• Asia pacific journal of information systems
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• 제22권4호
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• pp.7-29
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• 2012

Smartphone and its applications (i.e. apps) are increasingly penetrating consumer markets. According to a recent report from Korea Communications Commission, nearly 50% of mobile subscribers in South Korea are smartphone users that accounts for over 25 million people. In particular, the importance of smartphone has risen as a geospatially-aware device that provides various location-based services (LBS) equipped with GPS capability. The popular LBS include map and navigation, traffic and transportation updates, shopping and coupon services, and location-sensitive social network services. Overall, the emerging location-based smartphone apps (LBA) offer significant value by providing greater connectivity, personalization, and information and entertainment in a location-specific context. Conversely, the rapid growth of LBA and their benefits have been accompanied by concerns over the collection and dissemination of individual users' personal information through ongoing tracking of their location, identity, preferences, and social behaviors. The majority of LBA users tend to agree and consent to the LBA provider's terms and privacy policy on use of location data to get the immediate services. This tendency further increases the potential risks of unprotected exposure of personal information and serious invasion and breaches of individual privacy. To address the complex issues surrounding LBA particularly from the user's behavioral perspective, this study applied the privacy calculus model (PCM) to explore the factors that influence the adoption of LBA. According to PCM, consumers are engaged in a dynamic adjustment process in which privacy risks are weighted against benefits of information disclosure. Consistent with the principal notion of PCM, we investigated how individual users make a risk-benefit assessment under which personalized service and locatability act as benefit-side factors and information privacy risks act as a risk-side factor accompanying LBA adoption. In addition, we consider the moderating role of trust on the service providers in the prohibiting effects of privacy risks on user intention to adopt LBA. Further we include perceived ease of use and usefulness as additional constructs to examine whether the technology acceptance model (TAM) can be applied in the context of LBA adoption. The research model with ten (10) hypotheses was tested using data gathered from 98 respondents through a quasi-experimental survey method. During the survey, each participant was asked to navigate the website where the experimental simulation of a LBA allows the participant to purchase time-and-location sensitive discounted tickets for nearby stores. Structural equations modeling using partial least square validated the instrument and the proposed model. The results showed that six (6) out of ten (10) hypotheses were supported. On the subject of the core PCM, H2 (locatability ${\rightarrow}$ intention to use LBA) and H3 (privacy risks ${\rightarrow}$ intention to use LBA) were supported, while H1 (personalization ${\rightarrow}$ intention to use LBA) was not supported. Further, we could not any interaction effects (personalization X privacy risks, H4 & locatability X privacy risks, H5) on the intention to use LBA. In terms of privacy risks and trust, as mentioned above we found the significant negative influence from privacy risks on intention to use (H3), but positive influence from trust, which supported H6 (trust ${\rightarrow}$ intention to use LBA). The moderating effect of trust on the negative relationship between privacy risks and intention to use LBA was tested and confirmed by supporting H7 (privacy risks X trust ${\rightarrow}$ intention to use LBA). The two hypotheses regarding to the TAM, including H8 (perceived ease of use ${\rightarrow}$ perceived usefulness) and H9 (perceived ease of use ${\rightarrow}$ intention to use LBA) were supported; however, H10 (perceived effectiveness ${\rightarrow}$ intention to use LBA) was not supported. Results of this study offer the following key findings and implications. First the application of PCM was found to be a good analysis framework in the context of LBA adoption. Many of the hypotheses in the model were confirmed and the high value of $R^2$ (i.,e., 51%) indicated a good fit of the model. In particular, locatability and privacy risks are found to be the appropriate PCM-based antecedent variables. Second, the existence of moderating effect of trust on service provider suggests that the same marginal change in the level of privacy risks may differentially influence the intention to use LBA. That is, while the privacy risks increasingly become important social issues and will negatively influence the intention to use LBA, it is critical for LBA providers to build consumer trust and confidence to successfully mitigate this negative impact. Lastly, we could not find sufficient evidence that the intention to use LBA is influenced by perceived usefulness, which has been very well supported in most previous TAM research. This may suggest that more future research should examine the validity of applying TAM and further extend or modify it in the context of LBA or other similar smartphone apps.

