• Asia pacific journal of information systems
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• 제22권4호
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• pp.101-123
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• 2012

Currently, Social Media, it has widely a renown keyword and its related social trends and businesses have been fastly applied into various contexts. Social media has become an important research area for scholars interested in online technologies and cyber space and their social impacts. Social media is not only including web-based services but also mobile-based application services that allow people to share various style information and knowledge through online connection. Social media users have tendency to common identity- and bond-attachment through interactions such as 'thumbs up', 'reply note', 'forwarding', which may have driven from various factors and may result in delivering information, sharing knowledge, and specific experiences et al. Even further, almost of all social media sites provide and connect unknown strangers depending on shared interests, political views, or enjoyable activities, and other stuffs incorporating the creation of contents, which provides benefits to users. As fast developing digital devices including smartphone, tablet PC, internet based blogging, and photo and video clips, scholars desperately have began to study regarding diverse issues connecting human beings' motivations and the behavioral results which may be articulated by the format of antecedents as well as consequences related to contents that people create via social media. Social media such as Facebook, Twitter, or Cyworld users are more and more getting close each other and build up their relationships by a different style. In this sense, people use social media as tools for maintain pre-existing network, creating new people socially, and at the same time, explicitly find some business opportunities using personal and unlimited public networks. In terms of theory in explaining this phenomenon, social capital is a concept that describes the benefits one receives from one's relationship with others. Thereby, social media use is closely related to the form and connected of people, which is a bridge that can be able to achieve informational benefits of a heterogeneous network of people and common identity- and bonding-attachment which emphasizes emotional benefits from community members or friend group. Social capital would be resources accumulated through the relationships among people, which can be considered as an investment in social relations with expected returns and may achieve benefits from the greater access to and use of resources embedded in social networks. Social media using for their social capital has vastly been adopted in a cyber world, however, there has been little explaining the phenomenon theoretically how people may take advantages or opportunities through interaction among people, why people may interactively give willingness to help or their answers. The individual consciously express themselves in an online space, so called, common identity- or bonding-attachments. Common-identity attachment is the focus of the weak ties, which are loose connections between individuals who may provide useful information or new perspectives for one another but typically not emotional support, whereas common-bonding attachment is explained that between individuals in tightly-knit, emotionally close relationship such as family and close friends. The common identify- and bonding-attachment are mainly studying on-offline setting, which individual convey an impression to others that are expressed to own interest to others. Thus, individuals expect to meet other people and are trying to behave self-presentation engaging in opposite partners accordingly. As developing social media, individuals are motivated to disclose self-disclosures of open and honest using diverse cues such as verbal and nonverbal and pictorial and video files to their friends as well as passing strangers. Social media context, common identity- and bond-attachment for self-presentation seems different compared with face-to-face context. In the realm of social media, social users look for self-impression by posting text messages, pictures, video files. Under the digital environments, people interact to work, shop, learn, entertain, and be played. Social media provides increasingly the kinds of intention and behavior in online. Typically, identity and bond social capital through self-presentation is the intentional and tangible component of identity. At social media, people try to engage in others via a desired impression, which can maintain through performing coherent and complementary communications including displaying signs, symbols, brands made of digital stuffs(information, interest, pictures, etc,). In marketing area, consumers traditionally show common-identity as they select clothes, hairstyles, automobiles, logos, and so on, to impress others in any given context in a shopping mall or opera. To examine these social capital and attachment, we combined a social capital theory with an attachment theory into our research model. Our research model focuses on the common identity- and bond-attachment how they are formulated through social capitals: cognitive capital, structural capital, relational capital, and individual characteristics. Thus, we examined that individual online kindness, self-rated expertise, and social relation influence to build common identity- and bond-attachment, and the attachment effects make an impact on both the willingness to help, however, common bond seems not to show directly impact on information sharing. As a result, we discover that the social capital and attachment theories are mainly applicable to the context of social media and usage in the individual networks. We collected sample data of 256 who are using social media such as Facebook, Twitter, and Cyworld and analyzed the suggested hypotheses through the Structural Equation Model by AMOS. This study analyzes the direct and indirect relationship between the social network service usage and outcomes. Antecedents of kindness, confidence of knowledge, social relations are significantly affected to the mediators common identity-and bond attachments, however, interestingly, network externality does not impact, which we assumed that a size of network was a negative because group members would not significantly contribute if the members do not intend to actively interact with each other. The mediating variables had a positive effect on toward willingness to help. Further, common identity attachment has stronger significant on shared information.

