• Asia pacific journal of information systems
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• 제22권4호
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• pp.7-29
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• 2012

Smartphone and its applications (i.e. apps) are increasingly penetrating consumer markets. According to a recent report from Korea Communications Commission, nearly 50% of mobile subscribers in South Korea are smartphone users that accounts for over 25 million people. In particular, the importance of smartphone has risen as a geospatially-aware device that provides various location-based services (LBS) equipped with GPS capability. The popular LBS include map and navigation, traffic and transportation updates, shopping and coupon services, and location-sensitive social network services. Overall, the emerging location-based smartphone apps (LBA) offer significant value by providing greater connectivity, personalization, and information and entertainment in a location-specific context. Conversely, the rapid growth of LBA and their benefits have been accompanied by concerns over the collection and dissemination of individual users' personal information through ongoing tracking of their location, identity, preferences, and social behaviors. The majority of LBA users tend to agree and consent to the LBA provider's terms and privacy policy on use of location data to get the immediate services. This tendency further increases the potential risks of unprotected exposure of personal information and serious invasion and breaches of individual privacy. To address the complex issues surrounding LBA particularly from the user's behavioral perspective, this study applied the privacy calculus model (PCM) to explore the factors that influence the adoption of LBA. According to PCM, consumers are engaged in a dynamic adjustment process in which privacy risks are weighted against benefits of information disclosure. Consistent with the principal notion of PCM, we investigated how individual users make a risk-benefit assessment under which personalized service and locatability act as benefit-side factors and information privacy risks act as a risk-side factor accompanying LBA adoption. In addition, we consider the moderating role of trust on the service providers in the prohibiting effects of privacy risks on user intention to adopt LBA. Further we include perceived ease of use and usefulness as additional constructs to examine whether the technology acceptance model (TAM) can be applied in the context of LBA adoption. The research model with ten (10) hypotheses was tested using data gathered from 98 respondents through a quasi-experimental survey method. During the survey, each participant was asked to navigate the website where the experimental simulation of a LBA allows the participant to purchase time-and-location sensitive discounted tickets for nearby stores. Structural equations modeling using partial least square validated the instrument and the proposed model. The results showed that six (6) out of ten (10) hypotheses were supported. On the subject of the core PCM, H2 (locatability ${\rightarrow}$ intention to use LBA) and H3 (privacy risks ${\rightarrow}$ intention to use LBA) were supported, while H1 (personalization ${\rightarrow}$ intention to use LBA) was not supported. Further, we could not any interaction effects (personalization X privacy risks, H4 & locatability X privacy risks, H5) on the intention to use LBA. In terms of privacy risks and trust, as mentioned above we found the significant negative influence from privacy risks on intention to use (H3), but positive influence from trust, which supported H6 (trust ${\rightarrow}$ intention to use LBA). The moderating effect of trust on the negative relationship between privacy risks and intention to use LBA was tested and confirmed by supporting H7 (privacy risks X trust ${\rightarrow}$ intention to use LBA). The two hypotheses regarding to the TAM, including H8 (perceived ease of use ${\rightarrow}$ perceived usefulness) and H9 (perceived ease of use ${\rightarrow}$ intention to use LBA) were supported; however, H10 (perceived effectiveness ${\rightarrow}$ intention to use LBA) was not supported. Results of this study offer the following key findings and implications. First the application of PCM was found to be a good analysis framework in the context of LBA adoption. Many of the hypotheses in the model were confirmed and the high value of $R^2$ (i.,e., 51%) indicated a good fit of the model. In particular, locatability and privacy risks are found to be the appropriate PCM-based antecedent variables. Second, the existence of moderating effect of trust on service provider suggests that the same marginal change in the level of privacy risks may differentially influence the intention to use LBA. That is, while the privacy risks increasingly become important social issues and will negatively influence the intention to use LBA, it is critical for LBA providers to build consumer trust and confidence to successfully mitigate this negative impact. Lastly, we could not find sufficient evidence that the intention to use LBA is influenced by perceived usefulness, which has been very well supported in most previous TAM research. This may suggest that more future research should examine the validity of applying TAM and further extend or modify it in the context of LBA or other similar smartphone apps.