• Asia pacific journal of information systems
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• 제19권2호
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• pp.43-72
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• 2009

Recently, user-created content (UCC) have emerged as popular medium of on-line participation among users. The Internet environment has been constantly evolving, attracting active participation and information sharing among common users. This tendency is a significant deviation from the earlier Internet use as an one-way information channel through which users passively received information or contents from contents providers. Thanks to UCCs online users can now more freely generate and exchange contents; therefore, identifying the critical factors that affect content-generating activities has increasingly become an important issue. This paper proposes a set of critical factors for stimulating contents generation and sharing activities by Internet users. These factors were derived from the theories of folklores such as tales and songs. Based on some shared traits of folklores and UCC content, we found four critical elements which should be heeded in constructing UCC contents, which are: context of culture, context of situation, skill of generator, and response of audience. In addition, we selected three major UCC websites: a specialized contents portal, a general internet portal, and an official contents service site, They have different use environments, user interfaces, and service policies, To identify critical factors for generating, sharing and transferring UCC, we traced user activities, interactions and flows of content in the three UCC websites. Moreover, we conducted extensive interviews with users and operators as well as policy makers in each site. Based on qualitative and quantitative analyses of the data, this research identifies nine critical factors that facilitate contents generation and sharing activities among users. In the context of culture, we suggest voluntary community norms, proactive use of copyrights, strong user relationships, and a fair monetary reward system as critical elements in facilitating the process of contents generation and sharing activities. Norms which were established by users themselves regulate user behavior and influence content format. Strong relationships of users stimulate content generation activities by enhancing collaborative content generation. Particularly, users generate contents through collaboration with others, based on their enhanced relationship and specialized skills. They send and receive contents by leaving messages on website or blogs, using instant messenger or SMS. It is an interesting and important phenomenon, because the quality of contents can be constantly improved and revised, depending on the specialized abilities of those engaged in a particular content. In this process, the reward system is an essential driving factor. Yet, monetary reward should be considered only after some fair criterion is established. In terms of the context of the situation, the quality of contents uploading system was proposed to have strong influence on the content generating activities. Among other influential factors on contents generation activities are generators' specialized skills and involvement of the users were proposed. In addition, the audience response, especially effective development of shared interests as well as feedback, was suggested to have significant influence on contents generation activities. Content generators usually reflect the shared interest of others. Shared interest is a distinct characteristic of UCC and observed in all the three websites, in which common interest is formed by the "threads" embedded with content. Through such threads of information and contents users discuss and share ideas while continuously extending and updating shared contents in the process. Evidently, UCC is a new paradigm representing the next generation of the Internet. In order to fully utilize this innovative paradigm, we need to understand how users take advantage of this medium in generating contents, and what affects their content generation activities. Based on these findings, UCC service providers should design their websites as common playground where users freely interact and share their common interests. As such this paper makes an important first step to gaining better understand about this new communication paradigm created by UCC.

• Asia pacific journal of information systems
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• 제21권4호
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• pp.1-25
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• 2011

