• Journal of the Korea Society of Computer and Information
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• v.12 no.4
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• pp.191-200
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• 2007

This study was identify web interface design factors for increasing information processing and attention for mentally disabled men. Gaining information via the internet is becoming pivotal in today"s society as the internet is becoming the center of knowledge and information. The goal of this study is to present the guideline of web interface design for the disabled men who are alienated in gaining information from the Internet. If the internet were more user friendly to the disabled men, they would be able to spend more time in doing what they enjoy and also in self development, with the information gained on the internet. This study investigated current portal sites to understand the present situation, surveyed and interviewed the disabled men, and researched literatures on how the disabled men perceive various stimulants and also researched documents for previous guidelines on interface design for them. This study investigated internet sites which the disabled men use to gather information about products and which entice their purchasing desires. The conclusion is that the usability can be improved by eliminating visual dizzy elements in the pages, simplifying the layout and the menu designs which represent the information architecture.

• Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society
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• v.11 no.9
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• pp.3458-3464
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• 2010

Due to the recent tremendous growth of internet information, RSS, syndication technology provides internet users with a user-friendly information search. RSS enables you to automatically receive newly updated contents, so users do not need to constantly access web sites to obtain new information. This paper proposes the way of managing the web crawler, which collects the sites of RSS documents and helps the users efficiently use the RSS documents. And it also suggests the proper way of ranking the RSS documents based on the users' popularity. Users can efficiently search out the documents they need by using the proposed information searching methods.

• Archives of design research
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• v.16 no.3
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• pp.23-32
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• 2003

Web sites are needed to approach the lots of ways that increase the user intuitive play over communicating information nowadays. So the stimulus of tactile sense establish it's importance through active study in other fields and we expect great effect to applicate this tactile sense in web site. This study analyzed both the experience for intuition and the increase of intuitive play in web site and investigated the importance of tactile sense. This user experience through the tactile sense not only communicates between designer and user but has the intuitive play for users. So we analyzed the factors of tactile user experience in web site and considered it's application and then applied these factors in internet shopping mail. After that, we analyzed the users'response in the Internet shopping mall using the tactile user experiences through the research.

• Proceedings of the Korea Society of Costume Conference
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• 2004.10a
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• pp.140-141
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• 2004

• Journal of Korea Society of Industrial Information Systems
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• v.19 no.4
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• pp.105-117
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• 2014

Acquisition of information through the broadcast media is essential for modern life and each broadcaster has progressed its service over the internet with the development of digital technology. Under this circumstance, this study presented the results which compared and analyzed the web accessibility evaluation for Korea, USA, and Japan's leading broadcaster web sites. According to the study results, there was no significant difference in the level of accessibility in all web sites of three countries, but accessibility compliance rate such as alternate text, skip-navigation of repeated region, and title was somewhat insufficient for Korean web sites. In addition, accessibility errors in the brightness contrast of the text contents, the run of the functions that a user doesn't have any intention, the clear statement of the default language, and the label provision were investigated. Therefore, Korean broadcasters should urgently improve and modify these errors and problems for effective web accessibility.

• The Research Journal of the Costume Culture
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• v.14 no.6
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• pp.971-986
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• 2006

As baby boomer generations become older, these "New-age elderly" have emerged as an important consumer segment for apparel products. These young-minded elderly have positive attitudes to technology and enjoy many of high technology tool in their everyday life, which signals a huge market potential for internet apparel retailing targeting these elderly consumers. Internet apparel businesses are required to provide various consumer information to its consumers to facilitate the decision making process. For elderly consumers, who might have different shopping behaviors from the younger consumer segments, different kinds of information with higher quality would be required. As a preliminary step to develop internet consumer information model for elderly consumers, this study seeks to investigate the current practice of information offerings of internet apparel businesses for elderly consumers. Ten internet sites carrying apparel products for elderly consumers were selected and analyzed their offerings of consumer information by five researchers. This study found that internet apparel businesses targeting elderly consumers were still small-sized and lack of sophisticated technology to support these elderly consumers. Most web sites provided basic product information and service information but not fashion and trend related information. Managerial implications were discussed.

