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The acceptance of nuclear energy as an alternative source of energy among Generation Z in the Philippines: An extended theory of planned behavior approach

  • Zachariah John A. Belmonte;Yogi Tri Prasetyo;Omar Paolo Benito;Jui-Hao Liao;Krisna Chandra Susanto;Michael Nayat Young;Satria Fadil Persada;Reny Nadlifatin
    • Nuclear Engineering and Technology
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    • 제55권8호
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    • pp.3054-3070
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    • 2023
  • Nuclear Power Plants (NPP) are widely utilized around the globe from different base forms as it is one of the most dependable renewable resources that technological advancements have offered. However, different perceptions of the usage of NPPs emerged from different generations. The purpose of this study was to investigate the acceptance of nuclear energy as an alternative source of energy among Generation Z in the Philippines by utilizing an extended Theory of Planned Behavior (TPB) approach. An online questionnaire which consisted of 31 items was distributed using a purposive sampling approach and 450 respondents of Generation Z voluntarily answered. Structural Equation Modeling (SEM) showed that the knowledge regarding NPP had significant effects on risk perception and benefit perception which subsequently led to subjective norms. In addition, perceived behavioral control and subjective norms had significant effects on behavioral intention which led to nuclear acceptance. Interestingly, the respondents perceived the benefit of NPP as slightly higher than the perceived risk. With these, it was clear that the commissioning Nuclear Power Plant must consider as an alternative source of electric energy in the Philippines. Moreover, this study is one of the first studies that investigated the acceptance of NPP among Generation Z. Lastly, the model could be a basis to strengthen the acceptance strategy of opening NPP among Generation Z, particularly in developing countries.

원격공동설계 시스템 구축을 위한 에이전트 기반 접근 및 사례기반 의사충돌 해결 (Agent-Based Collaborative Design System and Case-Based Conflict Resolution)

  • 이경호;이규열
    • 정보기술응용연구
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    • 제1권
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    • pp.99-127
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    • 1999
  • 최근 기업의 생산성 향상을 위한 설계 및 생산 환경의 분산화에 따른 원격지 공동설계의 필요성이 증대되고 있다. 마찬가지로 선박설계 과정도 그 과정이 매우 복잡하고 많은 양의 데이터를 다루고 있는 작업으로서 그 환경이 분산화, 이질화됨에 따라 최근 들어 CSCW (Computer Supported Collaborative Work)의 요구가 증대되고 있다. 본 논문에서는 분산된 선박설계 환경에서의 원격지 공동설계를 지원하기 위한 에이전트기반 선박설계 시스템을 개발하였다. 특히 여기서는 에이전트간의 정보교환 및 지식공유 과정에서 발생하는 의사충돌 문제를 해결하기 위하여 사례기반 추론 기법을 이용하여 이의 해결을 시도하였다. 설계 에이전트, 이들을 중재하는 퍼실리테이터, 충돌 처리기, 그리고 사례기반 시스템의 유기적인 도움을 받아 설계자는 설계과정에서 발생하는 설계 시스템간의 의사충돌 문제에 대한 의사결정을 과거의 유사한 문제해결 사례로부터 효과적으로 처리할 수 있다.

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IT 유창성과 컴퓨팅적 사고 개념을 이용한 대학 정보교양 교육에 관한 실증적 연구 (An Empirical Study on Information Liberal Education in University based on IT Fluency and Computational Thinking Concept)