• 한국유통학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국유통학회 2005년도 춘계학술대회 발표논문집
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• pp.383-405
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• 2005

재래시장은 지역의 중심지적인 특성과 문화적인 특성이 고스란히 반영된 지역 거점지이며 인근 지역주민의 상거래라는 1차적 장소적 기능과 사회문화적 측면의 상호 정보문화교류, 커뮤니티 공간 형성으로 유통의 집객시설과 집적시설로서 중요한 역할과 기능을 하고 있다. 5인 이하 가족 단위의 생계형으로 취급상품, 구입방범, 판매방식 등이 전근대적인 경영기법을 통해 한국의 대표적 소매업태로서의 역할을 해오고 있다. 1990년대 이후 신유통업태와 대형할인점 진출로 인해 재래시장은 급격한 경쟁력 상실과 소비자들의 생활수준의 향상, 구매패턴의 변화, 인터넷의 급속한 확산 등 외부적인 유통 환경변화에서 경쟁력을 상실하고 설 자리를 잃어가고 있다. 정부의 지역경제 활성화와 국민경제의 발전 측면에서 고령화된 재래시장에 대한 대책 중 정부의 예산지원 정책으로 환경개선사업, 연구용역, 경영현대화중심의 국고지원 사업은 2001년부터 2004년까지 총 3,853억원의 국고가 지원되었으나 활성화 사업의 실효성에는 아직 정확히 나타나고 있지 않은 상황으로 조사되었다. 또한 지원사업을 추진함에 있어 시장상인리더들의 전문성결여로 종합적인 추진전략과 중장기적 계획수립 및 자발적인 상인들의 합의점 유도 반감으로 지속적인 사업추진방향에 한계점을 나타냈다. 재래시장이 단순히 물건을 사고파는 물리적인 장소적 의미에서 벗어나 새로운 지역 장소적 생활공간으로 커뮤니티적 접근을 통한 장소적 창조전략이 필요하다. 이에 시대적 패러다임 변화에 따른 새로운 사업 방향 전환을 통해 재래시장의 장소적 기능 도입을 동해 문화적 경제적 의미를 지닌 공간으로 재조명을 동해 발전방향을 제시하고자 한다. 재래시장은 지역 기반으로 한 지역생활자들과 자연스럽게 커뮤니티를 상호 형성하고 정보와 지식 공유를 통해 부 창출 공간으로 재생되어야 할 것이다 재래시장이 부 창출 공간으로 재생하려면 시대적 장소적 환경에 맞는 시설과 교류활동을 통찬 상호신뢰구축 활동 속에서 고객이 원하는 방향으로 영업환경도 변화하여야 하며, 지역단위 중심 영국의 TCM, 미국의 BID, 일본의 TMO 등 해외 벤치마킹을 통한 단위 시장상가 점포단위의 점(點)정책에서 선(線)단위의 상가로 환경사업과 거시적인 지역단위중심인 면(面) 정책적 접근을 통한 커뮤니티적인 발상 전환이 필요하다. 국내외 사례비교 분석을 통해 사회적 정책수요 발굴과 기존의 추진방법에 대한 선진사례 연구를 통한 NPO, NGO 등의 시민기업가와 이를 수행키 위한 혁신성과 전문성조정능력을 갖춘 리더자 양성이 무엇보다 중요하다. 특히 지역자원 활용 소스 중심의 문화관린 산업의 seeds 발굴과 향토상품의 상품화와 네트워크 조직망 구축을 위한 지역중심의 복합 생활문화 공간이 필요할 것이며, 이를 촉진키 위한 mentor academy시스템 접근을 통해 점점 고령화되어 가고 있는 재래시장에 대해 차별적 특성이 반영된 종합적이고 체계적 접근 방법연구가 필요하다.

