• 한국IT서비스학회지
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• 제12권2호
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• pp.153-170
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• 2013

As global competition of enterprises heats up recently, there is a growing the need to introduce business knowledge platform. Many enterprises work with other partners in a variety of situations and collaboration has emerged as new competitiveness of them. Collaboration improves the performance of members, and besides it has an important bearing on innovation, result, and increased productivity of enterprise. Lots of businesses, locally and abroad, extend the environment of collaboration and try to share business contents efficiently. In addition, they look into ways of invigorating collaboration by providing community tools. Corporations and Governments around the world are pushing smart work to respond effectively to this paradigm change. Smart work provides many types of collaboration and raises the productivity. Various infrastructures should be constructed for activating smart work. Most of all, core technology is to be developed. Virtual Cluster is the space of collaboration corresponding to change in business paradigm. In overseas policy of Virtual Cluster has been already enforced as an alternative to geographical cluster. The establishment and development of collaboration platform through Virtual Cluster can contribute to business competitiveness by smart work.

• Journal of information and communication convergence engineering
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• 제8권6호
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• pp.690-696
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• 2010

Web-based virtual collaboration is increasingly gaining popularity in almost every area in our society due to the fact that it can bridge the gap imposed by time and geographical constraints. However, in medical field, such collaboration has been less popular than other fields. Some of the reasons were timeliness, security, and preciseness of the information they are dealing with. In this paper, we are proposing a web-based distributed medical collaboration system called Virtual Collaboration System for Medicine (VCSM) for medical doctors that meet the needs. The proposed system consists of two parts - multimedia presentation and recordable virtual collaboration. The former supports synchronized multimedia presentation using Synchronous Multimedia Integration Language (SMIL.) It allows synchronization of the contents of a PowerPoint presentation file and a video file. The presentation may be provided to the participants before the discussion begins. Next, in the virtual collaboration stage, participants can use text along with associated symbols during the discussion over the presented medical images. The symbols such as arrows or polygons can be set or removed dynamically to represent areas of interest in digital images using so called layered architecture that separates image layer from annotation layer. XML files are used to record participants' opinions along with the symbols over some particular images

• Asia pacific journal of information systems
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• 제18권2호
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• pp.73-94
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• 2008

When individuals collaborated in virtual settings, communication is medicated through a variety of communication technologies, and is associated not only with communication effectiveness but also with socio-emotional interactions among group members. In this regards, scholars have examined how technology-mediated communication systems can be designed and used to facilitated communication interaction. However, the empirical results of the previous studies have revealed inconsistencies in the effects of communication media on users' behavioral or attitudinal responses, and on their viable effectiveness in organizations. Some studies claim that computer-mediated communication(CMC) is task-oriented but not suitable for emotional expression since it hinders close interpersonal interaction. On the other hand, some studies argue that individuals are able to develop interpersonal relationships more effectively in a CMC environment than in an FtF-environment. Due to the different perspectives, a theoretical gap exists, and it leads to the inconsistent research findings. The purpose of this paper is to combine the two different perspectives into single unified model, thereby providing a more realistic and comprehensive understanding about virtual collaboration. The present study here sought to answers the following questions with organizational communication perspective: What are the major components of virtual collaboration? What factors affect the performance of virtual collaboration? And what kind of managerial efforts should organization make in order to facilitate CMC media effectiveness in virtual collaboration? Although there is a certain belief that new media, namely technology-mediated communication support would create new opportunities, the problem of "how" or "why" has been an important question that is still not fully addressed. In this regards, we collectively reexamined previous literatures with major issues which are still controversial and integrated various theoretical activity within computer-mediated communication domain: task-oriented approach, socio-emotional approach, and evolutionary psychological approach. Our first contribution is to develop a framework for virtual collaboration by combining two different perspectives into a single unified model, providing a more realistic and comprehensive understanding. The second main contribution is the joint modeling of both social presence and cognitive effort, and the effects on two distinct but important communication outcomes(i.e., take performance and relational development). We tested the research hypotheses which were developed based on the various CMC theories using data gathered through a self-administered mail survey of 127 individuals of 69 virtual workgroups. The proposed model was supported, providing preliminary evidence that the tension between two opposite view should be integrated. The results show that the individual's psychological processes(social presence and cognitive effort) in a virtual environment significantly mediated the effect of CMC inputs (media richness, user adaptation, and shared contest) on the CMC outputs (task performance and relational development). Furthermore, this study shows that the lack of perceived media richness of CMC media can be complemented by user adaptation and shared context. Based on the results, we discuss how communication system should be designed and implemented so as to promote virtual interaction as well as how a virtual workgroup should be composed to complement the lack of media richness. A virtual collaboration using CMC media may create new value by overcoming the logistical constraints. On the other hand, it may also generate various managerial risks such as communicational depersonalization, process dissatisfaction, and low cohesion. Therefore, this study suggests that organization managers should carefully choose the CMC mediums and monitor individual member's cognitive and affective psychological processes during virtual collaboration to reduce potential risks in virtual collaboration.

