• School Mathematics
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• v.10 no.1
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• pp.63-78
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• 2008

This research studied the role of images between visual thinking and analytic thinking to contribute to the ongoing discussion of visual thinking and analytic thinking and images in mathematics education. In this study, we investigated the thinking processes of mathematically gifted students who solved tasks generalizing patterns and we analyzed how images affected problem solving. We found that the students constructed concrete images of each cases and dynamic images and pattern images from transforming the concrete images. In addition, we investigated how images were constructed and transformed and what were the roles of images between visual thinking and analytic thinking. The results showed that images were constructed, transformed, and sophisticated through interaction of visual thinking and analytic thinking. And we could identify that images played central roles in moving from visual thinking to analytic thinking and from analytic thinking to visual thinking.

• Proceedings of the Korean Information Science Society Conference
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• 1998.10c
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• pp.249-251
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• 1998

XML은 W3C에서 권고안으로 채택됨으로써, 이를 바탕으로한 CDF, RDF, WIDL, WebBroker 등과 같은 많은 웹 어플리케이션들이 개발되고 있다. XML은 HTML과 같은 단일하고 고정적인 문서 구조에서 벗어나서 자신만의 구조를 가지는 문서를 작성할 수 있도록 해준다. 또한 문서의 내용과 그 내용의 표현이 분리되어 있어, 원 문서의 내용을 변화시키지 않고도 여러 가지 형식으로 표현될 수 있다. 본 논문에서는 이러한 확장된 기능을 가지는 XML 문서를 보다 직관적이고 시각적으로 편집할 수 있는 XML 편집기를 제안한다. 본 시각적 XML을 기반으로 하는 다양한 문서를 편집하는데 범용적으로 사용될 수 있다.

• Korean Journal of Cognitive Science
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• v.8 no.4
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• pp.11-18
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• 1997

야간 시각은 민감도를 극대화하고 주간 시각은 세감도를 극대화한다. 민감도와 세감도는 시각 기능의 두 목표이지만 상쇄적인 작용때문에 균형적인 선택이 요구된다. 민감도와 세감도를 결정하는 중요한 요인으로는 광학적인 요인과 신경학적인 요인이 있다. 망막의 지역적 분화는 바로 이러한 민감도-세감도 문제에서 기인하는데 망막의 2차원적인 제약이 시각신경계의 병행적인 경로와 이에 기초한 적응적 진화를 통해서 어느 정도 해소되는 듯이 보인다. 이 글은 야행-주행 습성을 동시에 갖추어 민감도와 세감도의 균형 문제가 각별히 부각되는 고양이의 초기 시각신경계에서 민감도와 세감도의 균형을 최적화하는 신경 기전을 소개한 것이다.

• Journal of the Korean earth science society
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• v.28 no.3
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• pp.277-288
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• 2007

This study analyzed the visual images covering 'weather' and 'weather forecast' in elementary science textbooks from the Syllabus Period to the 7th national curriculum from the socio-semiotic perspective. The results showed that most of the visual images were 'realistic' which were descriptive of real world phenomena. This means that most of the visual images in elementary science text were familiar to students in every curriculum period. The power relationship in communication between images and students was very complex. The visual images in elementary science textbooks include few geometrical and alphanumeric code in every curriculum period. This study provides a new framework to interpret amount of information, functions of information, structures, and social meanings of visual images. It could be also a beginning stage to introduce the socio-semiotic perspective into choosing visual images for next science textbooks.

• Journal of Science and Technology Studies
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• v.10 no.2
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• pp.107-141
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• 2010

Visualization techniques are transformed into reliable representations through socio-technological processes which include the agreement on the instrument and the embodiment of practices in relevant scientific communities. Visual representations thus produced are justified by realistic and epistemic virtues in science. This paper analyzes different visual images presented in the scientific papers of two research groups who argue different theories about the mechanism of face perception. These two scientific groups use the same fMRI technology; yet, different experimental paradigms and visual stimuli change their hypotheses into distinct testable theories, which in turn lead to different evidences to support their own theories. Visual evidences are intermediate representations which lie between fMRI brain images and scientific theories, and theoretical models obtain the scientific value based on the consistency in the chain of visual representations. This study shows that representations in science tend to be good representations within the context of scientific communities. It will provide a chance to think of the value and limit of the scientific knowledge

• 한국HCI학회:학술대회논문집
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• 2008.02b
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• pp.392-398
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• 2008