• Asia pacific journal of information systems
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• 제18권3호
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• pp.91-121
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• 2008

Electronic commerce, commonly known as e-commerce or eCommerce, has become a major business trend in these days. The amount of trade conducted electronically has grown extraordinarily by developing the Internet technology. Most electronic commerce has being conducted between businesses to customers; therefore, the researches with respect to e-commerce are to find customer's needs, behaviors through statistical methods. However, the statistical researches, mostly based on a questionnaire, are the static researches, They can tell us the dynamic relationships between initial purchasing and repurchasing. Therefore, this study proposes dynamic research model for analyzing the cause of initial purchasing and repurchasing. This paper is based on the System-Dynamic theory, using the powerful simulation model with some restriction, The restrictions are based on the theory TAM(Technology Acceptance Model), PAM, and TPB(Theory of Planned Behavior). This article investigates not only the customer's purchasing and repurchasing behavior by passing of time but also the interactive effects to one another. This research model has six scenarios and three steps for analyzing customer behaviors. The first step is the research of purchasing situations. The second step is the research of repurchasing situations. Finally, the third step is to study the relationship between initial purchasing and repurchasing. The purpose of six scenarios is to find the customer's purchasing patterns according to the environmental changes. We set six variables in these scenarios by (1) changing the number of products; (2) changing the number of contents in on-line shopping malls; (3) having multimedia files or not in the shopping mall web sites; (4) grading on-line communities; (5) changing the qualities of products; (6) changing the customer's degree of confidence on products. First three variables are applied to study customer's purchasing behavior, and the other variables are applied to repurchasing behavior study. Through the simulation study, this paper presents some inter-relational result about customer purchasing behaviors, For example, Active community actions are not the increasing factor of purchasing but the increasing factor of word of mouth effect, Additionally. The higher products' quality, the more word of mouth effects increase. The number of products and contents on the web sites have same influence on people's buying behaviors. All simulation methods in this paper is not only display the result of each scenario but also find how to affect each other. Hence, electronic commerce firm can make more realistic marketing strategy about consumer behavior through this dynamic simulation research. Moreover, dynamic analysis method can predict the results which help the decision of marketing strategy by using the time-line graph. Consequently, this dynamic simulation analysis could be a useful research model to make firm's competitive advantage. However, this simulation model needs more further study. With respect to reality, this simulation model has some limitations. There are some missing factors which affect customer's buying behaviors in this model. The first missing factor is the customer's degree of recognition of brands. The second factor is the degree of customer satisfaction. The third factor is the power of word of mouth in the specific region. Generally, word of mouth affects significantly on a region's culture, even people's buying behaviors. The last missing factor is the user interface environment in the internet or other on-line shopping tools. In order to get more realistic result, these factors might be essential matters to make better research in the future studies.

• 한국HCI학회논문지
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• 제12권2호
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• pp.21-29
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• 2017

3D프린팅 기술의 발달은 표준화된 디자인적 요소를 추출하여 소품종 대량생산하던 2차 혹은 3차 산업시대의 생산방식에서 벗어나, 창작자의 개성을 반영한 창작물을 대량으로 제작할 수 있는 다품종 대량생산 및 개인 맞춤형 생산의 시대를 새롭게 만들어 가고 있다. 그러나 이렇게 3D프린팅을 통해 다품종 대량생산 혹은 개인 맞춤형 제작이 가능하기 위해서는 3D모델링 소프트웨어를 사용해야 하며, 이 소프트웨어가 어떤 기능을 지원하는지에 따라 창작물의 형태와 유형이 달라질 수 있다. 본 연구는 한국에서 3D프린터를 사용하여 창작활동을 하는 사람들이 자신의 작업에 활용하는 3D모델링 소프트웨어가 무엇이며, 이 소프트웨어를 통해 어떤 유형의 창작물을 제작하고 있는지를 파악함으로써 3D프린팅 창작자들의 활동을 소프트웨어적으로 지원할 수 있는 방향을 제안하고자 이루어졌다. 이를 위해 한국 최대의 3D프린팅 창작자 커뮤니티인 오픈크리에이터즈의 회원 60명에게 3D프린팅 창작을 위해 사용해본 3D모델링 소프트웨어, 3D프린팅에 가장 적합한 3D모델링 소프트웨어, 해당 소프트웨어를 통해 자주 출력하는 창작물의 유형에 대해 설문조사를 실시한 후, 설문조사 참가자들의 응답비율과 응답내용을 분석하였다. 결과적으로 한국의 3D 프린팅 창작자들은 Rhino와 123D Design을 주로 사용하고 있음을 확인할 수 있었고, Rhino는 3D프린터 산업 종사자들 중심으로 시제품, 샘플, 실물모형을 제작하는 것에 사용하며, 123D Design은 교육보조도구, 액세서리, 가정용 인테리어 소품 등의 교육 및 취미활동에 사용함을 확인할 수 있었다. 결론적으로 Rhino와 같은 실무형 소프트웨어와 123D Design과 같은 입문자 교육 및 개인 제조형 소프트웨어를 별도로 개발하는 것이 필요함과 특정 산업유형에 특화된 3D모델링 소프트웨어를 개발하여 한국의 개인 창작자들을 지원하는 것이 필요함을 제안하였다.

