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A Study on the Use of General Social Welfare Facilities for the Planning of Integrated Care Center - Focused on four social welfare facilities in Southern Gyeonggi-do (통합돌봄센터 계획을 위한 고령인구의 종합사회복지관 이용실태 연구 - 경기도 남부 4개 사회복지관을 대상으로)

  • Han, Eunbee;Zhang, Jinxiang;Kwon, Soonjung
    • Journal of The Korea Institute of Healthcare Architecture
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    • v.26 no.2
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    • pp.71-79
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    • 2020
  • Purpose: The purpose of this study is to derive basic data for desirable location and functions of the integrated care center. Methods: Survey, Questionaire and statistical analysis are the main research method of this study. In order to collect data related to utilization pattern and favorite functions of the senior people, researchers have visited 4 social welfare facilities located in Southern Gyeonggi Province. 403 questionaires have been gathered from 4 facilities and they have been analyzed by using Excel Program of MS. Results: First, compared to other services, healthcare services have been preferred by many older people in Social welfare Facilities. This means that integrated care centers providing healthcare services for older people rather than services for children or disabilities is desirable. Second, Integrated Care Centers had better be established within the walk distance of elderly people. If it is not easy, the introduction of shuttle bus for older people is desirable. Especially, in case of large Care Center. Implications: This study shows that small facility with community care rather than big facility is desirable for small community in the point of friendliness, convenience, economy, etc.. However it is necessary to combine welfare service and healthcare service even in small centers.

A Study on Schütte-Lihotzky's Concepts of Residential Planning in the Red Wien Era ('레드 빈' 시대 쉬테-리호츠키의 주거 계획 개념에 대한 연구)

  • Jun, Nam-Il
    • Korean Institute of Interior Design Journal
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    • v.26 no.6
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    • pp.135-144
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    • 2017
  • In addition to the well-known 'Frankfurt Kitchen', Austrian female architect Margarette $Sch{\ddot{u}}tte-Lihotzky^{\prime}s$ architectural achievements include a study on the housing for working class, contribution to the resident participation movement, the planning of multi-family housing complexes, rational floor plan design, and the design and study of interior spaces. The purpose of this study is to investigate how she, who played intermediate roles between an architect and a social reformer, reflected social issues and the demands of living on the housing plans in the Red Wien era and to discuss diverse issues of modern residential planning furthermore. In this study, first, the housing situation in Vienna immediately after World War I was grasped and the architectural and housing discourses at that time were examined. Thereafter, cases of $Sch{\ddot{u}}tte-Lihotzky^{\prime}s$ works were investigated and analyzed. In the period of transition to modern times, the concepts of residential planning of $Sch{\ddot{u}}tte-Lihotzky$, who began as a social democratic architect, often showed transitional tendencies in private and public functions of housing, spatial distribution for the daily life, and functions of modern family and home. However, thereafter, the paradigm of the rationalism-functionalism was already sprouting from her architectural and residential plans. In conclusion, it can be said that the works of $Sch{\ddot{u}}tte-Lihotzky$ has realized the social responsibility of residential planning and become a cornerstone of the later modern housing.

Implementation of WebGIS for Integration of GIS Spatial Analysis and Social Network Analysis (GIS 공간분석과 소셜 네트워크 분석의 통합을 위한 WebGIS 구현)

  • Choi, Hyo-Seok;Yom, Jae-Hong
    • Journal of the Korean Society of Surveying, Geodesy, Photogrammetry and Cartography
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    • v.32 no.2
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    • pp.95-107
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    • 2014
  • In general, topographical phenomena are represented graphically by data in the spatial domain, while attributes of the non-spatial domain are expressed by alpha-numeric texts. GIS functions for analysis of attributes in the non-spatial domain remain quite simple, such as search methods and simple statistical analysis. Recently, graph modeling and network analysis of social phenomena are commonly used for understanding various social events and phenomena. In this study, we applied the network analysis functions to the non-spatial domain data of GIS to enhance the overall spatial analysis. For this purpose, a novel design was presented to integrate the spatial database and the graph database, and this design was then implemented into a WebGIS system for better decision makings. The developed WebGIS with underlying synchronized databases, was tested in a simulated application about the selection of water supply households during an epidemic of the foot-and-mouse disease. The results of this test indicate that the developed WebGIS can contribute to improved decisions by taking into account the social proximity factors as well as geospatial factors.