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    • 한국컴퓨터정보학회논문지
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    • 제19권2호
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    • pp.263-274
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    • 2014
  • 본 연구는 대학교육에서 매우 중요한 기반교육인 대학 IT 교양교육에 대한 틀을 제시하고 세부 교육과정을 체계적으로 도출하기 위하여 수행되었다. 이러한 연구목적을 위하여 본 연구에서는 첫째, 정보소양, IT유창성, 컴퓨팅적 사고를 중심으로 한 이론적, 실무적 선행연구에 대한 검토를 토대로 대학에서 필요한 IT 교양교육을 3가지 영역으로 제시하였으며, 세부적으로 6개 하위 영역, 총 31개 교육과정이 도출되었다. 또한, 도출된 세부 교육과정별 현재의 수준과 필요한 교육정도를 각각 실증적으로 측정하고 차이를 분석하였다. 실증분석은 총 350개의 설문이 배부되고 그 중에서 313부가 회수되어 분석에 활용되었다. 연구결과, 정보기술 기본능력 교육, 정보기술 활용능력 교육, 정보기술지적능력에 대한교육 등3가지 차원의 교육영역이 필요한 것으로 분석되었다. 본 연구의주요 시사점으로는 대학 IT 교육의 이론적 기반을 제공하였다는 점과 향후 대학 IT교양 교육의 실무적 가이드라인을 제시하였다는 점에서 의의가 있다.

일본 농업분야 정보기술활용 성공사례와 전망 (Prospective for Successful IT in Agriculture)

  • Seishi Ninomiya;Byong-Lyol Lee
    • 한국농림기상학회지
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    • 제6권2호
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    • pp.107-117
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    • 2004
  • 농업분야에서의 IT역할에 대한 요약과 함께, 일본의 경험을 살펴보는 한편 당면 현안의 파악, 그리고 정보기술 활용의 성공사례를 들어 문제해결 방안의 하나로 신기술을 소개하였다. IT 활용능력 여부는 성공적인 IT현장활용의 매우 중요한 요소로,. IT 관련 교육/훈련의 강화 외에, 사용이 용이한 인터페이스 여하는 IT활용력 제고의 커다란 도전이기도 하다. 기존의 자판형 PC 인터페이스는 대다수 농민들이 쉽게 받아들이기 어려운 면이 있는 것이 분명하다. 이러한 최종사용자들에게 사용이 보다 쉬운 컴퓨터시스템을 제공하기 위한 여러 가지 기술들이 현재 개발되어 있다. 예를 들어 휴대폰기반의 사용자 인터페이스는 이러한 문제에 대한 해결책의 하나로 매우 유망한 기술임에 틀림없다. 휴대폰 사용은 개도국에서도 점차 확대되고 있으며, 단 몇 개의 키만으로 쉽게 사용할 수 있는 장점이 있다. 농민들은 복잡한 의사결정지원을 필요로 하지 않기 때문에 휴대폰의 이러한 단순한 화면도 대개 충분한 기능을 구현할 수 있는 것이다. 제2, 3세대 휴대폰은 인터넷에 대한 무결성 접속을 제공하므로, 휴대폰인터페이스에 적합한 활용물을 개발한다면 기존 PC의 역할을 대신할 수도 있을 것이다. 실지로 현재 휴대폰은 자료수집 뿐만 아니라 포장에서의 현장 의사결정지원에 사용되고 있다. 예를 들어 로렌슨 등과 사사끼 등은 휴대폰기반 기상정보취득프로그램을 개발하여 농민이 항상 자신의 포장내 기상상태를 파악할 수 있게 되었다. 병충해예찰시스템과 같은 보다 실용적인 응용 프로그램도 이미 초기모형이 개발되어 있다. PC보다 사용이 용이한 인터페이스와 포장에서의 기동성 등이 농민들에 의해 환영받고 있는 점이다. 또 다른 중요한 문제는 농촌의 미진한 네트워크 하부구조에 기인한다. 불행히도 농촌지역에서는 상업통신업자간 치열한 경쟁을 기대할 수 없기 때문에 이 문제는 결국 정부의 책임일 수 밖에 없다. 거대한 산맥에서 금을 채굴하는 것과 유사한 정보탐색이라는 기술도 매우 중요한 요소이다. 근대농업이 시작된 이래 약 한세기에 걸친 농업 생산과 실험연구의 결과, 일본은 방대한 농업자료를 보유하고 있다 이러한 장기자료는 농업생산에서의 신지식을 생산제공하는 데 필수적인 결정적인 정보원일지 모른다. 정보탐색 기술은 이러한 방대한 자료의 분석을 통한 미지의 사실을 추론하는 유망한 기술로 이용될 것이다. 많은 이들이 IT기술에 의해 농업이 힘을 얻기를 기대하고 있다. 그러나 어떠한 실용적인 IT 대응책이 농업을 강화할 수 있느냐는 질문에 대한 답변에는 궁색할 수밖에 없다. 이는 이러한 질문에 대한 보편적인 해답이 없기 때문이다. 농업은 전형적으로 기후와 토양조건, 작부양식, 시장요구도 등에 좌우되는 지역 특이적 특성을 지닌다. 그러므로 이는 개별 여건에 알맞는 유연한 기술 적용 여부를 결정하는 IT활용시 의사 결정자을 하는 사람의 몫이 될 것이다.

