• Journal of the Korean BIBLIA Society for library and Information Science
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• v.22 no.1
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• pp.171-191
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• 2011

The purpose of this study is to introduce the concepts of smartphone and app, to review the theoretical researches and the representative service examples in academic libraries' mobile services based on smartphone apps, and to propose the proper mobile services methods based on smartphone apps in academic libraries of Korea. The ways for mobile app services in academic libraries are like these: 1) Libraries need to prepare the hybrid service system based on the combination of mobile web and app for smartphone. 2) Libraries have the guidelines for choosing apps which are applied to library services. 3) Libraries develop the apps for library marketing and education services and make use of existed apps to their own services. 4) Smartphone application bibliography service(Appography service) needs to be developed and serviced as an academic library service field.

• Journal of Digital Convergence
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• v.10 no.5
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• pp.339-349
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• 2012

Smartphones which represent to the Mobile convergence, is the rapid spread, more than half of Korean are using. Accordingly, mobile apps that run on smartphone market is growing at a rapid pace. However, most studies on smartphone and mobile apps are focusing on the technology acceptance and improvement of function. So, this study is to suggest promotion strategy to each mobile apps, analyzed through three phases. First phase is the frequency analysis that deduct most frequently used mobile apps. Second phase is association rules that found to associate between mobile apps. Finally, to analyze deduction techniques for acquired 5 mobile apps to target variable in pre-2 phase use total 35 variables of 20 mobile apps categories, demographic variables, amount of PC, movie, music, book, game usage and fees per month.

• Journal of Digital Convergence
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• v.12 no.7
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• pp.189-196
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• 2014

Mobile applications are significantly impacting people's smart phone using behavior and mobile industry value chain. By examining sources of data on mobile applications use, this study presents evidence about what factors would affect the amount of apps download, which may be useful to guide app designers and publishers to develop more persuasive new apps and marketing strategies. The results indicated app ranking had effect on download amount of apps in both Android app market and Apple app store, while prices of apps had no impact on the amount of download. App type, developer experience, and locality had effect on the amount of download only for paid apps in Apple app store.

• Information Systems Review
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• v.16 no.1
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• pp.73-88
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• 2014

According to the widespread use of smartphone, various and abundant mobile applications have been used and lots of new companies have developed mobile applications. To revitalize mobile application market, a lot of research and experiments have been performed in application development and delivery industries. The purpose of this research is to figure out the usage pattern of smartphone application and purchasing criteria of mobile application. We categorized smartphone application users with respect to application selection criteria and examined the characteristics of the categorized users. As a result, the factors of purchasing criteria of the users with respect to smartphone application selection criteria and application type were categorized into 3 groups: aggressive usage group, middle usage group, and passive usage group. The result of this study indicates that the relationship between purchasing criteria and usage pattern in mobile application market was actualized by measuring the purchasing factors of user. Therefore this fact suggests that it is very important to measure the accurate purchasing factors of its user for setting up the marketing strategy of mobile application market.

• The Journal of Society for e-Business Studies
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• v.24 no.3
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• pp.129-142
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• 2019

The interest in the blockchain technology has been increasing since its inception and it has been applied to many fields and sectors. The blockchain technology creates a decentralized environment where no third party controls the data and transaction. Mobile apps recommendation has been extensively used to recommend apps to mobile users. For example, Android-based recommendation applications have been developed to recommend other mobile apps for download depending on user's preferences and mobile context. These recommendations help users discover apps by referring to the experiences of other users. Due to the collection of a large amount of data and user information, there is a problem of insecurity and user's privacy that are prone to be attacked. To address this issue the blockchain technology can be incorporated to assure cryptographic safety. In this paper, we present a survey of the on-going mobile app recommendations and e-commerce technology trend to address how the blockchain can be incorporated into the collaborative filtering recommendation systems to enable the users to set up a secured data, which implies the importance of user privacy preference on personalized app recommendations.