The Effects of Mentoring Network of Single Mothers with Dependent Children on Mentoring Function and Empowerment (한부모 여성의 멘토링 연결망 특성이 멘토링 기능 및 임파워먼트에 미치는 효과 연구)

  • Lee, In-Sook
    • Korean Journal of Social Welfare
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    • v.61 no.4
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    • pp.61-84
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    • 2009
  • This study is to analyze the nature of mentoring network of single mothers with dependent children and to show the mentoring network effect on mentoring function and empowerment applying social network approach. 439 single mothers with dependent children in Busan and Gyeongsangnam-do have been surveyed about mentoring network properties. The results are 1. The mentoring relationships between single mothers have been shown in various size and relationship characters. The out-degree of Their network is low, the range is narrow, and the tie-strength is weak. 2. When the effect of mentoring network characteristics on mentoring function has been analyzed, in career functions, the range of network and the strength of relationships are represented as significant variables among the mentoring network characteristics, in psychosocial functions, the size of network and the strength of relationships are shown as significant variables, and the inverted-U-shaped relationship according to the size of network has not been revealed. In role modeling function only the size of network is represented as a significant variable. 3. The direct effect of mentoring network of single mothers with dependent children has not been much on empowerment and the career related function among mentoring functions has been revealed as the variable, which affect on empowerment. Based on these results the suggestions and implementations are mentioned in this paper.

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The Influence of Social Supports on Intention to Use of Brands' SNS Page (사회적 지원기능이 브랜드 개설 SNS 페이지 소비자 수용에 미치는 영향에 관한 연구)

  • Lee, Yoon-Jae;Lee, Jeong-Hoon
    • Journal of Information Technology Applications and Management
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    • v.22 no.1
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    • pp.17-36
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    • 2015
  • Many companies are now trying to utilize SNS (social network service) by building it as marketing communication platform that delivers marketing messages and builds customer relationship. This study investigates the factors affecting consumers' intention to use of brand's SNS identity page (e.g., fan page in Facebook). It specifically focuses on four social support functions -self-esteem, informational, emotional and social networking support-in virtual space. Research model attempts to explore the impact of social supports on brands' SNS identity page adoption with modified technology acceptance model which includes perceived usefulness, ease of use and enjoyment. Empirical study adopts SEM (structural equation modelling) to test research model. The result indicates that perceived ease of use is influenced by informational support, and perceived usefulness is influenced by informational, emotional, and self-esteem support. And perceived enjoyment is influenced by emotional support. In addition, it reveals that there were no significant effects of social networking support on both perceived usefulness and enjoyment. These findings provide managerial implications for attracting potential and actual customers to brand's SNS identity page. And it also suggests the importance of managing sociability in brand's SNS identity page to make it as marketing communication platform.

How Facebook Functions in a Social Movement: An Examination Using the Web Mining Approach

  • Cao, Wenny;Cheong, Angus;Li, Zizi
    • Asian Journal for Public Opinion Research
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    • v.1 no.4
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    • pp.268-291
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    • 2014
  • Social media is becoming more and more important in social movements. This study, adopting the web mining approach, attempts to investigate how social media, Facebook in particular, functioned in the "May 25 Protest" and the "May 27 Protest", two movements which broke out in Macao on 25 and 27 May 2014, respectively, against the Retirement Package Bill. In the two protests, Macao residents deployed Facebook to share information and motivated people's participation. Twelve events (181,106 people invited) and 36 groups/pages (41,266 members) related on Facebook were examined. Results showed that the information flow on Facebook fluctuated in accordance with the event development in reality. Multiple patterns of manifestation, such as video of adopted news or songs, designed profile (protest icon), original ironic pictures, self-organized clubs by undergraduates and white T-shirts as a symbol, among others, appeared online and interacted with offline actions. It was also found that social media assisted the information diffusion and provided persuasive reasons for netizens to join the movement. Social media helped to expand movement influence in providing a platform for diversified performances for actions taken in a protest, which could express and develop core and consistent movement repertoire.

