• Journal of the Korean Society for Library and Information Science
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• v.44 no.2
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• pp.157-176
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• 2010

The purpose of this study is to analyze information needs and information usage of academic information users. This study aims to identify more specific information needs through an analysis of the gap between undergraduate and graduate users. Interviews with 20 users of K and S University were conducted for this study. As the result of this study, we found that the information needs from undergraduate and graduate users are different. The undergraduate users were less satisfied (30%) with information results than the graduate (90%) users and types of their needed information were more diversified. Additionally, the study suggests that information services for undergraduate users should be developed more seriously because their information satisfaction was considerably lower even though they actively utilize information.

• Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society
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• v.19 no.2
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• pp.137-143
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• 2018

As the elderly population grows, the use of assistive products that facilitate independent living by the elderly is increasing. Assistive product specialists are important to selecting the correct assistive products. Therefore, it is necessary to grasp the needs of assistive product users. This study was conducted to identify the key tasks that should be prioritized through analysis of the needs of assistive product users of assistive product specialist's job competence Questionnaires were administered to 84 assistive product users in person and by mail. The questionnaire was designed to investigate the importance of work and educational needs based on the job of the assistive product specialist. Based on the results, the priorities of five duties and 12 key tasks were derived. The key tasks are highly demanded by assistive product users and must be included in the performance of the job of the assistive product specialist. Based on this study, it is expected that elderly people will gain independence and improve their quality of life in their homes and communities through an individualized approach.

• Journal of the Korean Society for information Management
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• v.35 no.4
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• pp.263-284
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• 2018

Academic libraries need to select and purchase essential collections to support students and faculty in education and research. Therefore, libraries reflect patrons' information needs on collection development through patron purchase requests. This study analyzed the pattern and efficiency of patron purchase requests in a longer-term perspective; for over a decade. Patron purchase requests show different tendencies depending on academic characteristics, which enabled libraries to identify the users' information needs in various subjects. Typically users contributed to collection development by expressing information needs in their fields of study through purchase requests. In the meantime, users in certain fields showed interest in other subject areas besides their own to select general books on various topics. Through this study, it became evident that a major portion of library collections were affected by active purchase requests from a small number of users. However those books were proven to be in demand in terms of effectiveness. Patron-driven acquisition is being implemented as an effective collection development policy.

• Journal of Information Management
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• v.34 no.2
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• pp.67-88
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• 2003

There have been increased interests in information visualization. Information visualization has been considered as a way to summarize textual data so that the users can access large amount of data more efficiently and effectively. However, many information visualization techniques stem from scientific visualization techniques, which might be difficult for the regular users to understand. More importantly, the system models used by most of the information visualization techniques do not have real world counterpart. For example, most of the users do not represent or process the textual data in terms of fisheye view or a topological map. This means that there is no affordance on the current information visualization systems from the users point of view. In this paper, we analyzed this problem by using the user interface design principles to point out what lacks in the current information visualization systems. More specifically, we have applied Nielson's Heuristic Evaluation technique to review four representative information visualization techniques. The analysis results confirmed our original hypothesis on why the current information visualization systems are not part of the mainstream information systems. Finally, we suggested to invest more efforts in improving the currently prevalent and familiar bullet list type textual information presentation method based on the usability studies and the intelligent content analysis.

• Journal of the Korean Society for information Management
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• v.38 no.2
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• pp.305-336
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• 2021

This study explored the user's information needs and information behavior for the development of academic library services. The content analysis of qualitative data showed that the in-depth interview participants have six types of information needs such as 'suitability, up-to-dateness, uniqueness, reliability, practicality, and convenience' while going through societal, educational, and research-related changes. Interview participants solved their information needs by acquiring the resources necessary for each individual's task through information behaviors using information media, human resources and the places. Each participant tried to solve his/her information problem through individual efforts based on their different media and information utilization capabilities. Based on the analysis, this study presented four directions in the development of academic library services. They are an personalized information literacy service, a space to meet the characteristics of information needs, an infrastructure platform for exchanging human resources, and an accessible support service for utilizing information media.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society for Information Management Conference
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• 2014.08a
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• pp.123-126
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• 2014

