• 한국실천공학교육학회논문지
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• 제2권1호
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• pp.164-173
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• 2010

In recent decades, focuses on usability and emphases on user-centric design have become more prevalent in the field of software design. However, it is not always easy for engineers and computer scientists to think in the users' shoes. Human-computer interaction (HCI) is a field of study that focuses on creating technologies easier and more intuitive for the users. This paper is based on teaching HCI skills to undergraduate computer science students in a software application design course. Specifically, this paper employs: first, the HCI skills taught to the students; second, the tendencies and challenges of the students in creating user-centric applications; and lastly, suggestions based on our findings to promote HCI in developing user-friendly software. While more firm conclusions shall be reserved for more formal empirical studies, the findings in this paper still offer implications and suggestions for promoting user-centric approach for software designers and developers in the technology industry.

• 대한인간공학회지
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• 제31권1호
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• pp.109-116
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• 2012

Objective: The aim of this study is to present a solution to problems in the services provided by the general hospitals by creating a user-centric environment through analyzing the User Journey Map and the User Context. Background: The rapid growth in aging population and the monopolization of superior medical staffs by the general hospitals increased demand for the general hospitals in Korea. But, often services provided by the general hospitals are provider-centric and low quality. Method: This study examines problems in the services provided by the general hospitals by analyzing the User Journey Map through stakeholder interviews(contextual interviews) and on-site observation. Based on the contextual analysis of the user(i.e. the patient), this study proposes new and improved user-centric services to be provided by the general hospitals. Results: Ten new user-centric services proposed by this study are: (1) "Booklet on Success Story", (2) "FAQs by Doctor", (3) "Designated Nurse", (4) "Patient Interview Record Card", (5) "Close relationship between doctor & patient", (6) "Thank You Notice Board", (7) "Step by Step", (8) "Green Cap", (9) "Patient Kit", (10) "RFID Direction Display System". Conclusion: The service design for the general hospitals proposed by this study is an important case-study on improving the environment of the general hospitals from provider(medical staffs)-centric to user(patents and its family)-centric. Application: This study is expected to be used in various areas to improve existing system(products and/or services) to be more user-centric.

• 디지털산업정보학회논문지
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• 제7권4호
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• pp.101-110
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• 2011

The change of digital convergence service environment converted the subject of design into user -centric one instead of developer-centric one, and changed the existing design environment focused on product development into the new user -centric design environment. Accordingly, GUI considering user's usability come to take big shares in those contents being used for multimedia equipments. However, as the present educational contents provide complex interface due to its design produced based on the existing e-learning system, they have many problems in that they don't consider user's usability. Thus this paper aimed to analyze actual examples through GUI elements of educational contents being used for multimedia equipments and attempt to suggest some directions for development. additionally, consider the various characteristics of digital convergence environment and educational contents, and try to set up strategic directions possible to utilize user'-centric interface elements more usefully and properly at the time to produce designs.

• 정보과학회 컴퓨팅의 실제 논문지
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• 제21권5호
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• pp.379-386
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• 2015

본 논문에서는 스마트폰 사용자 중심의 반응 완료 시간에 대한 동적 분석을 활용하여 사용자가 실제 인지하는 성능 중심의 새로운 최적화 프레임워크를 제안한다. 이를 위하여 먼저 스마트폰 응용프로그램에서 사용자가 실제 인지하는 성능에 대한 평가 지표로써 사용자 중심 반응 시간을 정의한다. 또한, 이러한 사용자 중심 반응 시간의 동적 탐색에 기반하여 사용자가 인지할 수 있는 성능 병목 지점을 최적화의 힌트로써 개발자에게 제공하는 사용자 중심 반응 시간 분석 도구의 설계와 개발에 대하여 소개한다. 제안한 사용자 중심 반응 시간 분석 도구를 갤럭시 넥서스 스마트폰에 구현하여 그 정확도와 계산부하를 평가한 결과, 전체 반응 시간의 1% 미만의 계산 부하로 카메라를 이용하여 측정한 결과 대비 92%의 정확도를 보였다. 제안한 도구의 효율성 평가를 위하여 소스 코드가 공개되어 있는 안드로이드 응용프로그램의 성능 개선에 제안한 도구를 활용하여 최대 16.4%의 성능 향상을 달성하였다.

• 정보처리학회논문지A
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• 제16A권1호
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• pp.43-54
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• 2009

유비쿼터스 시대의 도래와 함께, 사용자 중심 서비스를 위해 HCI 요소를 최대한 활용하는 HCI 미들웨어에 대한 중요성이 점점 증가하고 있다. 이에 따라 사용자 중심 서비스를 제공하기 위한 HCI 미들웨어에 대한 여러 연구가 진행되었다. 하지만 기존의 연구들은 사용자 중심 서비스 제공에 반드시 필요한 HCI 기능들에 대한 종합적 지원이 부족하다. 본 논문에서는 사용자 중심 서비스 지원을 위한 에이전트 기반 지능형 HCI 미들웨어인 AIM(Agent-based Intelligent Middleware)을 제안한다. 먼저 기존의 여러 HCI 미들웨어들을 분석하여 HCI 미들웨어의 요구조건을 도출하고, 상황 정보 관리, 사용자 행동 패턴 추론, 동적 에이전트 생성 등을 통해 여러 HCI 기능들을 종합적으로 제공할 수 있는 AIM을 설계한다. 또한 스마트 공간에서 사용자 모달리티 기반 서비스 시나리오를 소개하고, 프로토타입 구현을 통해 소개한 미들웨어의 이점을 보인다.

