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Implementation of VR-based digital visual culture contents (VR기반 디지털 시각 문화 콘텐츠 구현)

  • Shin, Yu-cheol;Bae, Min-kyeong;Park, Cheol-yoo;Lee, Young-woo
    • Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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    • 2022.10a
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    • pp.478-480
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    • 2022
  • This content was produced to reduce the stress of the elderly in nursing homes whose outside activities are controlled in a real situation that has accelerated the untact society as the corona pandemic situation continues to be maintained, and to provide visual and auditory enjoyment even inside nursing homes. Nursing seniors get help from social workers through content usage scenarios. By using digital visual culture contents, you can feel the stress that has been continuously accumulated with virtual people, relieve stress and have a sense of identity. Through this content, it will be possible to give a positive effect to the lives of the elderly in nursing care.

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How Does Social Media's Labeling Affect Users' Believability and Engagement? The Moderating Role of Regulatory Focus

  • Hui-Ying Han;Youngsok Bang
    • Asia pacific journal of information systems
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    • v.34 no.1
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    • pp.91-113
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    • 2024
  • In the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, unsubstantiated information concerning vaccines and the coronavirus has proliferated on various social media platforms. Consequently, we have considered viable actions to mitigate the impact of such unverified content, enabling individuals to use social media platforms more effectively and minimize any ensuing confusion. Recent measures in this area have included YouTube's practice of labeling vaccine or corona videos as authoritative when emanating from reputable organizations and Twitter's practice of flagging vaccine-related content as potentially misleading or taken out of context. This study seeks to explore how such contrasting labeling practices influence users' believability and engagement differentially, while also examining the moderating impact of regulatory focus. The results indicate that authoritative labeling positively influenced users' believability and engagement, whereas misleading labeling adversely affected users' believability and engagement. Additionally, our findings revealed that authoritative labeling has a stronger impact on promotion-focused individuals, while misleading labeling has a more pronounced effect on prevention-focused individuals. Our findings offer insights into how social media platforms can design and present information to their users, taking into account their regulatory focus.

How IT Affordance Influences Engagement in Live Commerce: An Empirical Analysis Focusing on Social Cues as Moderating Effect

  • Eunji Choi;SeongMin Jeon
    • Asia pacific journal of information systems
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    • v.32 no.2
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    • pp.327-353
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    • 2022
  • With the development of technology and media and the pursuit of non-face-to-face due to the corona pandemic, the influence of live commerce, a real-time streaming shopping channel, is growing. Starting from China, the popularity of live commerce is growing all over the world, and it has become an interesting topic among many practitioners and researchers. However, compared to its popularity, there are few studies on live commerce. Therefore, we build a theoretical model in terms of IT affordance such as visibility, guidance shopping, trading, and meta-voicing and investigate how live commerce affects engagement with customers. We empirically measure 428 individuals who have used live commerce using survey data. In addition, we conduct four types of scenario experiments on whether social cues on exposures of other consumers, influence customer engagement. Our results show that trading affordance has the most significant effect. This shows that the live commerce platform may want to devise a program that helps make payment easier for users who prefer a quick and simple process. Our study contributes to the literature by presenting the importance of IT affordance for live commerce.

Analysis of Student Attitude and Their Acceptance for e-Evaluation during (COVID-19): Implementation and Implications

  • Shakeel Ahmed;Ahmad Shukri Mohd Noor;Wazir Zada Khan;Mohamed Saad Eldin Mohamed
    • International Journal of Computer Science & Network Security
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    • v.24 no.9
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    • pp.135-149
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    • 2024
  • This research aimed to promote the electronic evaluation tools to tackle the pandemic implications (corona, COVID-19) and analyze the attitude and academic acceptance at the level of the female student's in the department of computer science - faculty of computer science and information technology at Jazan University, Saudi Arabia. The student's attitude toward e-assessment tolls has been measured and the main research sample consisted of 40 students' experimental group. A survey is also conducted to the assessment of the validity and reliability of research questions with the help of 50 students before implementation. There was a statistically significant difference between students' average grades in the post-measurement of the tendency toward electronic evaluation of the experimental groups in favor of the experimental group, at the significance level (0.01). The results also showed a statistically significant difference at the level of significance (0.01) between average scores of students in academic acceptance level in the experimental groups in favor of the experimental group. The findings of this research indicate the achievement of the e-Evaluation Acceptance and are highly recommended to propagate the use of electronic evaluation.

