• Korean journal of communication and information
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• v.54
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• pp.98-117
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• 2011

This paper is a theoretical inquiry of the changing roles of digital technologies in the representation of risk. Critically examining existing perspectives on risk society and risk communication, this paper argues that digital technologies and images in risk communication have been relatively understudied. Having said that, this paper suggests that Actor-network Theory provide useful theoretical tools for current studies on how digital technologies affect contemporary risk communication practices. Furthermore, this paper examines varied recent studies investigating how digital technologies of visualization are at play in risk communication practices. In doing so, this paper demonstrates how digital images and technologies interrupt the processes that scientific evidence is presented and facts are constructed in varied contemporary scientific reasoning. It will focus on the emerging mode of seeing and visual regime made possible by the increased usage of digital image and technologies, which are characterized by networked connection, sensor, computerized algorithm, and increased storage space. Finally this paper will discuss on the implications on future studies on the roles of digital images and technologies in risk communication practices in Korean context.

• Korean Journal of Communication Studies
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• v.17 no.1
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• pp.129-151
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• 2009

Human communication researchers have suggested that good communication between husbands and wives is a key to a healthy marriage. Although interpersonal communication itself cannot "fix" all problems in one's marriage, the importance of good communication in a marital-relationship cannot be overstated. Regardless of its importance, the communication behavior between husbands and wives as a research topic has been paid little attention by human communication scholars in Korea. Because of the "intimacy" Korean couples who have been influenced with the long tradition of Confucius culture tend to overlook the communicative problems in a marital-relationship. Yet, it is "the belief" of the intimacy that creates much of the communicative problems in a marriage. This study is designed to explore the characteristics and transitional process of the communication behavior between Korean husbands and wives among generations. Married couples in their 20's, 30's, 40's, and 50's were surveyed with five levels of interpersonal communication process-open attitudes, problem-solving, expression, listening, and feedback. The study result reveals each generation's characteristics and transitional process of marital communication behavior from younger couples to older couples as their intimacy and "shared" lived-experience get accumulated.

• 한국HCI학회:학술대회논문집
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• 2008.02b
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• pp.239-244
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• 2008

We lead a life in our community, beginning a new relationship with a stranger or maintaining or stopping existing relationships. Relationships with others are sustained through social activities based on communication. Generally speaking, by exchanging feelings and information through communication, relationships are formed and continued, and strengthened through active communication As a result of the development of technologies and information technology over the recent 10 years, a mobile phone has stood as a communication channel, and now it has become such a universal, and highly intimate and important means of communication that almost all the Koreans use more often than wired phones. Today, people have their communication channel available for others, by using a mobile phone at any time and anywhere. Like this, mobile phones have been playing a key role in helping people maintain, repair and strengthen their personal relationship, but from the perspective of personal relationship management, they still remain as an aid to help communication, failing to provide a positive help for actual relationship management. This study was designed to provide services supporting user's personal relationship management, focusing on the use of mobile phones as a major tool of communication, aiming to enable users to understand current state of their relationship and make relationship management efforts, or communication behaviors, by informing who needs communication, on the basis of data on mobile phone calls. To this end, the study established a method to extract intimacy between users and callers and develop a prototype of services supporting personal relationship management, using relationship characteristics in terms of mobile communication.

• Korean journal of communication and information
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• v.48
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• pp.90-108
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• 2009

While the term of the institution as social manifestation has been discussed intensively through various theoretical approaches over the last few years in Social Sciences, such a debate has been missing so far in Communication Sciences. This paper attempts a theoretical discussion about the media as an institution in the field of Communication Sciences by applying the theory of organizational sociological neo-institutionalism. This research started out with the question which influence exerts the media on organizations and participants. The media is understood as an institution in the sense of permanent monitoring systems which create a) normative expectations b) which become stronger in order to assert such normative expectations c) the norms are applied by the participants d) in this application process, the participants accept the organizations, look primarily for the chosen paragraphs and exert an influence to change the norms. Organizations orient themselves at the institutional rules, because this way, they want to gain legitimacy and support. The media unfold their influence on organizations through certain obligations in addition to the pressure of the participants who deal with the organization and the media. Thus, media cannot exert influence independent from the organizationbut the participants accept the situation, which is generated by the many conflicting processes within the organization, they analyse them and transfer them.

• Korean journal of communication and information
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• v.51
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• pp.87-116
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• 2010

The purpose of this study includes (1) to analyze the mediation process in which conflict mediation involves alternative stories through the mediation process after the characteristics of personal conflicts are analyzed (2) and to classify characteristics of the narrative of conflict mediation. This study attempts to examine mediation roles in the process mainly focusing on communication skills to which professional conflict mediators can apply. Based on this study, the usefulness of descriptive conflict mediation of social constructivism's perspective, one of the post-modern theories, was observed. The narrative mediation as a system that connects problems to conflicts with conversation and creates and develops the meanings of conflicts and problems in collaboration attempts to pursue new changes on the assumption of the subjectivity of human beings and the characteristic of the conflicts. Such a point supports the argument that conflicts should be approached from the communication perspective. Especially, it is expected that the fact that a variety of communication skills have great influence on conflict mediation becomes a key source to establishing communication study as one of mediation fields in conflicts.

• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.20 no.3
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• pp.635-644
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• 2020

This paper examines the types and functions of politeness in German communication and how politeness strategy can be realized. 'Politeness' is not a grammatical terminology in German, but it can be found in many places in grammar. The criteria for politeness are not only organized according to the rules of the language system, but the boundaries are ambiguous because non-language factors affect communication. Politeness is an important strategic element as well as social value. The polite expression first appears in the grammatical level of invariant with the form of address according to the familiarity between the conversational parties, verb modus, and modal particle. Modal particle with familiarity is considered to be a positive politeness strategy that limits the listener's speech by weakening or avoiding face threatening act. Modal verbs is classified as polite expressions that do not impose a psychological burden by not forcing the listener to make a direct request. The results of this study are therefore expected to suggest a rationale for empirical research on politeness in German communication.

