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A Modeling of Ubiquitous Environments Reflecting User's Behaviors in the House (주택 내에서의 사용자 행위 분석을 이용한 유비쿼터스 환경 구축 - 거실공간을 중심으로 -)

  • Lee, Dong-Hwa;Park, Sung-Jun;Lee, Hyun-Soo
    • Proceeding of Spring/Autumn Annual Conference of KHA
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    • 2005.11a
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    • pp.63-66
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    • 2005
  • The purpose of this study is to suggest the modeling of ubiquitous environments according to the analysis of user's behaviors focused on the living area within the house. Recently, with appearing 'Ubiquitous environments', the applications of ubiquitous technologies on the our environment adopt a new paradigm. This new paradigm leads to the possibility of creating more intellectual dwelling environment according to user's behaviors. This paper suggests to change our dwelling by considering both engineering technology and the character of dwelling, because the house should provide causes humans with comfortability. Therefore, we need to understand user's behaviors in the dwelling, towards user friendly environment. Also, it very important for us to configure proper sensors and technologies by the priority based on user's behaviors. To sum up, this study is aimed to analyze user's behaviors and then, to suggest the guideline for users offering optimal ubiquitous environments.

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A Configuration Methods of Sensor Reflecting User's Behaviors in the Ubiquitous House (유비쿼터스 주택에서의 사용자 행위에 따른 센서 기기 구성방법에 관한 연구 - 시나리오에 따른 사용자 행위 분석을 기반으로 -)

  • Lee, Dong-Hwa;Park, Sung-Jun;Lee, Hyun-Soo
    • Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Interior Design Conference
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    • 2005.10a
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    • pp.111-114
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    • 2005
  • The purpose of this study is to suggest configuration methods of sensor according to user's behaviors in the ubiquitous house. Recently, with appearing the concept of 'Ubiquitous', the applications of ubiquitous technologies on the our environment adopt a new paradigm. This new paradigm leads to the possibility of creating more intellectual dwelling environment according to user's behaviors. This paper suggests to change our dwelling by considering both engineering technology and considering the character of dwelling, because the house should provide causes humans with comfortability. Therefore, we need to understand user's behaviors in the dwelling, towards user friendly environment.

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The Effect of Internet Shopping Mall User's Customer Satisfaction on Trust, Commitment, and Customer Loyalty Behaviors (인터넷 쇼핑몰 이용자의 고객만족이 신뢰, 몰입, 고객충성행위에 미치는 영향)

  • Park, Jun-Chul
    • Asia pacific journal of information systems
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    • v.13 no.3
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    • pp.131-149
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    • 2003
  • This paper examines internet shopping mall user's customer satisfaction and their consequent attitude and customer loyalty behaviors. For this purpose, internet shopping mall user's customer satisfaction is proposed to affect trust, and commitment, and consequently to influence customer loyalty behaviors. This study, which used data from customers of internet shopping malls, showed satisfactory data-fit of the proposed model and supported five of the six research hypotheses. The empirical results indicated that customer satisfaction take significant effect on trust, and commitment, and the trust and commitment in turn have strong influence on customer's loyalty behaviors. It was confirmed that both trust and commitment variables are effective mediators linking internet shopping mall user's customer satisfaction and their loyalty behaviors.

A Pilot Study on the Practical Model of Nonverbal Communication for the Effective Information Services (정보조사제공에 있어서 비언어적 커뮤니케이션의 응용모형개발을 위한 실증적 연구)

  • Han Sang-Wan
    • Journal of the Korean Society for Library and Information Science
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    • v.25
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    • pp.83-150
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    • 1993
  • Traditionally, the emphasis of the information services had been placed on the information provider's knowledge of information sources or information systems. However, in view of the increasing complexity of the information environment. and changes taking place in information professions the evaluation of the information services has callded for further research in interpersonal communication aspects of the librarian user interface especially that which links to user satisfaction. This experimental study was carried out for the purpose of exploring the implications of nonverbal behaviors in measuring user satisfaction in the light of the fact that the meaning of nonverbal clues includes more than verbal communication especially in dealing with variable barriers even though they operate at low levels of awareness. In this sense, among the wide range of nonverbal communication areas in particular kinesics, artifacts and the proximics were examined to suggest alternative model which can be applied effectively in our specific set of information work environment. Two major university libraries and two research libraries in Korea were chosen and visited for the anlysis and per each refernce/information interview the librarian's nonverbal behaviors were checked on the observer's checklist and the qustionnaires completed by the user at a time. On the basis of these data firstly, the relation of user satisfaction concerned with the librarian's nonverbal communication to user satisfaction with information services was analyzed and the possible communication barriers were investigated. In addition, the effect of training the information librarian with positive nonverbal communication skills on the user's satisfaction was analyzed in a SAS computer program in the area of kinesics. On the other hand, the effect of other nonverbal behaviors such as proximics and artifacts known very important clues to improving a complex human interaction was discussed along with their experimental results. In conclusion, it was found that most of users were not sensitive to the importance of nonverbal behaviors exposed by the information librarian, but it was proved that the ultimate user satisfaction and the satisfaction of the librarian's nonverbal behaviors are correlated positively, Moreover, nonverbal behaviors displayed by the trained librarian toward the user had a considerable effect on the user's evalution of information services compared with those by the untrained. These findings imply that in order to control the librarian's nonverbal behaviors and to help the user overcome his barriers the information librarian as a specialist needs to assure and modify willilingly his communication behavior. Without making effective use of such nonverbal communication, information librarian could not expect to meet the user's information needs either. However, when these positive nonverbal behaviors are applied it would be highly desirable to be aware of cultural and contextual differences. With regard to increasing information services success the applicable nonverbal communication model for library management and education can be suggested as below.

