• Korean Journal of Social Welfare Studies
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• v.45 no.2
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• pp.203-232
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• 2014

The purpose of this study is to compare the national quality regulation schemes among four countries, and to find out implications to Korean quality regulation system of social services. For this, this study fixed comparative criteria on national quality regulation schemes, and compared the quality regulation schemes of 4 countries such as England, United States, Singapore and Japan. By reviewing prior relevant studies, three criteria could be suggested.: the level of user centeredness, the effectiveness of regulatory enforcement and stability of operation system. All analysed nations share similarities in that they all eager to provide quality information to their service users and develop nationally acceptable quality standards of social services. On the contrary, differences are identified in the level of regulatory enforcement and establishment of independent body for national quality control. By these results, this study discussed the meaning of these findings and their implications on the development of Korean quality regulation system.

• Proceedings of the Korea Water Resources Association Conference
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• 2011.05a
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• pp.111-111
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• 2011

지속가능한 수자원관리를 위한 물관리의 거버넌스구축에 대한 관심이 높아지고 있다. 또한 물 관리기본법(안)에 의하면 유역위원회를 통한 물관리 이해당사자의 참여원칙이 중요하게 인식되고 있다. 물관리 참여는 우선, 물관리 공급자(공급기관)간의 거버넌스가 구축되어야 하고, 이후 물관리 이용자(국민)의 참여로 확대되어야 한다. 그러나 우리나라의 물관리기관이 공급자중심으로 분산되어 있어 물관리 기관간의 거버넌스 구축에 많은 초점이 맞춰져 있어, 물관리 이용자의 참여와 협력, 역할분담에 대한 논의가 미흡한 실정이다. 농업용수는 일반 생공업용수와 달리, 농업용수의 이용자가 곧 관리자였던 특성을 가지고 있다. 물론 2000년 이후 과거 농업인 중심의 조합조직이 국가(공적기관) 중심의 공사조직으로 변화되어 있지만, 아직까지도 농업용수 이용자인 농업인이 농업용수관리에 일정부분 참여하고 기여하고 있는 바가 있다. 따라서, 오랜 농업용수관리에 있어 용수이용자가 어떻게 물관리에 참여하여 왔고, 국제적인 물관리 참여형태가 어떻게 이루어져 왔는지 살펴봄으로서, 생공업용수를 비롯한 타 분야의 이용자까지 포함되는 물관리 참여를 유도할 것인지에 대한 좋은 사례가 될것이며, 이를 통하여 물 이용자와 공급자가 함께하는 거버넌스를 구축해 나갈수 있을 것이다.

• Journal of the Korean Society for Library and Information Science
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• v.35 no.3
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• pp.151-172
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• 2001

Today, as we are going into digital information environment along with the development of information technology, there are changes in the style of information users. In particular. with the help of computer users can more easily access the original texts and approach to information providers than ever. At the same time, we are trying to use more efficiently some specialized contents in the web-pages. Contrary to traditional mediation-centered collection management, we start realizing that we are expected to bind selected contents with users who search these ones. In this study, I examined problems on collection management and proposed a more advanced content management skill as a solution for those problems. According to on-site questionnaires, The Main factors of user-centered content management are user factors, intermediary factors, and service ones.

• Journal of Information Management
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• v.33 no.2
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• pp.49-66
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• 2002

In this paper, the recent trends of user-centered information communication are reviewed, especially focused on Computer-Mediated Communication(CMC) based on internet, Human Factors Engineering, and Human-Computer Interaction(HCI). The result is that human-centered information communication process has influence on the extension of user interface.

• Journal of the Korean Society for information Management
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• v.22 no.4 s.58
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• pp.23-38
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• 2005

In order to make interactive computing systems, including information systems, usable it is important to bring users into the design process. This article surveys and introduces several major system design approaches that are widely accepted as approaches from a users' perspective. A user model developed by the author is introduced following these existing approaches. This user model is developed from actual users' understanding of their goals and strategies to solve their information needs by using Dervin's Sense-Making Theory with Sense-Making Timeline Interviews. This user model reveals a different timeline from the default menu presentation orders that originally comes with the software. Steps for developing a user model from the Sense-Making Timeline Interviews are suggested for further application and guidelines in developing user models for system design and evaluation.

