• 디지털융복합연구
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• 제19권2호
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• pp.509-514
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• 2021

코로나바이러스감염증-19(COVID-19)의 유행은 의료 현장에서의 비대면 진단, 관찰, 처치에 대한 요구를 더욱 가속화 시켰고, 이는 의료 로봇에 대한 관심증대로 이어지고 있다. 저자들은 국가 기관 보도 자료, 온-오프라인 언론 보도 기사, 국내·외 로봇 기업 보도 자료들의 분석을 통해 포스트코로나 시대의 방역 의료 로봇이 활용되어야 할 방향에 대해 전망하고자 한다. COVID-19의 유행은 의료 로봇에 대한 관심을 높이게 하였고, 소독, 물류 이송뿐 아니라 감염병이 의심되는 상황에서의 선별 검사, 환자에 대한 감시, 격리 환자에 대한 원격 진료 지원, 가족과의 화상 통화 등의 업무를 수행할 수 있는 의료 로봇의 적용 등이 필요하게 되었다. 따라서 로봇의 상용화에 따른 다양한 문제점들에 대해 충분한 고찰을 기반으로 향후 의료 로봇의 올바른 개발과 적용 및 이를 검증하는 실증적 연구들이 지속되어야 할 것으로 보인다.

• 유통과학연구
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• 제19권11호
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• pp.27-36
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• 2021

Purpose: COVID-19, government regulation and social media have changed many aspects of life including consumption behavior. The influence of social media by spreading massive news about COVID-19 also have the impact toward emotions threat, perceived risk, and perceived value of consumption behavior in Bengkulu Province, Indonesia. This research aims to analyze the extent to which changes in the consumption behavior, mainly for purchasing of corona prevention products through indirect distribution channels. Research design, data and methodology: This research was descriptive quantitative using the IPA method with sample of people in Bengkulu Province. This study obtained 208 respondent data from questionnaires and tested the validity and reliability with corrected-item total correlation method. Results: The study found that COVID-19 pandemic and government regulation variable were in quadrant II, in quadrant III there were social media variable, emotions threat and perceived risk. Meanwhile, in quadrant IV there were perceived value variable. Conclusions: The findings indicated that COVID-19 and government regulation are the most variable that influence people to buy corona prevention product, meanwhile perceived value is the less influence variable. Therefore, government and marketers have to prepare strategic plan in order to raise people awareness to avoid corona by buying corona prevention product.

• 한국콘텐츠학회논문지
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• 제21권11호
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• pp.609-625
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• 2021

수천 명의 목숨을 앗아가고 일상생활에서 많은 면을 변화시킨 코로나19의 대유행이 한국에서 시작된 지 1년이 지났다. 코로나 대유행은 신체적 건강에만 영향을 끼친 것이 아니라 심리적인 부분에도 영향을 주며, '코로나 블루'라고 불리는 집단적 사회 스트레스 현상을 일으켰다. 본 연구의 목적은 코로나 대유행을 재난의 관점에서 바라보며, 공감이 재난에 관련된 심리적 변수인 위험지각과 간접외상을 통해 불안과 우울에 어떤 영향을 미치는지 살펴보는 것이다. 본 연구는 일반 대중 214명의 설문 데이터를 구조방정식모델링으로 분석하였다. 분석 결과, 대상자의 53.3%가 불안을, 35.7%가 우울증을 경험했으며 이는 2019년 정부에서 발표한 수치보다 약 6배 높게 나타났다. 구조방정식모델에서 정서적 공감은 위험지각에 유의한 영향을 미쳤고, 인지적 공감은 간접적 외상에 유의한 영향을 미쳤다. 위험지각과 간접외상은 모두 불안에 유의한 영향을 미쳤고 불안은 우울증에 유의한 영향을 미쳤다. 그리고 인지적 공감만이 불안과 우울에 유의한 간접적인 영향을 미쳤다. 본 연구는 코로나 대유행이라는 사회적 재난 상황에서 나타난 집합적 우울 현상을 개인의 인지적·정서적 공감 수준 관점에서 이해하려한 새로운 시도라는 점에서 학문적 의의를 가진다.

