• The Journal of Korean Association of Computer Education
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• 제22권1호
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• pp.63-78
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• 2019

This study aims to improve User eXperience (UX) of the diagnostic-supplement learning system for Basic academic skills which has been utilized by teachers nationwide since 2015 in order to provide a consistent and systematic support on students' basic academic skills in K-12 school contexts. To achieve the research objective, usability evaluations such as basic questionnaire about UX/UI of the system according to user types, user testing, in-depth interview, expert heuristics were conducted. In addition, user-centered system was suggested through developing and iteratively evaluating the prototypes based on the user requirements drawn from the findings of such quantitative and qualitative usability evaluations. This study has an implication in suggesting the user-friendly design through the UX/UI improvements of the diagnostic-supplement learning system for Basic academic skills.

• Archives of design research
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• 제19권4호
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• pp.187-204
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• 2006

The brand personality of online products and services is know as its e-brand personality. Although, in the competitive conditions of online markets, e-brand personality is agreed to be an important factor, few studies have suggested how to establish e-brand personality through the visual design of web sites. This study identifies and verifies causal relationships between the visual attributes of web pages and e-brand personalities. The first identifies four major dimensions of e-brand personality on diverse web sites. The second uses 52 experimental home pages to identify key visual attributes associated with those four personality dimensions. The third is a confirmatory study with 16 experimental web sites that verifies causal relationships between visual attributes and e-brand personalities. The results show that two visual attributes, 'simplicity' and 'cohesion,' help to establish a 'bold' personality. Three attributes, 'contrast,' 'density,' and 'regularity,' affect whether a site has an 'analytical' personality. 'Contrast,' 'cohesion,' 'density,' and 'regularity' all influence whether a web site is perceived to have a 'friendly' personality. 'Regularity' and 'balance' were expected to affect the 'sophisticated' personality dimension, but no such impact was observed. The paper concludes with a discussion of implications, limitations, and future research directions.

• Archives of design research
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• 제16권2호
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• pp.161-170
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• 2003

This study aims to understanding the effects of culture on websites with emphasis on the website structure and navigation. The website is inherently‘cultural’because anyone around the world can access to website if he or she is equipped with appropriate equipment. For the importance of cultural role in website, various researches have been conducted to understand the relationship between culture and website. However they tended to focus mainly on phenomenal matters such as color, layout, icon etc. There have been not so many thorough attempts to causal relationships between website and‘thick culture’in depth. The study conducted cross-cultural usability testing of websites between Korea and America. At first, representative I-commerce websites of Korea and America were selected and they were analyzed by the selected frameworks such as layout, display type, element type, and the relationship with homepage and sub-page navigation. The results were used to construct typical prototypes of website for Korea and America for experiment. Two websites were used for cross-cultural usability testing though specially-developed remote testing. 20 users from each country participated in the usability testing. The result shows that Korean users peformed better usability testing for Korean style structure of website while American counterparts showed better performances in American style of websites. Other various significant findings were revealed.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society for Emotion and Sensibility Conference
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• 한국감성과학회 2001년도 추계학술대회 논문집
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• pp.55-58
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• 2001

웹사이트 및 사용인구의 폭발적인 증가와 함께 사이트의 방문자를 끌어들이기 위한 경쟁이 더욱 치열해지고, 이에 따라 웹사이트의 사용편의성과 함께 사용자의 감성적 만족도를 높여줄 수 있는 방안에 대한 연구가 강조되고 있다. 특히 사용자가 웹사이트 디자인에서 느끼는 감성적 이미지가 사용 만족도와 사이트 재방문율에 미치는 영향이 강조됨에 따라 웹사이트의 특성에 따른 사용자들의 선호 감성 파악의 필요성이 대두된다. 본 연구에서는 웹사이트를 특성에 따라 9개의 카테고리로 분류하고 웹사이트의 임지 감성요인들을 요인분석 기법을 사용하여 10개의 대표 감성으로 축소하였다. 설문 조사를 수행하여 웹 분류별 선호 감성을 평가하였으며 MDPREF 기법을 사용하여 웹사이트의 특성에 따른 선호 감성이미지를 파악하였다.

• Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society
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• 제19권5호
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• pp.640-649
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• 2018

This study analyzed the consumer awareness of cycling wear using web mining, one of the big data analysis methods. For this, the texts of postings and comments related to cycling wear from 2006 to 2017 at Naver cafe, 'people who commute by bicycle' were collected and analyzed using R packages. A total of 15,321 documents were used for data analysis. The keywords of cycling wear were extracted using a Korean morphological analyzer (KoNLP) and converted to TDM (Term Document Matrix) and co-occurrence matrix to calculate the frequency of the keywords. The most frequent keyword in cycling wear was 'tights', including the opinion that they feel embarrassed because they are too tight. When they purchase cycling wear, they appeared to consider 'price', 'size', and 'brand'. Recently 'low price' and 'cost effectiveness' have become more frequent since 2016 than before, which indicates that consumers tend to prefer practical products. Moreover, the findings showed that it is necessary to improve not only the design and wearability, but also the material functionality, such as sweat-absorbance and quick drying, and the function of pad. These showed similar results to previous studies using a questionnaire. Therefore, it is expected to be used as an objective indicator that can be reflected in product development by real-time analysis of the opinions and requirements of consumers using web mining.

• Survey Research
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• 제10권1호
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• pp.91-112
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• 2009

The aim of this study is to suggest a new website measurement scale revised in accordance with the present tendency, and to test the practical use of it. The empirically current studies suggest the information, connectivity, practical function, lay - out, design, interlace, system, service as a website measurement scale. However. this study suggest a new website measurement scale including communication between internet users, platform for editing information. The test of a practical use about measurement scale progressed by a survey on computer access. A sample of 300 internet users answered the question based on a new website measurement scale. The result of this study shows that primary factors of the website measurement scale are information, user interface, website service, and communication. The influence of these factors on user's website preference changed as compared with the past. The result also shows that there is close correlation between information factor and communication factor. And the communication factor suggested on this study has effected in user's website satisfaction. Results imply that the idea of web2.0 is practically an important strategy for improving website satisfaction. And, because influence of primary factors on the website satisfaction has changed continually, strategic planning will have to be kept up.

• Science of Emotion and Sensibility
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• 제10권4호
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• pp.613-622
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• 2007

Recently, sound design is being made by corporations for the production as well as for marketing and web with consideration of image of productions and attributes to improve corporational image through the design of melody which would remain in users. And sound is becoming an important factor to establish the identity of each area such as life environment and public facilities. At present, our local governments are promoting active business like as CIP to improve urban image but there is a limit to establish identity as the result of its partial focus on visual sense or insufficient recognition about it. Jeonju, the place of sound, has many festivals and great meetings related with sound but it has not identity in the sense of sound. So the purpose of this study is to suggest the condition of sound which has the trait of Jeonju and to provide data for the trait to be used as a necessary element to establish identity in order to activate regional image. For the method of research, sampling Korean beautiful 100 sounds among the natural sounds of residents. most favorite as the samples of sound to search the sound of regional image. Selecting favorite samples among them and analyzed the factors through the questionnaire on the image of adjective in each sample. As the result of analysis, it has been shown that the factor of sound to reveal trait of Jeonju is the image of bright, delight, and cozy with consideration of harmony, dynamics, contrast, and culture. For this study is to provide data so it can be used to actively establish and identify the local image.

• Archives of design research
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• 제15권4호
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• pp.97-110
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• 2002

As users environments change, users primary needs for homepages also change more complicatedly. Today, users do not only want usability for homepages, but also to feel appropriate emotional experiences. Despite users needs, users do not always experience appropriate emotions that are conveyed by designers through homepage. I In this research paper, we analyzed the related factors with the emotional quality, which means the degree that users feel target emotions intended by designers. For analyzing factors related with the emotional quality, three hypotheses were verified; the factor of an emotion, the factor of users and the factor of designers. As the factor of emotions, the first hypothesis is that unclear emotional dimensions in users minds are related with the emotional quality. The second hypothesis, as the factor of users, is that the diversity of users experiences by same homepage is related with the emotional quality. The third hypothesis, as the factor of designers, is that the appropriate selection of design elements is related with the emotional quality. In the previous research, we selected the basic 13 emotional dimensions and 30 representative emotional words based on the statistical results and evaluations by professional designers. For this research, we conducted an experiment and user survey. In the experiment, we asked 30 designers to design homepages focusing on the typical emotion that was presented by a researcher. Based on the designing process and user evaluation, we performed statistical analyses: ANOVA with Tukey post hoc method and Factor Analysis. We found the discrepancy between the emotions that designers intend and the actual emotions that users experienced from homepages. From the result of analysis, we know that the factor of users and the factor of designers related with the emotional qualities, but the factor of emotions did not. The definiteness of emotions did not relate with the emotional quality. However, the diversity of emotions that users feel seeing the same homepages and design elements that designers chose for conveying target emotion related with the emotional quality.

