for future research based on the study findings.

• Proceedings of the Korean Information Science Society Conference
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• 1998.10c
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• pp.279-281
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• 1998

CSCW는 지리적으로 분산된 작업자 간의 효율적인 의사소통을 위해 화상회의, 채팅(chatting), 화이트 보드(white board), 그리고 텔리포인팅(telepointing)과 같은 기능들을 제공한다. 이 중 텔리포인팅은 지역 시스템(local system)의 공유 윈도우(shard window)에서 텔리포인터(telepointer)를 통해 발생한 이벤트를 원격지 시스템(remote System)의 공유 윈도우에서 나타낼 수 있도록 하는 기능을 제공함으로써 작업자 간의 보다 효율적인 의사소통을 가능하게 한다. 이러한 의사소통 기능으로써의 텔리포인팅은 원격진료, 공동작업 플랫폼에 관한 연구에서 응용된 바 있으나 공동저작을 위한 텔리포인팅 기능에 관한 연구 및 이를 공동저작 관리 시스템 구조에 관한 연구가 미흡하다. 공동제작에서의 텔리포인팅은 저작자 간의 의사소통을 위한 기능 뿐만 아니라 동기적 공동저작과 동기적 프리젠테이션을 위한 기능으로써 응용될 수 있어야 한다. 이를 위해 공동저작 관리 시스템은 저작자 그룹인 세션(session) 단위로 텔리포인터에 대한 권한 관리와 텔리포인팅을 통한 공유객체 엑세스(access) 기능을 제공해야 한다. 또한 텔리포인팅 구조(telepointing architecture)는 텔리포인팅 이벤트의 멀티캐스팅(multicasting) 및 동기화(synchronization)를 위해 중앙에서 이벤트를 조정하는 텔리포인팅 조정 에이전트 (telepointing coordination agent)와 각 저작자의 지역 시스템에 존재하며 공유 윈도우로부터 지역 이벤트(local event)를 인식하고 텔리포인팅 이벤트를 공유 윈도우에 알리는 텔리포인팅 지역 에이전트(telepointing local agent)로 구성되어야 한다. 본 논문은 공동저작을 위한 텔리포인팅의 기능들과 이를 위한 공동저작 관리 시스템 구조를 설명하고 텔리포인팅 구조를 제시한다.cid 함량이 가장 많이 용출된 분획은 sodium hydroxide 부분으로서 hemicellulose구조가 polyuronic acid의 형태인 것으로 사료된다. 추출획분의 구성단당은 여러 곡물연구의 보고와 유사하게 glucose, arabinose, xylose 함량이 대체로 높게 나타났다. 점미가 수가용성분에서 goucose대비 용출함량이 고르게 나타나는 경향을 보였고 흑미는 알칼리가용분에서 glucose가 상당량(0.68%) 포함되고 있음을 보여주었고 arabinose(0.68%), xylose(0.05%)도 다른 종류에 비해서 다량 함유한 것으로 나타났다. 흑미는 총식이섬유 함량이 높고 pectic substances, hemicellulose, uronic acid 함량이 높아서 콜레스테롤 저하 등의 효과가 기대되며 고섬유식품으로서 조리 특성 연구가 필요한 것으로 사료된다.리하였다. 얻어진 소견(所見)은 다음과 같았다. 1. 모년령(母年齡), 임신회수(姙娠回數), 임신기간(姙娠其間), 출산시체중등(出産時體重等)의 제요인(諸要因)은 주산기사망(周産基死亡)에 대(對)하여 통계적(統計的)으로 유의(有意)한 영향을 미치고 있어 $25{\sim}29$세(歲)의 연령군에서, 2번째 임신과 2번째의 출산에서 그리고 만삭의 임신 기간에, 출산시체중(出産時體重) $3.50{\sim}3.99kg$사이의 아이에서 그 주산기사망률(周産基死亡率)이 각각 가장 낮았다. 2. 사산(死産)과 초생아사망(初生兒死亡)을 구분(區分)하여 고려해 볼때 사산(死産)은 모성(母性)의 임신력(姙娠歷)과 매우 밀접한 관련이 있는 것으로 사료(思料)되었고 초생아사망(初生兒死亡)은 미숙아(未熟兒)와 이에 관련된 병발이 거의 결정적(決定的) 원인(原因)이 된다고 사료(思料)되었다. 3. 주산기사망률(周産基死亡率)을 감소시키는 관점(觀點)에서의 모자보건사업(母子保健事業)은 미숙아방지책(未熟兒防止策

• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.9 no.3
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• pp.361-371
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• 2009

LAMS(learning activity management system)[1] is one of the useful tools for designing and managing effectively the learning activities such as web search, chat, forum, grouping, and board. Even if LAMS has been upgraded to support the methods for making e-Learning contents conveniently, it does not have a method to communicate with external educational contents (EEC) made by external tools like Flash, Java, Visual C++, and so on. LAMS, which has been operated on Web environment, should manage all EECs like video and dynamic educational contents as educational contents in LAMS database. However, the current LAMS does not support the functionalities which can provide information of EECs to LAMS database and can also access any information about EECs from the database yet. In this paper, we propose the communication mechanism between the LAMS and EECs for solving the problem. In special, the mechanism makes many statistical data by using the information, and provides them for reflecting in education, and can control various learning management that was impossible under the original LAMS. Based on the proposed mechanism, teachers using LAMS can make more various educational contents and can manage them in the system.

• Archives of design research
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• v.18 no.3 s.61
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• pp.85-94
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• 2005

Most of product designers use 3D CAD system as a inevitable design tool nowadays and many new products are developed through a concurrent engineering process. However, it is very difficult for novice designers to get the sense of reality from modeling objects shown in the computer screens. Such a intangibility problem comes from the lack of haptic interactions and contextual information about the real space because designers tend to do 3D modeling works only in a virtual space of 3D CAD system. To address this problem, this research investigate the possibility of a interactive quantified structure simulation for product design using AR(augmented reality) which can register a 3D CAD modeling object on the real space. We built a quantified structure simulation system based on AR and conducted a series of experiments to measure how accurately human perceive and adjust the size of virtual objects under varied experimental conditions in the AR environment. The experiment participants adjusted a virtual cube to a reference real cube within 1.3% relative error(5.3% relative StDev). The results gave the strong evidence that the participants can perceive the size of a virtual object very accurately. Furthermore, we found that it is easier to perceive the size of a virtual object in the condition of presenting plenty of real reference objects than few reference objects, and using LCD panel than HMD. We tried to apply the simulation system to identify preference characteristics for the appearance design of a home-service robot as a case study which explores the potential application of the system. There were significant variances in participants' preferred characteristics about robot appearance and that was supposed to come from the lack of typicality of robot image. Then, several characteristic groups were segmented by duster analysis. On the other hand, it was interesting finding that participants have significantly different preference characteristics between robot with arm and armless robot and there was a very strong correlation between the height of robot and arm length as a human body.

• Archives of design research
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• v.18 no.3 s.61
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• pp.117-128
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• 2005

The French Belle Epoque is a period where the literary and artistic movement was very activated. The birth of the cubism reflects this atmosphere of the times and the change of paradigm in all fields. The Bergsonism is often designated as one of the important backgrounds of cubism. The problem consists in knowing if Bergsonian ideas gave real influence on the cubist movement and up to what point. Our analysis will show that it is not homogenous and very variable according to painters. In the case of Picasso and Braques it seems be a simple inspiration of Zeitgeist. But the influence upon Metzinger and Gleizes is explicit. The text of 1912, Du cubism, prove their attachment to his thought. The key concept of cubist theory, influenced by Bergsonian philosophy, is the concept of simultaneity. Cubist simultaneity is in one hand a reflection of an artist's psychological experience and the other hand a synthesis of multiple views for grasping the object in itself by the way of conceptual representation. The temporal simultaneity could be identified with the notion of memory, which is a temporal continuity connecting the past to dynamic present. The spatial simultaneity is a juxtaposition of multiple views obtained by the movement around the object. But the dose reading of Bergson's text shows that there is a divergence between the notion of cubist simultaneity and his ideas. The biased interpretation is often, as well as the strict understanding, like the history shows us well, a great source of inspiration and creativity. The cubist mouvement is not far from this case.