• 시큐리티연구
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• 제10호
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• pp.103-125
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• 2005

최근 위험사회 속에서 민간경비는 궁극적으로 방범${\cdot}$방제${\cdot}$방화 등의 역할을 하며, 공공성과 기업성을 갖는 총체적인 서비스 산업이다. 21세기 국가안전의 확보라는 중요성에 입각하여 민간경비 분야의 전문성 확보가 무엇보다 중요한 시점이다. 특히, 민간경비 분야에서 화재라든지 가스폭발 등과 같은 각종 재난상황에 대한 관심이 증폭되는 현 상황에서 민간경비 인력의 위기관리 능력제고는 그 무엇보다 중요하다. 이러한 맥락에서, 본 연구에서는 현대 위험사회 속에서 점차 중요해지고 있는 민간경비산업의 중요성을 관련 이론의 비판적 고찰을 통하여 재검토하고, 아울러 민간경비산업의 위기관리 대응과제를 제시하였다. 이와 같은 민간경비 산업의 대응과제를 요약하면 다음과 같다. 첫째, 민간경비 산업에 있어 위기관리 업무의 특수성과 전문성에 비추어 보다 경비원들에 대한 내실있는 교육훈련을 강화해야 한다. 둘째, 경찰과 소방 등 위기관리 유관 기관들과의 사전 협력을 강화하여 유사시 신속한 대응을 할 수 있는 연계체제를 구축해야 한다. 셋째, 시민들의 안전인식 제고를 위한 각종 정책 프로그램을 개발하여 운용하고, 이를 위해서 한국경비협회 등 민간경비 업체들의 역할홍보 활동을 강화해야 한다. 넷째, 현재 경호경비 분야의 국가 공인유일한 자격증인 경비지도사 시험제도를 민간경비원들의 위기관리 능력 극대화에 중점을 두어 시험과목과 교육 프로그램을 개선해야 한다. 다섯째, 주요 선진국들과 어깨를 나란히 할 수 있도록 민간경비 업무를 보다 확대하고, 고품질 상품을 개발해야 한다. 이러한 모든 노력들이 성공하여 민간경비 산업이 명실상부하게 미국이나 일본 등과 같이 정착하기 위해서는 정부의 민간경비 산업육성을 위한 정책적 의지가 중요하다. 이와 같은 정책적 의지를 입법화하여 한국의 민간경비 산업이 독립된 안전서비스 산업으로 자리매김 하여야 할 것이다.

• 한국보건간호학회지
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• 제9권1호
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• pp.83-102
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• 1995