• 한국유통학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국유통학회 2005년도 춘계학술대회 발표논문집
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• pp.165-191
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• 2005

유통경로 관리에서 유통환경을 명확히 이해하고, 그것이 유통경로 시스템에 주는 영향을 파악하는 것이 매우 중요하다는 점을 인지하면서도 환경의 영향에 대한 이론적 ·실증적 연구는 그다지 활발하지 못했다. 특히 기존의 유통경로 연구들은 환경이 유통경로에 영향을 미치는 메커니즘을 다양한 관계특성과 관계의 질 측면에서 다루지 않았다. 이 연구의 목적은 환경차원 중 환경의 동태성이 유통경로 구성원 간 관계특성인 신문사의 거래특유투자, 신문사의 기회주의, 그리고 신문지국의 갈등에 미치는 영향과 그러한 관계특성들이 유통경로 구성원 간 관계의 질인 신뢰, 즉 신용과 호의에 미치는 영향을 규명하는 데 있다. 이를 위하여 국내 한 신문사에 소속된 신문지국의 지국장 163명을 대상으로 자료를 수집해 분석한 결과, 환경의 동태성은 신문사의 기회주의 및 신문지국의 갈등과 정(+)의 상관관계를 보였고, 신문사의 거래특유투자와는 상관관계가 없는 것으로 나타났다. 또한 신문사의 거래특유투자는 신용과 호의에 각각 정(+)의 상관관계를 보였고, 신문사의 기회주의와 신문지국의 갈등 수준은 신용과 호의에 각각부(-)의 상관관계를 보였다. 이 연구는 요즘과 같이 환경의 동태성 수준이 높은 상황에 처한 신문사에게 신문지국과의 장기적인 관계를 유지하고 발전시키기 위한 필수조건인 신뢰를 형성하기 위해 어떠한 관리적 측면의 노력이 필요한지를 제시할 수 있을 것이다.

• 대한전기학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한전기학회 2007년도 학술대회 논문집 전문대학교육위원
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• pp.175-178
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• 2007

This paper is presented for the design of the thrust yoke for the spindle motors. HDD spindle motors are rotated by fluid dynamic bearing which consists of the shaft and the sleeve with the groove to generate the pressure. Because the thrust and journal clearances between shaft and sleeve is too small, around 8um and 2.5um, respectively, it is very difficult to design the bearing to come up to the disks to read and write the data. By the way, it is also so hard to overcome the load of the disks with only the thrust bearing. So, the paper is proposed for the trust yoke to come up to the disks considering of the force of the thrust bearing. In this paper, we proposed the thrust yoke with an unique fluid dynamic bearing in comparison with the motors without thrust yoke. Experimental results show the performance of the thrust yoke of the spindle motors for an HDD.

• ETRI Journal
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• 제40권6호
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• pp.745-758
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• 2018

A wide range of studies in various disciplines has focused on the Internet of Things (IoT) and cyber-physical systems (CPS). However, it is necessary to summarize the current status and to establish future directions because each study has its own individual goals independent of the completion of all IoT applications. The absence of a comprehensive understanding of IoT and CPS has disrupted an efficient resource allocation. To assess changes in the knowledge structure and emerging technologies, this study explores the dynamic research trends in IoT by analyzing bibliographic data. We retrieved 54,237 keywords in 12,600 IoT studies from the Scopus database, and conducted keyword frequency, co-occurrence, and growth-rate analyses. The analysis results reveal how IoT technologies have been developed and how they are connected to each other. We also show that such technologies have diverged and converged simultaneously, and that the emerging keywords of trust, smart home, cloud, authentication, context-aware, and big data have been extracted. We also unveil that the CPS is directly involved in network, security, management, cloud, big data, system, industry, architecture, and the Internet.

• Structural Engineering and Mechanics
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• 제81권3호
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• pp.317-333
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• 2022

Visco-Plastic Damper (VPD) as a passive energy dissipation device with dual behavior has been recently numerically studied. It consists of two bent steel plates and segments with a viscoelastic solid material in between, combining and improving characteristics of both displacement-dependent and velocity-dependent devices. In order to trust the performance of VPD, for the 1st time this paper experimentally investigates prototype damper behavior under a wide range of frequency and amplitude of dynamic loading. A high-axial damping rubber is innovatively proposed as the viscoelastic layer designed to withstand large axial strains and dissipate energy accordingly. Test results confirmed all assumptions about VPD. The behavior of VPD subjected to low levels of excitation is elastic while with increasing levels of excitation, a significant source of energy dissipation is provided through the yielding of the steel elements in addition to the viscoelastic energy dissipation. The results showed energy dissipation of 99.35 kN.m under a dynamic displacement with 14.095 mm amplitude and 0.333 Hz frequency. Lateral displacement at the middle of the device was created with an amplification factor obtained ranging from 2.108 to 3.242 in the rubber block. Therefore, the energy dissipation of viscoelastic material of VPD was calculated 18.6 times that of the ordinary viscoelastic damper.

