• Journal of Information Science Theory and Practice
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• 제8권1호
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• pp.68-78
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• 2020

This study attempted to uncover the characteristics of health information non-seekers among the United States foreign-born population and identify potential predictors of their non-seeking behavior. The trends of foreign-born health information nonseekers over the past twelve years were also examined. Statistical analysis was conducted with two sets of Health Information National Trends Survey (HINTS) data: HINTS 2 (2005) and HINTS 5 Cycle 1 (2017) datasets. It was found that foreign-born nonseekers differ from foreign-born seekers in terms of a variety of variables including education, income, English proficiency, the uses of Internet and social media, ownership of digital devices, ownership of health insurance, perceived health status, and level of trust in health information sources. Among them, education, Internet use, and trust in online health information were identified as predictors of the foreign-born population's non-seeking of health information. In addition, three variables - race/ethnicity, age, and place of accessing the Internet - which were significant factors in the 2005 dataset, were no longer significant in the 2017 dataset, implying the possible influence of smartphones that reduces Internet accessibility gaps among different racial/ethnic and age groups.

• 한국의류학회지
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• 제34권3호
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• pp.480-491
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• 2010

This study investigates the body satisfaction and fitness apparel depending on age and silhouette. The subjects were 254 females 20~50 years of age living in Chungju South Korea. There are various body types in women over the age of 35, the lower part of the body-development type, regular type, the upper part of the body-development type, and the rectangular body type. In addition, there is a lower satisfaction level in circumferences related with apparel fit, especially in the sleeve length, armhole, and crotch length. Therefore, a size system is needed that considers various body types in ready-to-wear clothing for middle-aged women. Design, color, and pattern are most important in clothing purchases by unmarried women, but the ease of laundry management and price discounts are the most significant for clothing purchases by married women. The upper part of the body-development type is unsatisfactory in the size-fit of sleeve length and shoulder width, but the lower part of the body-development type is unsatisfactory in the circumference of the waist, hip, abdominal, girth of skirt, and crotch length. The rectangular body type and the lower part of the body-development type are unsatisfactory in movement comfort, especially in hip girth and crotch length. The upper part of the body-development type is unsatisfactory in the movement comfort of the chest and elbow girth.

• 디자인학연구
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• 제15권4호
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• pp.243-252
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• 2002

인터넷 환경의 발전으로 인한 사용자 폭의 확대는 연령계층별 사용자에 대한 인지특성의 이해와 이에 따른 사용자 중심의 디자인 방법을 필요로 하고 있다. 이와 같은 배경에서 본 연구는 웹 인터페이스에서 시각정보의 인지특성 도출을 위해 시지각 인지프로세스 모델을 제시하였으며, 시각정보에 대한 시지각 계측실험의 과정을 거쳐 연령 계층별 피험자의 인지특성에 대한 실질적인 데이터를 확보할 수 있었다. 이의 결과를 토대로 연령계층별 사용자의 인지특성은 시지각 인지프로세스의 세부속성인 형태, 색채, 공간, 운동과 시지각의 생리적, 물리적, 인지적 특성이 변수로 작용하여 서로 다른 인지특성을 가지고 있음을 밝혔다. 그 결과로 시지각 인지프로세스 모델의 다양한 적용은 연령계층별 사용자의 인지특성을 구체적이며 체계적으로 도출할 수 있는 수 있는 기반이 될 수 있을 것이며 웹 인터페이스의 평가 모델로도 활용 될 수 있을 것이다. 또한 본 연구는 디자이너의 역할 확대와 연령계층별 사용편의성 연구방향을 확립할 수 있는 기반을 마련하는 계기가 되었다는데서 그 의의가 있다.

• Journal of the Korean Data Analysis Society
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• 제20권6호
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• pp.3117-3126
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• 2018

정보보안의 중요성이 대두되고 있는 현재 운영체제 업데이트는 안전한 인터넷 사용 환경을 유지하기 위한 기본 사항이다. 그러나 성별과 연령 등 이용자의 개인적인 속성이나 사회경제적 환경에 따라 정보보안 실천과 관련하여 집단별 격차가 여전히 존재하고 있다. 본 연구는 인터넷 상의 정보보호와 관련하여 침해사고 예방 행위 중 운영체제 업데이트 실시여부가 성별과 연령대 별로 연관성이 있는지를 분석하고, 성별과 연령대가 미치는 영향력을 실증적으로 분석하여 이들 요인에 대한 타당성을 검증하고자 하였다. 이에 본 연구에서는 한국인터넷진흥원이 2016년 조사한 정보보호 실태조사 자료를 기반으로 로지스틱 회귀분석을 실시하였다. 연구결과 성별과 연령대 별 집단의 차이는 운영체제 업데이트의 실시여부에 관련 있는 요인으로 조사되었다. 성별과 연령대 별 요인들이 운영체제 업데이트의 실시여부에 미치는 영향력을 분석한 결과, 성별에 있어서는 운영체제 업데이트 실시여부의 오즈가 남자보다 여자가 0.419배 높다고 추정되었다. 연령대 별 운영체제 업데이트의 실시여부에서는 정보화 취약계층인 50대를 기초로 분석한 결과 50대에 비해 20대는 오즈가 13.266배 높다는 결과가 나왔다.