As the society is being industrialized, the fast-paced economic development that has caused substantial increase in cerebrovascular and coronary artery diseases and the industrial development and increased use of means of transportation have resulted in the rapid rise of incidents in external injuries as well. So the pubic has become acutely aware of the need for fast and effective emergency care delivery system. The goal of emergency care delivery system is to meet the emergency care needs of patients. The emergency care delivery system is seeking to efficiently satisfy the care needs of people. Therefore the purpose of this study is designed to develop an effective programs for emergency care delivery system in Korea. The following specific objectives were investigated. This emergency care delivery system must have the necessary man power, for transfering the patients, communication net work, and emergency care facilities. 1) Man power Emergency care requires n0t only specialized traning in the emergency treatment but also knowledge and experience i11 other related area, so emergency care personnel traning program should be designed in order to adapt to the specific need of emergency patients. It will be necessary to ensure professional personnel who aquires the sufficient traning and experience for emergency care and to look for legal basis. We have to develop re-educational programs for emergency nurse specialist. They should be received speciality of emergency nursing care so that they will work actively and positively in emergency part. Emergency medical doctor and nurse specialist should be given an education which is related in emergency and critical care. Emergency care personnel will continue to provide both acute and continuing care as partner with other medical team. 2) Transfering the patients. Successful management of pre-hospital care requires adequate traning for the emergency medical technician. Traning program should be required to participate in a actual first aids activites in order to have apportunities to acquire practical skills as well as theoretical knowledge. The system of emergency medical technician should be remarkablly successful with first responder firefighters. Establishing this system must add necessary ambulances operating at any given time. It will be necessary to standardize the ambulance size and equipment. Ambulance should be arranged with each and every fire station. 3) Communication net work. The head office of emergency commumication network should be arranged with the head office of fire station in community. It is proposed that Hot-line system for emergency care should be introduce. High controlled ambulance and thirtial emergency center should simultaneously equip critical-line in order to communication with each other. Ordinary ambulance and secondary emergency facility should also simultaneously equip emergency-line in order to communication with each other. 4) Emergency care facilities. Primary emergency care facilities should be covered with the ambulatory emergency patients-minor illness and injuires. Secondary emergency care facilities should be covered with the emergency admission patients. Third emergency care center should be covered with the critical patients who need special treatments and operation. Secondary and third emergency care facilities should employ emergency medical doctor and emergency nurse specialist to treat in-patients with severe and acute illness and multiple injuires. It should be fashioned for a system of emergency facilities that meets emergency patients needs. Provide incentives for increased number of emergency care facilities with traning in personal/clinical emergency care. 5) Finance It is recommended to put the finance of a emergency care on a firm basis. The emergency care delivery system should be managed by the government or accreditted organizations. In order to facilitate this relevant program the fund is needed for more efficient and effective emergency researchs, service, programs, and policy. 6) Gaining understanding and co-operation of pubic It is also important to undertake pubic education to improve understanding of first aids and C. P. R of individuals, communities and business. It is proposed that teachers and health officers be certified in C. P. R. The C. P. R education can be powerful influence save lives. Lastly appropriate emergency care information must be provided to the pubic for assisting them in choosing emergency care.

• 한국조경학회지
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• 제39권5호
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• pp.33-47
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• 2011

현대 정부의 가장 중요한 과제 중의 하나는 시민들에게 최고의 서비스를 제공하기 위한 다양한 방법들을 모색하는 것이다. 본 연구는 도시공원의 민간위탁을 위한 적용 방안 및 적정 절차를 수립하여 적극적인 시민 참여를 이끌어 내고, 시민들의 만족도를 향상시키기 위한 제도적 방안을 찾고자 진행되었다. 구체적으로 공원운영 수탁자의 선정 기준 및 이를 선정하기 위한 심의위원회의 구성 등과 같은 제도적 지원절차를 수립하고자 진행되었다. 본 연구를 통해 도출된 결론은 다음과 같이 요약될 수 있다. 첫째, 도시공원의 운영은 경비절감, 인력양성, 경영효율, 노하우 축적 등의 측면에서 민간에 위탁하여 관리하는 것이 지자체 혹은 정부에서 직영으로 운영하는 것보다 효율적인 방안이 되며, 이에 대한 법제적 근거는 중앙 법령과 지자체 조례에 근거 조항이 마련되어 있다. 둘째, 공원 민간위탁 수탁자 선정을 위한 심사위원회는 6~9명으로 구성하는 것이 바람직하며, 내부 인사와 외부 인사의 비율이 균형을 이루도록 한다. 또한, 심사위원회의 운영은 단순히 수탁자 선정에만 국한되는 것이 아니라, 심사 기준의 재편 및 운영에 대한 자문 등도 수행하며, 해당 내용은 향후 민간위탁의 운영 개선을 위한 지침서로 활용할 수 있다. 셋째, 수탁자 선정은 사전에 공지되어야 하며, 각 지자체의 실정에 맞는 일정한 기준에 따라 평가되어야 한다. 해당 기준으로는 공공성 측면, 경비절감 측면, 서비스 질 제고 측면, 관리 감독 측면, 시민 참여 측면 등이 고려되어야 하며, 이들 기준에 따라 정량 지표와 정성 지표로 구분하여 심사위원들의 평가가 이루어져야 한다. 넷째, 공원운영의 민간위탁을 수행하기 위하여 사업 공모와 수탁자 모집 공고 및 접수, 심사위원회의 구성 및 평가, 수탁자 선정 및 계약 체결, 위탁 성과의 중간 평가, 재위탁 혹은 재공고의 과정을 통해 진행되어야 한다. 민간위탁을 통한 도시공원 운영은 도시공원이용객들의 재방문 기회를 확대할 것으로 기대되며, 다양한 계층의 시민참여를 실현하여 도시공원이 녹색문화공동체를 구축하는데 중요한 역할을 할 수 있을 것이다.

