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Towards More Accurate Space-Use Prediction: A Conceptual Framework of an Agent-Based Space-Use Prediction Simulation System

  • Cha, Seung Hyun;Kim, Tae Wan
    • International conference on construction engineering and project management
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    • 2015.10a
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    • pp.349-352
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    • 2015
  • Size of building has a direct relationship with building cost, energy use and space maintenance cost. Therefore, minimizing building size during a project development is of paramount importance against such wastes. However, incautious reduction of building size may result in crowded space, and therefore harms the functionality despite the fact that building is supposed to satisfactorily support users' activity. A well-balanced design solution is, therefore, needed at an optimum level that minimizes building size in tandem with providing sufficient space to maintain functionality. For such design, architects and engineers need to be informed accurate and reliable space-use information. We present in this paper a conceptual framework of an agent-based space-use prediction simulation system that provides individual level space-use information over time in a building in consideration of project specific user information and activity schedules, space preference, ad beavioural rules. The information will accordingly assist architects and engineers to optimize space of the building as appropriate.

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A Methodology of Open BIM-based Quantity take-off for Schematic Estimation of the Frame Work in Early Design Stage

  • Hansaem Kim;Jungsik Choi;Inhan Kim
    • International conference on construction engineering and project management
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    • 2013.01a
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    • pp.419-425
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    • 2013
  • Recently AEC industry has required construction automation according to becoming large and complex. Thus BIM-based construction project is increased and used in whole fields of AEC industry. Quantity take-off and estimation fields are important factor for decision-making in conceptual and schematic design stages of construction projects. The purpose of this study improves reliability of the estimation through QTO based on Open BIM. Scope and method to apply QTO is to select conceptual design stage through LoD(Level of Detail) in AEC field and to extract information from BIM model through analysis of IFC structure. This study proceeds three step to make BIM model and check the model quality and calculate QTO. The methodology of QTO using IFC is to verify of result in this study and expects utilizing in design stage of construction projects. The result from this study is expected to decrease the risk factor and time of estimation in the project early phase through improving reliability of schematic estimation.

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Use of Alternative Assessments to Rectify Common Students' Misconceptions: A Case Study of "mini-project" in GCE 'A' Level Physics in a Singapore School

  • Lim, Ai Phing;Yau, Che Ming
    • Journal of The Korean Association For Science Education
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    • v.28 no.7
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    • pp.730-748
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    • 2008
  • Students often have tenacious physics misconceptions and many studies were conducted on engendering conceptual change. Correspondingly, there is much literature on alternative assessment and its role in student learning. This is a comparison study on using alternative assessments to improve common students' misconceptions in GCE Advanced Level Physics. This research also aims to affirm alternative assessment as a valid tool for learning and promote its use. This study involved two classes with 24 students each. For four weeks, electromagnetism was taught to students using the same classroom pedagogies but with different assignments. The control group completeda standard drill-and-practice assignment while the experimental group finished an alternative assessment. From the preliminary results, students who undertook the alternative assessment and the traditional assessment both improved, however, the treatment group did not perform statistically significantly better than the control group. The reasons will be discussed and commented and it is expected to have significant improvement on rectifying misconceptionsupon next batch of experimentation groups.

The Dutch RE;MIND Design's Conceptual and Critical Aesthetics of Use (네덜란드 RE;MIND 디자인의 개념적·비평적 사용미학)

