• 한국경영정보학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국경영정보학회 2007년도 International Conference
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• pp.488-493
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• 2007

The main goal of this study is to propose a model of simplicity and interactivity effect on usability in the blog services. As web-based applications become increasingly complicated, the need for simplicity in user interface design has grown for better usability. Also, interactivity has been known to influence on usability. Previous studies argued that usability is a key factor for system success. Usability is concerned with attributes of an application that makes it understandable, learnable, easy to use, and attractive. For the complicated technology, perceived control, related to direct manipulation of an object, is important. In this regard, we posit that simplicity, interactivity, and perceived control makes important antecedents to usability. Finally, we tested that the effect of usability on user s loyalty with the blog services along with trust and satisfaction. Future studies will empirically examine the proposed model, emphasizing the importance of simplicity and interactivity for the user interface design.

• Agribusiness and Information Management
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• 제1권1호
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• pp.37-62
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• 2009

Web usability for e-commerce sites becomes a more important issue as e-commerce gains its popularity. As for agricultural products, consumers are especially sensitive to the quality of information during transaction process. Successful e-commerce sites of agricultural products, such as Wine.com and Tesco, identified regular usability testing as part of key success factors. This paper aims to identify processes for evaluating usability for e-commerce sites of agricultural products and provide strategies to improve usability. The study aims to evaluate e-commerce usability of selected e-commerce sites using heuristic evaluation to provide objective e-commerce sites usability analysis for each transaction process.

• 한국콘텐츠학회논문지
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• 제11권12호
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• pp.639-648
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• 2011

무선 인터넷 접근성이 개선된 스마트폰과 태블릿PC의 등장으로 개인 컴퓨팅 환경이 PC중심에서 모바일 웹(Mobile web) 기반의 모바일 단말기 중심으로 이동하면서, 정보의 이용과 소통 방식이 빠르게 변화하고 있다. 이러한 시점에서 국내 대학들 역시 스마트폰 사용자들을 위한 모바일 웹 사이트 구축이 활발하게 진행 되고 있다. 하지만 이러한 대학들의 모바일 웹사이트들은 사용성이나 접근성을 고려하기 한 사이트가 아닌 다양한 기능과 화려한 디자인에 주력하여 개발하거나 단순한 홍보용으로 제작되고 있기 때문에 이를 사용하는 학생들은 많은 불편을 겪고 있다. 이에 본 논문은 스마트폰 환경에서 사용성과 접근성을 고려한 웹 인터페이스를 새롭게 제안함으로써 사용자들이 원하는 정보로 쉽게 접근할 수 있도록 구현하였다. 모바일 웹사이트 구축 시 고려해야 할 사항은 직관적인 인터페이스 디자인, 사용자 경험(User Experience)에 대한 고려, 사용자 맞춤형 인터페이스, 그리고 웹표준(Web Standard) 준수이다.

• 한국치위생학회지
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• 제16권2호
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• pp.241-248
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• 2016

Objectives: The purpose of the study is to evaluate the dental website usability in Korea. The dental website included dental university hospital, network dental hospital and dental office. Methods: The study was carried out by three age groups including twenties, thirties, and forties. Each group consisted of ten customers and evaluated twelve websites of dental hospitals. Each was assigned to four hospitals and three tasks including easiness of online reservation, preventive information, and treatment information. They filled out the self-administered questionnaire. The questionnaire included the easiness of on-line reservation, satisfaction on the quality and quantity of preventive informations, satisfaction on the quality and quantity of treatment informations, predictiveness on the sub-menu, usefulness of site map, information on the main page of web site, usefulness of decision on visit to dentistry, and revisit intention. Results: The easiness of on-line reservation was the highest in the private dental office, and university dental hospital and network dental hospitals followed in conducting task(1). The anticipated value and measurement on the usefulness of web site were the lowest in network dental hospitals and the time interval between two values was 57 seconds. This discrepancy showed the largest difference. The satisfaction on treatment information in task(3) was higher than that of the satisfaction on preventive information in task (2). The revisit intention was the highest in dental university hospitals. Conclusions: This study showed the comparison in usefulness of web site of university dental hospitals, network dental hospitals and private dental office. The web site focused on the treatment information rather than preventive information. This study suggested that the most important function of dental web site would be the preventive information that was mainly operated by the role of dental hygienists rather than treatment information in the future.

