• Journal of the Korean Society for information Management
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• v.29 no.4
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• pp.273-294
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• 2012

Images have been substantially searched and used due to not only the advanced internet and digital technologies but the characteristics of a younger generation. The purpose of this study aims to discuss the ways on expanding the access points to images by analyzing the needs of users in context of everyday life. In order to achieve the purpose of this study, 105 questions of image seeking in NAVER, which is one of social Q&A services in Korea, were analyzed. For the analysis, a two-dimensional framework with image uses and image attributes were utilized. The findings of this study demonstrate that considerable use purposes on data oriented pole, such as information processing, information dissemination and learning are identified. On the other hand, image attributes from the needs of image show that non-visual aspects including contextual attributes are recognized substantially in addition to the traditional semantic attributes.

• Journal of the Korea Society of Computer and Information
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• v.9 no.2
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• pp.131-138
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• 2004

Considering international trends and foreign cases, it can be easily expected that web accessibility issue is becoming more and more important. While information technology has changed Korean society rapidly and widely, there are many People who have difficulties in using information services such as the elderly and persons with disabilities. One of the big barriers they face is the lack of accessibility of web services. These social problems have been rarely studied in Korea but surface as very import subjects to be addressed concerning IT and welfare policy. The objective of this study is to ensure web accessibility right for visually handicapped and reduce digital divide through development of a recommendation guideline of mobile internet user interface. In this study the trends of politics and laws related to web accessibility in developed countries are surveyed and some advisable recommendation guidelines of mobile internet user interface for visually handicapped to improve web accessibility are proposed.

• Electronics and Telecommunications Trends
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• v.30 no.3
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• pp.21-30
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• 2015

복지에 대한 사회적인 관심, 초고령화 사회로의 진입이 가속화됨에 따라 잠재적 시각 청각 장애인과 고령 노인에 대한 보편적 방송접근권 보장 요구가 증대되고 있다. 이에 정부는 장애인방송 제작 지원 사업과 방송수신기 보급사업 등을 통해 장애인방송물의 제작을 촉진 보급하는 한편 2011년 '장애인방송 편성 및 제공 등 장애인 방송접근권 보장'에 관한 고시를 제정하여 방송사업자의 장애인방송 제공을 의무화하고 매년 방송프로그램 편성실적을 공개하고 있는 상황이다. 본고에서는 장애인방송 현황과 함께 시각 청각장애인의 방송접근권 향상을 위해 새롭게 시도되고 있는 장애인방송 서비스와 기술동향 및 관련 이슈들에 관하여 살펴보고자 한다.

• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.11 no.2
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• pp.40-53
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• 2011

This paper proposes methods of evaluating and measuring accessibility of accredited certificate subscriber software which is one of crucial applications to submit personal certifications while web surfing. The presented methodology is to evaluate accessibility by using a certain assessment tool and is to normalize accessibility level into points, so that the software developers who are unfamiliar to screen readers can easily perform accessibility evaluation. The software from the major 78 organizations has went through the assessment. Those of 48 organizations, 62% out of the total, have acquired less than 70 points, implying the software of them is not accessible by the blind. The remaining 18 software got the highest point(88), are partly inaccessible by the blind that uses screen readers. This implies that the proposed methods are applicable to evaluate the accessibility of the software.

• Journal of the Korean BIBLIA Society for library and Information Science
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• v.26 no.4
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• pp.5-30
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• 2015

The attention to higher education of individuals with disabilities has been increased. But, there is no concern for successful university life of students with visual impairment. The purpose of this study is to propose systematic learning-support systems for enhancing the rights of college students with visual impairment in accessing and using library materials. To accomplish the purpose of this study, the current states of alternative material system for those with visual impairment and use behavior of college students with visual impairment in Korea were analyzed. This study concluded with the following strategies for constructing the systematic support system for the alternative materials for college students with visual impairment: 1) improvement of The National Library for Individuals with Disabilities' function; 2) empowerment of service center for student with disabilities in University through strengthening network; 3) technical and systematic improvement for copyright protection.