• Journal of Global Scholars of Marketing Science
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• 제4권
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• pp.111-131
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• 1999

본 연구는 인터넷 쇼핑시이트의 웹디지인 구성형식에 띠른 소비자의 쇼핑 프로세스의 차이점을 밝히고, 인터넷 쇼핑 사이트에 대한 소비자 만족도와 그 차원을 규명하고, 인터넷 편의성, 만족도 및 구매의도와의 관계를 조사하였다. 본 연구는 설문지조사법과 관찰법을 이용히여 인터넷을 사용하는 소비자로, 남여 대학생 101명을 편의추출히여 조사를 실시하였고, 자료분석방법으로는 기술통계, paired t-test, 요인분석, 회귀분석을 실시하였다. 연구 결과 첫째, 대부분의 응답자들이 인터넷사용과 인터넷 쇼핑에 어려움을 느끼지 않았으며, 인터넷 정보의 질은 소비자들이 기대수준에 미치지 못하는 것으로 나타났다. 또한 상품정보 제공 시 사진과 설명을 동시에 사용하는 것을 선호하고 상품 홈페이지 구성의 중요도 중 속도와 정보의 질을 중요시 여기는 것으로 나타났다. 둘째, 인터넷 쇼핑 프로세스의 관찰 결과 처음 쇼핑을 시도할 경우 인석하기 쉬운 기능키나 단어로 된 메뉴를 이용하는 경우가 대부분이며, 쇼핑 과정은 대부분 10번의 클릭으로 이루어졌고, 쇼핑과정 동안 쇼핑에 재미를 느끼지 못하는 경우도 많았으며 마음에 들지 않거나 선호하는 상품이 없는 경우 쇼핑을 중단하는 것이 대부분이었다. 그리고 매장구성은 텍스트보다는 그림을 선호하는 경우가 많았다. 셋째, 인터넷 쇼핑에 대한 소비자 만족요소 중에 '직접 가지 않아도 되는 것'과 '시간, 장소에 구애받지 않는다'는 항목에 대한 만족도가 높게 나타났으나 상품의 구색이나 가격, 유통업자 및 상품의 신뢰도 요인에 대한 만족도가 낮게 나타났으며 만족/불만족 요인으로는 주문처리의 정확성/다양성, 인터넷 쇼핑의 편의성, 상품의 다양성/신뢰성, 주문 방법의 편의/경제성, 쇼핑 방법의 용이성의 5가지 요인으로 나타났다. 넷째, 인터넷 편의성은 소비자 만족에 영향을 미치지 않는 것으로 나타났으나, 인터넷 쇼핑의 만족은 구매의도에 영향을 주는 것으로 나타났다. 쇼핑의 만족도가 높을수록 구매의도가 높은 것으로 나타났고, 상품의 다양성/신뢰성 요인에 대한 만족도가 높을수록 구매의도가 가장 높아지는 것으로 조사되었다. 인터넷 쇼핑 사이트에서 소비자들은 전형적인 의복구매행동과 유사하거나 오히려 더 많은 정보와 서비스롤 요구하는 것으로 나타났다. 직접 보지 못하고 구매해야 한다는 데 대한 두려움과 거부감을 많이 나타내고 쇼핑 시 즐거움에 대한 중요도도 높게 나타났다.

• Journal of Convergence for Information Technology
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• 제8권4호
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• pp.115-120
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• 2018

This paper describes the design and trial development of a system that supports continuous hazard mapping by local residents in their daily life. We performed an interview survey to design our system in a model traditional town in Saga Prefecture, Japan. The results show that despite continued efforts, many practical problems remain and residents feel unsafe. Considering these results, we designed and developed a unique information and communication technology-based support system that contributes to community-based disaster prevention and reduction. The continuous resident participation and posting design are the core concept for our community-based approach. Our system continues to support making a hazard map by integrating the community-based hazard information. Local residents register information (disaster types, risk level, photographs, comments, positional information) about locations that could be dangerous in a disaster. In addition, our system enables information sharing through a Web server. We expect that this information sharing will allow local hazard information for each district to be used.