Perceptional Change of a New Product, DMB Phone

  • Kim, Ju-Young;Ko, Deok-Im
    • 마케팅과학연구
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    • 제18권3호
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    • pp.59-88
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    • 2008
  • Digital Convergence means integration between industry, technology, and contents, and in marketing, it usually comes with creation of new types of product and service under the base of digital technology as digitalization progress in electro-communication industries including telecommunication, home appliance, and computer industries. One can see digital convergence not only in instruments such as PC, AV appliances, cellular phone, but also in contents, network, service that are required in production, modification, distribution, re-production of information. Convergence in contents started around 1990. Convergence in network and service begins as broadcasting and telecommunication integrates and DMB(digital multimedia broadcasting), born in May, 2005 is the symbolic icon in this trend. There are some positive and negative expectations about DMB. The reason why two opposite expectations exist is that DMB does not come out from customer's need but from technology development. Therefore, customers might have hard time to interpret the real meaning of DMB. Time is quite critical to a high tech product, like DMB because another product with same function from different technology can replace the existing product within short period of time. If DMB does not positioning well to customer's mind quickly, another products like Wibro, IPTV, or HSPDA could replace it before it even spreads out. Therefore, positioning strategy is critical for success of DMB product. To make correct positioning strategy, one needs to understand how consumer interprets DMB and how consumer's interpretation can be changed via communication strategy. In this study, we try to investigate how consumer perceives a new product, like DMB and how AD strategy change consumer's perception. More specifically, the paper segment consumers into sub-groups based on their DMB perceptions and compare their characteristics in order to understand how they perceive DMB. And, expose them different printed ADs that have messages guiding consumer think DMB in specific ways, either cellular phone or personal TV. Research Question 1: Segment consumers according to perceptions about DMB and compare characteristics of segmentations. Research Question 2: Compare perceptions about DMB after AD that induces categorization of DMB in direction for each segment. If one understand and predict a direction in which consumer perceive a new product, firm can select target customers easily. We segment consumers according to their perception and analyze characteristics in order to find some variables that can influence perceptions, like prior experience, usage, or habit. And then, marketing people can use this variables to identify target customers and predict their perceptions. If one knows how customer's perception is changed via AD message, communication strategy could be constructed properly. Specially, information from segmented customers helps to develop efficient AD strategy for segment who has prior perception. Research framework consists of two measurements and one treatment, O1 X O2. First observation is for collecting information about consumer's perception and their characteristics. Based on first observation, the paper segment consumers into two groups, one group perceives DMB similar to Cellular phone and the other group perceives DMB similar to TV. And compare characteristics of two segments in order to find reason why they perceive DMB differently. Next, we expose two kinds of AD to subjects. One AD describes DMB as Cellular phone and the other Ad describes DMB as personal TV. When two ADs are exposed to subjects, consumers don't know their prior perception of DMB, in other words, which subject belongs 'similar-to-Cellular phone' segment or 'similar-to-TV' segment? However, we analyze the AD's effect differently for each segment. In research design, final observation is for investigating AD effect. Perception before AD is compared with perception after AD. Comparisons are made for each segment and for each AD. For the segment who perceives DMB similar to TV, AD that describes DMB as cellular phone could change the prior perception. And AD that describes DMB as personal TV, could enforce the prior perception. For data collection, subjects are selected from undergraduate students because they have basic knowledge about most digital equipments and have open attitude about a new product and media. Total number of subjects is 240. In order to measure perception about DMB, we use indirect measurement, comparison with other similar digital products. To select similar digital products, we pre-survey students and then finally select PDA, Car-TV, Cellular