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Thermomechanical Behaviors of Shape Memory Alloy Using Finite Element Analysis (유한요소해석을 이용한 형상기억합금의 열적/기계적 거동 연구)

  • ;Scott R. White
    • Proceedings of the Korean Society of Precision Engineering Conference
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    • 2001.04a
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    • pp.833-836
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    • 2001
  • The thermomechanical behaviors of the shape memory alloy were conducted through the finite element analysis of ABAQUS with UMAT user subroutine. The unified thermomechanical constitutive equation suggested by Lagoudas was adapted into the UMAT user subroutine to investigate the characteristics of the shape memory alloy. The three cases were solved to investigate the thermomechanical characteristics of the shape memory alloy. The material properties for the analysis were obtained by DSC and DMA techniques. According to the results, the thermomechanical characteristics, such as a shape memory effect and a pseudoelastic effect, could be obtained through the finite element analysis and the analysis results were revealed to agree well with the experimental results. Therefore, the finite element analysis using UMAT user subroutine is one of prominent analysis techniques to investigate the thermomechnical behaviors of the shape memory alloy quantitatively.

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A study on the Influences of flow and Identity Perspectives Toward User behaviors in Micro blog Services (마이크로블로그 서비스에서 사용자 행동에 미치는 플로우와 정체성의 영향에 대한 연구)

  • Shin, Ho-Kyoung;Ha, Na-Yeon;Lee, Ki-Won
    • Journal of Information Technology Applications and Management
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    • v.16 no.4
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    • pp.59-77
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    • 2009
  • Microblog services are such new communication channels with some considerable potential to improve information sharing. The idea of sharing short messages using multiple access points seems to be appealing to people worldwide. Through the lens of flow and social identity, we explored factors that influence information sharing behaviors in microblog services. With an empirical study, we examined enjoyment and concentration(flow) and self-presentation(social identity) in microblog services like twitter can contribute to the user behaviors. Our aim was to gain insight into ways of creating an environment that facilitating voluntary sharing of information. Our findings suggested that enjoyment, concentration, and selfpresentation were crucial determinants of information sharing behaviors in microblog services. This study has important implications for academic researchers and practitioners who seek to understand why microblog service users share their information with other members in microblog services.

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A Study on the Possibility of User Classification by Web-Using Types (웹 이용행태에 따른 사용자분류 가능성에 관한 연구)

  • Shin, Mok-Young;Kim, Byoung-Uk
    • Archives of design research
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    • v.19 no.1 s.63
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    • pp.317-328
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    • 2006
  • So far, the behaviors of Web users have been predicted or analyzed mostly by their demographic characteristics or by considering in which context they gain access to that. But now there is a question about whether those characteristics are the only factors to trigger their use of Web. If the answer is not affirmative, what types of additional factors could cause such an action and how they characterize it should be discussed. User profile information has been considered one of the crucial elements to define user characteristics in user-centered UI design sector, and in order to apply it to UI design, it's needed to meditate on the above-mentioned questions. In this study, it's first attempted to have a good understanding of the users of different media and to review existing user classification methods. Next, user classification variables and relevant scales were prepared to sort out users according to their type of using Web, and case study was conducted to identify the behavioral characteristics of users and classify them according to their behavioral features. Finally, the user profile features of individual user groups were figured out based on data that were gathered by making an experiment, and data mapping was fulfilled between the behavioral characteristics and user profile characteristics to find out what types of behaviors were caused by the characteristics of user profile. As a result, it's found that user characteristics could have an impact on not only their general information and relevant contexts but their attitude of using different media and personality type. There were some problems with the experimental design, but more accurate information on the relationship of user behaviors to user profile characteristics will be obtained if those problems are eliminated. As user behaviors could be predicted only by user profile characteristics, user classification is expected to make a contribution to enhancing the efficiency of UI design.

