• Journal of dental hygiene science
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• v.3 no.2
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• pp.77-82
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• 2003

The purpose of this study was to examine the characteristics of dental homepages in korea to discuss how they could be improved better. The findings of this study could be described as below : First, dental homepage should include differentiated, specialized content and features. Second, the use of three-dimensional image or multimedia would contribute to increasing people's understanding of dental treatment or general dental information and elevating the effectiveness of dental publicity activities. Third, the want ad and order system used by the business sector or hospital would serve to multiply the management efficiency of dental institutions. Fourth, dental hospitals and clinics that belong to the same network or franchise need to make publicity banner for feasible mutual link, and the use of the same homepage design or common logo would be effective for better image and publicity activities. Fifth, it would be convenient to add the map search function or inquiry system. Seventh, if multiple types of services, such as entertainment or game, are prepared, it would be possible for dental institutions to project a better image and to induce visitors to hit the sites again.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea CI
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• v.44 no.1
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• pp.56-63
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• 2007

In this paper, an eye tracking method is presented using a neural network (NN) and mean-shift algorithm that can accurately detect and track user's eyes under the cluttered background. In the proposed method, to deal with the rigid head motion, the facial region is first obtained using skin-color model and con-nected-component analysis. Thereafter the eye regions are localized using neural network (NN)-based tex-ture classifier that discriminates the facial region into eye class and non-eye class, which enables our method to accurately detect users' eyes even if they put on glasses. Once the eye region is localized, they are continuously and correctly tracking by mean-shift algorithm. To assess the validity of the proposed method, it is applied to the interface system using eye movement and is tested with a group of 25 users through playing a 'aligns games.' The results show that the system process more than 30 frames/sec on PC for the $320{\times}240$ size input image and supply a user-friendly and convenient access to a computer in real-time operation.

• Asia pacific journal of information systems
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• v.20 no.2
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• pp.157-180
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• 2010

Rapid development of information technology has generated a new industry and market. In particular, network technology such as the Internet and other computer networks made transaction activities switched from traditional offline commerce to e-commerce. Among them, digital content is bit-based object which is created and distributed through electronic environment. In particular, many entertainment contents such as the music, the movies, and the computer game softwares are main products. Although digital content commerce has high potential demand, it lacks the consideration about the factor related to maintaining existing customer such as customer loyalty and switching costs. There has been a number of research on customer loyalty and other factors affecting it in the traditional electronic commerce environment, but there is a lack of research which examines the characteristics of digital content. The study about the effect of switching costs on customer loyalty in digital content commerce is necessary because the customers of digital content commerce market are from those of other e-commerce market or traditional offline commerce market. In addition, customer loyalty and switching costs are important factors because they may build up greater customer retention. For that reason, this study focused on examining the relationships among switching costs, antecedents for switching costs, and customer loyalty in online digital music service industry. The study has three major purposes: (1) to find antecedents of switching costs on digital content commerce and examine effect of antecedents for switching costs; (2) to identify effect of switching costs on customer loyalty in digital content commerce and examine moderating effects of alternative attractiveness; (3) to identify the differences of antecedents for switching costs by contents transmission type(streaming service and downloading service). And, the online digital music service industry is selected in this study since there are many users and transactions incurring. To accomplish these purposes, a survey questionnaire was developed and distributed to 256 informants. Survey instrument was developed based on previous research and pre-established survey items. Total of 206 surveys are collected and used in the data analysis. Among the respondents, 56.8% is male and 43.2% is female. Also, 86 responses were streaming service user group and 120 responses were download service user group. These data was analyzed using regression analysis. Major findings of empirical analysis can be summarized as follows. First, switching costs have positive effect on customer loyalty in digital content commerce environment. Second, the influence of switching costs on customer loyalty increases under conditions of high alternative attractiveness. Third, DRM convenience and breadth of use have positive effect on switching costs. The findings imply that the digital content provider should pay more attention to switching costs in addition to customer satisfaction in order to attract customers. Also, increasing the convenience of DRM use by securing the convenience of user interface and expanding the support device and increasing the service use scope by providing diverse value-added service helps to create a switching barrier. The result of the study can become a practical use in marketing strategy for maintaining existing customer. In particular, switching barrier is very important under conditions of high competition in the online music service market. This study can be used as a basis for further studies about customer retention in digital content commerce.

