• 프린팅코리아
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• v.7 no.9
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• pp.104-107
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• 2008

최근 장애인들의 사회참여가 점점 늘어나고 있는 상황에서 장애인들에 대한 관심과 권리보호에 대한 사회적인 관심이 높아지고 있다. 우리나라의 경우 국민들의 생활 및 의식수준이 높아지고, 사회복지 및 사회안전망에 대한 관심이 증가하면서 장애인들의 복지 문제가 중요한 이슈로 대두되고 있으며, 세계 최고 수준의 IT기술을 활용하여 장애인들의 복지를 향상하는 방안이 적극적으로 전개되고 있다. 이에 한나라당 김소남 의원은 시각장애인, 노인 등을 위해 문자를 음성으로 출력할 수 있도록 인쇄물 등에 도형 형태로 표시하는 '음성변환용 바코드' 정의를 규정하고, 이를 지원하는 것을 골자로 하는 장애인.노인.임산부 등의 편의증진보장에 관한 법률 개정안을 지난 7월 24일 대표 발의했다. 이와 관련 음성변환용 바코드의 대해 알아보았다.

• 프린팅코리아
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• s.40
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• pp.116-119
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• 2005

과거에 비해 단순히 종이 문서를 보관, 열람하는 이들이 점차 줄어들고 있다. 그 이면에는 21세기에 접어들면서 저변 확대의 폭을 넓혀가고 있는 전자 출판의 급상승률이 내제돼 있다. 이제는 손에 놓고 보는 기능을 가진 문서가 아니라 보관이 용이하고 가독률을 높일 수 있는 매개체가 도래했음을 시사하는 것이다. 일례로 지하철 등 대중교통을 이용할 때 휴대폰 문자를 송신하는 것 또한 우리 곁에 가장 가까이 있는 전자 문서의 한 유형이다. 개인별 휴대폰 보유 현황에 있어서도 'OECD 가입 국가 중 최상위권을 유지하고 있다'는 한 연구기관의 발표를 차치하더라도 각 가정에서 쓰고 있는 휴대폰 등 개인이 사용하고 있는 전자 기기만 보아도 피부로 직접 느낄 수 있다. 그렇다면 국내 전자 문서에 대한 인식은 어떻게 변해가고 있을까

• Journal of Digital Convergence
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• v.14 no.10
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• pp.415-421
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• 2016

There has been an enormous increase not only in the international economic exchanges but also in the cultural exchanges. However, studies to settle the cultural differences have been studied a lot with in economic and business partial but research of eliminating cultural differences for travelers has not been studied. Therefore, in this study, we tried to develop the service design to eliminate the cultural differences. To set the spatial range, we choose airport which can be the hub and the door of the travelers at the same time. Moreover, we tried to understand the meaning of communication and sharing to resolve differences in culture through literature studies. Further, we analyzed the airport application and examples of Wi-Fi linked services, so can be applied to the proposal. Travelers share the cultural differences by themselves; through the Wi-Fi service in the airport, and the existing airport application. We expect to be able to resolve the cultural differences between nations and develop not only their prosperity but also the national image by this service.

• Archives of design research
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• v.11 no.1
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• pp.73-80
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• 1998

Recently, the importance of cultural design has been increasing due to the globalization. However the cultural design is mainly focusing on the shape or color stereotype of different cultures, ignoring another important aspects of cultural design: the way of peoples' interacting with product. The study aims to develop usability test program for cultural user-interface design that operates in the world wide web. The study begins with discussing the nature of culture through defining culture and reviewing the depth and variables of culture. Based on the findings the structure of the usability testing program on the WWW design methods is identified. The usability testing program on the WWW comprises of five different modules: module for identifying users' demographic characteristics, module for cultural variables, module for population stereotype, module for usability testing, and module for data storage and analysis. Finally findings are summarized and further research prospects are outlined.

• Korean Journal of Cognitive Science
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• v.23 no.2
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• pp.269-293
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• 2012

This study aimed to investigate the interactive effects of individual's cultural disposition (individualism, collectivism, horizontal disposition and vertical disposition) and cognitive style (analytic vs. holistic thinking) combination on differences in global precedence. For this purpose, the participants were divided into 4 different cultural disposition groups based on Singelis et al.'s(1995) INDCOL scale, and 2 cognitive style groups based on Choi et al.'s(2007) AHS, and required to respond selectively to global or local property of two types of compound stimuli (compound figure and compound letter). Reaction time and error rates for both global or local property were analyzed and compared as the dependent measurement. The results can be summarized as followings. First, faster responses were observed in compound figure condition than in compound letter condition, and to global property than to local property. Second, contrasting to individualism-cognitive style or horizontal disposition-cognitive style combinations, significant interaction effects both between collectivism and cognitive style, and between vertical disposition and cognitive style on global/local processing were found. This result indicated that combinations of collectivism-holistic thinking and vertical disposition-holistic thinking can induced larger global precedence effect than other combinations of cultural disposition and cognitive style.

• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.9 no.12
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• pp.94-102
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• 2009

As an advance in medical technology development is being made, and people are increasingly aware of the importance of health, related investments and people's average life expectancy rise, which in turn leads to an increase in elderly people. Also, with a growing number of elderly people enjoying their leisure activities, the utilization of multimedia contents using computers is on the increase, leading to an activated research into the establishment of digital culture for the elderly people. This paper proposes a Korean text input system to enable the elderly to utilize digital contents. Text input interface has conventionally depended on keyboards. However, the keyboard wherein many keys are dispersed creates problems for the elderly, such as a protracted recognition of keys and a lowered concentration when they use the keyboard. To address these problems, in this paper, the grip type controller interface for console games was used and a corresponding alphabet location algorithm was developed. To verify these efforts, a simulator was developed to test 20 elderly people; as a result, their satisfaction over and convenience of using the grip type interface increased.

• Proceedings of the Korea Contents Association Conference
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• 2009.05a
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• pp.208-214
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• 2009

As an advance in medical technology development is being made, and people are increasingly aware of the importance of health, related investments and people's average life expectancy rise, which in turn leads to an increase in elderly people. Also, with a growing number of elderly people enjoying their leisure activities, the utilization of multimedia contents using computers is on the increase, leading to an activated research into the establishment of digital culture for the elderly people. This paper proposes a Korean text input system to enable the elderly to utilize digital contents. Text input interface has conventionally depended on keyboards. However, the keyboard wherein many keys are dispersed creates problems for the elderly, such as a protracted recognition of keys and a lowered concentration when they use the keyboard. To address these problems, in this paper, the grip type controller interface for console games was used and a corresponding alphabet location algorithm was developed. To verify these efforts, a simulator was developed to test 20 elderly people; as a result, their satisfaction over and convenience of using the grip type interface invreased.

• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.8 no.12
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• pp.190-197
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• 2008

Weaving design which is to be designed based on the machine words threading and treading is characterized by its strong limitation of expression. The concept of design has been set based on the patterns on the wooden rice-cake mold which arechosen from many Korean traditional patterns since the expressions of patterns limited by the wooden rice-cake mold is easy to be grafted upon each other. Particularly, literal patterns and geometrical patterns contain religious desire and wishes that are generated from man's fear and wonder about Nature rather than from the pursuit of beauty which is general characteristics of patterns. Based on these images, the twill technique, especially threading of Sally Nielson's rosepath which is easy in formal expressions is used to design Korean style patterns into the weaving structure. It is hoped that this study will provide an opportunity to introduce Korean style patterns to the weavers of the world and that the weaving designs will actively be utilized in the Korean industries so that they can acquire high value-added assets and commercialize our superior culture, thus being of great help to developing our cultural industr.

• Korean journal of communication and information
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• v.68
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• pp.34-64
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• 2014

This paper analyzed the modes of human communication of the Korean enlightenment era through 9 new-style novels with the assumption that the fictitious world of novels reflect the social realities of that time. The most noticeable fact was that the communication environment of that time were remarkably diversified with the new media, such as newspaper, printed book, postal system, telegraph, telephone, and photo. But the communication of most people was mainly relied on traditional oral communication. In oral communication the hierarchical relationship and age were the most important variable as usual but the formality and etiquette were weakened than Late Chosun Dynasty. The distribution of written culture was enlarged especially by women and lower class. The contact with the foreign cultures which had become possible after the opening of ports brought about intercultural communication. In conclusion it can be said that the communication of people in the enlightenment era was mainly by oral communication but the reliance on the media was enlarged gradually.

• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.11 no.6
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• pp.197-204
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• 2011

In line with the development of Media, the use of character has been developed in various ways. Specially, it has been emerged the functions of written language of visualization and delivery of emotion in the digitalized environment due to speedy growth of internet and Mobile. The emoticons emerged as a tool for the convenience of communication proved to have taken effective role in the part of communication culture. Particularly, Hangul emoticons which contains the meaning of communication and sharing in tandem with the principle of Hangul invention, provides convenience in combination & use due to its structural and design characteristic for which it plays a significant role of visual element. Hangul emoticon is definitely a part of Hangul culture and in view of globalization of visual language in connection with media development, there is a huge potential being to be used as a international communication tool. In this study, it will be reviewed on the increased utilization of Hangul emoticons and related public issues as being a part of typography media, in view of the generalization of private media as well as change of subjective user.