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The Implementation of Library Toolbar and Librarian's Evaluation for Improving Accessability of OPAC (OPAC 접근 향상을 위한 도서관 툴바의 제공 및 사서 평가 연구 - W대학 도서관 사례를 중심으로 -)

  • Lee, Hyun-Sil
    • Journal of Korean Library and Information Science Society
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    • v.40 no.3
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    • pp.157-180
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    • 2009
  • This study implements library toolbar in order to improve the accessibility of OPAC in the library. The toolbar elements are extracted on the basis of the importance of functionality for OPAC. After comparing the toolbar implementation approaches, this study develops the library toolbar with these elements as the client-based application that can fully realized the functionality of the toolbar. The librarians evaluate the usability of toolbar very affirmatively. This study also summarizes the further functionalities to upgrade toolbar proposed by the librarian. Through deploying the upgraded toolbar, the user requirements have to be analyzed and realized with the user survey.

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Effects of housing renovation cost for the disabled on their housing satisfaction (장애인 주택개조 비용이 거주후 만족도에 미치는 영향)

  • Lee, So-Young;Kim, Mi-Jung
    • Proceeding of Spring/Autumn Annual Conference of KHA
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    • 2011.04a
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    • pp.172-175
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    • 2011
  • Financial supports for housing for the disabled is limited since a certain amount of budget needs to be distributed for a number of disabled families. Therefore, it is important to fund renovation for the disabled effectively and properly. Financial and administrative supports for the renovation which intended to improve housing conditions in terms of accessibility (barrier free) and comfort needs to be implemented with larger outcome and smaller budget. The purpose of this study was to investigate various factor such as renovation cost and renovation elements, influence satisfaction of residents with disabilities. Participants of this study are limited to the recipients of financial supports for housing renovation and refurbishment from City of Seoul and Ministry of Heal and Welfare. A total of 155 cases were analyzed using post occupancy survey and analysis of project cost data. Overall, more cost were used for modification for housing condition improvement than the cost for removal of architectural barriers. Renovation cost differences were not apparent among the type and extent of an individual's disabilities. Instead existing housing type and physical condition for the housing affects cost for renovation more significantly. Overall the renovation cost is positively related to resident's satisfaction using regression analysis.

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An Evaluative Analysis of Service Accessibility on University Library Homepage (홈페이지를 통한 대학도서관 서비스 접근성 평가 분석)

  • Choi Eun-Ju;Ryoo Jong-Duk
    • Journal of the Korean Society for Library and Information Science
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    • v.39 no.3
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    • pp.245-261
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    • 2005
  • The purpose of this study is to provide directions for more effective and efficient service for library user by evaluating and analyzing library service access points on university library homepages. 69 national/public and private university libraries throughout the country are selected by stratified sampling method. The items used for evaluation are composed of 4 areas and 23 questions, and SPSS 12.0 is used for statistical analysis. The results are elicited through the hypothesis testing, and some suggestions are made for the effective university library homepage service.

A Study on the Image Evaluation for hight accessibility in Museum for Children (어린이박물관 전시공간의 접근도 향상을 위한 이미지평가 연구)

  • Song, Jung-Hwa;Lim, Che-Jin;Yu, Eun-Mi
    • Korean Institute of Interior Design Journal
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    • v.20 no.2
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    • pp.20-29
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    • 2011
  • This research is based on the environmental psychology model of Albert Mehrabian & JAMES a. Russell. The purpose of this research is to search a method of planning a spatial image improving the degree of access that is audience's dependent response to a display space image of a museum for children. A museum for children is the place for education with experience and its main audience is children and parents. It indicates with a basis of the environmental psychology model that a designer needs to consider the emotional response of children and parents in designing the space. The space design starts from a plan of space image that is delivered to audience through the five senses. Image on the space means visual image as people acquire information mostly through the sense of sight. Visual image consists of shape, the feel of a material, and color that is the most influential factor to the sensibility of audience. Therefore, firstly, this research measures the degree of audience's approach and avoidence on image of display space. In addition, this research suggests the improvement method by analyzing differences on the access of each space and audience based on visual image. Secondly, four factors are extracted through factor analysis based on the result of adjective survey result.