Analysis of Globalization After COVID-19 Based on Network (네트워크 기반 코로나바이러스감염증-19 이후 세계화 분석)

  • Ryu, Jea Woon;Kim, Hak Yong
    • The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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    • v.21 no.6
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    • pp.62-70
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    • 2021
  • 2020 was a year in which the world spent in disorder due to the pandemic of Coronavirus infection-19(COVID-19). The pandemic was at the beginning of a turning point in history. For examples, the Black Death(Pest) that destroyed the feudal system of medieval Europe in the 14th century, smallpox that led to the destruction of the Inca Empire by Spain in the 17th century, and the Spanish flu that ended World War I early. The great transformation that will come after COVID-19 is presented from various fields and perspectives, but the understanding and direction of the transformation is ambiguous. This study attempts to derive and to analyze core terms based on a network of the future of globalization after COVID-19. Four Networks related to globalization, anti-globalization, and globalization and digitalization after COVID-19 were established respectively. A network integrating four networks was also constructed. The core terms were extracted from the hub nodes, the stress centrality, and the simplified network to which the K-core algorithm was applied. After COVID-19, the changes in globalization were analyzed from the extracted core terms. This study is thought to be meaningful to propose a method of deriving and analyzing core terms based on a network in understanding social changes after COVID-19.

The Effect of COVID-19 Pandemic and Operanting Cycle on Asymmetric Cost Behavior in Food Service Industry (코로나19 팬데믹과 영업순환주기가 외식업체의 원가 비대칭적 행태에 미치는 영향)

  • Park, Won
    • Journal of Digital Convergence
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    • v.20 no.4
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    • pp.215-224
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    • 2022
  • This study tried to examine the effect of cost asymmetry on food service companies and what characteristics affect such cost behavior. This study analyses cost behavior for cost of good sold, selling, general and administrative cost over the 2019-2020 period. Also, the rate of change in activity level was measured using change in sales. This study measures the behavior of cost using the research model of [1]. As a result of the analysis, it was found that food service companies exhibited cost asymmetric behavior as their sales level decreased. In addition, the cost asymmetric behavior has been strengthened since the corona virus, and the shorter the operating cycle. Lastly, the shorter the inventory holding period and the collection period of accounts receivable, which are components of the operating cycle, more strengthen asymmetric behavior of costs. These results seem to be meaningful in examining the cost structure and factors that may affect the structure for food service industry. This has approached the cost aspect of the situation faced by service food companies due to COVID-19, and it can be suggested that this pandemic can lead to cost reduction due to a decrease in corporate sales.

A Longitudinal Comparative Study of Two Periods regarding the Influences of Psycho-Social Factors on Emotional Distress among Korean Adults during the Corona virus Pandemic(COVID-19) (코로나 19 팬데믹 시기 동안 한국인의 정서적 디스트레스에 영향을 미치는 심리·사회적 요인의 영향력에 대한 종단 두시점 비교연구)

  • Lee, Dong-Hun;Kim, Ye-Jin;Hwang, Hee-Hun;Nam, Seul-Ki;Jung, Da-Song
    • Korean Journal of Culture and Social Issue
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    • v.27 no.4
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    • pp.629-659
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    • 2021
  • This study compared the influences of Korean psycho-social experiences on emotional-distress(stress, depression, anxiety, anger) of Koreans between two-periods during COVID-19. First, an online survey was conducted among 600 participants between April 13, 2020 and 21, while WHO had declared the pandemic, and Daegu-Gyungbuk were declared as a special-disaster area. Second, an online survey was conducted among 482 participants out of 600 study participants from the first study during August 21 to September 2, while COVID-19 re-spreaded around the world, and total confirmed cases were over 1,000 for a week in Seoul-Gyeonggi province. Hierarchical-regression analysis was used to determine the influence of personal characteristics, fear and social constraints, relationship conflict and income-decreasing factors on stress, depression, anxiety, anger in the two-time points. Results suggest that gender, quality-of-life, 'frequent information-checking about COVID-19', 'fear of unpredictability' and 'difficulties on hospital treatment access' predicted distress(stress, depression, anxiety, anger) at both Time1 and 2. 'Difficulties with official schedule' predicted distress at Time 1, and age, vulnerability to infection and difficulties with personal schedules predicted distress(stress, depression, anxiety, anger) at Time 2. Based on the reseults, implications and recommendations were presented.

