• Journal of Korean society of Dental Hygiene
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• 제19권4호
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• pp.493-502
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• 2019

Objectives: This study aimed to investigate the current status of oral health applications developed for smartphones because they can be used as a new educational medium to manage and improve oral health. Methods: This study examined 60 basic oral health applications provided by Google Play Store and Apple App Store as of May 2019 and examined delivery contents, delivery methods, application types, and other information. Results: Apple included 65.4% of oral apps in the game category whereas Android included 64.3% in the education category (p>0.05). All Apple's apps and 71.4% of Android apps were developed overseas (p<0.01). The delivery contents were 61.5% for Brushing + tooth decay in Apple, and 78.6% for others (oral care products and gum diseases) in Android (p>0.05). For the delivery method, game + video was 65.4% in Apple, and game and other methods (text, image, augmented reality) was 42.9% in Android (p>0.05). In the case of application type, play type was the most common with 88.5% in Apple, and 46.4% play type and 39.3% other type (text, appreciation, problem-solving types) in Android (p<0.01). In addition, play type was high in both education (53.8%) and game (90.0%) categories (p>0.05). The average review score was 4.30 in the education category, 4.34 in the case of brushing and care (delivery contents), 4.37 in the case of using game + video (delivery methods), and 4.57 in the case of Play + other types (application type) (p>0.05). Conclusions: The use of healthcare apps is expected to increase owing to improved lifestyles, an increase in the elderly population, cost-effectiveness, and convenience that is not affected by time and place. Effective use of oral health apps will require the participation of dental professionals in the development process to identify the exact status, expand subjects, and provide appropriate information.

• The Journal of Society for e-Business Studies
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• 제24권3호
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• pp.129-142
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• 2019

The interest in the blockchain technology has been increasing since its inception and it has been applied to many fields and sectors. The blockchain technology creates a decentralized environment where no third party controls the data and transaction. Mobile apps recommendation has been extensively used to recommend apps to mobile users. For example, Android-based recommendation applications have been developed to recommend other mobile apps for download depending on user's preferences and mobile context. These recommendations help users discover apps by referring to the experiences of other users. Due to the collection of a large amount of data and user information, there is a problem of insecurity and user's privacy that are prone to be attacked. To address this issue the blockchain technology can be incorporated to assure cryptographic safety. In this paper, we present a survey of the on-going mobile app recommendations and e-commerce technology trend to address how the blockchain can be incorporated into the collaborative filtering recommendation systems to enable the users to set up a secured data, which implies the importance of user privacy preference on personalized app recommendations.

• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• 제21권2호
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• pp.35-48
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• 2021

With the advent of the Fourth Industrial Revolution, startups are leading the proliferation of logistics in life services in countries across the world. Logistics in life startups aim to differentiate themselves for traditional logistics companies by offering customized services that penetrate niche logistics market and enhance customer convenience and satisfaction. Through the development of mobile applications(apps) and platform a variety of life-enhancing services are becoming increasingly available to customers, such as on-demand, online-to-offline, convenience, reverse logistics, as well as last-mile delivery. In particular, logistics in life services are expanding into areas that include food delivery, home moving, cargo transport, laundry delivery, car washing, and car repair. In order for the logistics in life startups to succeed, they needs to offer highly usable apps to increase customer satisfaction and loyalty. Due to the nature of mobile phones, different evaluation criteria than those for websits should be used to determine the usability of apps. The purpose of this study is to evaluate the usability of representative Korean logistics in life apps through usability testing, discuss implications and offer improvement recommendations. Finally, the best Korean logistics app is compared with a top ranked app on Google Play for benchmarking purposes.

• International Journal of Advanced Culture Technology
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• 제8권4호
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• pp.82-88
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• 2020

With the development of medical care in the 21st century and the rapid development of the 4th industry, electronic devices and household goods taking into account the physical and mental aging of the silver generation have been developed, and apps related to health and health are generally developed and operated. The apps currently used by the silver generation are a form that provides information on diseases by focusing on prevention rather than treatment, such as safety management apps for the elderly living alone and methods for preventing diseases. There are not many apps that provide information on foods that have a direct effect and nutrients in that food, and research on apps that can obtain information about individual foods is insufficient. In this paper, we propose an app that analyzes food factors and provides self-medication for health promotion of the silver generation. This app allows the silver generation to conveniently and easily obtain information such as nutrients, calories, and efficacy of food they need. In addition, this app collects/categorizes healthy food information through a textom solution-based crawling agent, and stores highly relevant words in a data resource. In addition, wide deep learning was applied to enable self-medication recommendations for food. When this technique is applied, the most appropriate healthy food is suggested to people with similar eating patterns and tastes in the same age group, and users can receive recommendations on customized healthy foods that they need before eating. This made it possible to obtain convenient healthy food information through a customized interface for the elderly through a smartphone.

• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• 제21권4호
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• pp.1-13
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• 2021

With the global pandemic of COVID-19, it is pointed out that exposure to false information to the public could cause serious problems. However, in pandemic situations, there is also an positive effect for the public to share private-led information rather than centralized unilateral delivery of information. This study analyzes the role of private-led information provision in infectious disease situations. To this end, topic modeling and sentiment analysis is carried out on online reviews of all COVID-19-related applications in Google Playstore provided by the Korean government and the private. The results showed that the user's evaluation of private apps, which were used from the early stage of COVID-19, was much higher than the apps provided by the government. In particular, users responded more positively to private apps than government apps in all aspects such as reliability of information, risk avoidance, timeliness, usefulness, and stability. Based on these results, a post-monitoring system is recommended rather than a pre-block of all private apps.

• The Journal of the Institute of Internet, Broadcasting and Communication
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• 제22권3호
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• pp.43-48
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• 2022

Recently, due to the rapid performance improvement of smartphones and the increase in background executions of mobile apps, multitasking has become common on mobile platforms. Unlike traditional desktop and server apps, response time is important in most mobile apps as they are interactive tasks, and some apps are classified as real-time tasks with deadlines. In this paper, we discuss how to meet the requirements of heterogeneous multitasking in managing memory of real-time and interactive tasks when they are executed together on a smartphone. To do so, we analyze the memory requirement of real-time tasks, and propose a model that has the ability of allocating memory to multitasking tasks on a smartphone. Trace-driven simulations with real-world storage access traces captured by heterogeneous apps show that the proposed model provides reasonable performance for interactive tasks while guaranteeing the requirement of real-time tasks.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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• 한국정보통신학회 2022년도 춘계학술대회
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• pp.184-186
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• 2022

Recently, as interest in personal information protection has increased, various apps for personal information protection have emerged. These apps protect data in various formats, such as photos, videos, and documents containing personal information, using encryption and hide functions. These apps can have a positive effect on personal information protection, but in digital forensics, they act as anti-forensic because they can be difficult to analyze data during the investigation process. In this paper, finds out PIN, an access control function, through reverse engineering on Calculator - photo vault, one of the personal information protection apps, and files such as photos and documents to which encryption and hide were applied. In addition, the vulnerability to this app was analyzed by research decryption for database files where logs for encrypted and hide files are stored.

• The Journal of the Institute of Internet, Broadcasting and Communication
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• 제23권3호
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• pp.1-11
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• 2023

With the development of information and communication technology, the size of the online market is increasing, and with it, the mobile shopping market utilizing smartphones is also growing day by day. This indicates that the effective use of mobile apps can be a strategic choice for businesses, and this is also true in the tourism and travel industry. In particular, the continuous growth of the OTA (Online Travel Agency) industry based on platforms has accelerated with With Corona, and due to its importance, this study aims to investigate the impact of perceived quality factors of mobile accommodation apps on reuse intention through emotional responses. To test the hypotheses, 260 users of mobile accommodation apps were analyzed, and the results showed that information quality has a positive impact on pleasure and dominance, and service quality has a positive impact on arousal and dominance, and pleasure and dominance have a positive impact on reuse intention. Through these findings, this study clarifies the relationship between mobile accommodation app quality factors and reuse intention, and effective marketing strategies were suggested by providing basic data for improving app quality.

• International journal of advanced smart convergence
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• 제6권2호
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• pp.72-81
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• 2017

The developments in mobile technology and the increase in the production of smartphones have led to the growth of the mobile healthcare market. Moreover, the number of mobile healthcare apps is on the rise, and users are benefiting from using healthcare, exercise tracking, and body monitoring apps, as well as they have been searching for health information through mobile health apps. This paper evaluated the usability of a symptom checker application that provides information on diseases, treatment methods, and related hospitals through self-diagnosis of symptoms. Symptom checkers are currently being developed, and are widely used overseas. This paper sought to evaluate the usability of a symptom checker app, and suggested ways to introduce enhancements.

• International Journal of Contents
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• 제9권4호
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• pp.35-44
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• 2013

This study tries to identify the determinants of user's attitude toward apps, intention to use and continual consuming intention. This study holds the two main constructs: (1) user's intrinsic determinants- value, innovativeness, gender, Well-being and superordinate influence - on the attitude toward mobile apps, (2) the relation between attitude and app purchase & repurchase intention, and the affecting factors among this relation. In the empirical test result, value, innovation and superordinate influence were identified to affect the attitude. All the relation among attitude, purchase and repurchase intention showed positive significant relationship. In addition, satisfaction intensified the relation between purchase and repurchase intention.