• Journal of Information Technology Applications and Management
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• 제18권1호
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• pp.55-74
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• 2011

The growth in the use of ubiquitous computing based on mobile services as an enabler to conduct business more effectively has been phenomenal. Technology acceptance model (TAM) has been applied in different contexts to examine a wide range of information technologies (IT). As more and more companies are finding ways to utilize ubiquitous computing based on mobile services, an important issue is to understand what factors will impact the decisions of consumers in adopting the services. Based on TAM with three additional groups of external factors, i.e., service-related factors (ubiquitous access, context awareness) and technology-related factors (perceived security risk, network connectivity) that are theoretically justified as having influence on both perceived usefulness and perceived ease of use which are additionally considered, a research model for the investigated technology acceptance was developed and empirically examined, using responses from more than intended users of ubiquitous computing based on mobile services. The specific purposes of this study are as follows. Firstly, this study is to identify service beliefs considering unique characteristics for ubiquitous services such as perceived ubiquitous access and perceived context awareness. Secondly, this study is to investigate network characteristics beliefs such as perceived security and perceived connectivity. Thirdly, this paper investigates the relationship among variables such as ubiquitous characteristics, network characteristics, behavioral beliefs, and intention to use ubiquitous web services. This study uses a structural equation model to test the research model. The major results of this study are as follows. Firstly, ubiquitous access has a influence on perceived usefulness and perceived ease of use. Context awareness has an influence on perceived usefulness. Secondly, User familiarity has an influence on perceived usefulness and perceived ease of use, and intention to use. User innovativeness has an influence on perceived ease of use. Thirdly, perceived security risk has an influence on perceived usefulness and perceived ease of use. Network connectivity has an influence on perceived usefulness and perceived ease of use. Fourth, there exist differential effects among factors in structural model among information, transaction, and entertainment services.

• 대한인간공학회지
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• 제24권1호
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• pp.43-46
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• 2005

The future information technologies and service paradigm will move from PC, the general purpose desktop computing environment, to the next-generation PC that provides information any where, any time, and any device. The next-generation PC such as wearable computers are specialized to the human-centric functionalities and always-on connected services. In this study, service infrastructure of wearable computing with WBAN(Wearable Body Area Network) was suggested for the ubiquitous computing environment.

• 한국디자인학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국디자인학회 2004년도 추계 학술발표대회 논문집
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• pp.154-155
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• 2004

• 한국IT서비스학회지
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• 제6권2호
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• pp.99-112
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• 2007

In this study we designed the killer services for the scene of labor learning in ubiquitous computing. To achieve this study, we have explored the unmet needs of teachers in the scene of labor learning and examined whether the unmet needs could be served by the resources and capabilities of ubiquitous computing. Then, we have crafted a detail killer services that includes value propositions and resource maps by using statistical methodology. Finally, the killer services for the scene of labor learning proposed to serve educational users with the service architecture. The result of this study will be applied to develop new business model in ubiquitous computing as the basic research.

• 한국비블리아학회지
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• 제15권2호
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• pp.219-240
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• 2004

본 연구는 유비쿼터스 도서관의 실체를 파악하기 위한 연구이다. 이를 위해서 유비쿼터스 컴퓨팅과 유비쿼터스 도서관에 대한 개념적 정의와 함께 그 실태를 파악하기 위하여 유비쿼터스 컴퓨팅에 기반한 유비쿼터스 도서관의 서비스 실태와 과제, 발전 전망 등에 대하여 논의하였다. 문헌연구와 주요 도서관의 홈페이지 내용 분석, 전문사서와의 인터뷰를 통해서 얻어진 결과는 다음과 같다. 첫째, 유비쿼터스 도서관은 무선통신을 이용하여 소장 자료의 검색, 대출 및 반납, 참고질의, 공지사항 등의 서비스를 제공한다. 둘째, 모바일 도서관은 구현 기술의 표준화, 서비스의 단순성, 컨텐츠와 인터페이스의 문제가 제기된다. 셋째, RFID 도서관은 도서관리 프로그램과의 연계성, 시스템의 호환성 및 표준화, 시스템 도입에 따른 도서관 서비스 방식의 변화, 정보 보안과 개인 프라이버시, 시스템 장비의 가격 등이 문제가 된다. 넷째, 유비쿼터스 도서관이 발전하기 위해서는 기술의 통합 및 표준화와 함께 정보기술 인프라와 프로세스의 발전이 이루어져야 한다. 다섯째, 유비쿼터스 도서관의 정보서비스가 성공하기 위해서는 모바일 환경과 특성에 맞는 다양한 형태의 서비스 개발과 함께 개인별 맞춤 서비스가 제공되어야 한다.