• 산경연구논집
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• 제8권6호
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• pp.51-60
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• 2017

본 연구는 노인의 가족결속력과 사회활동에 미치는 영향을 알아보고, 노인의 가족결속력과 가정 만족도, 종교 사회활동 간의 관계에서 자기 조절능력의 매개효과를 규명하는 것을 목적으로 하고 있다. 노인들이 가정을 이용하는데 가족결속력과 자기 조절능력의 영향에 대하여 분석을 하고자 한다. 본 연구의 가설검증을 통한 연구결과를 요약하면 다음과 같다. 첫째, 가정의 가족결속력의 요인이 여가 사회활동에 미치는 영향연구에서 가족결속력 하위변인인 가족 응집성, 가족 화합성, 가족 적응성이 높아지면 여가 사회활동이 높아지는 것으로 나타났다. 둘째, 가정의 가족결속력의 요인이 종교 사회활동의도에 미치는 영향연구에서 가족결속력 하위변인인 가족 응집성, 가족 화합성, 가족 적응성이 높아지면 종교 사회활동의도가 높아지는 것으로 나타났다. 셋째, 가정의 자기 조절능력이 여가 사회활동, 종교 사회활동의도에 미치는 영향연구에서 자기 조절능력이 높아지면 여가 사회활동, 종교 사회활동의도가 높아지는 것으로 나타났다. 넷째, 가정의 가족결속력 요인이 여가 사회활동에 미치는 영향연구에서 자기 조절능력의 매개효과 분석 결과, 가족결속력이 강해지면, 자기 조절능력도 좋아지고, 여가 사회활동도 높아지는 것으로 나타났다. 다섯째, 가정의 가족결속력 요인이 종교 사회활동의도에 미치는 영향연구에서 자기 조절능력의 매개효과 분석 결과, 가족결속력이 강해지면, 자기 조절능력도 좋아지고, 종교 사회활동의도가 높아지는 것으로 나타났다. 본 연구는 점차 증가하는 노인들의 특성을 이해하는데 많은 도움이 되었으며, 세부적으로 이용 중요 전체적으로 영향이 있는 것으로 나타났지만 차후에 노인의 사회활동에 필요한 요인들로서 활동가능하다. 향후에는 표본 대상을 세분화하여 연구가 필요하다고 생각한다. 특히 사회활동의 범위를 세분화한 연구를 진행하고자 한다. 지금까지의 조사를 토대로 앞으로의 본 연구에 대한 몇 가지 제언을 해보고자 한다. 첫째, 점차 고령화 사회가 되어가는 현실에서 노인 삶의 질과 생활만족도를 높이기 위해서는 자녀와의 관계에서 가족결속력이 매우 중요하다는 것이다. 자녀와의 가족결속력에 심리적 행복감에 중요한 영향을 미쳐 노인의 자기조절능력 향상에도 영향관계가 있음을 알 수 있다. 따라서 자녀와의 진실한 대화를 통한 유대를 형성하는 노력이 더욱 필요하다. 이런 의미에서 노부모와 자녀들 간의 건강한 관계를 형성하기 위한 다양한 프로그램 및 상담서비스 제공이 필요하다. 둘째, 현재까지의 우리나라의 대부분의 연구가 노인이 생각하는 생활만족, 노부모가 느끼는 자녀와의 결속에만 치우쳐 있다. 앞으로의 연구는 자료수집과 분석에 어려움이 다소 예상되나 노부모와 자녀 모두를 연구대상으로 하여, 노부모와 성인자녀의 특성을 각각 파악하고 노부모가 느끼는 자녀와의 결속과 자녀가 느끼는 노부모와의 결속에 어떤 일치와 차이점이 있는지를 연구하는 것이 필요하다. 셋째, 노인의 가족결속력을 높이기 위한 방안으로 자녀의 노부모 부담 및 돌봄의 짐을 덜어주기 위한 현실적 정책제안이 필요하다. 즉, 노인을 돌보는 자녀들에 대한 지원 정책뿐만 아니라 장기요양서비스가 필요한 노인들이 언제든 자녀와의 만남을 가질 수 있도록 시군구의 직영 요양시설의 증가가 필요하다. 또한 거주지의 주소지 소속에 대한 혜택을 전국 어디서든지 자녀들의 주소지의 요양시설에도 혜택을 받을 수 있게 국가가 책임지고 재정적, 행정적인 지원을 지속적으로 할 수 있어야 하며, 사회적 인프라를 구축해야 한다. 본 연구는 연구의 대상과 방법에 있어서 다음과 같은 제한점을 갖는다. 첫째, 본 연구의 표집대상이 서울과 경기 지역에 소재한 7개의 복지관을 이용하는 노인 경로대학에 출석하는 대상자만을 선정하였기 때문에 표본의 대표성이 떨어져 연구결과를 일반화하는 데 한계를 지닌다. 둘째, 설문조사과정에 있어서 응답자의 개인변인 등을 고려하여할 때 향후에는 표본 대상을 세분화하여 연구를 진행할 필요가 있다.