• 한국HCI학회:학술대회논문집
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• 2009.02a
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• pp.846-850
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• 2009

본 논문은 픽토그램(Pictogram)의 시각전달 요소를 재해석하고 증강현실 환경에서의 효율적 전달 방법에 대하여 제안한다. 픽토그램은 국경을 넘어 남녀노소 모두가 인지할 수 있어야 함이 규칙이며 불특정 다수라는 사용자들을 위해 정확한 정보를 담고 있는 시각전달 매체로서 공정성, 객관성을 가지고 디자인 되어야 한다. 사용자에게 정보전달 인식을 높이기 위해 표준 픽토그램 과 문화 속에서 발견할 수 있는 행위들을 접목하여 애니메이션으로 제작하고, 이를 다양한 연구분야에서 응용되고 있는 증강현실 (Augmented Reality 또는 AR) 기술에 적용하여 표현하였다. 증강현실은 사용자-콘텐츠 정보전달 매체로서 현실 환경을 기반으로 하는 3 차원공간의 시각정보에 대한 사용자의 인식을 향상시킬 수 있는 방법으로 인간-컴퓨터 상호작용(Human-Computer Interaction)을 제공한다. 본 논문에서 제시된 픽토메이션은 기존 공공장소 어디서나 만날 수 있는 다양한 픽토그램을 패턴화하여 마커로 활용하고 사용자는 현재 널리 보급되고 있는 UMPC 혹은 PDA를 통하여 증강현실 환경에서 제작된 픽토메이션 콘텐츠를 경험해 볼 수 있다. 픽토메이션은 시각커뮤니케이션의 효과를 증가 시킬 수 있고, 정보습득의 주체인 사용자에게 콘텐츠의 종류를 예측할 수 있는 선택의 자유를 준다. 본 논문에서는 멀티미디어디자인 요소를 포함한 콘텐츠와의 실시간 상호작용을 통하여 유희적 요소의 접목을 시도하고 증강현실환경에서 Pictomation을 통하여 사용자들과의 효과적 커뮤니케이션을 위한 방법을 모색하고자 한다.

• Proceedings of the Korean Information Science Society Conference
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• 2001.10a
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• pp.469-471
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• 2001

내장형시스템의 복잡도의 증가, 하드웨어-소프트웨어 통합설계방법의 대두 등으로 인하여 시스템수준의 명세, 설계방법론에 관한 관심이 더욱 고조 되고 있다. 본 논문에서는 시스템기술언어로 ITU-T에 의해 표준으로 권고되어 널리 사용되고 있는 SDL (Specification and Description Language)로부터 실시간 운영체제에서 수행 C코드를 자동으로 생성하는 방법론을 제시한다. C코드는 SDL 프로세스의 내부 행위 (behavior)를 묘사하는 운영체제 비의존적인 코드와 다중프로세스수행, 프로세스간 커뮤니케이션과 같은 운영체제 의존적인 부분으로 다중프로세스수행, 프로세스간 커뮤니케이션과 같은 운영체제 의존적인 부분으로 나뉘어지며, 운영체제 서비tm함수를 이용하여 생성된 C코드가 운영체제와 더욱 밀접하게 통합되어 수행된다.

• Asia Marketing Journal
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• v.11 no.1
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• pp.73-92
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• 2009

Consumers influence other consumers' brand choice behavior by delivering a variety of objective or subjective information on a particular product, which is called WOM (Word-Of-Mouth) activities. For WOM activities, WOM senders should choose messages to deliver to other consumers. We classify the contents of the messages a consumer chooses for WOM delivery into two categories: Subjective (positive or negative) evaluation and objective information on products. In our study, we regard WOM senders' activities as a choice behavior and introduce a choice model to study the relationship between the choice of different WOM information (WOM with positive or negative subjective evaluation and WOM with objective information) and its influencing factors (information sources and consumer characteristics) by developing two bivariate Probit models. In order to consider the mediating effects of WOM senders' product involvement, product attitude, and their characteristics (gender and age), we develop three second-level models for the propagation of positive evaluations, of negative evaluations, and of objective information on products in an hierarchical Bayesian modeling framework. Our empirical results show that WOM senders' information choice behavior differs according to the types of information sources. The effects of information sources on WOM activities differ according to the types of WOM messages (subjective evaluation (positive or negative) and objective information). Therefore, our study concludes that WOM activities can be partially managed with effective communication plans influencing on consumers' WOM message choice behavior. The empirical results provide some guidelines for consumers' propagation of information on products companies want.

• Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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• 2006.05a
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• pp.135-138
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• 2006

지능형 홈 네트워크 기술에 대한 도입으로 인해 인간뿐만 아니라 사물들도 컴퓨팅 및 커뮤니케이션 능력을 가지고 주변 상황을 인식하고 판단하여 인간에게 유용한 서비스를 제공하게 될 것이다. 그러나 현 실정에 있어 홈 네트워크 서비스는 단순한 가전기기 제어 관련 서비스만을 제공하고 있다. 다양하게 변화하는 상황에 맞는 상황 적응적 서비스를 제공해야 하는 본 취지에 맞는 서비스를 제공하지 못하고 있다. 따라서 본 논문에서는 사용자의 행위에 규칙성에 기반을 두며, 사용자 행위를 예측하여 지능적으로 동작할 수 있는 근거를 마련할 수 있는 능동적인 서비스를 제공할 수 있는 지능형 제어 모델을 제안하고자 한다.