Phone, MP3 player, TV, and PSP. Quasi experiment is done at several classes under instructor's allowance. After brief introduction, prior knowledge, awareness, and usage about DMB as well as other digital instruments is asked and their similarities and perceived characteristics are measured. And then, two kinds of manipulated color-printed AD are distributed and similarities and perceived characteristics for DMB are re-measured. Finally purchase intension, AD attitude, manipulation check, and demographic variables are asked. Subjects are given small gift for participation. Stimuli are color-printed advertising. Their actual size is A4 and made after several pre-test from AD professionals and students. As results, consumers are segmented into two subgroups based on their perceptions of DMB. Similarity measure between DMB and cellular phone and similarity measure between DMB and TV are used to classify consumers. If subject whose first measure is less than the second measure, she is classified into segment A and segment A is characterized as they perceive DMB like TV. Otherwise, they are classified as segment B, who perceives DMB like cellular phone. Discriminant analysis on these groups with their characteristics of usage and attitude shows that Segment A knows much about DMB and uses a lot of digital instrument. Segment B, who thinks DMB as cellular phone doesn't know well about DMB and not familiar with other digital instruments. So, consumers with higher knowledge perceive DMB similar to TV because launching DMB advertising lead consumer think DMB as TV. Consumers with less interest on digital products don't know well about DMB AD and then think DMB as cellular phone. In order to investigate perceptions of DMB as well as other digital instruments, we apply Proxscal analysis, Multidimensional Scaling technique at SPSS statistical package. At first step, subjects are presented 21 pairs of 7 digital instruments and evaluate similarity judgments on 7 point scale. And for each segment, their similarity judgments are averaged and similarity matrix is made. Secondly, Proxscal analysis of segment A and B are done. At third stage, get similarity judgment between DMB and other digital instruments after AD exposure. Lastly, similarity judgments of group A-1, A-2, B-1, and B-2 are named as 'after DMB' and put them into matrix made at the first stage. Then apply Proxscal analysis on these matrixes and check the positional difference of DMB and after DMB. The results show that map of segment A, who perceives DMB similar as TV, shows that DMB position closer to TV than to Cellular phone as expected. Map of segment B, who perceive DMB similar as cellular phone shows that DMB position closer to Cellular phone than to TV as expected. Stress value and R-square is acceptable. And, change results after stimuli, manipulated Advertising show that AD makes DMB perception bent toward Cellular phone when Cellular phone-like AD is exposed, and that DMB positioning move towards Car-TV which is more personalized one when TV-like AD is exposed. It is true for both segment, A and B, consistently. Furthermore, the paper apply correspondence analysis to the same data and find almost the same results. The paper answers two main research questions. The first one is that perception about a new product is made mainly from prior experience. And the second one is that AD is effective in changing and enforcing perception. In addition to above, we extend perception change to purchase intention. Purchase intention is high when AD enforces original perception. AD that shows DMB like TV makes worst intention. This paper has limitations and issues to be pursed in near future. Methodologically, current methodology can't provide statistical test on the perceptual change, since classical MDS models, like Proxscal and correspondence analysis are not probability models. So, a new probability MDS model for testing hypothesis about configuration needs to be developed. Next, advertising message needs to be developed more rigorously from theoretical and managerial perspective. Also experimental procedure could be improved for more realistic data collection. For example, web-based experiment and real product stimuli and multimedia presentation could be employed. Or, one can display products together in simulated shop. In addition, demand and social desirability threats of internal validity could influence on the results. In order to handle the threats, results of the model-intended advertising and other "pseudo" advertising could be compared. Furthermore, one can try various level of innovativeness in order to check whether it make any different results (cf. Moon 2006). In addition, if one can create hypothetical product that is really innovative and new for research, it helps to make a vacant impression status and then to study how to form impression in more rigorous way.

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