• The Bulletin of The Korean Astronomical Society
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• v.44 no.2
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• pp.67.1-67.1
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• 2019

IAU 창립 100주년을 맞이하는 시점에서 현대 천문학의 주요 주제들을 다룬 체험형 특별전 '우주연구실 인턴체험전'을 기획하여 과천과학관에서 45일간 운영하였다. 유·초등 어린이로부터 중·고등 청소년과 성인에 이르는 다양한 연령층의 약 5만 명이 전시를 관람하였다. 전시의 주요 연출방향은 현대적인 천문학 연구성과를 대중과 공유하되, 관람객 스스로가 연구과정에 대한 이해를 통해 결과를 인지할 수 있도록 하는 것이었다. 1900년대 이후 천문학자들의 실제 연구방법과 원리를 단순화한 체험요소들을 개발하여 인간의 우주에 대한 호기심과 탐구의 흐름에 따라 관람할 수 있도록 전개하였다. 또한 관람객이 인턴연구원 과정을 수료하는 형태로 관람동선을 연출하여 전시내용을 보다 적극적으로 탐구하게 하였다. 전시 관람객 인식조사 결과, 전시를 통해 '암흑물질'을 새롭게 알게 되었다고 한 응답자가 가장 많았고, 그 외 우주의 규모, 블랙홀과 외계행성 관측, 아직 밝혀지지 않은 것들이 많음을 알게 되었다는 응답이 주를 이뤘다. 전시물에 대한 평가로는 직관적으로 거리-광도 관계를 보여주는 전시물과 블랙홀에 대한 이해를 돕는 체험전시물들에 대한 만족도가 높았고, 전시해설이 전시내용을 이해하는데 도움을 줬다는 응답자가 많았다. 여전히 초등 저학년이 이해하기 쉬운 전시물이 필요하다는 과제가 남아있다.

• Journal of the Korea Convergence Society
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• v.11 no.11
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• pp.115-121
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• 2020

This study aims to develop a framework of structural scenarios for chatbot docent that supports visitors' activities in science centers and museums, and to suggest the application examples. For this study, the author adapted Focus Group Interview. As a result, the frameworks of scenarios could be categorized into the Collection of Science and Technology(CST) and Inquiry-Based Exhibition(IBE). These frameworks had dimensions of the primary and storytelling in common. Especially, framework of IBE scenario was added the usage dimension considering the characteristics of interaction between exhibits and visitors. This study could be basic materials for AI chatbot to support exhibition descriptions using the built data, and is expected to be help develop a more visitor-oriented scenarios of activities.

• Journal of the Korean earth science society
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• v.34 no.3
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• pp.257-273
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• 2013

The purpose of this study was to describe how one woman became a science docent's exper and how she developed expertise in her field of work as a docent in science museum. A life history approach, one of the qualitative research methods was employed in this study. A docent Ms. Park, had her career as a docent for eight years and she was selected through the procedures as follows. The $1^{st}$ phase of selection, the researcher contacted 56 docents who were working using a convenience sampling method. In the $2^{nd}$ phase of selection, 11 of them were then selected on purpose for further study. Finally docent Paek was selected as a case for this study on the basis of her responses to survey questions and interviews as well as her willingness to participate. Research data were collected through mainly interviews, participant observations, and docents' artifacts. We analyzed data to reveal Ms-Park's life history of how she became a docent, how her work was as a docent, and what efforts she made to become an expert as a docent of science museum. Findings are as follows. First, docent Park demonstrated strong educational beliefs that influenced her field work, as the beliefs have continuously been formed throughout her life experiences. Second, she acquired and organized her practical knowledge of exhibit interpretation through real activities and experiences interacting whith visitors and demonstrating exhibits in science museums. Third, docent Park showed her ability to make full use of surroundings and resources available for developing her expertise on exhibit interpretation more effectively. With these findings in mind, we suggest that a well established docent system as well as its operation, and physical support be needed for increased docents' expertise and meaningful education in science museum.