The Effect of Social Network Usage on the Formation of Social Capital : Based on Twitter, Facebook, KakaoStory (소셜네트워크 활용이 사회자본 형성에 미치는 영향 : 트위터, 페이스북, 카카오스토리를 중심으로)

  • Hong, Sam-Yull;Oh, Jae-Cheol
    • The Journal of the Korea institute of electronic communication sciences
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    • v.7 no.6
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    • pp.1471-1477
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    • 2012
  • Social Network has common functions such as acting as primary platforms smoothing the sharing and distribution by combination with various contents. Hence, questionnaire has been conducted to users of all of Twitter, Facebook and KakaoStory, and the factors affected by each service are presented by statistical analyses of the survey and the results are resolved by dividing them into complete and instrumental social capital. This study will be able to provide a standard for users to select Social Network according to their purposes and contribute to development of new Social Network or improvement of existing ones.

Studies on Visual Function Measurements for Building Visual Function Database of the Elderly (고령자의 시각기능데이터베이스 구축을 위한 시각기능계측에 관한 연구)

  • Kim, Dong-Wook;Park, Kwang-Suk;Kim, Jung-Ja;Kim, Nam-Gyun
    • Journal of Biomedical Engineering Research
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    • v.28 no.5
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    • pp.618-627
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    • 2007
  • As our society progresses rapidly toward an aged society, there is a stiff increase in the population of the aged persons who have difficulties in adjusting themselves to environments due to declines of their physical functions. Therefore, there is a great need for the concept of 'Universal Design' that demands the design of overall social structure to care for the elderly. Due to this reason, the physical function of the aged persons should thoroughly be studied for the development of rehabilitation and training equipments to help the recovery of physical functions of the elderly. Among the variety of physical functions of the elderly, visual functions, motion characteristics, hearing functions, and somatosensory functions have significant influence toward everyday lives and are physical functions to study for the construction of urgently needed physical function databases of the elderly. This study concentrates on visual functions among the variety of physical functions of the elderly. To measure various visual functions of the elderly, a measurement room for the elderly has been developed, which can mimic everyday lives and perform measurements of visual functions with subjects in seated position. The measurement items for the construction of the database were capabilities in everyday vision according to changes in arrangement of colors and light intensity and capabilities in everyday vision, color distinction, dark adaptation, and light glare against changes in contrast.

Literacy-Related Communication and Information Types in Social Pretend Play (사회적 가상놀이에서 나타난 문해 관련 의사소통 및 정보 유형)

  • Cho, Eun Jin;Bae, Jae Jung
    • Korean Journal of Child Studies
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    • v.20 no.4
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    • pp.247-263
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    • 1999
  • Literacy-related communication and information types naturally occurring in the dramatic play area were observed during free play over a 4 week period. Participants were 21 boys and 16 girls enrolled in a kindergarten class in Taegu. Types of literacy-related communication frequently used during social pretend play were Description, Suggestion, Question, and Answer. Negative types of literacy-related communication, such as Threat, Protest, and Warning were rare. Types of frequently occurring literacy information were about letters & words, and literacy functions. These findings were discussed with respect to curricular implications for the classroom.

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Awareness and Expectation of Social Robots Used for Treatment and Social Adaptation of Children with Developmental Disabilities: A Focused Group Interview Study Focusing on Parents (발달장애아동의 치료와 사회적응에 활용되는 소셜로봇에 대한 인식 및 기대: 주양육자를 중심으로 한 포커스 그룹 인터뷰)

  • Jun-Seo Lim;Eun-Young Jeong
    • Journal of the Korean Applied Science and Technology
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    • v.40 no.4
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    • pp.868-880
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    • 2023
  • This study is a qualitative study conducted to analyze the functions and needs of social robots for parents of children with developmental disabilities in order to utilize care robots for treatment of children with developmental disabilities. The subjects of the study were 11 primary caregivers with children under the age of 18 whose children were diagnosed with developmental disabilities or who had been receiving special education for more than one year. The interview questionnaire was composed of a semi-structured questionnaire and consisted of awareness, necessity, expectation, concern, and other opinions about social robots. The interview was conducted as a non-face-to-face online video interview due to COVID 19. As a result of the study, 4 themes and 7 sub-topics were derived. The four topics were derived from the unfamiliar but soon-to-be-faced reality, social robots with active functions, opinions on the appearance and materials of social robots, and concerns about social robots. Through this study, it was possible to identify the expectations and suggestions of the main caregivers for social robots, which could not be identified in quantitative studies, and if these can be reflected in social robots to be developed in the future, it is expected that positive results with higher acceptance will be derived.