  • Park, Young-Tae
    • Korean Institute of Interior Design Journal
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    • v.23 no.2
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    • pp.51-61
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    • 2014
  • Aesthetics of use for modern people can be regarded as being weighted toward universal and rational function since it has focused on an 'automation and efficiency' and 'smartness' in terms of technological and human engineering position. Thus, aesthetics of use as an individual agent has remained in minimal level. This study attempts to seek conceptual model of design regarding the behavior of users from the systematization of critical theories about the usability. To do that, 'HERTZAIN TALES' written by Anthony Dune and the concept and system of Droog Design have been used as a core standard. In line with the various experiments by artist groups such as Fluxus, Memphis group and the work of product semantics, and inherent characteristics of Droog design, which has surfaced from the 1990s, concepts that has mentioned in the Hertzain tales have been organized into main texts. By overcoming cognitive bias inherent in the material culture and by overcoming an existing usability based on immateriality and dialectic solution, the autonomy of critical design and instrumentality of Droog design have been systemized. By interpreting the design aspect of 12 pieces that have been submitted to the RE;MIND section, the core of this study, it has been confirmed that conceptual and critical design's aesthetics of use From the interpretation of the design aspect of 12 pieces that have been submitted to the RE;MIND section, the core of this study, it has been confirmed that conceptual and critical design's aesthetics of use has established the autonomy and independence of the behavior of users, created functional articulation of materials and secured new conceptual model and thus, could be an effective methodical clue for creating an emergent design.

Systematic Determination of Empirical Parameters Used in Helicopter Conceptual Design (헬리콥터 개념설계에 사용하는 경험적파라메터의 체계적인 결정기법)

  • Kim, Won-Jin;Chae, Sang-Hyun;Oh, Se-Jong;Kim, Seung-Bum;Ahn, Iee-Ki;Yee, Kwan-Jung
    • Journal of the Korean Society for Aeronautical & Space Sciences
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    • v.40 no.8
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    • pp.703-710
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    • 2012
  • At the stage of conceptual design of a helicopter, it is a general way using low fidelity analysis methods because of a large number of design calculations and trade-off studies. Determination of empirical parameters used in analysis codes for more practical design, depends on an user's design experiences, which effects on the accuracy and the fidelity of conceptual design results. Thus, more precise and logical method should be required to determine the empirical parameters used in the conceptual design of a helicopter. The present method is to be used not only in verifying the empirical parameters generated by design requirements, but also regenerate them if they contain any errors. Empirical parameters produced by present method were used to design a helicopter with a payload objective and performance constraints of an operating helicopter. As a result, weights and geometries of designed helicopter matched the target value within 5% significance level, proving that the suggested parameter generating method can be useful in the conceptual design of a helicopter.

Validity of the Conceptual Structure of Clothing Shopping Orientation -Focused on the Specific Structure by the Gender- (의복 쇼핑 성향의 개념적 구조 모형에 대한 타당성 확인 연구 -성별에 따른 세부 구조 차이를 중심으로-)

  • Kim Saehee
    • Journal of the Korean Society of Clothing and Textiles
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    • v.29 no.3_4 s.141
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    • pp.535-546
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    • 2005
  • The purposes of this study are to verify the validity of the conceptual structure of clothing shopping orientation(CSO) developed in the previous research, and to explore the difference of CSO structure between male and female consumer groups. For those purposes, data of 499 male and female consumers were collected. Confirmatory factor analysis, ANOVA, and simultaneous factor analysis were used for data analysis. The results are as follows. First, as a result of confirmatory factor analysis, the validity of conceptual structure of CSO was verified. Second, as a result of ANOVA, male and female showed significantly different CSO at the lower-dimensions level, and as a result of simultaneous factor analysis, male and female showed significantly different relationships between dimensions within the structure. This means that the CSOs of both male and female can be explained by the same CSO structure model, but the specific relationships between CSO dimensions are different by the gender of consumers. Finally, directions for fashion marketing mix concerning the CSO structures of male and female were suggested.

Development of a Conceptual Framework for Nursing Simulation Education Utilizing Human Patient Simulators and Standardized Patients (시뮬레이터와 표준화 환자를 이용한 간호 시뮬레이션 교육의 이론적 기틀 개발)

