• Journal of Information Technology Applications and Management
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• 제15권1호
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• pp.183-202
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• 2008

The introduction of a ubiquitous environment has realized commercial ubiquitous services in various industrial fields and government area. The central and/or local governments are demanding an appropriate investment evaluation model for ubiquitous service. Thus, this study develops and suggests an evaluation model for ubiquitous service by reflecting its characteristic of promoting public good, as well as its broad ripple effect on people. The investment evaluation model for ubiquitous service suggested by this study is based on Cost Benefit Analysis Method. Especially, the 'Benefit' is analyzed in two aspects; 'Economic Benefit', which shows the benefit that ubiquitous service providers to the overall local economy, and; 'Financial Benefit', which shows the profit of individual investors participating in the introduction of ubiquitous service. The investment evaluation model for ubiquitous service suggested by this study can be used by the central and/or local government during their evaluation for investment before introducing a ubiquitous service. Also, when introducing a ubiquitous service in public field, the model can be used to support the decision making of private businesses for investment. Finally, it can be used to promote and inform the expected benefits of introducing a ubiquitous service to local residents.

• ETRI Journal
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• 제27권6호
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• pp.666-676
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• 2005

In recent years, motivated by the emergence of ubiquitous computing technologies, a new class of networked robots, ubiquitous robots, has been introduced. The Ubiquitous Robotic Companion (URC) is our conceptual vision of ubiquitous service robots that provide users with the services they need, anytime and anywhere in ubiquitous computing environments. To realize the vision of URC, one of the essential requirements for robotic systems is to support ubiquity of services: that is, a robot service must be always available even though there are changes in the service environments. Specifically robotic systems need to be automatically interoperable with sensors and devices in current service environments, rather than statically preprogrammed for them. In this paper, the design and implementation of a semantic-based ubiquitous robotic space (SemanticURS) is presented. SemanticURS enables automated integration of networked robots into ubiquitous computing environments exploiting Semantic Web Services and AI-based planning technologies.

• 대한임베디드공학회논문지
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• 제5권3호
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• pp.144-151
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• 2010

Ubiquitous computing which is providing various convenient services to user will prevail in future. To realize ubiquitous service, analyzing technical and information factors for service implementation is necessary. This paper defines ubiquitous service model to satisfy user demands and we analyze technical and information factors in order to realize services. Based on the factors, we extracts and classifies common compositions of ubiquitous services to suggest guidelines of service design.

• 한국정보통신설비학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국정보통신설비학회 2005년도 하계학술대회
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• pp.290-296
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• 2005

In this paper, we describe ubiquitous environments and the trend of convergence that is an evolution path of current telecommunication, and show the concept of broadband convergence network, service feature and evolution path. In order to converge wire and wireless communication, telecommunication and broadcasting, voice and data efficiently, broadband convergence network divides a network into service layer, control layer, transport layer, ubiquitous access and terminal layer. Broadband convergence network will be a network that can provide and control broadband multimedia services with QoS and securityof different and customized level. Then we depict characteristics and types of broadband multimedia service, and describe the characteristic of broadband convergence network. Finally, we show ubiquitous network based on the broadband convergence network to provide ubiquitous service which is a future telecommunication service. We also describe requirements of ubiquitous network such as an intelligent and context based platform, convergence terminals, ubiquitous computing devices, etc., and give various emerging technologies and those applications.

• 한국IT서비스학회지
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• 제10권2호
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• pp.119-139
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• 2011

The concept of ubiquitous is being applied on diverse industry fields as a new growth engine in Korea. With constructing u-City, new services which are called 'ubiquitous services' are developed actively. Even though there are active movement to develop u-service, there is no clear definition of what service can be defined as ubiquitous service. Given that this study proposes a u-service value classification framework focusing on services' characteristics. We conducted experts' group interviews to analyze new operating or developing services whether it can be ubiquitous. Study results show that some services are hard to be defined as u-service, so this study offers possible improvement alternative. The u-service value classification which offers clear definition of u-service can be used for the practitioners offering measurement framework of u-service level.

• 한국콘텐츠학회논문지
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• 제10권1호
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• pp.407-416
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• 2010

최근 유비쿼터스 기술이 발달하고 일상생활에 접목되면서, 관광 정보 서비스에 유비쿼터스 기술 도입이 추진되고 있다. 그러나 유비쿼터스 기술을 적용하고 관광 콘텐츠를 개발하는데 있어 각 지자체는 선례나 기준이 없어 개별적이고 독자적으로 구축, 서비스하고 있는 실정이다. 본 연구는 향후 가속화될 유비쿼터스 관광정보 서비스의 표준적이고 효과적인 구축 방안을 수립하기 위한 기초단계로서 현재 국내에서 구축, 서비스되고 있는 유비쿼터스 관광정보서비스의 사례를 수집, 분석하고자 하였다. 먼저, 문헌 조사를 통하여 관광정보서비스에 활용 가능한 다양한 유비쿼터스 기술 동향에 대해 살펴보고, 유비쿼터스 관광정보서비스의 대표적인 사례들을 수집하여 유비쿼터스 적용기술, 디바이스 활용, 서비스 콘텐츠의 내용과 형식 등 네 가지 측면에서 현황과 문제점을 분석하였다. 분석 결과를 종합하여 향후 유비쿼터스 관광정보 서비스의 개괄적인 구축에 대한 시사점을 네 가지 각 항목에 따라 토의하였다. 본 연구는 각 지자체가 개별적이고 독자적으로 구축하고 있는 유비쿼터스 관광 콘텐츠의 총괄적인 현황과 문제점을 파악할 수 있게 하며, 전국적인 표준안을 마련하여 통합, 구축 및 운영에 대한 필요성을 역설하고 구축을 위한 개괄적인 방향을 시사한다는데 의의가 있다고 하겠다.