• 시스템엔지니어링학술지
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• 제2권2호
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• pp.45-50
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• 2006

Tilting technology is to tilt the train on the curve in order to minimize centrifugal force to passengers and to improve the speed within the limits of passenger's comfort and safety. According to reports from other countries, there is 15~30% speed improvement compared to the conventional trains. Recently, the advent of World-Wide-Web(WWW) and the explosive popularity of the Internet gave birth to collaborative applications which were enabled by computers and networks as their primary media. The progress of 3D computer graphics enabled collaborative applications with 3D virtual environments or distributed virtual environments. In this paper, we explain our implementation of the Share collaboration engine which is for collaboration applications based on a distributed virtual environment. The Share collaboration engine proposes a new Share network architecture for management of participants, and it provides some synchronization methods for 3D objects in virtual collaboration. TTX_PDM is an experimental application that tries to prevent wastes of human, material and time resources in networked virtual collaboration.

• 한국실내디자인학회논문집
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• 제40호
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• pp.158-164
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• 2003

The rapid development of information technology has much influence on architectural design. Collaboration beyond time and space has been possible by networking the work environment and digital products. Thus, the virtual design studio on architectural design is getting more important than ever before. This research investigates a virtual design studio methodology for effective collaboration. The building design process and the communication model are studied and possible modes of design collaboration are defined. This paper proposes an internet-based Virtual Reality(VR) communication tool as well as new design methodology that we call the 'Hybrid Design Methodology'. We expect that this design methodology will dramatically increase design feedbacks, and thus results in better design alternatives. There are two issues involved in developing the collaborative virtual design studio: 1) an intuitive interface that presents collaborative relations, and 2) three-dimensional computer-mediated communication tool using sketch as a modeling method. Further research issues identified at the end of the research include developing algorithms that translate mapping images to polygons for the drafting phase in the design process.

• 대한전자공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한전자공학회 2000년도 추계종합학술대회 논문집(3)
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• pp.169-172
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• 2000

Recently, the advent of World-Wide-Web(WWW) and the explosive popularity of the Internet gave birth to collaborative applications which were enabled by computers and networks as their primary media. And the progress of 3D computer graphics enabled collaborative application with 3D virtual environments or distributed virtual environments. In this paper, we explain our implementation of Share collaboration engine and Virtual Architectural Engineering 2000 (VAE2000) system which is our pilot application implemented with Share collaboration engine. And we explain problems presented by our experiments with VAE2000 system. For those problems, we design our new middle-ware system, SHINE(SHared INternet Environment). The SHINE proposes new concepts and approaches for collaboration with 3D objects in a virtual world.