• Journal of the Korean Society for information Management
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• v.27 no.1
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• pp.61-77
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• 2010

Blogs are now one of the major information resources on the web. The purpose of this study is to enhance the performance of blog retrieval by means of user assigned tags and trackback information. To this end, retrieval experiments were performed with a dataset of 4,908 blog pages together with their associated trackback URLs. In the experiments, text terms, user tags, and network centrality values based on trackbacks were variously combined as retrieval features. The experimental results showed that employing user tags and network centrality values as retrieval features in addition to text words could improve the performance of blog retrieval.

• Korean Journal of Social Welfare
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• v.64 no.4
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• pp.137-161
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• 2012

The importance of voucher service evaluation is increasing with the expansion of voucher, but the previous studies on performance evaluation could not reflect the characteristics of voucher. But there is no study on the factors affecting voucher performance. Thus, this study focuses on the empirical analysis of voucher program performance and analysed the factors affecting voucher satisfaction. Data used in this study is collected form 70 social service agencies that deliver voucher service and 1445 service users in Community-Development voucher service in Community Service Investment Program. The methods applied in this study are Hierarchial Linear Model(HLM) using service user variables(level 1) and service agency variables(level 2). These variables are extracted from the previous studies on performance of social welfare service and voucher service. The findings show that user's satisfaction is influenced by level 1 variables such as sex, need and also influenced by level 2 variables of service type and area* organization type. On these analysis, this study gives policy implication.

• Journal of the Korean Society for information Management
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• v.23 no.3 s.61
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• pp.127-146
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• 2006

This study aims to analyze substantive theories in user studies on Web-based information seeking in order to explore the implications of building a unified theory in this field, Substantive theory is defined as research which generalized user behaviors during information seeking on the Web or suggested significant relationships between variables in Web-based information seeking context. The sample of research articles were published in four core journals from 1995 to 2005, Among 42 articles of user-based information seeking on the Web, ten articles were contributed to the development of substantive theories. Findings show that substantive theories used thirteen dependent and ten independent variables and 22 relationships were considered as significant. They have a tendency to focus on individual differences of users and on some specific narrow aspects(i.e. searching or searching time) of user behaviors. Findings suggested a range of implications for a unified theory construction.

• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.21 no.12
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• pp.190-201
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• 2021

The variable message sign (VMS) is equipment to improve the efficiency of traffic flow and safety of travel by providing real-time information to road users on traffic, road, weather situation, and traffic control due to construction. The information messages of the letter-based VMS taking up most of the VMS on the general national highways consist of section, travel time in sections, and road control situation. This study devised an improvement plan centered on road users, not road managers-centered existing message-based VMS through an analysis of road users' preference targeting the letter-based VMS operated in the general national highways in the Seoul Metropolitan Area. By presenting the measure for system improvement through which information on unexpected situations that road users prefer the most can be quickly and efficiently provided, this study aims to improve the efficiency of road user-centered VMS traffic information.

• Korean Journal of Social Welfare Studies
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• v.43 no.2
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• pp.5-29
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• 2012

Previous performance evaluation focusing on objective data of service agency has the limitations that did not reflect user-centered evaluation. With the expansion of voucher service, importance of perspective of service user such as satisfaction index is increasing. As voucher service has been delivered by the financial burden of government and user, we need the performance evaluation system that reflects the both performance indices to meet the accountability of two stake-holders. So this study focuses on deriving integrated evaluation system developing systems what mixed objective and subjective performance. Data used in this study is collected form 70 social service agencies that deliver voucher service and 1445 service users. Using General Satisfaction Index and Efficiency Index by DEA, this study analysed the correlation between efficiency and satisfaction index, and integrated performance evaluation model is constructed through portfolio map. This study has the following implication. This study theoretically explains the relation of objective performance and subjective performance and gives practical guidance in performance evaluation criterion and interpretation of performance.