• 한국멀티미디어학회논문지
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• 제25권11호
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• pp.1557-1563
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• 2022

Currently Spatial Data is collected and processed in various methods, and its usability is very high. However, the existing Spatial Data analysis Software usually requires professional knowledge in the collection, refinement, and application of spatial Date, making it difficult to access and apply it. Therefore, this study established a new WebGIS platform with improved accessibility and usability to solve these problems. This platform supports various services such as master map sharing, spatial data generation, automatic coordinate system conversion, WMS issuance, grid generation, and grid analysis. These services increase operational convenience, such as simplifying repetitive tasks and automatically expressing text files. While it is believed that non-experts can easily and conveniently because of them to simplify and express the results. In addition, it is judged to have high accuracy and reliability compared to the analysis results using the existing Open Source-based GIS software.

• International Journal of Computer Science & Network Security
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• 제22권3호
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• pp.189-200
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• 2022

In today's digital world, smartphones and web-based applications have gained remarkable importance throughout the globe. These smart applications are playing a very significant role in maintaining a powerful business. As well as, they are helping a lot to expand these businesses via social networks. Social media networks such as Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn are playing a prominent role to promote the companies. In the hospitality sector, most of the companies are running their hotel booking systems by utilizing mobile applications and a web-based infrastructure, but usability issues still exist. This study has been conducted specifically to tackle the usability issues of hotel booking systems and the best utilization of social networks to promote the business. TripAdvisor was selected as an authentic source for selecting those systems and two international hotels are selected for this study. The first step is to identify different hotel booking systems. In the second step, the user's satisfaction level was measured for the selected systems by performing the System Usability Scale (SUS, Quick & Dirty) approach. Additionally, by which source (social media or personal relations) they found these hotels. It is found that the SUS rating for both systems is below the acceptable level of usability. The Mean SUS for hotel 1 is found at 55.25 and 51.2 for hotel 2. The third step was to identify the user interface (UI) issues, and heuristic evaluation is performed for this. The experts identified the UI issues on the basis of their experience. The major issues were related to the visibility of system status, error prevention, flexibility and efficiency of use. Depending upon the identified issues, an interactive UI (prototype) for the selected web-based applications was proposed. This prototype is mainly based on the user's perspective. This prototype can be used for improving the UI of the selected systems which is based on the user's perspective. During the process of verifying the satisfaction level, it is revealed that the targeted audience is not able to use these systems efficiently and effectively. The reason behind this is the negligence of usability guidelines throughout the process of design and development of these hotel booking systems. Therefore, it is highly recommended that the usability of these systems should be evaluated and redesigned, based on expert opinions. It has also been observed that the reviews/ feedback of customers has spread a negative impact through social networks.

• 한국콘텐츠학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국콘텐츠학회 2008년도 춘계 종합학술대회 논문집
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• pp.630-634
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• 2008

본 논문은 초 고령화 사회를 앞두고 실버 세대의 의존성을 보완하기 위한 웹 환경의 개선 방향을 제안하는 것이 목적이다. 이를 위해 일반인에 비해 다양한 장애를 가지고 있는 실버 세대의 웹 환경 개선을 위해서, 내용 구성과 기능 보강을 통한 웹 인터페이스 기능 확장 사례를 통해 접근성과 사용성을 높일 수 있는 방안을 조사하였다. 조사 결과 실버세대와 관련 사이트에서 웹 사용성을 높이고자 하는 시도는 긍정적이었지만, 통일되지 않은 인터페이스디자인으로 사용자에게 새로운 학습이 요구되고 개발 업체는 표준화되지 못한 디자인을 양산하는 문제점이 나타났다. 이에 운영체제의 모듈 지원, 표준화된 디자인 방안 수립 등의 해결 방향 제시를 통해 실버세대의 정보화 사회 적응을 유도하기 위한 웹 환경 개선 방향을 제안한다.

