• Journal of Digital Contents Society
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• v.11 no.1
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• pp.57-64
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• 2010

The paper reviews the relationship between mobile services and u-City services in order to promote u-City service. In the u-Cities, a variety of services are provided based on u-IT technology, which brings the benefits of efficient city management and offers convenience to the city residents. However, most of the available services are designed for the areas of city operation or administrative management, which hinders the growth and propagation of the services. Hence, the paper suggests a concept of mobile life service that is a service that can be ubiquitously accessible by city residents in everyday life. Accordingly, the paper examines and analyzes the usefulness of such services and the intention to use them by conducting a survey among the residents of the metropolitan area. The paper verifies that the mobile life service will contribute to promoting the use of u-City services.

• Information Systems Review
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• v.10 no.2
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• pp.97-121
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• 2008

There are relatively inactive discussions about applying ubiquitous technology (uT) to traditional marketplace. If u-Market which affords to promote customer shopping convenience and on/offline shopping experience is implemented, then traffic of visiting customers as well as the revenue of the market will increase. Ultimately, it will lead to revitalizing traditional market. For this purpose, we developed a realistic u-Market service scenario with restricted uT considering spatial limitation and poor infrastructure of the physical marketplace. Based on u-Market service scenario, we have empirically investigated the determinants of u-Market service acceptance of the actual customers of traditional marketplace. We hope the results of this study will help in improvement of u-Market system development and service feasibility.

• Journal of Information Processing Systems
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• v.7 no.2
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• pp.287-298
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• 2011

Efficient service description and modeling methodologies are essential for dynamic service composition to provide autonomous services for users in ubiquitous computing environments. In our previous research, we proposed a 'u-service' ontology which is an abstract and structured concept for device operations in ubiquitous environments. One of the problems that we faced during the design process was that there are not enough standards to analyze the effectiveness of a u-service ontology. In this paper, we propose a quality evaluation model to facilitate the design process of a uservice ontology. We extract modeling goals and evaluation indicators based on the uservice description specification. We also present quality metrics to quantify each of the design properties. The experiment result of the proposed quality model shows that we can use it to analyze the design of u-service ontology from various angles. Also, it shows that the model can provide a guideline, and offer appropriate recommendations for improvements.

• Journal of Korea Society of Digital Industry and Information Management
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• v.8 no.4
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• pp.53-62
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• 2012

U-City means the high-tech city that applied ubiquitous technology and information communication technology. U-City aims to intensify urban competitiveness and to improve the quality of residents' life through efficient management of the urban. Currently, 77 U-City projects is underway. The each project cost and scale estimate is not clear in the absence of the U-Service Standardization Model. So, many of the project are trouble about making a production the proper number of U-Service or the cost of project. The excessive service construction is reflected on the construction costs, which leads to the rise of sales price and passes onto the executor of a project as a burden of the project costs, and the problem of the delay of the change-over occurs due to supporting the operation costs for the operation of the constructed service and the demand for additional installation of facilities between a local autonomous entity and the executor of a project. In this paper, we suggested the U-Services Construction Standardization Methods and proposed the standardization services guideline of crime prevention services. U-City services in the future are able to maintain the consistency of the system through the utilization of the proposed standard model. As a result, the U-City project's pre-estimated cost and scale can be extracted.

• The Journal of the Korea institute of electronic communication sciences
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• v.8 no.9
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• pp.1351-1358
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• 2013

This paper aims to study the effects of quality of u-City public service on customer satisfaction in the Korea and is summarized as follows. First, we propose a model for assessing customer's satisfaction on u-City public services. The model comprises of information system (IS) quality, information quality, service quality and publicity. For verifying a model, a statistical study by SPSS 12.0 and AMOS 16.0 has been performed. Second, it is shown from the analysis that information system (IS) quality, information quality and publicity have a positive effect on customer satisfaction. while service quality does not. Last, the study shows that u-City public service enables any citizen to connect to necessary service in anytime and anywhere.

• Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society
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• v.13 no.2
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• pp.834-841
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• 2012

In order to the mobile service uses the wireless terminal including the development of the wire wireless network and Smart phone, and etc. use including mobile office, which and etc. increases. Because in order that the u-Healthcare service using this appeared before the footlights and the existing quality measurement reference considered the speed, error rate, and etc. just, guarantees the stability of the u-Healthcare, the quality control by service are necessary. In this paper, the quality measurement reference by mobile service considering the radio environment as the method for satisfying the quality guarantee of the u-Healthcare mobile service user and user needs was presented. The WiBro u-Healthcare wireless data service quality based system in the end user perspective was established through the main performance index and entrepreneur case presented in the international standardization institute including 3GPP, WiMAX forum, GSMA, and etc. through the related research and the validity of the quality index establishment was presented according to each service.

• Survey Research
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• v.7 no.1
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• pp.1-28
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• 2006

The aim of this study is to develop a scale measuring satisfaction to ubiquitous services. Since the ubiquitous service is not vet implemented but under development, conventional scale construction methods are not directly applicable. In this study, the characteristics of items are studied by observing individual's responses after presenting a video clip describing virtual services. The constructs of ubiquitous service are defined based on those of information system and previous studies of ubiquitous services. Items were generated to reflect the constructs. In the first study, we found six factors (me-centeredness, attractiveness, usability, trust, accessibility, ownership) in the ubiquitous service scale by using exploratory and confirmatory factor analysis. Some items were dropped out that did not show good psychometric properties. In the second study, relationships among the constructs and satisfaction of the service was investigated by using structural equation models. An SEM analysis showed that these six constructs can predict the satisfaction about ubiquitous system, Practical implications and utility of this scale are discussed.

• IEMEK Journal of Embedded Systems and Applications
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• v.2 no.2
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• pp.95-100
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• 2007

Recently ubiquitous application services are developed plentifully using RFID techniques in the field of distribution and security industries. However, except these field the applications using RFID are not mature yet. In this study, we proposed a real-time context service model of the u-conference based on the real-time contextual information acquired from conference and exposition. With collection of real-time contextual information for u-conference, the model can provide a lot of information services on the state of session attendee, doorway control, affairs, user certification, presentation progress etc. For the verification of proposed real-time context service model of u-conference, we design and implement the conference progress state service included the state of session attendee, user certification and presentation progress etc. This service provides the presentation state information included the current presenter, the paper list, the number of session attendee, the schedule and place of each session using the collecting RFID tag and the related information.

• 한국IT서비스학회:학술대회논문집
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• 2009.05a
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• pp.449-452
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• 2009

The vision of u-City is an implementation of ubiquitous environments that makes anybody to be able to access the source of information and knowledge in anywhere and anytime with any methods. It is necessary to study the law and institution of u-City about a role of the government and local governments to have a new growth power. We need to improve the related law and institution with standardization of u-City service to regulate and coordinate diversity of main organ and business area. In this paper, we select service modes to consider the priority order of service and suggest a reform measure of law and institution classified by service models

• Convergence Security Journal
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• v.17 no.3
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• pp.59-64
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• 2017

Korea is experiencing a rapid increase in the number of elderly living alone accompanying the aging society problem, a nd is making efforts to solve the problem through the policy of 'living alone u-care service'. The purpose of this study is to propose a better u-Care service improvement method by applying new technology to improve the user experience of ucare service for the health and safety of the elderly living alone. First, the improvement of u-Care service for elderly livin g alone by applying IoT technology. It provides remote monitoring service using health information data measured through wearable device, and transmits personal health status to medical institution by using personal device such as smart phone, so that remote medical consultation or telemedicine can be connected in the future. Second, improvement of u-Care service through consideration of emotional stability of elderly living alone as well as simple safety and health care through applica tion of emotional service robot technology.It is expected that it will be able to help independent living of one person's elde rly person in the future by providing caring function service to existing u-care service providing service.