• 대한인간공학회지
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• 제31권1호
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• pp.63-76
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• 2012

Objective: The main objective of this study is to propose a user-centered assessment metric for ubiquitous services. Background: As the ubiquitous era took off, the interactions between ubiquitous services and users have come to take an important position. It is essential to conceptualize a new assessment model that considers human-system interaction capability with a user-centered design perspective. Method: The evaluation model for the interactivity of ubiquitous service was approached from the concept of usability and inter-personality of services. As a validation study, suggested assessment metric was utilized to evaluate the u-Home service. Priority weighting of each assessment metric was derived using the quantification type-I analysis. Results: To evaluate interactivity, this study suggested a quantitative metric for user testing performed after classifying the interactivity characteristics to contextualization; ubiquity; user experience; and service capability. Conclusion: This study suggest the metric for the ubiquitous service that are experienced in real life, and introduced the concept of ubiquitous service interactivity. Application: The suggested evaluation metric can be used to evaluate interactivity level of ubiquitous service and identify the potential problem and usability requirements at the early stage of service development.

• 대한공간정보학회지
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• 제21권1호
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• pp.53-64
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• 2013

2000년대 이후, 정부부처별 유비쿼터스도시사업에 의해 유비쿼터스도시 구축을 전국으로 확산해 나가고 있으나, 근래 들어 유비쿼터스도시에 대한 낮은 체감도가 주요 문제로 대두되고 있다. 이를 해결하기 위해 많은 연구와 정책 과제에서 시민체감형 유비쿼터스서비스를 발굴하려는 시도가 이어지고 있지만, 유비쿼터스도시계획을 수립하는 단계에서 이러한 서비스를 효과적으로 접목하기 위한 연구는 부족한 실정이다. 이 연구에서는 유비쿼터스도시 계획 수립단계에서 적용할 수 있는 필수적인 유비쿼터스도시서비스를 도출하여 유비쿼터스도시의 최소 품질을 보장할 수 있는 방안을 제안한다. 이를 위해 먼저, 163개 시 군 지자체를 대상으로 유비쿼터스도시 추진 현황을 조사하여 U-City의 현주소를 진단하였다. 또한 38명의 U-City 관련 전문가를 대상으로 약 한 달 동안 전문가 설문조사를 실시하여 보편성, 지역경제육성, 사회복지구현, 효과적인 도시관리 관점의 필수적인 14개 유비쿼터스도시서비스를 도출하였다. 마지막으로, 11개 지자체의 유비쿼터스도시계획(안)과 도출된 필수 U-City 서비스를 비교하여 시사점을 도출하였다.

• 한국경영과학회지
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• 제32권1호
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• pp.1-13
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• 2007

Nowadays, ubiquitous computing services begin to be suggested from a few domains such as supply chain, logistics, and location-based services. However, to what extent the services will be successful is hard to be estimated, mainly because a sophisticated service evaluation method focusing on the ubiquitous computing perspective has not been supplied. Hence, this paper alms to build a model to assess the quality of ubiquitous computing service. To do so, an amended model, Ubi-SERVQUAL, is applied to assess the service quality mentioned in ubiquitous computing scenarios. According to the Ubi-SERVQUAL, we found that an actual service with higher quality should consider reliability. responsiveness, assurance and empathy in order to increase customer satisfaction, computer system's intimacy with users and trust.

• 정보통신설비학회논문지
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• 제3권2호
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• pp.81-89
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• 2004

In this paper, we describe ubiquitous environments and the trend of convergence that is an evolution path of. current telecommunication, and show the concept of broadband convergence network, service feature and evolution path. In order to converge wire and wireless communication, telecommunication and broadcasting, voice and data efficiently, broadband convergence network divides a network into service layer, control layer, transport layer, ubiquitous access and terminal layer. Broadband convergence network will be a network that can provide and control broadband multimedia services with QoS and security of different and customized level. Then we depict characteristics and types of broadband multimedia service, and describe the characteristic of broadband convergence network. Finally, we show ubiquitous network based on the broadband convert- gence network to provide ubiquitous service which is a future telecommunication service. We also describe requirements of ubiquitous network such as an intelligent and context based platform, convergence terminals, ubi- quitous computing devices, etc.