• 한국주거학회논문집
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• 제23권5호
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• pp.51-60
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• 2012

Large-scale urban developments with increasing population and expansion of industrial facilities have destroyed the ecosystem. Consequently, the importance of vertical farm as a form of urban agriculture is increasing. However, such problems of vertical farms as economy and lack of awareness of residents are being raised. Firstly, this study derived types of vertical farm that are applicable to residential spaces through an examination of vertical farm buildings, and then inferred assessment items for a questionnaire survey for the development of u-services. Secondly, based on the issues deduced from the survey, u-services needed in vertical farm buildings were derived to use them as the basic data when we plan for a ubiquitous vertical farm building in residential space in the future. As result, the following uservices of ubiquitous vertical farm were proposed: u-notification service about the condition of crops from the aspect of growth management based on ubiquitous technology, remote/automatic control u-services, harvest information u-service for harvest management, recipe information u-service, and indoor air quality monitoring u-service, indoor environment adjusting u-service, and farm environment control u-service. Considering that many new buildings in Korea are residential buildings and many high-rise buildings are being planned, studies on vertical farm buildings must be continued.

• Journal of Information Technology Applications and Management
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• 제18권4호
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• pp.131-148
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• 2011

Our work empirically investigates the cultural differences of Social Networking Service (SNS) users in China, Korea and U.S. We construct a survey questionnaire from existing literature and test it for reliability, validity, and model fit. Then we collect data and validate the cultural differences of SNS users in three nations. Our results show different rankings from existing literature in cultural dimensions about three nations. In terms of masculinity, we find China > U.S. > Korea, similar to Hofstede. In individualism, we find U.S. > Korea > China, different from Hofstede (U.S. > China > Korea). In power distance, it is shown that Korea > China > U.S., different from Hofstede (China > Korea > U.S.). Uncertainty avoidance is found that U.S. > Korea > China, lowered ranking of Korea from the top among three nations in Hofstede. We find that these outcomes would be useful in updating national culture of the three nations and for future research about cultural impacts on SNS adoption.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제6권3호
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• pp.869-885
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• 2012

The purpose of this study is to present innovative approaches for u-Learning environment in public education with Digital Textbook. The Korean Government has been making efforts to introduce the u-Learning environment to maximize the learning effect in public education with Digital Textbook. However, there are only a few studies that analyze the effectiveness of u-Learning environment and Digital Textbook. This paper reviews the current status of u-Learning environment in Korea and analyzes the satisfaction level with Digital Textbooks. The first survey regarding technological factors was collected from 197 students. The results of the survey revealed that the level of satisfaction has declined over a year. The weakness of the study is that the sample frame is insufficient and survey questions did not reflect diverse factors of learning effectiveness. To supplement these shortcomings, 2,226 students were asked about learning performance. The results of the survey showed that the satisfaction with Digital Textbooks is much higher than that of paper textbooks. However, this paper is limited to u-Learning environments in public education. Therefore, research needs to be improved by reflecting both public and private sectors of education in following studies. This paper suggests useful guidelines to educators in improving their u-Learning environment.

• 아동학회지
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• 제21권1호
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• pp.201-214
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• 2000

This study was designed to investigate the teacher belief related to children literacy between Korea and U.S.A. using the quantitative research. The instrument for this study was constructed with 35 Likert-scaled questions in a survey questionnaire. Additionally, this study found that there existed significant difference with 20 questions between Korea and U.S.A. based on teacher's belief related to children's literacy and relationship between teachers who learns the whole language and the scores of teacher beliefs about literacy in the research. Seventy-six teachers who work at early childhood settings in State College, Bellefonte, Pleasant Gap, and Lemont in Central Pennsylvania participated in U.S.A. and ninety-one teachers who work at early childhood setting in Seoul and Pusan in Korea participated in this survey. This research has provided a framework for investigating the teacher beliefs about teaching literacy in order to discover the whole language effect on the system of teacher beliefs. This study focused on teacher beliefs towards the whole language approach between Korea and U.S.A.

• 한국정보시스템학회지:정보시스템연구
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• 제24권3호
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• pp.115-131
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• 2015

Purpose The purpose of this study is to introduce U-CAAM(University-Competence Assessment & Accreditation Management) system which is designed to effectively manage extracurricular education programs in a university. Extracurricular education is known to be very important to increase core competences of students who have different levels of knowledge and skills as well as career plans. Design/methodology/approach In this study, U-CAAM system which is designed and developed to tackle the problems related to university extracurricular education is introduced. The case will give meaningful insights to those universities which consider to have similar environment. The survey is conducted to show the need to a systematic management environment to effectively manage the problems with operating extracurricular education programs. Findings The survey result shows that universities understand the need to manage extracurricular education programs effectively. Implementation of U-CAAM provides the practical insights related to this issue.