Internet-based commerce has undergone an explosive growth over the past decade as consumers today find it more economical as well as more convenient to shop online. Nevertheless, the shift in the common mode of shopping from offline to online commerce has caused consumers to have worries over such issues as private information leakage, online fraud, discrepancy in product quality and grade, unsuccessful delivery, and so forth, Numerous studies have been undertaken to examine the role of perceived risk as a chief barrier to online purchases and to understand the theoretical relationships among perceived risk, trust and purchase intentions, However, most studies focus on empirically investigating the effects of trust on perceived risk, with little attention devoted to the effects of perceived risk on trust, While the influence trust has on perceived risk is worth studying, the influence in the opposite direction is equally important, enabling insights into the potential of perceived risk as a prohibitor of trust, According to Pavlou (2003), the primary source of the perceived risk is either the technological uncertainty of the Internet environment or the behavioral uncertainty of the transaction partner. Due to such types of uncertainty, an increase in the worries over the perceived risk may negatively affect trust, For example, if a consumer who sends sensitive transaction data over Internet is concerned that his or her private information may leak out because of the lack of security, trust may decrease (Olivero and Lunt, 2004), By the same token, if the consumer feels that the online merchant has the potential to profit by behaving in an opportunistic manner taking advantage of the remote, impersonal nature of online commerce, then it is unlikely that the merchant will be trusted, That is, the more the probable danger is likely to occur, the less trust and the greater need to control the transaction (Olivero and Lunt, 2004), In summary, a review of the related studies indicates that while some researchers looked at the influence of overall perceived risk on trust level, not much attention has been given to the effects of different types of perceived risk, In this context the present research aims at addressing the need to study how trust is affected by different types of perceived risk, We classified perceived risk into six different types based on the literature, and empirically analyzed the impact of each type of perceived risk upon consumer trust in an online merchant and further its impact upon purchase intentions. To meet our research objectives, we developed a conceptual model depicting the nomological structure of the relationships among our research variables, and also formulated a total of seven hypotheses. The model and hypotheses were tested using an empirical analysis based on a questionnaire survey of 206 college students. The reliability was evaluated via Cronbach's alphas, the minimum of which was found to be 0.73, and therefore the questionnaire items are all deemed reliable. In addition, the results of confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) designed to check the validity of the measurement model indicate that the convergent, discriminate, and nomological validities of the model are all acceptable. The structural equation modeling analysis to test the hypotheses yielded the following results. Of the first six hypotheses (H1-1 through H1-6) designed to examine the relationships between each risk type and trust, three hypotheses including H1-1 (performance risk ${\rightarrow}$ trust), H1-2 (psychological risk ${\rightarrow}$ trust) and H1-5 (online payment risk ${\rightarrow}$ trust) were supported with path coefficients of -0.30, -0.27 and -0.16 respectively. Finally, H2 (trust ${\rightarrow}$ purchase intentions) was supported with relatively high path coefficients of 0.73. Results of the empirical study offer the following findings and implications. First. it was found that it was performance risk, psychological risk and online payment risk that have a statistically significant influence upon consumer trust in an online merchant. It implies that a consumer may find an online merchant untrustworthy if either the product quality or the product grade does not match his or her expectations. For that reason, online merchants including digital storefronts and e-marketplaces are suggested to pursue a strategy focusing on identifying the target customers and offering products that they feel best meet performance and psychological needs of those customers. Thus, they should do their best to make it widely known that their products are of as good quality and grade as those purchased from offline department stores. In addition, it may be inferred that today's online consumers remain concerned about the security of the online commerce environment due to the repeated occurrences of hacking or private information leakage. Online merchants should take steps to remove potential vulnerabilities and provide online notices to emphasize that their website is secure. Second, consumer's overall trust was found to have a statistically significant influence on purchase intentions. This finding, which is consistent with the results of numerous prior studies, suggests that increased sales will become a reality only with enhanced consumer trust.

• 대한소아치과학회지
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• 제29권3호
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• pp.439-443
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• 2002

본 조사는 대한소아치과학회 홈페이지의 진료장담 코너의 내용을 분석하여 분야별 분포를 조사하고 그 경향을 파악할 목적으로 시도되었다. 조사대상은 1998년 9월 28일부터 2002년 2월 26일까지 대한소아치과학회 홈페이지 진료상담 코너에 오른 2142개의 질문이었으며, 이들을 7개 대항목과 37개 소항목, 그리고 연령대별 분포상황을 조사하여 다음과 같은 결과를 얻었다. 1. 환아의 연령대를 $0{\sim}6$개월, $7{\sim}12$개월, $13{\sim}24$개월, $25{\sim}36$개월, $3{\sim}6$세, $7{\sim}12$세, 13세 이상으로 분류하였을 때, $13{\sim}24$개월의 아동과 3세${\sim}$6세의 아동에 관한 질문이 가장 많았다. 2. 대항목별 분류에서는 성장과 발육, 발육장애 및 구강질환, 행동조절, 수복 및 치수치료, 치열과 교합유도, 외상성 손상 및 외과적 치료, 기타로 분류하였을 때, 발육장애 및 구강질환에서 가장 많은 질문이 나타났다. 3. 소항목별 분류에서는 수복 및 치수치료, 치아의 발육과 맹출, 외상성 손상, 반대교합, 신생 유아기 잇솔질 방법의 순으로 많은 질문을 보였다. 4. 연령대별, 소항목 분류에서는 $0{\sim}6$개월에서는 신생치 선천치, $7{\sim}12$개월, $13{\sim}24$개월에서는 치아의 발육과 맹출, $25{\sim}36$개월, $3{\sim}6$세에서는 수복 및 치수치료, $7{\sim}12$세에서는 반대교합을 제외한 교정치료의 시기와 방법, 13세 이상에서는 수복 및 치수치료에 관하여 가장 많았다. 5. 반대교합, 외상성 손상, 연조직 질환에 관한 질문은 연령대별로 비교적 고르게 분포되어 있었다.