• International Journal of Computer Science & Network Security
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• 제21권4호
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• pp.93-102
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• 2021

The world is facing an unprecedented economic, social and political crisis with the spread of COVID-19. The Corona Virus (COVID-19) and its global spread have resulted in declaring a pandemic by the World Health Organization. The deadly pandemic of 21st century has spread its wings across the globe with an exponential increase in the number of cases in many countries. The developing and underdeveloped countries are struggling hard to counter the rapidly growing and widespread challenge of COVID-19 because it has greatly influenced the global economies whereby the underdeveloped countries are more affected by its devastating impacts, especially the life of the low-income population. Information and Communication Technology (ICT) were particularly useful in spreading key emergency information and helping to maintain extensive social distancing. Updated information and testing results were published on national and local government websites. Mobile devices were used to support early testing and contact tracing. The government provided free smartphone apps that flagged infection hotspots with text alerts on testing and local cases. The purpose of this research work is to provide an in depth overview of emerging technologies and recent ICT developments to combat COVID-19 Pandemic. Finally, the author highlights open challenges in order to give future research directions.

• Journal of Dental Anesthesia and Pain Medicine
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• 제21권3호
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• pp.237-244
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• 2021

Background: This study aimed to analyze Twitter users' emotional tendencies regarding oral surgery procedures before and after the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic worldwide. Methods: Tweets posted in English before and after the COVID-19 pandemic were included in the study. Popular tweets in 2019 were searched using the keywords "tooth removal", "tooth extraction", "dental pain", "wisdom tooth", "wisdom teeth", "oral surgery", "oral surgeon", and "OMFS". In 2020, another search was conducted by adding the words "COVID" and "corona" to the abovementioned keywords. Emotions underlying the tweets were analyzed using CrystalFeel - Multidimensional Emotion Analysis. In this analysis, we focused on four emotions: fear, anger, sadness, and joy. Results: A total of 1240 tweets, which were posted before and after the COVID-19 pandemic, were analyzed. There was a statistically significant difference between the emotions' distribution before and after the pandemic (p < 0.001). While the sense of joy decreased after the pandemic, anger and fear increased. There was a statistically significant difference between the emotional valence distributions before and after the pandemic (p < 0.001). While a negative emotion intensity was noted in 52.9% of the messages before the pandemic, it was observed in 74.3% of the messages after the pandemic. A positive emotional intensity was observed in 29.8% of the messages before the pandemic, but was seen in 10.7% of the messages after the pandemic. Conclusion: Infectious diseases, such as COVID-19, may lead to mental, emotional, and behavioral changes in people. Unpredictability, uncertainty, disease severity, misinformation, and social isolation may further increase dental anxiety and fear among people.

• International Journal of Knowledge Content Development & Technology
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• 제13권1호
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• pp.27-41
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• 2023

The outbreak of the corona virus diseases (COVID-19) in the late 2019 has affected all facets of educational system including library and information services. Reference services, an important aspect of library services are not exempted from this impact. This study therefore, investigated the impact of COVI\D-19 pandemic on the use of reference services and sources by postgraduate students using Kenneth Dike Library (KDL), University of Ibadan, as a case study. Using descriptive survey of correlational type, the study adopted the use of structured questionnaire to randomly select three hundred (300) postgraduate users of reference sources and services in KDL using online survey monkey. Of the three hundred (300) copies, two hundred and twenty three (223) copies, repre- senting 74.3% were retrieved and used for analysis. Findings revealed that, in spite of COVID-19 pandemic, most postgraduate students used Current Awareness Services (203, 91.0%, mean = 3.19), Reference Sources (202, 90.5%, mean = 3.18) and On-line Public Access Catalogue (195, 87.4%, mean = 3.13); low frequency of bibliotherapy (mean=2.22), Reader's Advisory services (mean=2.30) and inter-library loan (mean=2.13) and that COVID-19 pandemic had high impact on post- graduate students' use of reference services in Kenneth Dike Library, University of Ibadan. Based on the findings, recommendations were made that library management should consider the adoption of virtual reference services (VRS) in addition to the conventional mode of refer- ence services to enhance patronage in the COVID-19 era. The library users should also be trained on how to take advantage of the COVID-19 pandemic to learn new skills in the digital space that will eventually optimize the usage of the library remotely.