• 한국컴퓨터정보학회논문지
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• 제12권4호
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• pp.103-110
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• 2007

현재 유비쿼터스 서비스에 대한 국민들의 인지도는 상당한 수준에 이르렀다. 하지만 정작 이러한 u-서비스는 수요자가 아닌 공급자 위주로 이루어지고 있다. 이를 보완하고자 일반인을 대상으로 하여 u-서비스에 대한 온라인 설문조사를 진행하였다. 설문조사는 교통, 보건/의료, 환경/도시관리, 문화/교육, 행정, 산업 분야의 서비스에 대한 필요도를 묻는 5지선다형의 24문항으로 구성되었다. 총 2,463명이 참여하였고, 이들을 연령, 지역, 학력, 성별로 분류하여 각 집단이 원하는 서비스 분야를 연구하였다. 유비쿼터스 서비스에 대한 전반적인 수요는 남성이 여성보다 높았으며, 연령이 많아질수록 높아지는 경향이 있었다.

• 한국유기농업학회지
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• 제10권3호
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• pp.25-39
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• 2002

This paper aims to provide quite recent information on the organic industry in the U.S. Major focuses are on the development of cultivation and marketing of fresh and processed organic produce and foods, newly enforced certification program, consumers' purchasing behaviors toward organic foods, and social survey results administered to the organic farmers in the U.S. The U.S. recorded 8 billion dollars' sale of organic foods in 2000, which was the largest in the world and showed 23% growth compared to the previous year. Yet the organic industry is still a niche market, occupying merely 1.5% of total food sale amount. The natural foods markets have not been so concentrated in the U.S., but it is changing and a few wholesale mart such as Whole Foods is emerging. Recent introduction of new certification program provide unified and sole standard at the federal level to which every certifier needs to adjust itself in order to be acceredited by the government. According to a social survey, consumers purchase organic foods because they concern about health, they stick to their own modes of life favoring natural foods, and so on. Another social survey shows that most organic farmers sell their produces to wholesalers, distributers, or producer coop, and direct sale to visitors at their own farm comprises of about 8 percent of their organic land.

• 한국전자거래학회지
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• 제19권2호
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• pp.53-74
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• 2014

유비쿼터스 도시(이하 U-City)는 ICT 기술을 활용하여 도심화의 문제를 해결하는 새로운 패러다임으로 각광받고 있다. 하지만 수익 창출 저하 및 시민체감형 서비스의 부족 등의 문제로 인해 U-City 서비스의 인식은 부정적인 수준에 머무르고 있다. 따라서 사용자 중심의 수익창출형 서비스 개발을 위한 연구가 필요하다. 본 연구는 U-City 서비스 개발을 위한 기반연구로서 U-City에 생활하는 시민들은 어떠한 요인에 의해 U-City 서비스를 수용하는지에 대해 도출해 보고자 한다. 연구의 기본모델로는 새로운 기술수용 연구에 일반적으로 사용되는 기술수용모델을 활용하였다. 기술수용모델의 변수들은 U-City의 특성을 반영하여 사용자, 기술, 서비스 관점으로 나눠 설계하였다. 실제 U-City 선정 지역 중 7개 도시의 600명 시민을 대상으로 설문조사를 실시하였으며, 가설을 검증하기 위해 구조방정식 모델을 사용하였다. 연구결과의 주요 내용들을 이론적인 측면과 실용적인 측면으로 나눠 시사점을 제시하였으며, 향후 U-City 서비스 설계시 기반 연구로써 활용될 수 있을 것으로 사료된다.

• 동아시아식생활학회지
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• 제19권6호
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• pp.1039-1048
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• 2009

The purpose of this study was to establish a model of the use-utility of cooking equipments and kitchen centers using survey data and to compare U.S.A. with Korea. The survey was conducted to identify attributes that were related to the efficiency of kitchen centers as well as equipments. Indices for the most important attributes were developed and used to compare different selections of equipment. The impact of adding an equipment item was found to vary with the attributes of the item, the degree of importance ascribed to the attributes of the work center and specific functions performed there. Similarities and differences between the U.S.A. and Korea are discussed, and implications for those who have interest in the use-utility model of cooking equipment and kitchen centers are provided.

• 한국정보처리학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국정보처리학회 2011년도 추계학술발표대회
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• pp.938-940
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• 2011

IT 기술의 발전으로 전 세계적으로 M2M시장이 급부상 하고 있는 가운데 언제 어디서나 이용할 수 있도록 정보통신기술을 토대로 제공되는 보건의료 서비스인 U-헬스케어 서비스에 대한 관심이 급증하고 있다. 그와 더불어 국내외 적으로 U-헬스케어 시장의 확산에도 불구하고 U-헬스케어 장치에 대한 보안 시스템의 구축은 아직 미흡한 편이다. 이에 본 논문에서는 U-헬스케어 서비스의 새로운 비즈니스 모델과 정보를 주고받는 네트워크상의 문제점과 해결방안을 제시하고자 한다.