• 복식문화연구
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• 제28권1호
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• pp.45-61
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• 2020

As consumers have transformed into the influential entities in the recent consumption environment, it needs a new concept to describe their characteristics. Drawn on the notion of smart consumer experience, this study views the multiple traits of new consumers as consumer smartness. Therefore, elaborating the concept of consumer smartness, this study aims to develop its measurement and validate it by examining the relationship with external variables. Two online surveys were conducted by a professional survey company that had nationwide consumer panels. A total of 531 adult consumers who had purchased fashion goods online completed a self-administered questionnaires. A series of exploratory and confirmative factor analysis generated 21 measuring items with six underlying constructs of consumer smartness such as innovativeness, opinion leadership, self-disclosure, marketing literacy, dissatisfaction, and technology sophistication. In order to validate the measurement, this study conducted a Pearson's correlation test and structural equation modeling analysis with consumer smartness and external constructs. The result shows that there was a significant positive relationship between consumer smartness and behavioral intentions online. In addition, consumer smartness influenced their shopping and sharing intention which supported the validity of new measurement of consumer smartness. This study provides a theoretical and empirical ground of understanding consumer smartness as new consumer characteristics in the changing environment of fashion retailing.

• The Journal of Asian Finance, Economics and Business
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• 제6권1호
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• pp.149-158
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• 2019

Due to the rapid development of IT (information technology) and internet, products become smart and able to collect, process and produce information and can think of themselves to provide better service to consumers. However, research on the characteristics of smart product is still sparse. In this paper, we report the systemic development of a scale to measure the perceived product smartness associated with smart product. To develop product smartness scale, this study follows systemic scale development processes of item generation, item reduction, scale validation, reliability and validity test consequently. And, after acquiring a large amount of qualitative interview data asking the definition of smart product, we add a unique process to reduce the initial items using both a text mining method using 'r' s/w and traditional reliability and validity tests including factor analysis. Based on an initial qualitative inquiry and subsequent quantitative survey, an eight-factor scale of product smartness is developed. The eight factors are multi-functionality, human-like touch, ability to cooperate, autonomy, situatedness, network connectivity, integrity, and learning capability consequently. Results from Korean samples support the proposed measures of product smartness in terms of reliability, validity, and dimensionality. Implications and directions for further study are discussed. The developed scale offers important theoretical and pragmatic implications for researchers and practitioners.

• 복식문화연구
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• 제32권2호
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• pp.148-163
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• 2024

With the digitalization of production and consumption environments, consumers are no longer merely targets of marketing, but key players in creating value jointly with companies by participating in various decision-making processes. Much virtual content in particular, such as fashion shows, exhibitions, games, social activities, and shopping, which fashion brands implement in virtual worlds, cannot be completed without consumers' active engagement and interaction. Thus, this study considers consumers' participation in virtual content provided by fashion brands as value co-creation in virtual worlds. This study aims to examine how consumer (i.e., consumer smartness) and fashion firm (i.e., perceived intellectual capital) factors influence value co-creation behavior intention in virtual worlds. Data were collected from 410 consumers in their 20s nationwide through an online survey, and a higher-order structural equation modeling analysis was conducted to test the research model. The results showed that both consumer smartness and perceived intellectual capital positively influenced customer participation behavior and citizenship behavior intentions. Specifically, perceived intellectual capital had a greater impact on value co-creation behavior in the virtual world than consumer smartness. The findings provide empirical evidence that the fashion firms' intangible assets and consumers' competence in the digital shopping environment encourage their intentions to co-create value in virtual worlds.

• Structural Engineering and Mechanics
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• 제58권5호
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• pp.931-947
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• 2016

The effects of nanotechnology and smartness on the buckling reduction of pipes are the main contributions of present work. For this ends, the pipe is simulated with classical piezoelectric polymeric cylindrical shell reinforced by armchair double walled boron nitride nanotubes (DWBNNTs), The structure is subjected to combined electro-thermo-mechanical loads. The surrounding elastic foundation is modeled with a novel model namely as orthotropic nonhomogeneous Pasternak medium. Using representative volume element (RVE) based on micromechanical modeling, mechanical, electrical and thermal characteristics of the equivalent composite are determined. Employing nonlinear strains-displacements and stress-strain relations as well as the charge equation for coupling of electrical and mechanical fields, the governing equations are derived based on Hamilton's principal. Based on differential quadrature method (DQM), the buckling load of pipe is calculated. The influences of electrical and thermal loads, geometrical parameters of shell, elastic foundation, orientation angle and volume percent of DWBNNTs in polymer are investigated on the buckling of pipe. Results showed that the generated ${\Phi}$ improved sensor and actuator applications in several process industries, because it increases the stability of structure. Furthermore, using nanotechnology in reinforcing the pipe, the buckling load of structure increases.