A Study on the Changes in Digital Perception of Information Vulnerable Class After COVID-19 (코로나이후 정보취약계층의 디지털인식변화에 관한연구)

  • Kim, So-Young;Jung, Jin-Teak
    • Journal of Digital Convergence
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    • v.19 no.12
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    • pp.531-539
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    • 2021
  • Given the rapid development of information and communication technology (ICT) and the deepening of the information gap phenomenon in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic, researchers and practitioners need to understand the changing perceptions of new phenomena such as COVID-19 information gap on the existing information-vulnerable population. In this study, an empirical analysis was performed with the digital information gap survey data in 2020 to understand the potential impact of COVID-19 on the information gap according to the information-vulnerable class. This study is to verify the effect of information gap, marginalized groups, gender, and major factors of information services (contents, social relations, life services, information production, networking, social participation, non-face-to-face services) on the change in perception of digital information technology after Corona. Hierarchical regression analysis was performed. As a result of the analysis, it was found that the higher the content, social relationship, life service, networking, and digital non-face-to-face service, the higher the change in perception of digital information technology after Corona. Therefore, in light of the evolving phenomenon of COVID-19, it is considered that the government needs to provide education and training to strengthen the capabilities of the information-vulnerable class in order to resolve the digital information gap.

Comparative Analysis of News Big Data related to SARS-CoV, MERS-CoV, and SARS-CoV-2 (COVID-19)

  • Woo, Jae-Hyun
    • Journal of the Korea Society of Computer and Information
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    • v.26 no.8
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    • pp.91-101
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    • 2021
  • This paper intends to draw implications for preparing for Post-Corona in the health field and policy fields as the global pandemic is experienced due to COVID-19. The purpose of this study is to analyze the news and trends of media companies through temporal analysis of the three infectious diseases, SARS-CoV, MERS-CoV, and SARS-CoV-2 (COVID-19), in which the domestic infectious disease preventive system was active throughout the first year of the outbreak. To this end, by using the news analysis program of the Korea Press Foundation 'Big Kinds', the number of news articles per year was digitized based on the period when each infectious disease had an impact on Korea, and major trends were implemented and analyzed in a word cloud. As a result of the analysis, the number of articles related to infectious diseases peaked when the World Health Organization (WHO) declared a warning and (suspicious) confirmed cases occurred. According to keyword and word cloud analysis, 'infectious disease outbreak and major epidemic areas', 'prevention authorities', and 'disease information and confirmed patient information' were found to be the main common features, and differences were derived from the three infectious diseases. In addition, the current status of the infodemic was identified by performing word cloud analysis on information in uncertainty. The results of this study are significant in that they were able to derive the roles of the health authorities and the media that should be preceded in the event of a new disease epidemic through previously experienced infectious diseases, and areas to be rearranged.

Design for Access Control System based on Voice Recognition for Infectious Disease Prevention (전염성 확산 차단을 위한 음성인식 기반의 출입통제시스템 설계)

  • Mun, Hyung-Jin;Han, Kun-Hee
    • Journal of the Korea Convergence Society
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    • v.11 no.7
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    • pp.19-24
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    • 2020
  • WHO declared a global pandemic on March 11th for Corona 19. However, there is a situation where you have to go to building for face-to-face education or seminars for economic and social activities. The first check method of COVID-19 infection is to measure body temperature, so the primary entrance and exit is blocked for near-field body temperature measurement. However, since it is troublesome to check directly, thermal camera is installed at the entrance of the building, and body temperature is measured indirectly using the infrared camera to control access. In case of middle and high schools, universities, and lifelong education center, we need a system that is possible to interoperate with attendance checks and automatically recognizes whether to wear masks and can authenticate students. We proposed the system that is to confirm whether to wear a mask with a camera that is embedded in a smart mirror, and that authenticates the user through voice recognition of the user who wants to enter the building by using voice recognition technology and determines whether to enter them or not. The proposed system can check attendance if it is linked with near-field temperature measurement and attendance check APP of student's smart phone.