A Study on the Development of Evaluation Model for Hot Spring Water Tourist Service Quality in Small City - Focused on the Suanbo Hot Spring Water - (소도시 온천 관광객 서비스 질 평가모형개발 - 수안보 온천을 중심으로 -)

  • Yoon, Jang-Youl;Jin, Jang-Won;Kim, Tae-Ho
    • Journal of the Korean Institute of Rural Architecture
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    • v.11 no.2
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    • pp.29-36
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    • 2009
  • The recently research shows that the many tourists of Suanbo hot spring waters haven't satisfied the service. These reasons due to that they did not properly consider the satisfaction of tourists' services and index. However, satisfaction level of hot spring waters tourists is interacted complicatedly with various factors, the interactions are not easily identified. A structural equations model is adopted to capture the complex relationships among variables. In the model estimation, we used 140 survey data of Suanbo hot spring waters tourists. The SEM with several factors mentioned above as exogenous variables shows that they have complex and strong relationships. As results of a SEM, it was shown that variables influencing in pleasance are surrounding scenery, clean condition inside hot springs and congestion for use in satisfaction level most. Secondly, in case of kindness, attitudes of employees influence in satisfaction level most, followed by attitudes of residents and kindness of employees. Thirdly, in case of information, it was shown guidance on internal roads influencing in satisfaction level most, followed by guidance on owner drivers, guidance on surrounding tourist attractions and guidance on public transportation. Finally, a variable influencing in accessibility most is satisfaction level of public transportation.

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Controversies on the Usefulness of Nerve Conduction Study in the Early Diagnosis of Diabetic Polyneuropathy: Pros (당뇨병성 다발신경병증의 조기 진단에서 신경전도검사의 유용성에 관한 논란: 긍정적인 관점에서)

  • Kwon, Ohyun
    • Annals of Clinical Neurophysiology
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    • v.10 no.1
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    • pp.29-32
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    • 2008
  • Although various criteria on the diagnosis of diabetic neuropathy are applied from trial to trial, being tailored in concert with its purpose, the utmost evidences of the diagnosis are subjective symptoms and objective signs of neurologic deficit. The application and interpretation of auxiliary electrophysiological test including nerve conduction study (NCS) should be made on the context of clinical pictures. The evaluation of the functions of small, thinly myelinated or unmyelinated nerve fibers has been increasingly stressed recently with the advent of newer techniques, e.g., measurement of intraepidermal fiber density, quantitative sensory testing, and autonomic function test. And the studies with those techniques have shed light to the nature of the evolution of diabetic neuropathy. The practical application of these techniques to the diagnosis of diabetic neuropathy in the individual patients, however, should be made cautiously due to several shortcomings: limited accessibility, wide overlapping zone between norm and abnormality with resultant unsatisfactory sensitivity and specificity, difficulty in performing subsequent tests, unproven quantitative correlation with clinical deficit, and invasiveness of some technique. NCS, as an extension of clinical examination, is still the most reliable electrophysiological test in evaluating neuropathy and gives the invaluable information about the nature of neuropathy, whereas the newer techniques need more refinement of the procedure and interpretation, and the accumulation of large scaled data of application to be considered as established diagnostic tools of peripheral neuropathy.