  • Suh, Eun-Young E.
    • The Journal of Korean Academic Society of Nursing Education
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    • v.18 no.2
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    • pp.206-219
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    • 2012
  • Purpose: Incorporating simulation modalities into nursing education is known to be effective in enhancing education outcomes. Standardizing the nomenclature of simulation modalities and developing a comprehensive conceptual framework for guiding the development of simulation modules are mandated given the prevalence and disorganization of simulation education. This article, thus, was aimed to summarize literature and propose a conceptual framework for structuralizing simulation education in Korea. Methods: A comprehensive literature review on CINAHL, PubMed, RISS, KISS, DBpia and renowned Korean nursing journals was conducted including articles from 2002 to 2011. Results: The nomenclature of simulation modalities was clarified and summarized. Twenty-eight studies on the effects of simulation education were summarized in a table demonstrating the state of the science in simulation research. In addition, 'a conceptual framework for three-dimensional nursing simulation education' was proposed, described in detail, and diagramed. According to 'the 3D simulation framework', each three axes, i.e., the scope of practice, complexity, and student competency, has three phases in accomplishing a high level of competency. Conclusion: The proposed '3D simulation framework' is hoped to be a theoretical guide in designing a clinical curriculum utilizing simulation and developing detailed simulation modules in clinical practicum courses.

A Study on the Automated Generation of Arena Simulation Models Using Conceptual Models (개념 모델을 이용한 Arena 시뮬레이션 모델 자동 생성에 관한 연구)

  • Ra, Hyun-Woo;Choi, Seong-Hoon
    • Journal of the Korea Society for Simulation
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    • v.23 no.4
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    • pp.21-29
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    • 2014
  • In general, a simulation project requires much time and money since we should develop a model that works similarly to the system at a level consistent with the project purposes. Therefore, more active research studies are required to reduce the time needed for the modeling process. This is achievable by minimizing the possible trial and error during the model development process through the appropriate conceptual model design and the automated generation of the simulation model. This paper presents a tool automatically generating an Arena model after developing a conceptual simulation model. Because our proposed tool is based on the popular Microsoft Excel and Visio, it is expected to be practically used at many industrial sites. Finally, we showed the effectiveness of the newly suggested tool by applying it to an imaginary simulation project.

Cognitive Conflict and Causal Attributions to Successful Conceptual Change in Physics Learning

  • Kim, Yeoun-Soo;Kwon, Jae-Sool
    • Journal of The Korean Association For Science Education
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    • v.24 no.4
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    • pp.687-708
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    • 2004
  • The purpose of this study is to investigate the relationships between cognitive conflict and students' causal attributions and to find out what kinds of attributions affect successful resolution of cognitive conflict in learning physics. Twenty-nine college students who attended a base general physics course took an attribution test and a conceptual pretest related to action and reaction concept. Of these, twenty students who revealed alternative conceptions were selected. They were confronted with a discrepant demonstration and took part in the cognitive conflict level test, a posttest, and delayed posttest. Those students who experienced high levels of cognitive conflict were selected and interviewed to find out what kinds of attributions affect resolving the conflict. When confronted with the discrepant event, the students who attributed success outcomes to "effort" experienced higher levels of cognitive conflict than those to "task difficulty." However, those students who revealed high levels of cognitive conflict and attributed success outcomes to effort did not always produce conceptual change. They had different perspectives on effort and conducted different effort activities to resolve the cognitive conflict. In addition, these effort activities appeared to include their motivational beliefs, metacognitive and volitional strategies. The results of this study indicate that in order for the conflicts to lead to change, students need to have the perspective on effort implying the use of the self-regulated learning strategy and to conduct effort activities based on them. Beyond cold conceptual change, this article suggests that there is a management strategy of cognitive conflict in the classroom context.

A Study on the Adaptable Conceptual Design System Based on Super-Application Concept (수퍼 어플리케이션 개념에 의한 유연화된 개념설계시스템 개발에 관한 연구)

  • Dong-Kon Lee;Kyung-Ho Lee;Soon-Sub Lee;Kyu-Yeul Lee;Soon-Hung Han
    • Journal of the Society of Naval Architects of Korea
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    • v.31 no.2
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    • pp.1-6
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    • 1994
  • A computer system supporting conceptual design is required to have not only a design model for creative works but also flexibility to cope with changing environments. In this research, a new conceptual design system was developed by expanding functions of existing systems. The modules of the system were maintained to have independency so that each unit module could be executed alone. The adaptable conceptual design system based on the super-application concept which control each module in high level was developed using UNIX C Shell of SUN SPARC workstation.

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