• 한국정보과학회논문지:컴퓨팅의 실제 및 레터
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• 제12권3호
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• pp.170-182
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• 2006

컴퓨팅 서비스가 언제 어디서나 이용 가능한 유비쿼터스 컴퓨팅에 대한 연구가 활발히 진행되고 있다. 유비쿼터스 컴퓨팅 환경을 구축하기 위해 해결해야하는 문제 중 하나는 다양한 특성의 서비스들을 어떻게 효과적으로 제공하고 이를 관리하느냐는 점이다. 기존에 제안된 유비쿼터스 서비스 제공 시스템은 특정 종류의 서비스만을 지원하는데 중점을 두고 있다. 또한 상황과 서비스의 관계 표현 방법이 복잡해 다양한 사용자가 생활하는 복잡한 공간에서 서비스를 제공하는데 어려움이 있다. 본 논문은 이런 문제에 대한 해결 방안으로 Personal Kiosk (PK) 모델을 제안한다. PK는 모바일 단말기를 통해 사용자가 언제 어디서나 유용한 서비스를 사용할 수 있게 해주는 것을 목표로 하는 유비쿼터스 서비스 모델이다. 현재 단계의 PK는 로컬지역을 대상으로 연구되고 있다. 본 논문은 로컬지역에 PK 모델을 구현하기 위해 필요한 실내에서의 정밀한 위치인식기법과 효과적인 서비스 발견기법을 설명하며 이를 바탕으로 사용자의 위치, 권한, 시간정보를 이용해 개인화된 서비스를 제공하는 방법을 설명한다. PK 모델은 서비스를 이용하기 위해 소모되는 사용자의 노력과 시간을 크게 감소시켜 보다 편리한 모바일 서비스 환경을 구축할 수 있게 한다.

• ETRI Journal
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• 제29권2호
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• pp.169-178
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• 2007

With the advent of ubiquitous computing environments, it has become increasingly important for applications to take full advantage of contextual information, such as the user's location, to offer greater services to the user without any explicit requests. In this paper, we propose context-aware active services based on context-aware middleware for URC systems (CAMUS). The CAMUS is a middleware that provides context-aware applications with a development and execution methodology. Accordingly, the applications based on CAMUS respond in a timely fashion to contextual information. This paper presents the system architecture of CAMUS and illustrates the content recommendation and control service agents with the properties, operations, and tasks for context-aware active services. To evaluate CAMUS, we apply the proposed active services to a TV application domain. We implement and experiment with a TV content recommendation service agent, a control service agent, and TV tasks based on CAMUS. The implemented content recommendation service agent divides the user's preferences into common and specific models to apply other recommendations and applications easily, including the TV content recommendations.

• 한국실천공학교육학회논문지
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• 제3권1호
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• pp.69-75
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• 2011

본 논문에서는 유비쿼터스 컴퓨팅 환경에 기반을 둔 e-러닝 모델을 제안하였다. 이를 위해 국내외 대학의 진보된 e-러닝 시스템을 조사 및 분석하였으며, 이를 근간으로 유비쿼터스 환경에 기반을 둔 최적의 e-러닝 모델을 제안하였다. 제안한 모델은 최적의 e-러닝 하드웨어 및 소프트웨어, 그리고 다양한 e-러닝 서비스를 포함하고 있다. 여기에는 출결체크 서비스, 수업운영 서비스, 공용지식 서비스, 성적처리 서비스, 편의시설 서비스, 개인운영 서비스, 신용조회 서비스, 캠퍼스안내 서비스, 강의실운영 서비스 등이 있다. 또한, 실험.실습에 관련된 서비스도 포함하고 있다.

• 산업공학
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• 제21권1호
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• pp.65-74
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• 2008

In the future, the ubiquitous computing environment will provide users with context-aware services, intelligently interacting with omnipresent resources and surrounding environments at any location and time. Therefore, the ubiquitous computing environment requires context-aware applications in order to gather and analyze context information in various situations. However, existing context-aware applications have mainly focused on providing services and adapting themselves to users based on user related contexts. But this environment requires not only user related contexts but also Quality-of-Service (QoS) related contexts. In this paper we propose a frame-work for supporting user-oriented QoS in ubiquitous environments. The proposed approach adopts a semantic ontology and a neural network algorithm in order to reason about explicit and uncertain contexts. We also show the possibility of applying the framework to real environments such as collaborative engineering service, automobile maintenance service and ubiquitous home service.

• Asia pacific journal of information systems
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• 제15권2호
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• pp.195-218
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• 2005

The emergence of ubiquitous computing environment will change the service architecture of business information systems such as Decision Support System(DSS), which will be a new application. Recent mobile DSSs allow the decision makers to be benefited from web and mobile technology. However, they seldom refer to context data, which are useful for proactive decision support. Meanwhile, ubiquitous applications so far provide restricted personalization service using context and preference of the user, that is, they do not fully make use of decision making capabilities. Hence, this paper aims to describe how the decision making capability and context-aware computing are jointly used to establish ubiquitous applications. To do so, an amended DSS paradigm: CKDDM(Context-Knowledge-Dialogue-Data-Model) is proposed in this paper. What will be considered for the future decision support systems when we regard ubiquitous computing technology as an inevitable impact that enforces the change of the way of making decisions are described. Under the CKDDM paradigm, a framework of ubiquitous decision support systems(ubiDSS) is addressed with the description of the subsystems within. To show the feasibility of ubiDSS, a prototype system, CAMA-myOpt(Context-Aware Multi Agent System-My Optimization) has been implemented as an illustrative example system.