• Asia pacific journal of information systems
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• 제19권2호
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• pp.43-72
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• 2009

Recently, user-created content (UCC) have emerged as popular medium of on-line participation among users. The Internet environment has been constantly evolving, attracting active participation and information sharing among common users. This tendency is a significant deviation from the earlier Internet use as an one-way information channel through which users passively received information or contents from contents providers. Thanks to UCCs online users can now more freely generate and exchange contents; therefore, identifying the critical factors that affect content-generating activities has increasingly become an important issue. This paper proposes a set of critical factors for stimulating contents generation and sharing activities by Internet users. These factors were derived from the theories of folklores such as tales and songs. Based on some shared traits of folklores and UCC content, we found four critical elements which should be heeded in constructing UCC contents, which are: context of culture, context of situation, skill of generator, and response of audience. In addition, we selected three major UCC websites: a specialized contents portal, a general internet portal, and an official contents service site, They have different use environments, user interfaces, and service policies, To identify critical factors for generating, sharing and transferring UCC, we traced user activities, interactions and flows of content in the three UCC websites. Moreover, we conducted extensive interviews with users and operators as well as policy makers in each site. Based on qualitative and quantitative analyses of the data, this research identifies nine critical factors that facilitate contents generation and sharing activities among users. In the context of culture, we suggest voluntary community norms, proactive use of copyrights, strong user relationships, and a fair monetary reward system as critical elements in facilitating the process of contents generation and sharing activities. Norms which were established by users themselves regulate user behavior and influence content format. Strong relationships of users stimulate content generation activities by enhancing collaborative content generation. Particularly, users generate contents through collaboration with others, based on their enhanced relationship and specialized skills. They send and receive contents by leaving messages on website or blogs, using instant messenger or SMS. It is an interesting and important phenomenon, because the quality of contents can be constantly improved and revised, depending on the specialized abilities of those engaged in a particular content. In this process, the reward system is an essential driving factor. Yet, monetary reward should be considered only after some fair criterion is established. In terms of the context of the situation, the quality of contents uploading system was proposed to have strong influence on the content generating activities. Among other influential factors on contents generation activities are generators' specialized skills and involvement of the users were proposed. In addition, the audience response, especially effective development of shared interests as well as feedback, was suggested to have significant influence on contents generation activities. Content generators usually reflect the shared interest of others. Shared interest is a distinct characteristic of UCC and observed in all the three websites, in which common interest is formed by the "threads" embedded with content. Through such threads of information and contents users discuss and share ideas while continuously extending and updating shared contents in the process. Evidently, UCC is a new paradigm representing the next generation of the Internet. In order to fully utilize this innovative paradigm, we need to understand how users take advantage of this medium in generating contents, and what affects their content generation activities. Based on these findings, UCC service providers should design their websites as common playground where users freely interact and share their common interests. As such this paper makes an important first step to gaining better understand about this new communication paradigm created by UCC.