• Journal of Information Management
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• v.41 no.1
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• pp.97-126
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• 2010

Many visually handicapped people face difficulties with using libraries. Public libraries are thus required to meet the need of visually handicapped people. Public libraries should guarantee the visually handicapped the right to use appropriate services. If so, the visually handicapped can improve their life quality by decreasing information gap and increasing information comprehension or accessibility. This study is designed to analyze how visually handicapped people can use public libraries. Based on the analysis, this study can provide actual suggestions to improve opportunities for the visually handicapped to use libraries. Data are collected from visually handicapped people who are the members of Suseong Public Library, Daegu, Korea. In specific, this study can analyze various characteristics(i.e., information needs, selection and use behavior of information sources, difficulties and gaps to access information, use behavior and service satisfaction of public library) regarding their library use by telephone interviews.

• 재활복지
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• v.18 no.4
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• pp.75-93
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• 2014

This study attempted to verify the impacts of the level of satisfaction in the user of alternative materials among people with visual impairment on their social participation, and the mediation effect of self-efficacy during such process. The subject of the study was the visually impaired who were live in Gyeonggi Province and were registered in the Korea Blind Union. The data of final 120 participants through a telephone survey were analyzed. The subject of the study used the recorded materials the most for the purpose of leisure and information research mainly at the braille library. The analysis of the mediation effect demonstrated that the level of satisfaction in the user of alternative materials among people with visual impairment had a statistically significant influence on social participation, and self-efficacy had a full mediation effect. These results imply the importance of alternative materials to assure the right to information access which can ultimately expand the social engagement of the visually impaired. Based on these study results, political suggestions are proposed to vitalize alternative materials in the future.

• Proceedings of the Korea Contents Association Conference
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• 2005.11a
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• pp.149-152
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• 2005

콘텐츠 융합을 통한 오락과 커뮤니케이션의 대표적인 매체이자 사회적 구성물로 발전해 온 게임산업은 다양한 주제와 다양한 시각의 접근으로 폭넓은 연령층과 여성유저의 참여 확대 현황을 보이고, 이러한 현황은 캐주얼게임과 여성선호게임의 성장을 가져왔다. 이에 따라 유저들의 요구사항은 더욱 다양해지고 있고 이러한 게임개발을 위해 시각적 표현은 더욱 중요한 자리를 차지하게 된다. 캐주얼게임과 여성선호게임들의 성공요인들을 통해 그 중에서 시각적인 표현요소들의 중요성과 영향력, 그리고 앞으로의 개발방향에 대하여 제시한다.

• Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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• 2022.05a
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• pp.606-609
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• 2022

시각 장애인이 겪는 의복 선택 및 조합 문제를 해결하고자, 접근성 기반의 사용자 인터페이스 및 사용자 경험 설계, 이미지 처리, 기계 학습 등의 기술을 활용한 <시각 장애인을 위한 의상 조합 추천 애플리케이션>를 개발을 제안한다.

• Korea Science and Art Forum
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• v.37 no.2
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• pp.275-292
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• 2019

This study was initiated with the attention of demanding new and diverse approaches, we're talking familiar with imitations in the design process like a way to draw a image. So I studied a convergence of humanities and visual arts with the understanding and conceptual approach of the formless. The purpose of this study is to develop formless languages and to organize practical courses which are to enable deeper research and design expression on theoretical approaches and explanations of outcomes required before and after the process when we practice in connection with the formless. The method of this study is to draw detailed items from selected words through advanced researches, work and author researches and practice teaching. The results of the study I proposed the formless language that is related to the horizontality in spatial positioning system, and pulse in the separation of space and time, and entropy in structural orders of the system, and base materialism in the limitation of matter as the operating mechanism and parent item of formless. And those elements are related with shape, size, shading, color, texture, space, structure as visual elements of formative elements and those have various adjectival meanings as the subordinate concept. So I presented an education materials of basic design which is to enable understanding and expressing the formless language in the overall process of formless visual art(theoretical approach, practice course, presentation, etc.). Based on these study results, I hope that this educational materials will be used as educational contents that makes them express and understand different new beauties, and a role that reveals social identity, and a reference for research on a formless visual arts.