• Journal of Korean Society of Occupational and Environmental Hygiene
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• v.16 no.4
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• pp.334-345
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• 2006

The objectives of this study were to analyze and compare 24 hrs personal exposure levels of MF at microenvironments such as home, school, educational institute, internet pc game room, transportation, and other places according to time activity patterns using various metrics for children attending the primary schools located near and away from the power lines, and to characterize the major microenvironments and impact factors attributed personal exposure level. The study was carried out for 44 children attending a primary school away from the lines(school A) and 125 children attending a school away from 154 kV power lines(school B), all who aged 12 years and were 6 grade, from July 2003 to December 2003. All participants filled in a questionnaire about characteristics, residence, use of electrical appliances and others. Children wore a small satchel in which EMDEX II and Lite (Enertech, Co. Ltd) and a diary of activity list for period of registration in 20 minutes blocks. All statistical calculations were made with the SAS System, Releas 6.12. The summary of results was presented below. First, about the characteristics of subjects, there no differences between two groups. The subject almost spent about 56 % of their time at home and about 20~25 % of their time at school. Fifty percent of children spent 2 hours at private educational institutes. Second, the personal exposure measurements of children in school B was statistically higher than those of children in school A by various metrics such as arithmetic mean, geometric mean, percentile(5, 25, 50, 75, 95), maximum, rate of change metric, constant field metric. The arithmetic and geometric mean magnetic fields during the time the children were at school B were 0.98 and $0.86{\mu}T$ and were about 23 times higher than those of children were at school A. In conclusion, the significant major determinants of personal exposure level is the distance from the power line to microenvironments.

• Cartoon and Animation Studies
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• s.14
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• pp.165-176
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• 2008

In the future there would be many kinds of digital images for many industrial markets. 3D stereoscopic images for variable fields; medical operation, film and animation, broadcasting, internet, game, or design for art and architecture. And many people to work about computer programming, and digital image making will concern about it more and more. However, these kinds works and studies are focused on the professional technical fields like 3D display or computer programming technology so far. To revitalize the market of a variable stereoscopic contents, there should build up the foundation for easy processing of the making stereoscopic images. This paper is based on stereoscopic making skills for anaglyph system. An anaglyph system has an old history about making stereoscopic images, and very simple method to produce the stereoscopic images. Particularly this study is focused on color compositing technique, and camera positioning on the compositing system. It will help optimization of the environments to create 3D motion graphic and animation contents.

• Proceedings of the KAIS Fall Conference
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• 2010.11b
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• pp.751-754
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• 2010

본 연구는 초등학교 5, 6학년 학생들을 대상으로 인터넷 게임중독과 자아통제, 충동성과의 관계를 파악하여 올바른 인터넷 사용 문화를 장려하고, 과도한 인터넷 사용 방지교육을 위한 기초자료를 제공하고자 시도되었다. 자료는 2009년 11월 9일에서 11월 30일까지 익산시내 3개 초등학교를 임의로 선정하여 5, 6학년 학생 927명을 대상으로 조사하였다. 자료 분석은 SPSS WIN(12.0 한글판) 프로그램을 이용하여 카이제곱검정, t-검정, 일원배치 분산분석, 다중회귀분석의 통계적 방법을 이용하였다. 본 연구의 결과로는 대상자의 인터넷 게임중독 정도는 '정상' 483명(54.3%), '중독초기' 363명(40.8%), '중독중증' 43명(4.8%)으로 나타났다. 일반적 특성에 따른 인터넷 게임중독 정도를 분석한 결과 성별(p<0.01)이 유의한 차이가 있었으며 컴퓨터 사용 특성에 따른 인터넷 게임중독 정도는 이용장소(p<0.05), 주요활동(p<0.01), 평일 이용시간(p<0.01), 주말 이용시간(p<0.01)이 유의한 차이가 있었다. 또한, 인터넷 게임중독과 자아통제와의 관계를 분석한 결과 인터넷 게임중독 경향이 높을수록 자아통제 점수가 낮으며, 자아통제 점수가 높을수록 인터넷 게임중독 경향이 낮은 것으로 조사되었으며(p<0.01) 인터넷 게임중독과 충동성과의 관계를 분석한 결과 인터넷 게임중독 경향이 높을수록 충동성 점수가 높은 것으로 조사 되었는데, 이는 충동성 점수가 낮을수록 인터넷 게임중독 경향이 낮음을 의미한다(p<0.01). 자아통제와 충동성과의 관계를 분석한 결과 자아통제가 낮을수록 충동성이 높으며, 자아통제가 높을수록 충동성이 낮은 것으로 나타나서 자아통제와 충동성은 서로 반대 개념인 것을 알 수 있었으며(p<0.01) 인터넷 게임중독과 자아통제, 충동성과의 다중회귀분석 결과 유의한 영향을 주는 변수는 성별(p<0.01), 학교성적(p<0.01), 주요활동(p<0.01), 평일 이용시간(p<0.01), 주말 이용시간(p<0.01), 자아통제(p<0.01), 충동성(p<0.01)이었다. 여학생보다 남학생이, 학교성적이 높을수록, 주요활동이 비학습관련인 경우, 평일 이용시간이 1시간이상 이용할수록, 주말 이용시간이 2시간이상 많이 이용할수록, 자아통제가 낮을수록, 충동성이 높을수록, 인터넷 게임중독 경향이 높은 것으로 나타났다. 이상의 결과를 종합해 보면, 인터넷 게임중독 경향이 높을수록 자아통제 정도가 낮게, 충동성 정도는 높게 나타나고, 인터넷 게임중독 경향이 낮을수록 자아통제 정도가 높게, 충동성 정도는 낮게 나타나는 것을 알 수 있다. 또한 자아통제와 충동성은 상반된 개념으로 자아통제 정도가 높을수록 충동성은 낮아지고 자아통제 정도가 낮을수록 충동성이 높아짐을 알 수 있다.