• Asia pacific journal of information systems
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• 제24권4호
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• pp.559-575
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• 2014

Individual investors are increasingly flocking to message boards to seek, clarify, and exchange information. Businesses like Seekingalpha.com and business magazines like Fortune are evaluating, synthesizing, and reporting the comments made on message boards or blogs. In March of 2012, Yahoo! Finance Message Boards recorded 45 million unique visitors per month followed by AOL Money and Finance (19.8 million), and Google Finance (1.6 million) [McIntyre, 2012]. Previous studies in the finance literature suggest that online communities often provide more accurate information than analyst forecasts [Bagnoli et al., 1999; Clarkson et al., 2006]. Some studies empirically show that the volume of posts in online communities have a positive relationship with market activities (e.g., trading volumes) [Antweiler and Frank, 2004; Bagnoli et al., 1999; Das and Chen, 2007; Tumarkin and Whitelaw, 2001]. The findings indicate that information in online communities does impact investors' investment decisions and trading behaviors. However, research explicating the correlation between information on online communities and stock market activities (e.g., trading volume) is still evolving. Thus, it is important to ask whether a volume of posts on online communities influences trading volumes and whether trading volumes also influence these communities. Online stock message boards offer two different types of information, which can be explained using an economic and a psychological perspective. From a purely economic perspective, one would expect that stock message boards would have a beneficial effect, since they provide timely information at a much lower cost [Bagnoli et al., 1999; Clarkson et al., 2006; Birchler and Butler, 2007]. This indicates that information in stock message boards may provide valuable information investors can use to predict stock market activities and thus may use to make better investment decisions. On the other hand, psychological studies have shown that stock message boards may not necessarily make investors more informed. The related literature argues that confirmation bias causes investors to seek other investors with the same opinions on these stock message boards [Chen and Gu, 2009; Park et al., 2013]. For example, investors may want to share their painful investment experiences with others on stock message boards and are relieved to find they are not alone. In this case, the information on these stock message boards mainly reflects past experience or past information and not valuable and predictable information for market activities. This study thus investigates the two roles of stock message boards-providing valuable information to make future investment decisions or sharing past experiences that reflect mainly investors' painful or boastful stories. If stock message boards do provide valuable information for stock investment decisions, then investors will use this information and thereby influence stock market activities (e.g., trading volume). On the contrary, if investors made investment decisions and visit stock message boards later, they will mainly share their past experiences with others. In this case, past activities in the stock market will influence the stock message boards. These arguments indicate that there is a correlation between information posted on stock message boards and stock market activities. The previous literature has examined the impact of stock sentiments or the number of posts on stock market activities (e.g., trading volume, volatility, stock prices). However, the studies related to stock sentiments found it difficult to obtain significant results. It is not easy to identify useful information among the millions of posts, many of which can be just noise. As a result, the overall sentiments of stock message boards often carry little information for future stock movements [Das and Chen, 2001; Antweiler and Frank, 2004]. This study notes that as a dependent variable, trading volume is more reliable for capturing the effect of stock message board activities. The finance literature argues that trading volume is an indicator of stock price movements [Das et al., 2005; Das and Chen, 2007]. In this regard, this study investigates the correlation between a number of posts (information on stock message boards) and trading volume (stock market activity). We collected about 100,000 messages of 40 companies at KOSPI (Korea Composite Stock Price Index) from Paxnet, the most popular Korean online stock message board. The messages we collected were divided into in-trading and after-trading hours to examine the correlation between the numbers of posts and trading volumes in detail. Also we collected the volume of the stock of the 40 companies. The vector regression analysis and the granger causality test, 3SLS analysis were performed on our panel data sets. We found that the number of posts on online stock message boards is positively related to prior stock trade volume. Also, we found that the impact of the number of posts on stock trading volumes is not statistically significant. Also, we empirically showed the correlation between stock trading volumes and the number of posts on stock message boards. The results of this study contribute to the IS and finance literature in that we identified online stock message board's two roles. Also, this study suggests that stock trading managers should carefully monitor information on stock message boards to understand stock market activities in advance.