• Journal of Smart Tourism
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• 제4권1호
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• pp.7-18
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• 2024

This study examines Natal in Brazil as a Smart Tourism Destination (STD) based on the perception of public and private managers who are members of the City Tourism Council. The research utilizes a systemic perspective of STD proposed by Ivars-Baidal et al. (2016), consisting of three interconnected levels: Strategic-Relational, Instrumental, and Applied. The findings reveal that Natal faces challenges in terms of infrastructure, accessibility, security, connectivity, and sensoring, which hinder its progress as STD. The study also identifies opportunities in the form of governance structures with smart destinations and the inclusion of smartness guidelines in the City Master Plan. The research aims to contribute to the theoretical understanding of STD and its application in destination development. It highlights the need for innovative planning and management in Natal, emphasizing that adopting the STD from a systemic perspective can enhance competitiveness and elevate the level of smartness in the destination.

• Journal of Information Science Theory and Practice
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• 제8권1호
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• pp.20-32
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• 2020

Informational urbanism is a new research area in information science. In this study, art history joins informational urbanism: Are digital artworks in public urban spaces recognized as essential assets of a smart city? We employed case study research, working with the example of the huge digital media façade of the Arthouse Graz as an artwork in a public space. In a mixed-methods approach, we asked passers-by and interviewed experts on Graz as a smart city and on the Arthouse's role concerning the image of Graz as a smart city. The research found strong hints that indeed digital artworks with large screens or media façades at public spaces are parts of a city's weak location factors as well as of the city's urban structure and may symbolize the city's smartness. A practical implication of this finding is that artists, computer and information scientists, city planners, and architects should include interactive contemporary digital art into city spaces in order to demonstrate the city's way towards knowledge society.

• 한국정보통신학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국해양정보통신학회 2003년도 추계종합학술대회
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• pp.457-459
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• 2003

This paper considers the application of Fuzzy Logic to Smart Decision process of Smart Sensor system that interprets and response to the change of environmental parameters. The considered system consists of three sensors: temperature sensor, humidity sensor and pressure sensor. The smartness of system is constituted by the applying of Fuzzy Logic. The paper discusses the technical details of the application of Fuzzy Logic for making the system to be smarter.

• 한국언론정보학보
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• 제74권
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• pp.72-108
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• 2015

진화하는 모바일 기술은 새로운 스마트폰을 출시하고, 주기적으로 이용자들에게 교체하도록 유도하면서 모바일 기술 속에 이용자들을 가두어놓는 것 같다. 그러나 단순히 기기의 이용이 기술 자체의 속성에 의해 전적으로 결정되는 것이 아닌 바, 이용자들이 '어떻게 수용하고 있으며 인지하고 있는가'에 따라 스마트함에 대한 의미에 차이가 발생할 것으로 보았다. 특히 이 연구에서는 스마트폰의 '스마트함', '스마트하게 이용한다'라는 현상적 개념을 '스마트한 이용'의 개념으로 구체화하였고, 2차 측정모형(second-order measurement model)을 통해 스마트한 이용의 구성개념을 검증하였다. 그 결과 8개로 구성되었던 1차 요인들은 6개로 축소되었는데, 이 과정에서 '사용준비성'과 '미디어 통합성'이 '다기능 사용 준비성'으로 묶였으며, '시간 효율성'과 '관계 연결성'이 '관리 효율성'으로 합쳐졌다. 결과적으로 '스마트한 이용'의 구성개념은 '다기능 사용 준비성', '관리 효율성', '미디어 일체감', '기기연결성', '이용자 중심 최적화', '외부연결성(being connected)'의 6개 요인으로 추출되었다. 이에 스마트한 이용이란, 스마트폰의 기기적 특성을 기반으로 모바일 공간 속에서의 자율적 활용 역량으로 적절히 조율되는 이용행태로 설명될 수 있을 것이다.

• 한국항해항만학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국항해항만학회 2019년도 추계학술대회
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• pp.197-198
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• 2019

선박 초대형화로 인해 기항지가 감소하고 글로벌 환경규제 시행이 본격화됨에 따라 글로벌 항만 간 경쟁이 심화되고 있다. 글로벌 항만들은 미래에 항만 경쟁력을 확보하기 위해 스마트 항만으로의 전환을 전략적이고 구체적으로 추진하고 있다. 그러나 국내의 경우 아직 스마트 항만 추진에 대한 정부 계획 및 프로젝트가 구체화되지 않고 있으며, 관련 논문 및 연구도 부족한 실정이다. 본 논문에서는 스마트 항만에 대한 개념을 정립하고, 스마트 항만 관련 기술 및 도입 현황을 분석하였다. 또한 세계 주요 항만별 스마트화 수준을 객관적이고 정량적으로 비교하기 위해 스마트 항만 지수(SPI) 개념을 제시하였다. 그 결과,

• 한국정밀공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국정밀공학회 2001년도 춘계학술대회 논문집
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• pp.692-696
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• 2001

Thermo-mechanical behavior and mechanical properties of intelligent polymer matrix composite with SMA fiber are experimentally studied. It is found that increments of compressive thermal strain is observed as the pre-strain and TiNi volume fraction increase. The smartness of the SMA is given due to the shape memory effect of the TiNi fiber which generates compressive residual stress in the matrix material when heated after being prestrained. In the paper, alloy is based on the general purpose commercial code ANSYS. And for the purpose of easy and fast user's analysis, it is developed the Graphical User Interface by using Tcl/Tk language.