• Journal of Information Management
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• v.43 no.2
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• pp.85-101
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• 2012

With the understandings on users' needs and behaviors of university institutional repositories, the purpose of this study is to investigate the user behaviors and to provide some suggestions to improve the university institutional repository. To achieve the purpose of this study, a questionnaires survey was conducted with users in three university institutional repositories including KOSAS, S-Space and DSpace@INHA. Based on the results of the survey analyses, possible improvement areas and suggestions were made such as users' recognition, access point, searching environment, and utilization of university institutional repository.

• The Journal of Korean Association of Computer Education
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• v.10 no.2
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• pp.49-64
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• 2007

This research aims to investigate e-Learning behavior and its different features which may vary depending on learners' characteristics and their prior e-Learning experiences. For this purpose, a survey was conducted for adult learners who had e-Learning experiences. It included various questions including place, time and process of e-Learning. The result showed that features of e-Learning behavior varies according to learner characteristics, such as gender, educational background, and their work experiences. It also revealed that work environment and the nature of e-Learning courses are influential factors for their learning behavior.

• Journal of the Korean Society for information Management
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• v.30 no.2
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• pp.169-188
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• 2013

In spite of various efforts to resolve digital divide of people with disabilities, it still has a long way to go because there lack of identifying information needs of people with disabilities and potential users including their family and the related, and integrated information channels such as a portal, and so on. In this context, this study aims at analyzing the users' unique information behavior and evaluating usability of domestic web information services for people with disabilities which are currently serviced. Increasingly, we suggest new functional requirements of building a library portal for people with disabilities.

• Journal of the Korean Society for information Management
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• v.30 no.4
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• pp.155-173
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• 2013

This study investigates the information use behavior of Korean youths in a virtual information grounds. The concept of a physical information ground is expanded to include virtual spaces. A variety of hobbies and peer groups of Korean youths are considered to determine the characteristics of these youths. The study was formulated and conducted using group interviews for pretest and a survey given to respondents who are junior high and high school students in Seoul. It is expected that the findings and proposals will be used for planning educational programs and information services in school libraries.

• Journal of Industrial Convergence
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• v.20 no.6
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• pp.17-25
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• 2022

As social problems related to the digital divide are increasing, the elderly are facing various problems as an information alienated group. In particular, there is a need to strengthen the ability to critically understand and accept information. In this study, using the 2020 media panel survey, the effects of digital literacy in the elderly on critical thinking disposition of information were analyzed, focusing on the moderating effect of need for cognition. As a results of the analysis, it was confirmed that the operational and the information skill had a positive effect on the critical thinking disposition of information. Also, as a result of analyzing the moderating effect of NFC(Need for Cognition), it was found that NFC strengthens the influence of operational skill and reduces the influence of information skill. This suggests that the digital literacy education for the elderly needs to change from strengthening accessibility to improving information judgment.

• Journal of the Korean Society for information Management
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• v.31 no.2
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• pp.189-209
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• 2014

This study examined librarians' perceptions of Information Commons(I.C.), user's information seeking behaviors, and new role of library in the digital ages. Interviews with 28 librarians found that the perceptions of the librarians were widely differed depending on their understandings of the nature of the space. The interview results were divided into three different categories of librarians: the librarians; 1) understanding library as a place only with academic functions, 2) library as academic place along with multi-cultural functions, and 3) library as open learning space with focus on creativity and discovery of users. The findings also indicated that all these perceptions are closely related to understanding of the role of library and its future development.

• Proceedings of the Korea Contents Association Conference
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• 2006.11a
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• pp.721-724
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• 2006

국내 성인들의 인터넷 이용 행태와 인터넷을 이용한 건강정보의 획득에 대한 현황을 조사, 분석하였다. 이를 위하여 국내 성인남녀 476명을 대상으로 인터넷 설문 조사를 실시하였다. 설문 조사를 분석한 결과 인터넷의 이용 행태와 인터넷을 이용한 건강정보의 획득에 관련된 다양한 통계 결과를 얻을 수 있었다. 이 논문에서는 이 결과를 기존에 조사되어 발표된 통계 결과들과 비교 분석하여 결과의 의의를 해석하고 차이가 발생된 부분에 대해서는 그 원인을 분석하였다. 이 논문에서 제시된 통계 결과들은 향후 인터넷 건강정보 웹사이트들이 제공하는 의료콘텐츠의 주된 목표 대상, 주된 목표 내용의 선정과 홍보 전략에 활용될 수 있을 것으로 예상한다.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society for Information Management Conference
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• 2005.08a
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• pp.157-164
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• 2005

지금까지 전자저널 서비스를 대상으로 한 연구는 정보원으로써의 전자저널에 대한 접근성의 문제나 비용문제에 중점을 두고 이루어져왔으며, 전자저널 서비스에 대한 이용자집단의 정보이용행태에 관한 연구는 대학교수를 대상으로 수행된 것 외에는 거의 찾아볼 수가 없었다. 본 연구의 목적은 대학도서관의 주요 이용자집단 중의 하나인 대학원생, 특히 인문계열과 공학계열 대학원생들의 전자저널에 대한 정보 요구 및 이용행태에 관해 과학적${\cdot}$체계적인 분석을 통하여 대학도서관이 효율적인 전자저널 서비스를 수행하는데 있어서의 기초 자료를 제공하는데 있다.

• Informatization Policy
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• v.19 no.2
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• pp.39-56
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• 2012

The authors utilized two contested perspectives on the use and non-use of ICTs, especially the Internet, to verify three assumptions of urban ghettos as fundamentally excluded from the ICT structure, ghetto people as behaving in the same way, and deficiency as the sole explanatory variable of their non-use. The first assumption that the urban ghettos would be fundamentally excluded from the urban ICT structure can be nullified by our finding about the prevalence of ICTs in that area, albeit apparent lower level of access to ICTs compared to that of the urban core. The second assumption that the urban ghetto residents would display the same information behaviors would be challenged by our finding that the availability and usages of the Internet would be hardly consistent by gender, age, occupation, family size, and locational characteristics. The third assumption that deficiency would capture the Internet non-use by ghetto residents was found very tenable but could be rivaled by the choice perspective that use or non-use is simply a result of situated choice. Theoretical and practical implications were suggested.

• Journal of the Korean Society for information Management
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• v.26 no.4
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• pp.59-80
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• 2009

As the amount of web information grows, a bookmark has become an important tool to reuse web information effectively which is relevant to users' information needs. Thus, this study aimed to investigate how bookmarks are used as a management tool of web information, and what functions users require concerned with it. For this purpose, semi-structured interviews and observations were carried out from 5 respondents, and a survey was conducted to investigate the relationship between bookmark using behaviors and requirements for function improvement. The users who use bookmark less frequently think bookmark feature essential for the purpose of reusing web information.