• Journal of the Korea Convergence Society
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• v.6 no.2
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• pp.43-48
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• 2015

Web 2.0/3.0 in accordance with the evolution of information technology environment to meet the expansion needs to order, a wide range of mobile internet devices spread in mobile app, mobile web, mobile webapp and hybrid app environment that is based on all the information technology industry in the mobile painter been progressing rapidly. However, the need to gradually ensure compatibility of mobile services in the life cycle of the appearance and reality of these devices is becoming increasingly diverse mobile devices has emerged shortened. Therefore, in this study to suggest the best infographics design the structure and framework of the future mobile environment through a study of the use of the N-Screen convergence in mobile wepapp environment.

• Information Systems Review
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• v.18 no.1
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• pp.125-140
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• 2016

Mobile applications (apps) play a significant role in the proliferation of smartphones. According to statistics from Apple, 100 million apps were downloaded in 2008. Since then, the number of cumulative app downloads have increased exponentially. By October 2014, 85 billion apps had been downloaded worldwide. Many studies have attempted to determine the factors that drive app downloads. However, unlike previous studies, we examine the effects of app updates on app rankings. To achieve this goal, we collected data on rankings (gross rankings and category rankings), update contents, reviewer ratings, and number of reviews on apps listed in the App Store. We then categorized app updates into functionality, reliability, and convenience updates following the buying hierarchy model. We found that functionality updates had a positive effect on app gross ranking whereas reliability updates had a positive effect on category ranking. Our study is the first to explore the effects of update content on app ranking. Moreover, our study provides a practical implication for mobile app developers, who should consider app updates in their product development strategy.

• Journal of the Korean BIBLIA Society for library and Information Science
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• v.23 no.4
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• pp.71-91
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• 2012

As the smartphone market has expanded and university students in their twenties account for the largest portion of the market, university libraries need to provide mobile library services to keep up with students' growing demand in mobile services. The purpose of this study is to analyze the status and trends of mobile services in Korean university libraries. This study investigated mobile services of 434 university libraries in Korea and 114 ones which are members of ARL during the months of September and November in 2012. As a result, this study found that university libraries in Korea were offering 55 mobile Web and 29 mobile application services with 11.2 and 10.7 contents respectively. In addition, on the basis of the identified current problems, this study suggested further steps for developing and improving mobile services in Korean university libraries.

• Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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• 2016.04a
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• pp.158-161
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• 2016

스마트폰이 대중화됨에 따라 다양한 종류의 어플리케이션이 생겨나고 있고 관련 사업간의 경쟁도 점점 심해지고 있다. 경쟁시장에서 살아남기 위해서는 앱 개발자들은 신중하게 관련 마켓의 경쟁상황, 주요 타켓의 성별 및 연령층을 체계적으로 분석해야 할 뿐만 아니라 자신의 앱이 다른 앱들과 차별화 될 수 있는 특징을 가져 경쟁력을 확보해야 한다. 본 고에서는 한국전자통신연구원에서 개발한 "MOta 모바일앱 분석도구"를 이용하여 20대 여성을 타켓으로 하는 앱 마켓의 현황에 대해 진단하고자 한다.

• Journal of the Korea Society of Computer and Information
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• v.20 no.4
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• pp.17-23
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• 2015

In this paper, we propose a mobile app clustering method using word clusters. Considering the quick change of mobile app trends, the proposed method divides the mobile apps into some semantically similar mobile apps by applying a clustering algorithm to the mobile app set, rather than the predefined category system. In order to alleviate the data sparseness problem in the short mobile app description texts, the proposed method additionally utilizes the unigram, the bigram, the trigram, the cluster of each word. For the purpose of accurately clustering mobile apps, the proposed method manages to avoid exceedingly small or large mobile app clusters by using the word clusters. Experimental results show that the proposed method improves 22.18% from 57.48% to 79.66% on overall accuracy by using the word clusters.