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Intelligent Pattern Recognition Algorithms based on Dust, Vision and Activity Sensors for User Unusual Event Detection

  • Song, Jung-Eun;Jung, Ju-Ho;Ahn, Jun-Ho
    • Journal of the Korea Society of Computer and Information
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    • v.24 no.8
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    • pp.95-103
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    • 2019
  • According to the Statistics Korea in 2017, the 10 leading causes of death contain a cardiac disorder disease, self-injury. In terms of these diseases, urgent assistance is highly required when people do not move for certain period of time. We propose an unusual event detection algorithm to identify abnormal user behaviors using dust, vision and activity sensors in their houses. Vision sensors can detect personalized activity behaviors within the CCTV range in the house in their lives. The pattern algorithm using the dust sensors classifies user movements or dust-generated daily behaviors in indoor areas. The accelerometer sensor in the smartphone is suitable to identify activity behaviors of the mobile users. We evaluated the proposed pattern algorithms and the fusion method in the scenarios.

Internet Use Motivations and Problem Behaviors of Vocational High School Students according to Internet Addiction and Family System Type (실업계 고등학생의 인터넷 중독 수준과 가족체계유형에 따른 인터넷 사용동기 및 문제행동)

  • Shin, Soo-Jung;Jang, Yoon-Ok
    • Journal of Families and Better Life
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    • v.25 no.5
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    • pp.31-46
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    • 2007
  • The purpose of this study was to determine the differences in internet use motivations and problem behaviors among vocational high school students according to internet addiction and family system type. Five hundred vocational high school students from Daegu took part in the survey. The questionnaire survey consisted of an internet addiction self-assessment scale, a family system type scale, an internet use motivation scale, and a problem behavior scale. The data was analysed using MANOVA and Cronbach a, and the $Scheff\acute{e}$ test was used for post-hoc analysis. The major findings of this study were as follows: First, the study found significant differences in adolescent internet use motivation according to internet addiction. Adolescents in the high dangerous user group showed higher communicative, experiential, and addictive motivations than adolescents in potentially dangerous and normal user groups. Also, there were no significant differences in informative motivation according to internet addiction. Regardless of internet addiction, adolescents tend to use the internet to search for information and to solve problems. Second, there were significant differences in adolescents' problem behaviors according to internet addiction. More specifically, adolescents who were in the high dangerous user group displayed more problem behaviors toward their body, family, school, and society than adolescents in the potentially dangerous and the normal user groups. Third, an adolescent's family system type significantly influenced his/her internet use motivation. Adolescents from an extreme family showed higher communicative and addictive motivations than adolescents from middle and balanced families. Fourth, there were significant differences in the problem behaviors of adolescents according to family system types. Adolescents from an extreme family showed more problem behaviors toward their body, family, school, and society than adolescents from middle and balanced families.

A Study on Kitchen Use Behaviors through User Observation - Focused on Small-sized Apartments in Shanghai, China - (사용자 관찰을 통한 부엌 사용 행태 연구 - 중국 상해 소형아파트를 중심으로 -)

  • Kim, Myoung;Choi, Kyung-Ran
    • Korean Institute of Interior Design Journal
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    • v.24 no.3
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    • pp.121-128
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    • 2015
  • As a neighboring country belonged to the same cultural sphere with the Northeast Asia, China is recently emerging as a center of the world's economy. The social transformations caused by the rapid economic growth are bringing changes in the Chinese housing culture and thus, it is considered that the identification of a user's need concerning a new housing space and social and cultural understanding on China are necessary. Accordingly, this research intended to conduct the basic research on the Chinese housing space design by observing the small apartment users in Shanghai area in terms of not only the tangible element of the residential space type but also the intangible elements such as lifestyle, values, behaviors, etc. The research range was limited to the kitchen area at the center of a house as a place where the exchanges among the family members are most frequently occur, and the research was carried out in the following methods. First, the effective user research method for the analysis of the Chinese small apartment kitchen users was studied through the literature investigation. Second, the 6 families of a research target were selected focused on the small apartments in Shanghai, China and the user research was performed using three methods of User observation, Video ethnography, and Contextual inquiry. Third, the research results were analyzed focused on the flow of human traffic in the kitchen area and user's behaviors. What were identified as a result take account of the human traffic movements in the kitchen areas around the sink-counter-cook top, cooking behaviors and meal areas outside of the kitchen. Through this, the need for the effective organization of the sink-counter-cook top, arrangement of meal area, and placement of storage by section for the kitchen space of China were drawn based on the understanding of the cooking process, and it was identified that such results require comprehensive understanding of Chinese housing culture.