• 유통과학연구
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• 제21권12호
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• pp.103-111
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• 2023

Purpose: This study explores the impact of live commerce on consumer purchase intention in the Chinese market. Live commerce, a novel marketing strategy that fuses e-commerce with live streaming, has gained significant popularity in China. The study aims to pinpoint main ways that live commerce increases customers' propensity to make purchases. Research design, data, and methodology: The PRISMA technique was adhered to in the systematic cycle of finding, screening, and selecting publications. Predefined keywords like "live commerce," "live-stream shopping," "consumer purchase intention," and "China" produced a large number of possibly pertinent research in the first search. Results: This study has delved into the profound effects of live commerce on consumer purchase intention, with a specific focus on the dynamic Chinese market. This study has identified four primary outcomes that support the revolutionary potential of live commerce: increased product engagement, significant social influences, dynamic pricing tactics, and the establishment of trust and credibility. Conclusions: Finally, the study provides live commerce practitioners with valuable insights, advising them on maximizing these impacts to increase consumer buy intention. In summary, this study offers helpful information to companies and marketers who want to take advantage of live commerce as a powerful tool for connecting with Chinese customers and increasing sales.

• 한국지능시스템학회논문지
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• 제12권6호
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• pp.549-553
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• 2002

본 논문은 전문학술 인력을 자동으로 순위를 매겨 선정하는 지식기반 퍼지 다중 규칙을 제시하고 있다 이를 위하여 학술전문가 선정에 대한 추론규칙을 만들고 다중퍼지 규칙에 대한 최대-최소 추론 및 선정기준에 따라 동적으로 선정기준이 적용되는 방안을 제시하며 이를 위한 시뮬레이션 모델을 구현하고 있다. 본 제안은 학술전문가 선정의 자동화, 공정성, 신뢰성 등을 제공하여 준다.

• 산업경영시스템학회지
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• 제33권3호
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• pp.40-47
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• 2010

Ten years have passed since the establishment of korea small and medium enterprises hybrid business association(KOSHBA). KOSHBA is composed of over 280 regional groups; over 5,700 enterprises are participating in the association. To become a dynamic and vital association, it is necessary to share, learn, and discuss their managerial problems based on mutual trust and respect at the regular monthly meeting.

• 대한가정학회지
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• 제49권8호
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• pp.13-24
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• 2011

This paper purports to find the characteristics of blue costumes as expressed in modern fashion. As such, we made an empirical analysis, using 436 works from 2006 S/S through 2010 F/W collections. Result indicated that modernness was emphasized by applying a minimum expressive technique to items of a simple form, and an image of simplicity was emphasized by placing focus on the rational color image of blue. Second, images of blue, such as trust, stability, and success were expressed as refined elegance through the combination of tight silhouettes, glossy and translucent materials, and indirect exposure. Third, natural image was expressed through natural silhouettes, soft or natural materials, gradation of various tones, and natural motif decorations as well as the color itself. Fourth, dynamic image was expressed by introducing fashion items, mostly worn by men only, to simple and tight forms or through the inspiration of a masculine fashion image. Fifth, abstinent image was expressed by using an image of religious apparel or symbols, covering up the body, minimizing details, and using a dark blue tone.

• 한국벤처창업학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국벤처창업학회 2006년도 추계학술발표회
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• pp.141-157
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• 2006

Ten years have passed since the establishment of KOSHBA (Korea Small and medium enterprises Hybrid Business Association). KOSHBA is composed of over 400 regional groups; over 4,000 enterprises are participating in the association. This paper deals with a survey on the present status of the participating companies in HBA of Kangwon province including the motivation of participation, participating period, and the purpose of participation. The survey results show that they are participating in HBA for manpower interchange, information gathering, mutual utilization of management resources, and their company's growth. To become a dynamic and vital association, it is necessary to share, learn, and discuss their managerial problems based on mutual trust and respect at the regular monthly meeting.