• Journal of the HCI Society of Korea
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• v.11 no.1
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• pp.29-38
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• 2016

Mobile tour guide applications help tourists to search for and visit their surrounding POIs(Points of Interest) of their locations and to obtain their guide information. With the development of wearable devices like smart watches and wearable glasses, people using multiple mobile devices are increasing; a tourist may use a hand-held device, a wearable device or both to obtain tour information. However, most mobile tour guides using mobile devices provide the tour information with little consideration of their hand-held and wearable characteristics. In particular, a tourist with multiple mobile devices who search for the tour information from multiple mobile devices must input their intention separately to each device. To alleviate these problems, we propose a mobile tour guide system with the following features: one is to reduce redundant user input by sharing the touring context between hand-held and wearable devices; the other is to present tour information according to capabilities and usage pattern of the devices. The proposed system guides tourists by complementing disadvantage of the devices and also minimizes user interaction between applications and tourists.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.26 no.1
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• pp.85-93
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• 2022

This paper contains the design and implementation results of a package tour management application using a Geofence technology as well as the performance evaluation. This application ables the tour guide to monitor the tourist movement in real-time whether the tourists are inside the virtual polygonal Geofence set by the tour guide. Even when the tour is moving between travel destinations, a virtual circular Geofence can be set by the tour guide to monitoring the tourist movement while on the move. The application includes tour guide's and tourist's locations, schedule and participant management. To evaluate the performance, average response time and accuracy is measured, resulting in satisfactory performance. The average response time ranged from 0.0047 seconds to 7.3 seconds in various cases and for accuracy, it scored 100% in various cases. It is expected that implementing Geofence technology to package tour management applications will help tour guides to perform more productive package tours by reducing the burden of managing tourists.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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• 2021.05a
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• pp.91-93
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• 2021

This paper proposes an architecture to develop a mobile package tour application using geofence technology to increase tourism management effectiveness and efficiency. The proposed application allows the tour guide to set a virtual fence on a map with a certain radius dynamically as the virtual boundary to keep tourists inside both when visiting a place or when the tour is moving. The virtual fences are set up for allowing the tour guide to monitoring the tourist's movement by sending a warning to the tourist to get back inside the fence and a notification for the tour guide. If this geofence technology is applied to the package tour application, the tour guide will able to manage the package tour easily and conveniently.

• Journal of the Korean Data and Information Science Society
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• v.16 no.1
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• pp.79-94
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• 2005

This study examines which factors affect on Job-Satisfaction of Tour Guide in Korea, perceiving that Job-Satisfaction of Tour Guide affects customer satisfaction, and outcomes of business. In the tourism industry, Tour Guides are one of the most important factors influencing customer satisfaction, because they are one of the key front- line players. Ultimately, the purpose of this study is to present the importance of efficient management for human resources through investigating Job-Satisfaction of Tour Guide. To active purpose of this study, both literatures and empirical research based on Japanese, and Chinese Tour Guides in Korea were adopted and conducted. In conclusion, in order to improve psychological and behavioral outcomes of the Tour Guides, job satisfaction factors have to be improved in many ways and also travel managers should consider them.

• Journal of the Korean Society for Library and Information Science
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• v.49 no.1
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• pp.279-296
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• 2015

The purpose of this study is to practice the library tour program for pre-librarians, to analyze the impact of the library tour program for pre-librarians on librarian job's perception, and to present the educational meaning of library tour program for pre-librarians to the library & information science academies, the librarians in charge of the library tour, and pre-librarians. For doing this, the 29 pre-librarians participated in a library tour are surveyed by the questionnaires before and after library tour program. As a result, it's revealed that the library tour program for pre-librarians is proved to be the educational effects that it establishes the per-librarians' attitudes for librarian job performance. It's meaningful that this study presents the education effects of library tour program to the librarians in charge of library tour program and the pre-librarians.

• Journal of the Korean BIBLIA Society for library and Information Science
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• v.23 no.4
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• pp.181-197
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• 2012

The purpose of this study is to analyze the impact of the library tour program on pre-librarians' perception as librarians, and to present the educational meaning of library tour program for pre-librarians. For doing this, the 29 pre-librarians participated in library tour are surveyed before and after library tour program. The results revealed that the library tour program for pre-librarians is proved to have the educational effects that establish the per-librarians' attitudes toward positive librarian job performance. It's meaningful that this study presents the educational effects of library tour program to pre-librarians.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.12 no.1
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• pp.46-52
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• 2008

In this paper, we present the Mont-Saint-Michel virtual reality system designed to create the virtual heritage environment, which is enriched with personalized tour guide service. The tour guide system allows users to travel in the virtual heritage site and get more information about the sites or items of user's interests. It also allows users to make their own tour guidebook with the pictures they have taken during the virtual tour and more detail descriptions from the tour guide database. It then generates the web-based tour guidebook for users to utilize it for the actual site visit or share it with others over the Internet. The components of this system are designed with the consideration of reusability to be used for other interactive tour guide systems. This paper describes the motivation the development and a preliminary user study of Mont-Saint-Michel virtual reality personalized tour guide system.

• Journal of the Korean Data and Information Science Society
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• v.22 no.6
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• pp.1075-1087
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• 2011

We analyze the tourist satisfaction of the Daegu City Tour which plays a big role in the local tourism boosting through '2011 Visit Daegu Year'. To analyze a causal relation among factors, we proposed a structural equation model consisting of four latent variables of the tour: motivation, expectation, satisfaction, and future behaviors. Using data from the actual tourists of the Daegu City Tour, we found out that tourists' motivation before the tour does not affect tourists' satisfaction after the tour. However those who have higher motivation have positive future behavior and those who have the higher expectation are more satisfied with the tour. Meanwhile, the expectation before the tour does not lead the future behavior but the satisfaction after the tour influences the positive future behavior.

• Annual Conference of KIPS
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• 2000.10a
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• pp.321-324
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• 2000

조합 최적화 문제인 Traveling Salesman problems(TSP)을 Genetic Algorithm(GA)[3]과 Local Search Heuristic Algorithm[8]을 이용하여 접근하는 것은 최적해를 구하기 위해 널리 알려진 방법이다. 본 논문에서는 TSP문제를 해결하기 위한 또 다른 접근법으로, 다수의 Ant들이 Tour들을 찾는 ACS(Ant Colony System) Algorithms[4][6][7]을 소개하고, ACS에서 Global Optima를 찾는 과정에서, 이미 이루어져 있는 Ant들의 Tour결과들을 서로 비교한다. Global Updating Rule에 의해 Global Best Tour 에 속해 있는 각 Ant Tour의 edge들을 update하는 ACS Algorithm에, 각 루프마다 Ant Tour들을 우성과 열성 인자들로 구분하고, 각각의 우성과 열성 인자들에 대해서 Global Updating Rule에 기반한 가중치를 적용(Weight Updating Rule)하므로서 기존의 ACS Algorithm보다 효율적으로 최적 해를 찾아내는 방법에 대해서 논하고자 한다.

• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.15 no.9
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• pp.1-10
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• 2015

We propose and implement a personalized tour recommendation system based on ontology. We utilize user's profile, dynamic information on search in the application, web search, and facebook for personalized recommendation. We construct tour database for England based on ontology for a demo service, and recommend tour spot considering an individual preference with tour database. This dynamic and personalized tour service makes it possible for individual to plan one's own tour by considering recommended tour spots for each individual.