• Cartoon and Animation Studies
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• s.40
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• pp.397-421
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• 2015

Aristotle's Poetics is the earliest work of dramaturgy. It explains some of the most important narrative notions, for example, Mimesis, Katharsis, Mythos(Plot), Ethos(Character), Anagnorisis and Peripeteia. etc. Aristotle considered the plot which is the arrangement of events, as the most important element of drama. This paper presents an example of a plot configuration as an alternative to the traditional narration used since Aristotle. Dead Island, developed by Techland and published by Deep Silver, is one of the most successful action role-playing survival zombie video games. Its trailer, the Winner of Gold Prize for Internet Film at Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity in 2011. Since the purpose of the trailer is to attract the audiences/gamers to the film/game, it has generally a similer narrative method from its own works. But Dead Island trailer is different. We treat this trailer as an short animation. It could be a new example of the non-linear narrative by the control of the time for example, temporal arrangement, direction and speed. We analyse all shots of Dead Island's trailer with Poetics' rules and with $G{\acute{e}}rard$ Genette's some narrative notions for example temporal order and duration. Furthermore we look for how to maximize the audiences' curiosity by the adjustment of the time, combined with its shocking images.

• Journal of KIISE:Computing Practices and Letters
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• v.16 no.4
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• pp.405-414
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• 2010

According to the statistics of SecurityFocus in 2008, client-side attacks through the Microsoft Internet Explorer have increased by more than 50%. In this paper, we have implemented a behavior-based malicious web page detection system and a blacklist-based malicious web page filtering system. To do this, we first efficiently collected the target URLs by constructing a crawling system. The malicious URL detection system, run on a specific server, visits and renders actively the collected web pages under virtual machine environment. To detect whether each web page is malicious or not, the system state changes of the virtual machine are checked after rendering the page. If abnormal state changes are detected, we conclude the rendered web page is malicious, and insert it into the blacklist of malicious web pages. The malicious URL filtering system, run on the web client machine, filters malicious web pages based on the blacklist when a user visits web sites. We have enhanced system performance by automatically handling message boxes at the time of ULR analysis on the detection system. Experimental results show that the game sites contain up to three times more malicious pages than the other sites, and many attacks incur a file creation and a registry key modification.

• Journal of the Korea Society of Computer and Information
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• v.15 no.10
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• pp.209-220
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• 2010

In this study, a survey was carried out to investigate status of children's computer use and their ability by gender and age. The objects of the survey were kids at a day care center in Gimpo where students of the early childhood education department of K university had practical training for a month. 378 questionnaire were collected excepting those with insincere or inconsistent responses, and among them, According to the results of this study, girls use computers more often than boys for educational purposes such as learning how to read and write Korean language and numbers and foreign languages, and also learning music and arts. On the other hand, boys use computers more often than girls for entertainment like cartoon movies and games. In terms of computer using ability such as understanding instructions, manipulation of functions, drawing pictures, chatting and e-mail, internet shopping, homepage making, girls have higher ability than boys while boys are significantly superior to girls in the ability to play computer games. The analytical results show that application programs of the childhood education is desirable for boys to use for the sake of arousing the interest and for the game and for girls to use at the part of music and arts. According to ages, for 1-2 years children, they needs the AP with a delicate person having the computer knowledge, for 3-4 years children, they need AP with some little help, for 6-7 years, they need the AP to do themselves according to sex and age.

• Journal of the Korea Computer Graphics Society
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• v.13 no.4
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• pp.13-19
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• 2007

Computer games for elderly people can be utilized as a tool not only for enjoying themselves but also for improving their health and quality of lives. It is reported that such games could be played in order to stimulate and enhance mental and physical capabilities of elderly people. It is also reported that traditional folk games are preferred to be played by elderly people rather than modern computer games. In this paper, we propose to use a tabletop interface, u-Table, and its corresponding natural gestures as a user interface for playing traditional folk games by elderly people. Since a table is a good place for people to get together, talk to each other and share their experiences, a tabletop interface can be used for playing games of cooperation, conversation and sharing. A set of traditional folk games were digitalized using u-Table. It was demonstrated that its users had better experiences of playing games with u-Table comparing to playing games using a mouse of a conventional computer.