이 연구는 정보의 효과적인 전달을 목적으로 하는 정보디자인에 있어서 지식의 활용에 대해 고찰하며, 정보시각화와 지식시각화의 특성에 대한 비교분석을 목적으로 한다. 지식은 일종의 고부가 가치의 정보로서 주어진 데이터에 관한 인간의 인지활동을 내포하고 있다. 지식은 정보에 관한 사용자의 해석, 인지, 이해 등을 거친 것으로서 정보 이상의 가치를 지닌 것으로 사용자의 심상과 인지를 확장시켜 새로운 정보와 지식의 생성 및 의사 결정에 사용될 수 있다. 지식의 표현은 현재 정보의 양적 팽창으로 인해 정보디자인에서 나타나는 정보과중, 해석오류와 오역, 사용자 태도 등의 문제를 해결하는 대안이 될 수 있다. 지식시각화는 지식의 전달과 장조를 위한 방법론으로써 사람들이 알고 있는 것을 좀 더 풍부한 의미로 전달한다. 또한 개인 또는 그룹 사이의 지식의 장작을 촉진하고 전달을 개선하며 습득을 용이하게 할 수 있다. 이 연구는 지식시각화란 정보디자인의 새로운 연구 분야로써 이론적 부분을 정립하고 표현방법 및 효과적인 프로세스 모델 설계를 연구하였다. 정보시각화와 지식시각화의 이론적 특성과 표현 방법 요소의 비교분석을 통해 지식시각화의 성격과 특정을 파악하였다. 또한 지식시각화의 대표적 표현방법을 도출하고, 지식의 표현에 적함한 시각화 방법 에 관해 고찰하였다. 더불어 지식의 실질적 표현에 기초가 되는 지식 구조화에 적합한 시각화 프로세스 모델을 제안하였다. 일반적인 시각화에서는 다양한 관점 제시나 지원구분을 하고 있지 않기 때문에 이 연구를 통해 도출되는 시각화 요소를 이용한 합리적인 시각화 프로세스 모델은 지식의 표현에 있어 효과적일 것이라 생각한다.

• Science of Emotion and Sensibility
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• v.12 no.2
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• pp.169-180
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• 2009

The present study have investigated the effect of the characteristics of stereoscopic images and viewing environment on visual fatigue. We manipulated the speed of stereo images with motion-in-depth and viewing distance, which were used as representative variables of the characteristics of stereo image and viewing environment, respectively. Visual fatigue was evaluated with use of a subjective questionnaire which is consisting of 5 different and independent factors: "Eye pain", "Visual stress," "Nauseousness", "Body stiffness", and "Blurriness". In general, when viewing time increased from 10 minutes to 20 and 40 minutes, observers felt severe visual fatigue. Among other factors, only the factor score of "Nauseousness" was significantly increased as the speed of object moving in depth became faster. When viewing distance was increased, the score of "Blurriness" was decreased. These results suggest that different kind of the visual fatigue might be induced depending on characteristics of the stereo images and viewing environment.

• Education of Primary School Mathematics
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• v.21 no.4
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• pp.445-459
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• 2018

The purpose of this study is to provide a method to help elementary school students learn ratio-related concepts effectively through visual representations. This study was conducted to identify the differences in the composition of ratio-related concepts between Korean and Singaporean textbooks, reconstruct a unit of proportional expressions and distributions by using visual representations and confirm the differences in performance between an experimental and a comparison group of 6th grade students. While the experimental group mathematics lessons is from the reconstructed textbook, the comparison group lessons is from an existing textbook that does not include any reconstructive representations. A t-test of mean was applied to determine the differences between the experimental and comparison group. Analysis revealed significant differences in the mean between the experimental group and the comparison group, and the intermediate level group showed more improvement compared to the higher and lower level groups. An implication of this study is that the application of visual representations can assist students' understanding of ratio-related concepts.

• Journal of Educational Research in Mathematics
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• v.25 no.2
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• pp.189-206
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• 2015

There has been a recurring call for using visual representations in textbooks to improve the teaching and learning of proportional reasoning. However, the quantity as well as quality of visual representations used in textbooks is still very limited. In this article, we analyzed visual representations presented in a Grade 6 textbook from two perspectives of proportional reasoning, multiple-batches perspective and variable-parts perspective, and discussed the potential of the double number line and the double tape diagram to help develop the idea 'things covary while something stays the same', which is critical to reason proportionally. We also classified situations that require proportional reasoning into five categories and provided ways of using the double number line and the double tape diagram for each category.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea CI
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• v.38 no.5
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• pp.1-15
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• 2001

Expressing complex query conditions in a concise and intuitive way has been a challenge in the design of visual object-oriented query languages. We propose a visual query language called VOQL (Visual Object oriented Query Language) for object oriented databases. By employing the visual notation of graph and Venn diagram, the database schema and the advanced features of object oriented queries such as multi-valued path expressions and quantifiers can be represented in a simple way. VOQL has such good features as simple and intuitive syntax, well-defined semantics, and excellent expressive power of object-oriented queries compared with previous visual object-oriented query languages.