• International Journal of Advanced Culture Technology
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• 제10권3호
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• pp.313-324
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• 2022

This study aims to quantitatively understand the influence of changes in functional cosmetics purchasing sentiment on purchasing behavior and purchase satisfaction after the COVID-19 pandemic and present empirical analysis results regarding the rapidly changing cosmetics consumption market. This study empirically analyzed the structural relationship between non-face-to-face service purchase behavior, functional cosmetics purchase behavior, and functional cosmetics purchase satisfaction to predict purchase behavior of functional cosmetics by psychological characteristics after COVID-19. The collected data were analyzed using SPSS 22.0 (Statistical Package for Social Science) program and Amos 21.0, and correlation analysis was performed to understand the relationship between consumers' purchasing behaviors of functional cosmetics according to their perception of risk of COVID-19 carried out.Summarizing the results of this study, it was found that the higher the anxiety after the corona outbreak, the higher the non-face-to-face service purchase behavior and the functional cosmetics purchase behavior. It was found that purchase satisfaction increased when purchasing behavior of functional cosmetics increased, but purchase satisfaction decreased as anxiety increased after the outbreak of Corona.In this study, a sample of 1452 people were used as research data, and the theoretical implications for the development of functional cosmetics were presented by confirming the effect of changes in non-face-to-face service purchase behavior according to psychological characteristics after Corona 19 on consumer satisfaction.

• 한국콘텐츠학회논문지
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• 제21권11호
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• pp.281-293
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• 2021

본 연구는 코로나 일상이 음악 청자의 음악 듣기에 어떠한 변화를 주었는지, 음악 청자는 음악 청취 경험에서 어떠한 의미를 발견하고 있는지를 분석하는 데 목적을 두었다. 본 연구는 이론적 차원에서 음악사회학, 인식과 의식의 매체로서의 음악을 고찰하였다. 그 후 20살에서 24살까지의 음악 관련 수업을 수강한 대학생들을 대상으로 음악 청취 성향 변화, 음악 청취 경험에 관한 주관적 해석의 의미를 추출하고자 하였다. 연구 방법은 서면 인터뷰, 자유 토론 분석이었다. 연구 결과, 서면 인터뷰 대상자의 76%는 코로나 일상에서 음악 선곡 성향이 바뀌었다고 대답하였다. 주요 원인은 주요 원인은 첫째, 음악으로 '집'에서 유토피아 찾기, 둘째, 개인 시간의 증가로 새로운 음악 찾아 듣기, 셋째, 음악으로 '코로나 블루' 벗어나기였다. 대학생들은 음악 청취를 통해 물리적 고립에서 새로운 의미들을 발견하고 있었다. 그들은 음악 청취에서 '자가 치유'적 의미를 발견하고 있었고, 음악을 통해 자신이 원하는 의식, 감정의 방향으로 전환하고 있었다.

• 아태비즈니스연구
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• 제13권1호
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• pp.301-315
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• 2022

Purpose - The main objective of this study was to investigate tourists behavior by applying protection motivation theory and health belief model during COVID-19 pandemic. Specifically, the study examined how risk perception of COVID-19 affects tourists' protection motivation and travel avoidance intention. Design/methodology/approach - The empirical data was collected by self-administered questionnaires to obtain perception and behavior regarding COVID-19 pandemic situation. A total of 486 questionnaires were used for data analysis and SEM analysis was applied in order to examine seven hypotheses. Findings-The results showed that COVID-19 risk perception is a significant antecedent of threat appraisal, coping appraisal, and cue to action (H1, H2, H6). Moreover, protection motivation is affected by threat appraisal and coping appraisal (H3, H4) and influences on travel avoidance intention (H5). However, cue to action does not affect protection motivation (H7). Research implications or Originality - This study provides insightful implications for tourism industry practitioners who will prepare the post-corona field and the results enrich knowledge of the tourist behavior during pandemic situation.

• 한국정보통신학회논문지
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• 제25권4호
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• pp.495-500
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• 2021

본 연구의 목적은 본 논문의 목적은 최근 확산되고 있는 코로나바이러스감염증-19로 인한 위기를 국내 뉴스 빅데이터를 활용하여 규명하는 것이다. 본 논문은 COVID-19로 인한 위기와 관련된 언론기사들을 한국언론진흥재단의 뉴스 빅데이터 분석 시스템 '빅카인즈(BIGKinds)'를 활용하여 분석하였다. 본 논문에서는 약 10개월의 기간을 설정한 후, '코로나'와 '위기' 키워드를 중심으로 총 54개의 언론사의 관련기사들을 추출하였다. '코로나'와 '위기' 두 키워드 간의 상관계수를 파악하고, 연관어 분석을 통해 경제, 사회, 국제, 문화 각 대표 카테고리 별로 COVID-19로 인해 어떤 위기를 맞고 있는지 파악하고자 한다. COVID-19 사태는 경제, 사회 등 모든 부분에 큰 타격을 주고 있는 만큼 빅데이터를 활용한 본 논문은 COVID-19 사태 위기 극복을 위한 기초자료로 활용될 수 있을 것으로 기대된다.