• 지능정보연구
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• 제23권3호
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• pp.139-153
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• 2017

기업의 부도는 이해관계자들뿐 아니라 사회에도 경제적으로 큰 손실을 야기한다. 따라서 기업부도예측은 경영학 연구에 있어 중요한 연구주제 중 하나로 다뤄져 왔다. 기존의 연구에서는 부도 예측을 위해 다변량판별분석, 로짓분석, 신경망분석 등 다양한 방법론을 이용하여 모형의 부도 예측력을 높이고 과적합의 문제를 해결하고자 시도하였다. 하지만 기존의 연구들이 시간적 요소를 고려하지 않아 발생할 수 있는 문제점들을 갖고 있음에도 불구하고 부도 예측에 있어서 동적 모형을 이용한 연구는 활발히 진행되고 있지 않으며 따라서 동적 모형을 이용하여 부도예측모형이 더욱 개선될 여지가 있다는 점을 확인할 수 있었다. 이에 본 연구에서는 RNN(Recurrent Neural Network)을 이용하여 시계열 재무 데이터의 동적 변화를 반영한 모형을 만들었으며 기존의 부도예측모형들과의 비교분석을 통해 부도 예측력의 향상에 도움이 된다는 것을 확인할 수 있었다. 모형의 유용성을 검증하기 위해 KIS Value의 재무 데이터를 이용하여 실험을 수행하였고 비교모형으로는 다변량판별분석, 로짓분석, SVM, 인공신경망을 선정하였다. 실험 결과 제안된 모형이 비교 모형에 비해 우수한 예측력을 보이는 것으로 나타났다. 따라서 본 연구는 변수들의 변화를 포착하는 동적 모형을 부도예측에 새롭게 제안하여 부도예측 연구의 발전에 기여할 수 있을 것으로 기대된다.

• 비교교육연구
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• 제27권4호
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• pp.187-209
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• 2017