• 한국원자력학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국원자력학회 2001년도 춘계학술발표회요약집
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• pp.140.1-140
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• 2001

• 한국정보과학회논문지:시스템및이론
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• 제28권12호
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• pp.642-652
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• 2001

웹의 보급과 이에 따른 인터넷의 폭발적 확산은 컴퓨터와 네트워크를 핵심 매개로 하는 공동작업과 이에 따른 공동 문제해결의 출현을 가능하게 했으며 3차원 그래픽 기술의 발달과 함께 3차원 가상환경을 바탕으로 한 공동작업 응용이 출현하였다. 가상 건축 엔지니어링은 이런 3차원 가상환경 기반 공동작업 응용의 하나로 여러 설계자가 설계한 건축 설계 도면을 가상 공간에서 미리 통합하여 실현함으로써 발생할수 있는 오류를 사전에 발견하여 인적, 물적, 시간적 낭비를 막는 것을 그 목적으로 한다. 이 논문에서는 가상 건축 엔지니어링 응용을 제작하는데 고려해야 할 문제점을 정의하고 이를 해결하기 위해 구현된 Share 협동작업 엔진에 대해 설명한다. Share 협동작업 엔진은 새로운 Share 분산 네트워크 구조를 제안하여 네트워크 참여 개체를 관리하여 가상공동작업의 3차원 객체의 실시간 동기화를 지원하며, 파라메터기반 3차원 가상 객체 표현 기술을 이용하여 네트워크 대역폭 사용을 최소화하여 확장성을 향상시킨다. 또한 본 논문에서는 이를 바탕으로 실제로 제작된 가상 건축 엔지니어링 2000 (VAE2000) 서비스에 대해 설명하며 시뮬레이션과 실제 시연을 통해 이의 유용성을 증명한다.

• 한국멀티미디어학회논문지
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• 제12권10호
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• pp.1466-1477
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• 2009

3D 가상공간은 도시 및 건축 설계 분야에 매우 적합한 활용 기술로 인식되어 다양한 연구가 시도 되고 있다. 그러나 도시 및 건축 설계의 과정이 다양한 관계자들의 협업에 의해 이루어지는 반면, 이를 지원하는 연구는 아직 미흡한 상황이다. 3D 가상공간이 협업을 지원하기 위해서는 무엇보다 가상공간 내에 의사소통을 지원해야 하며, 이를 위해서는 빠르고 직접적인 의사 표현 기술을 필요로 한다. 이러한 의사 표현 방법으로는 Sketch 기법이 효과적이며, Sketch의 부 정확한 선은 협업과정의 아이디어 단계에서 사고의 폭을 넓혀줄 수 있다는 점에서도 매우 효과적인 표현 방식이다. 그러나 이러한 전통적인 Sketch 기법만으로는 사실상 3D 가상공간에서 협업을 지원하기 어렵다. Sketch 기법을 협업에 적용한 기존의 연구들이 있지만 주로 3D 가상공간에 Sketch Annotation을 입력하는 것에만 중점을 두고, 입력된 Sketch가 담고 있는 내용을 잘 전달할 수 있는 지에 대해선 고려하지 못하였다. 따라서 평면이 아닌 객체에는 Sketch Annotation 입력이 불가능하거나, 입력되더라도 그 내용전달이 어려운 경우가 발생한다. 이 논문에서는 3차원 공간에서도 효과적으로 의사를 전달 할 수 있도록, 어떠한 형태의 면에 대해서도 Sketch Annotation의 내용이 정확히 전달될 수 있는 Sketch-Box를 이용한 Annotation기법을 연구한다.

• 한국CDE학회논문집
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• 제14권3호
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• pp.150-158
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• 2009

In these days, the importance of design becomes increasing and the design aspect that customers decide to purchase products such as television, mobile phone is more important than functional one. And the progress of virtual reality technology enables us to feel the reality from the virtual prototype as the real one. In this paper, we introduce the collaboration design review system consist of MEMPHIS, CORE. We can create a realistic virtual prototype more fastly, conveniently and efficiently using MEMPHIS and carry out the design review through collaboration using CORE. As a result of this study, it would be possible that decision making can be done effectively at early stage of the design process.