본 연구의 목적은 순간적 시간흐름 면담기법과 Think-Aloud 면담기법을 통해 클래식 음악 이용자들의 정보탐색행태를 파악하는 것이다. 이용자들의 정보탐색행태는 키워드 검색, 브라우징, 스마트폰 어플리케이션 활용의 세 가지 행태로 나타났다. 이를 통해 클래식 음악 이용자들이 검색과정에 겪는 문제점을 파악하고, 향후 이용자의 요구사항을 반영한 클래식음악 검색시스템 설계에 활용할 수 있을 것이다.

• Proceedings of the Korea Multimedia Society Conference
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• 2000.04a
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• pp.307-310
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• 2000

인터넷 이용자들의 증가로 인해 개방된 네트워크에서의 실시간 분산환경이 고려되고 있으며, 이들 분산된 정보 및 컴퓨터 자원들에 대한 접근 요구가 증대됨에 따라 네트워크 상호연결 요구또한 커지고 있다. 이러한 정보제공에 대한 이용자들의 요구를 충족시키기위해 다중 서버를 두고 이들 서버간에 네트워크의 성능을 효율적으로 감시하고 제어하기 위한 모니터링 서버를 제공함으로써 분산 시스템의 성능 향상은 물론 이용자 입장에서의 정보에 대한 응답시간과 반환시간을 최소화하고, 시스템의 전반적인 측면에서의 작업 처리율과 자원의 활용도를 최대화 할수 있으며, 동적인 상황에 따라 스스로 판단하고 적절하게 대응할 수 잇는 지능형 이동 에이전트 템플릿을 설계구현하였다.

• Journal of the Korean Society for information Management
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• v.12 no.1
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• pp.67-86
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• 1995

The purpose of this paper is to suggest issues and problems with a view to construct the national culture information network. Twenty-one culture and arts organizations are surveyed to analyze the characteristics of data format, management structure, operating systems, personnel aspect, and user's behavior patterns and needs.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society for Information Management Conference
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• 2000.08a
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• pp.143-146
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• 2000

본 연구에서는 국내 무용인들의 정보요구를 수렴한 학술정보 시스템의 구축 방안을 제시하기 위해, 현재 운영되고 있는 국내 web 무용정보의 정보량과 품질을 분석하였고, 설문조사를 통해 무용정보 시스템의 실질적인 이용자인 국내 무용인의 정보이용 현황 및 정보요구를 분석하였다. 1999년 8월 현재 국내 무용 web site는 68개이고, 이중 98.6% 가 구축하고 있는 web 문서의 수는 40 페이지 미만이었다. 시스템과 이용자 인터페이스 측면과 정보제공 측면으로 품질을 평가한 결과 대부분이 개략적이고 형식적으로 구축되어 이들로부터 유용한 정보를 입수하는 것은 기대할 수 없는 상황이었다. 국내 무용인을 대상으로 설문조사를 한 결과 대부분의 무용인들은 web에서 무용정보를 이용하는 것을 중요하다고 느끼고 있으나, 국내 web 무용정보가 부실하기 때문에 이용률이 저조했다. 따라서 본 연구에서는 국내 무용인들에게 보다 실질적이고 효과적인 무용정보 시스템을 구축하기 위한 기초 연구로 기존 국내 Web 무용정보를 분석하여 문제점과 개선점을 제시하였고, 실질적인 국내 무용인의 구체적인 정보요구를 파악하였다.

• Journal of the Korean Society for Library and Information Science
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• v.36 no.4
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• pp.227-244
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• 2002

The purpose of this study lies in analyzing the limitations and weakness of the existing PDL and proposing the principles for the development of a user-oriented PDL. The user group of PDL that we want to develop is university students. To this end, we investigate the information seeking behavior of the sampled user group, especially, their information needs, information use patterns, and information management patterns. Based on the results, we conceptually propose the systems specifications which the university students wish to be included in the PDL.