본 연구의 목적은 유럽연합에서 개발한 세계 대학 평가시스템 '유-멀티랭크(U-Multirank)'를 통해 대학의 실제 경쟁력과 질적 수준을 재검토해야 할 필요성 그리고 세계 대학 순위평가 시스템이라는 개념을 재정립해야 필요성을 역설하는 데 있다. 지금까지 널리 활용되고 있는 THE나 ARWU와 같은 세계 대학 순위평가 시스템은 연구중심 종합대학에 초점을 맞추어 정량화된 평가 방식을 취해왔다. 그러나 이러한 평가 방식은 세계 고등교육 분야에서 대학과 전공 간의 서열화를 조장하는 동시에 소규모 지방대학이나 유사 고등교육기관을 소외시키는 결과를 낳았다. 더구나 대학 순위평가제의 본래 취지가 잠재적 대학 편 입학자들에게 실질적이고 포괄적인 정보를 제공함으로써 그들 개개인의 교육 이상과 요구에 부합하는 고등교육기관을 선택할 수 있도록 돕는데 있다는 점을 도외시한채, 기존의 정량화된 평가 방식과 순위발표는 결코 도표 위의 수치로 환원될 수 없는 복잡다양한 교육현실을 축소시키는 문제마저 초래하였다. 유럽연합 교육위원회는 세계 대학 평가시스템의 이러한 결함을 보완하고 유럽 사회에 필요한 고등인재를 길러내기 위해 2009년부터 2011년까지 타당성 조사와 파일럿 테스트를 거쳐 '유-멀티랭크'라는 새로운 세계 대학 평가시스템을 개발하였다. THE나 ARWU 등과 차별화되는 유-멀티랭크의 특징은 사용자 중심성, 다차원성, 개별성이라는 원칙 아래 대학에 관한 질적 평가 방식을 취한다는 데 있다. 이 시스템은 모바일 운영체계를 기반으로 설계되어 디지털 글로벌 시대에 최적화된 세계 대학 평가시스템의 본보기를 제시할 뿐 아니라, 사용자의 접근성과 참여폭을 확장시킴으로써 시스템 자체의 무한한 자기검증과 진화 가능성까지 열어놓고 있다. 이는 대학 평가시스템의 투명성 확보와 관련해 대단히 중요한 장점이다. 무엇보다 유-멀티랭크의 사용자 중심 모바일 운영체계는 미국대학 중심의 기존 세계 대학리그에 국내 외의 다양한 대학들을 노출시킴으로써 공정한 질적 경쟁의 장을 마련해준다는 점에서 우리 대학들의 글로벌 경쟁력 강화를 위해서도 희망을 걸만한 대안이라 생각된다. 유-멀티랭크를 통한 세계 대학 평가시스템의 재개념화 가능성을 타진하기 위해 본 연구는 Edgar Morin의 복잡성 사고 이론과 Karl Popper의 과학철학에 기댄 인식론적 접근을 시도하고 있다.

• 동양고전연구
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• 제70호
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• pp.303-345
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• 2018

이 논문은 조선시대 과거급제자 명단인 방목의 디지털화 작업이 한 개인의 사회적 배경과 혈통에 대한 정보를 알려주는 것을 뛰어넘어, 양반 사이의 다양한 관계망을 파악하는 자료로서 어떻게 이용할 수 있는지를 보여주는 것이다. 디지털 인문학에서 조선시대 과거 합격자의 명단인 방목은 대단히 흥미로운 자료다. 이 자료를 기반으로 조선시대 사회상을 엿볼 수 있다. 한국학중앙연구원은 방목의 각종 데이터를 XML 문서로 만들어 데이터베이스를 구축 운영하고 있어, 필요한 항목을 추출하고 다양한 통계 자료를 만들 수 있다. 또 방목 데이터와 족보 데이터를 연결한다면 혼인 관계와 지역 연고, 당파 등 한 개인과 지역 사회에 대한 중층적인 스토리텔링을 구현할 수도 있다. 이미 한국학중앙연구원에서는 2005년부터 현재까지 문과방목 무과방목 사마방목 잡과방목의 디지털화를 완료하였다. 이 작업의 결과는 현재 '한국역대인물 종합정보시스템'에서 이용할 수 있다. 조선시대 다양한 과거급제자의 명단을 망라한 이 작업으로 조선시대 지배엘리트로부터 전문직 중인의 명단을 확보할 수 있게 되었다. 그럼에도 아직 이 작업결과를 통해 의미 있는 활용들이 일어나지 못하고 있다. 이 논문은 낱낱이 흩어져 있는 개인 정보들을 디지털 인문학이라는 학문적 접근을 통해 개인의 생애와 그 개인이 몸담은 사회의 심층을 들여다보는 창구로서 어떻게 활용할 수 있는지를 제시하고자 한다. 그래프 데이터베이스에 방목 데이터를 입력하면 급제자가 노드(node)가 되고 각 노드간 친족 관계와 혼인 관계를 시각적으로 살펴 볼 수 있다. 급제자들 상호 간의 인적 관계뿐만 아니라 여기에 족보 데이터를 추가하면 다양한 혼인 관계를 바탕으로 조선시대 문벌 가문의 단초를 한 눈에 알 수 있다.