• 한국산학기술학회논문지
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• 제12권2호
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• pp.841-846
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• 2011

현재 우리나라 도로의 서비스 수준은 차량의 평균 통행속도를 기준으로 평가되어지고 있다. 이는 도로의 혼잡도만을 기준으로 적용한 것으로 교통안전 측면이 고려되지 않은 것이 현실이다. 합리적인 도로 설계와 운영을 위한 평가 지표라면 도로 이용자에게 영향을 미치는 제반 인자들을 보다 포괄적으로 포함할 수 있어야 한다. 본 논문에서는 교통안전과 소통측면을 총괄할 수 있는 변수로 사용자비용 개념을 적용하여 도로 평가방법을 개발하고자 한다. 또한, 본 논문에서는 이러한 도로 평가 방법을 기존의 일회성 개발 방법이 아닌 UML 기반의 사용자 중심 분석 방법을 이용하여 설계한다.

• 대한음성학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한음성학회 2006년도 추계학술대회 발표논문집
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• pp.14-18
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• 2006

The role of dialogue manager is to select proper actions based on observed environment and inferred user intention. This paper presents stochastic model for dialogue manager based on Markov decision process. To build a mixed initiative dialogue manager, we used accumulated user utterance, previous act of dialogue manager, and domain dependent knowledge as the input to the MDP. We also used dialogue corpus to train the automatically optimized policy of MDP with reinforcement learning algorithm. The states which have unique and intuitive actions were removed from the design of MDP by using the domain knowledge. The design of dialogue manager included the usage of natural language understanding and response generator to build short message based remote control of home networked appliances.

• 한국정보통신학회논문지
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• 제26권1호
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• pp.114-121
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• 2022

본 논문에서는 셀프리 다중안테나 환경에서 네트워크 전체 사용자의 성능을 보장하기 위한 사용자 중심의 클러스터링 기법을 고려한다. 사용자 중심 클러스터링 기법에서 각 사용자는 자신과 연결된 AP(Access Point)들 사이의 대규모 페이딩(large-scale fading) 채널 정보를 이용해 페이딩 계수가 가장 큰 AP와 페이딩 계수의 상대적 크기가 임계값 이상의 값을 갖는 AP들로 클러스터를 구성한다. 사용자 중심으로 구성된 클러스터를 바탕으로 AP들은 분산적인 기법으로 빔형성과 전력할당을 설계하고 이를 이용해 사용자들의 데이터를 협력 전송한다. 시뮬레이션을 통해 주파수 효율 관점에서 사용자 중심 클러스터링의 성능을 검증하고 주어진 환경에서 최적의 성능을 나타내는 임계값을 찾는다.

• 국제학술발표논문집
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• The 10th International Conference on Construction Engineering and Project Management
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• pp.540-549
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• 2024

Despite the acknowledged benefits by incorporating daylighting in the lighting system of office buildings to enhance energy efficiency and ensure occupants' well-being, a significant gap in understanding the integration of daylighting control system (DCS) with Building Information Modeling (BIM) exists, which can lead to improved energy efficiency and enhanced building design, specifically regarding the impact of daylight on occupant comfort. Previous studies have highlighted the potential of BIM to revolutionize both architectural design and building performance. However, an untapped potential of BIM in facilitating daylighting control in office areas is yet to be explored. The significance of this study lies in prioritizing occupants' well-being and enhancing building performance. This research identifies the feasibility of BIM-enabled DCS through a literature review from three perspectives: BIM-enabled DCS and daylight strategies, BIM-assisted façade system improvement, and user-centric daylight utilization within BIM platforms. As for results, a sensor network diagram illustrating network structure, data flow, and connections between devices of BIM enabled daylight control system for office buildings are established. Additionally, a BIM assisted daylight control strategy diagram is presented to outline user-centric control facilitated by BIM platform. In terms of contribution to the body of knowledge, this research will provide a comprehensive synthesis of existing literature in this domain. Additionally, this research could provide architects, DCS designers, and sustainable building professionals with potential advancements and inspirations to promote energy-efficient and user-centric building design in the future.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제12권3호
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• pp.1168-1188
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• 2018

Social Network Aggregators are used to maintain and manage manifold accounts over multiple online social networks. Displaying the Activity feed for each social network on a common dashboard has been the status quo of social aggregators for long, however retrieving the desired data from various social networks is a major concern. A user inputs the query desiring the specific outcome from the social networks. Since the intention of the query is solely known by user, therefore the output of the query may not be as per user's expectation unless the system considers 'user-centric' factors. Moreover, the quality of solution depends on these user-centric factors, the user inclination and the nature of the network as well. Thus, there is a need for a system that understands the user's intent serving structured objects. Further, choosing the best execution and optimal ranking functions is also a high priority concern. The current work finds motivation from the above requirements and thus proposes the design of a query processing system to retrieve information from social network that extracts user's intent from various social networks. For further improvements in the research the machine learning techniques are incorporated such as Latent Dirichlet Algorithm (LDA) and Ranking Algorithm to improve the query results and fetch the information using data mining techniques.The proposed framework uniquely contributes a user-centric query retrieval model based on natural language and it is worth mentioning that the proposed framework is efficient when compared on temporal metrics. The proposed Query Processing System to Retrieve Information from Social Network (QPSSN) will increase the discoverability of the user, helps the businesses to collaboratively execute promotions, determine new networks and people. It is an innovative approach to investigate the new aspects of social network. The proposed model offers a significant breakthrough scoring up to precision and recall respectively.