• 한국도서관정보학회지
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• 제38권4호
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• pp.3-17
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• 2007

정보시대에 들어오면서 사회적 정보문제와 개인적 정보문제, 그리고 정보화에 따른 실체 손실과 경험의 이차화 현상들이 점점 심화되고 있다. 정보교육 또는 정보문해 교육은 변증법적 관점에서 볼 때 정보시대에 들어오면서 자각되어 드러난 갈등들을 통일적인 합으로 나아가게 만드는 중요한 문화적 중재 매체이다. 본 연구는 2001년 발표된 졸고 "정보교육의 문화적 담론"에서 제기 되었던 개인적 정보문제와 사회적 정보문제의 변증법적 해석을 기초로 거시적인 교육 이니셔티브와 정보윤리 문제를 다루었다. 거시적 교육 이니셔티브와 관련해서는 다양한 교육기관과 교육시스템에 요구되는 정보접근성을 위한 교육기회의 균등 문제와 정보문해 교육을 위한 과제가 논의되었다. 정보윤리와 관련해서는 정보의 생산과 사용 측면에서의 정보윤리와 이에 대한교육적 책임을 다루었다.

• Journal of Nutrition and Health
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• 제41권8호
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• pp.860-869
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• 2008

The purposes of this study were to investigate use patterns of nutrition information service of 50-and-older adults and analyze the differences in use patterns of nutrition information service according to their socio-demographic variables. The survey was conducted with 500 adults aged 50-and-over living in Seoul between March 28 and April 10, 2007. A total of 401 questionnaires were used for analysis (use rate 80.2%) and the statistical data analyses were completed using SPSS Win (ver 12.0). The main results of this study were as follows. First, most respondents (73.3%) realized the need for nutrition counseling or education. However, 65.3% of respondents have little experience in nutrition counseling or education. Second, the most preferred methods of nutrition counseling or education were field trips (27.7%), counseling in hospitals/public health centers (23.4%), cooking classes (23.2%). And the most often cited sources of nutrition information were TV/radio (66.6%) and newspapers/magazines/books (41.6%). Third, sociodemographic variables such as sex, age, education level, occupations were significantly related to methods of nutrition counseling or education. And variables such as age, education level, occupations were significantly related to often cited sources of nutrition information. Also sex, age, education level, occupations were significantly related to needs for nutrirtion information service.

• Child Studies in Asia-Pacific Contexts
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• 제5권2호
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• pp.83-94
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• 2015

The purpose of this study was to understand the influence of personality trait information on young children's perception of initial attraction in peer relationships. The sample consisted of 90 children of three to five years of age in South Korea. Children were presented with an inductive inference task where they had to make inference of a target character's preference on novel-play and prosocial act based on trait labels (smart-not smart, outgoing-shy, nice-mean) and perceptual (toy) similarity information of two test characters. Children showed difference in their use of trait information depending on the perceptual similarity information, trait valence, and inference question with age. This result provides initial support that not only do young children understand the significance of trait in peer attraction but also know when trait label is more informative to use to infer others depending on the situation.

• 대한가정학회지
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• 제38권1호
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• pp.9-23
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• 2000

This study was designed to test the differences in children's social information-processing patterns and bahavioral characteristics among four different groups of peer status, and to evaluate the predictability of peer status from social information-processing and social behavior. In addition, age and sex differences were assessed. The subjects were 80 boys and 80 girls identified as popular, average, neglected, and rejected by their peers in the first and the third grade. They responded to a sociometric test and three hypothetical social dilemmas, while behavioral characteristics were rated by their teachers. The data were analyzed by ANOVAs, and discriminant analyses. The results showed that children's social information-processing patterns were not significantly different by peer status except the number of interventions requested. Whereas children's behavioral characteristics were different by peer status in all of the four domains. Children's social information-processing patterns and behavioral characteristics were different in part by age and sex. The important predictors of peer status were hyperactive-distractive, anxious-withdrawn, sociable-prosocial behaviors, and the number of interventions requested.

• 로봇학회논문지
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• 제3권2호
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• pp.131-136
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• 2008

This paper proposes a method to extract the personal information using a microphone array. Useful personal information, particularly customers, is age and gender. On the basis of this information, service applications for robots can satisfy users by offering services adaptive to the special needs of specific user groups that may include adults and children as well as females and males. We applied Gaussian Mixture Model (GMM) as a classifier and Mel Frequency Cepstral coefficients (MFCCs) as a voice feature. The major aim of this paper is to discover the voice source parameters of age and gender and to classify these two characteristics simultaneously. For the ubiquitous environment, voices obtained by the selected channels in a microphone array are useful to reduce background noise.

• International Journal of Knowledge Content Development & Technology
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• 제8권4호
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• pp.55-74
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• 2018

Faculty advisors play a vital role in a learning and adjustment process of doctoral students at their work, department, university and discipline by sharing and exchanging relevant information and knowledge in the profession. Despite the important role of information practice in doctoral advising, few studies have investigated the informational aspects of faculty advisors and their students. Thus, this study aims to consider the distribution of information exchanged between faculty advisors and their doctoral students and relate them to doctoral students' demographic characteristics (gender, age, race and/or ethnicity, degree, and stage of doctoral work). The findings of this study show that overall information exchange is most frequent at the work level followed by the discipline, school/department, and university levels. In particular, information exchange at the work and discipline levels explains the characteristics of doctoral education, socializing students into both student and professional roles. In addition, there are statistically significant differences in information exchange along certain dimensions according to the advisee's gender, age, race and/or ethnicity, degree, and stage of doctoral study, suggesting that information needs and seeking behavior may vary according to the demographic characteristics of advisees.