• Architectural research
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• 제15권4호
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• pp.175-182
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• 2013

This study aims to explore age-related differences with the assessment tools in the web-based 3D virtual model house and to propose the 3D model house criteria which everyone can use easily. The participants came from three age groups, ranging from their 20s to their over 40. Presence, Usability and Space perception and cognition in the experiment for navigating and evaluating the web-based 3D model house were measured and compared through one-way ANOVA and two-way ANOVA. The results and conclusions are as follows. (1) The younger the participants were, the more positive they evaluated the experiment on Presence. However, 20s needed higher presence than other two groups. (2) 30s and over 40 groups evaluated that the 3D virtual model house was more efficient than an actual model house on Usability. When the participants were younger, the values of 'expressivity' factor were higher. (3) The younger the participants were, the more positive they perceived the virtual environment (VE) on Space perception and cognition scale. There were no significant differences in the selection of dwelling size and the floor plan type. There were no significant differences of interaction effects between age and online gaming experience on Presence and Usability. The results of the current study demonstrate that there are differences among age groups and older groups have difficulty navigating and assessing in a VE. Although older groups take longer to adapt in the VE, they regard the 3D model house as an effective tool for purchase of house.

• 한국산학기술학회논문지
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• 제14권2호
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• pp.793-803
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• 2013

본 연구는 새로운 웹사용성 평가 방법의 하나로 탐색경로 일치도 분석의 유용성을 알아보기 위해 수행되었다. 사용한 웹사이트는 5개 공공기관이었으며, 15명의 피험자가 참여하였다. 우선, 참가자들에게 각 웹사이트를 3초간 보여주고 자유롭게 탐색하게 하면서 안구운동을 추적하였고 호감도를 측정하였다. 그 후 안구운동 추적 상태에서 참가자들에게 17개의 임무과제를 수행하도록 하였으며. 마지막 인터뷰에서는 웹사이트에 대한 만족도, 인지도, 과제 난이도 등에 응답하게 하였다. 여러 측정치들 간의 관련성을 분석하였으며, 분석 결과 본 연구에서 관심을 가졌던 탐색경로 일치도가 호감도 및 만족도와 의미 있는 관련성을 보였다. 즉 웹사이트에 대한 호감도가 높을수록 탐색경로 일치도가 높은 결과를 얻었다. 이 결과는 웹사이트에 대한 주관적 만족도 평가 방식을 대신해, 안구운동의 탐색경로 일치도와 같은 측정치가 객관적인 사용성 평가 지수가 될 수 있음을 보여주는 것이다. 안구운동 고정 및 응시시간 등과 함께 사용함으로써 웹사이트에서 보이는 관찰자의 행동을 보다 더 적절하게 추론할 수 있는 가능성을 논의하였다.

• 한국감성과학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국감성과학회 2000년도 추계학술대회 논문집
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• pp.26-31
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• 2000

웹 환경에서 사용자는 다른 어떠한 인터페이스 환경에서보다도 더 적극적이고 자유로운 인터랙션을 하고 있으며 따라서 웹 사이트 개발에 있어서 사용자 인터페이스 환경을 고려하는 것은 매우 중요하다. 본 연구에서는 꾑 인터페이스 환경과 그 특징에 대해 살펴보고 현재 활용되고 있는 사용성 평가 기법들을 정리한 후, 이를 기반으로 웹에서의 사용자들의 다양한 반응과 양상을 효과적으로 시각화하고 분석/평가할 수 있는 도구를 개발하였다. 또한 개발된 시각화 도구를 한 인터넷 허브 사이트의 사용성 평가 과정에 적용해 보고 그 결과에 대해 논의함으로써 웹에서의 사용 감성의 시각화와 평가를 위한 실질적인 방법을 제안하고자 한다.