• Journal of the Korean earth science society
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• v.32 no.7
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• pp.881-901
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• 2011

The science museum in the past satisfied visitors only by interacting them with simple objects and exhibition, while one in modern times was requested to meet the need of visitors in their engagement in educational programs. To meet the visitors' need, the science museum made efforts to train, educate, and assign docents so that they can interact with visitors and serve the educational purpose of visitation. In this study, we analyzed the strengths and weakness of docent training programs from science museums/science centers nationally and internationally, to make implication on how to design a docent training and professional program. Programs from four national and four international science centers/museums were selected as a sample for analysis. Their docent training programs were compared with the data of surveys and interviews and emails from docents and docent managers/evaluators. Artifacts and documents of the docent training programs were also collected and used to construct the validity in analyzing the data, resulting in the well-developed docent training program as the critical one for enriching science museum education. The results included; First, we need to recruit and train docents who interact visitors directly but they need to be differentiated from regular volunteers for promoting science museum education for the purpose of popularization of science. Additionally, Second, we need to develop and run docent training program where docents can experience 'informal learning' exhibition interpreting strategies through the real field from mentoring from the experienced/senior docents beyond 'formal learning' exhibition content. Third, we need to equip docents with skills to make scientific literacy possible at science museum-such as experiencing scientific ethics through scientific inquiry-which happens limited at school education.

• Korean Journal of Environment and Ecology
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• v.18 no.2
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• pp.249-262
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• 2004

This study was conducted to suggest alternatives for the effective use of national park visitor centers, by evaluating their functionality. Visitor centers in Naejangsan National Park and Pukhansan National Park, which are deliberately composed and managed, were investigated for this purpose. First, I clarified the concept, function and type of a visitor center through literature review, and then, analyzed visitors' post-visiting evaluation based on McManus's Communication Theory. The results of the analysis shows that visitors have not enough time to understand the contents of visitor centers, and facilities and guide sign system to support visitors are insufficient, which seem to disturb the proper communication between visitors and exhibits. Visitors' short visiting time caused by their little interest in exhibits and their low degree of understanding show the difficulties in the communication between visitors and exhibits. The following alternatives are suggested to improve these problems: first, the improvement of the guide sign system; second, the provision of exhibition rooms specialized for different visitor groups; third, the display of exhibits connected with visitors' experiences; Forth, the utilization of various media proper for each subject.

• Korean Journal of Environment and Ecology
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• v.24 no.6
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• pp.621-629
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• 2010

This study was analyzed the relationship of the satisfaction level and the 5 animal interpretation programs effect and the change of recognition by survey by questionnaire. As a result of this study, participants were generally satisfied the programs but, the item of participants manner had a little bit lower satisfaction relatively. In the item of safety, parents group had more anxiety. The total satisfaction was different among each program, but they were little different in the contents. Last, all programs were positively affected to the participants of the function of zoo. As this study, we verified the interpretation program can used as mediator for deliver the information of zoo such as education, research etc. So the interpretation program needed to stimulate in the zoo.

• Defense and Technology
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• no.1 s.155
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• pp.50-53
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• 1992

전시 접수국 지원(WHNS) 협정의 개념은 '80년대초 이후 미국이 NATO의 중.장기 방위증강을 추진하는 과정에서 발전,구체화된 것으로서 현재 미국은 벨기에, 서독등 10개의 NATO 회원국들과 WHNS 협정을 체결하고 있다. 우리나라와 미국간의 WHNS 협정은 지난해 서울에서 개최된 제23차 한.미 연례안보협의회의(SCM) 기간중(1991년 11월 21일) 체결되었다. 이 협정은 외부침략등 유사시 미국과의 연합전쟁 수행을 전제로 미국 증원부대의 전개를 보다 신속히 하고, 증원군이 필요로 하는 군수지원 사항을 사전에 규정해 둠으로써 유사시 대응태세를 강화하는데 목적이 있으며 주한미군의 단계적 감축에 대비한 보완책으로서 그 필요성이 크다고할 수 있다. 이 협정의 체결을 계기로 한.미 양국은 수평적 안보협력관계를 발전시켜 나가는 기반을 조성하였으며, 기존의 지원사항 및 협력체계의 재정비와 한.미 연합방위능력의 향상이 기대된다