• Korean Journal of Community Nutrition
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• v.12 no.4
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• pp.405-416
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• 2007

This study was to examine the needs among elementary school dietitians (n = 115) for developing a nutrition information internet site for children. A survey questionnaire included general characteristics, internet use regarding health and nutrition information, and needs for developing a nutrition information site. The mean age of the subjects was 36.2 years. The higher working experience group (> 10 years of working as dieticians) had higher mean age (p < 0.001), had a larger number of enrolled students at school (p < 0.01) and the number of those receiving school lunch (p < 0.01) than the counterparts (${\le}10$ years group). Sources of health and nutrition information were mainly PC/internet (60.4%) and seminar (14.4%). About 95% used health or nutrition information using the internet, however, the majority of users (71.6%) used internet information only when they needed it. Major reasons for using internet information was 'to get nutrition education materials' (63.8%) and 'to obtain general nutrition information' (21%). One third of the subjects were satisfied with nutrition information internet sites; major problems with internet sites were 'lack of content' (38.9%) and 'lack of practical information' (33%). These characteristics regarding internet use were not different between work experience groups. Major problems with nutrition education were 'lack of nutrition educational materials' (41.1 %) and 'lack of nutrition education skills' (32.1%). These were significantly different between the work experience groups (p < 0.01). Subjects preferred CD/internet to leaflet/booklet as nutrition educational materials. In developing nutrition sites for children, subjects wanted topics such as obesity assessment, dietary assessment, and obesity. Subjects responded that contents of nutrition information should be 'suitable to the children's knowledge levels' (31.1%), 'interesting enough by including quizzes, games and songs' (27.8%), 'inserting many illustrations/icons' (16.3%). In terms of designing internet sites for children, they wanted that internet sites should 'be easy enough to find the sites' (29.2%), 'use illustrations and characters' (24.8%), 'use communication channels such as Q&A' (18.7%). Needs for developing internet sites for children were not different by the work experience group. This study suggests that web sites for children should be carefully developed considering the contents and design, have less information with more illustrations, designed to induce the interest of children, as well as including sections such as eating habit assessment and games.

• Journal of Information Management
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• v.33 no.2
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• pp.95-108
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• 2002

Recently, interest in HCI has increased domestically among the workers in the Internet business as Internet has entered into its maturing stage in which the focus has been moved from quantitative expansion of web sites to qualitative improvement. However, answering questions like "how HCI can optimize user experience, generally accepted as the ultimate goal of Internet service" seem still difficult to achieve, because the theories and research methodology of HCI has not been well informed to the Internet-related workers. For HCI to set ground in the actual business sector, its value should be translated into financial terms and the top management should be persuaded to support it. This paper deals with what benefits HCI can give to the Internet companies, how HCI can help user interface design with its research findings, what kind of research method can be applied in the business sector with actual examples.

• Journal of the Korean Society for information Management
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• v.14 no.2
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• pp.285-301
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• 1997

Massive amount ofinformation is provided for the internet users. Therfore, the users are exposed even to the useless information. In this paper, a Intelligent Web-Agent system is present as a solution for this kind if users inconvinience. This Intelligent Web-Agent system i devised users to search by the keyword about which they get information and commend the sites which have more intensive relation with the examine keyword, judge by the users and the case-base constructed by the Intelligent Web-Agent system itself previously, so the users can access the essential web sites in short time. Intelligent Web-Agent system is compose of a interface-system and a learning system. According to the experiment, using the Intelligent Web-Agent System quicker than the case when not using the Intelligent Web-Agent System.

• Journal of the Korean Society for Library and Information Science
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• v.36 no.1
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• pp.165-186
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• 2002

The collection management paradigm has drastically changed since the emergence of collection management activities on the internet. Due to the technological development of web, web has become the newly open field as a useful tool to facilitate collection management transactions. The purpose of this study is, by evaluating web sites of the university library’s collection management in United States, to construct the contents of collection management web site. To fulfill the purpose, 6 categories for the contents of the collection management web site are suggested. The result of this study can be used as the basic data for researching of collection management web site. Web site is playing a role of stepping up its activities and informing useful information on its selection tool and collection development policy.