• Science of Emotion and Sensibility
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• v.20 no.3
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• pp.151-168
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• 2017

Current research aimed to demonstrate a way to enhance the aesthetic experience of the general public while appreciating contemporary art via online platform. Contemporary art is highly complicated and are avoided by the general public. Meanwhile, previous research confirmed that external information can lead to better aesthetic experience and appreciation of the artwork. Therefore, current research hypothesized that provision of explicit information may enhance the appreciation of contemporary artworks and aimed to demonstrate which phase of the cognitive process from Leder et al. (2004) profits from the aid of written information. Experimental environment reproduced online curating platform to reflect the current trend on exhibition. In experiment 1, subjects were presented with written information and reported how well they understood the artwork, and their willingness to visit the artwork in real life. Results revealed that written information had a positive effect on overall appreciation. Further analysis discovered a full mediation between information comprehension, artwork comprehension, and willingness to visit. In experiment 2, ARS questions and an interactive interface were added. Results indicated that information enhanced comprehension and intention to visit the artwork. Expertise, self-reference, and artistic quality which belong to later stages of Leder et al. (2004) model, acquired higher scores on information conditions. In sum, the current research illustrated clear effects of explicit information in inducing better aesthetic experience and cognitive process of contemporary artworks in online environment.

• Journal of the Korean earth science society
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• v.37 no.6
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• pp.373-386
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• 2016

This study aims to investigate the kinds of content and science communication included in the exhibits and the exhibition panels in order to suggest a direction of desirable educational development in the nuclear power information halls in Korea. The four local nuclear power information halls in Korea and the nuclear power science center in Japan are selected as the subject. The results of this study show that the 'conceptual' exhibits are a dominant topic among the four topics of contents, and the concept (CON) and interest (INT) are found as the most dominating component of science communication. Meanwhile, the nature of science (NOS), awareness (AW), enjoyment (ENJ), and opinion (OP) components are little exhibited. The findings of this study indicate that the nuclear power information halls can be more professional to enhance scientific literacy, as the informal education institutions, providing information of nuclear energy and radiation on various perspectives for visitors to make decisions by themselves and to improve their scientific attitudes and understanding of science communication. In addition, the limited science communication can be fully reinforced by docents or commentators. Further research needs to investigate the development of a specialized program to produce professional docents or commentators.

• Korean Association of Arts Management
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• no.57
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• pp.5-32
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• 2021

The purpose of this study is to find out what kind of experience docent programs provide to visitors in museums by means of Giorgi's phenomenological method. In-depth interview was conducted with 6 visitors who had experienced firsthand. As a result of the coding based upon Giorgi's method, it was divided into 6 categories and 21 subcategories, and the following results were obtained. First, the reason that the subjects of the study participated in the docent program was due to factors such as information, coincidence, induction of companions, and habits. Second, from participating in the docent guide, they felt that the docent led them to actively visit the exhibition, get the educational effect, and generate interest and curiosity. Third, looking at the reaction after participating in the docent guide, in addition to the positive influence, the docent's reading-like explanation and the problem of the microphone facility were negative experiences. Through this study, it was confirmed that there were many visitors who recognized that the docent guide was helpful in viewing the exhibition and experienced positive reactions. In addition, in the evaluation of the commentary of docent, there was a difference of views between art-related majors and non-majors. In addition, as a result of analyzing the participants' experiences according to Holt's frame of experiential consumption, it was found that the docent experience was a comprehensive consumption behavior appearing in all four fields.