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A Study on the Assesment Guideline for Environment-Friendly University Campuses (친환경 캠퍼스 평가 기준 도출에 관한 연구)

  • Noh, Mi-Young;Shin, Ji-Hoon;Im, Seung-Bin
    • Journal of the Korean Society of Environmental Restoration Technology
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    • v.11 no.4
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    • pp.103-118
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    • 2008
  • University campuses, in Korea, experienced expansion during the 1970's and exceeded its capacity in the 1980's. On the other hand, universities needed to deal with increasing capacity and expansion of its facilities. This study is carried out in three steps : developing the factors of environmental friendly assessment, designing an assessment table based on specific categories, and applying the categories to the campus of Seoul National University. The assessment factors and assessment table were designed through a survey of experts in landscaping, architecture, and urban planning. The elements of major categories were classified as follows; 1) Management of land and accessibility, 2) Pollution and waste matter, 3) Energy, 4) Natural resources, 5) Operation, maintenance and management of environmental friendly campus. And, this study classified five major categories into twenty subcategories on the evaluation of the environmental friendly campus. The twenty subcategories include various fields such as architecture, landscape architecture, environment, urban design, and social sciences etc., profound studies at this line should make more precise assesment guidelines.

Enhanced Sign Language Transcription System via Hand Tracking and Pose Estimation

  • Kim, Jung-Ho;Kim, Najoung;Park, Hancheol;Park, Jong C.
    • Journal of Computing Science and Engineering
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    • v.10 no.3
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    • pp.95-101
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    • 2016
  • In this study, we propose a new system for constructing parallel corpora for sign languages, which are generally under-resourced in comparison to spoken languages. In order to achieve scalability and accessibility regarding data collection and corpus construction, our system utilizes deep learning-based techniques and predicts depth information to perform pose estimation on hand information obtainable from video recordings by a single RGB camera. These estimated poses are then transcribed into expressions in SignWriting. We evaluate the accuracy of hand tracking and hand pose estimation modules of our system quantitatively, using the American Sign Language Image Dataset and the American Sign Language Lexicon Video Dataset. The evaluation results show that our transcription system has a high potential to be successfully employed in constructing a sizable sign language corpus using various types of video resources.

A Study on the Evaluation and Improvement of Student Convenient Facilities in University Campus based on Universal Design Concept (유니버설디자인 개념에 의거한 대학내 학생편의시설 평가 및 개선방향에 대한 연구)

  • Kim, Won-Pil
    • Journal of the Korean Institute of Educational Facilities
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    • v.19 no.5
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    • pp.11-20
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    • 2012
  • The student hall and its convenient facilities are hot-core space for various student activities in university campus. It has been for most of the student a place of sweet memories and romance imprinted by a positive image of a cozy atmosphere of unique eating establishments or student hectic activities that used to take place. However, it is questionable whether that facilities are open for all of the students and other users including the handicapped. Therefore, the purpose of this study is to evaluate student convenient facilities and to provide an improvement guideline for the wellbeing of students and other users, based on universal design concept. For that purpose, eight universities were selected for an investigation and 81 survey items were developed based on universal design concept; supportive, adaptable, accessible, and safety-oriented design. The analysis found that accessibility to main entry areas, main entry doors, stairs, and handicapped parking were positively evaluated, while information system for handicapped, handicapped public bath, and corridors lacked some notion of supportive and accessible design. Finally the study suggested some useful planning and design guidelines for an extensive and precise application of universal design concept.

A Study on Evaluation of District Visiting Nursing Services of Urban Health Center (일 보건소 동단위 지역담당 방문간호서비스 성과)

  • Ryu, Ho-Shin;Hwang, Rah-Il;Chin, Dal-Lae;Suk, Min-Hyun
    • Research in Community and Public Health Nursing
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    • v.16 no.2
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    • pp.127-136
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    • 2005
  • Purpose: The purpose of this study was to present the outcomes of the district visiting nursing services. Method: We analyzed nursing records and inspected public health center data for evaluating nursing tasks. and conducted a telephone survey of 651 district inhabitants. Results: According to the result, the coverage of the district population, the rate of new registration and overall program activities increased. Meanwhile, accessibility of visiting health care, the level of health problem management, personal cognition and satisfaction concerning visiting nursing care increased, but there was little change in personal perception of health improvement. Furthermore, the status of client management was improved. In the analysis of participation in national cancer screening program, we found that there was twice higher participation in the district than others. Conclusion: We suggest that this district visiting nursing system takes responsibility for district inhabitant health management. Based on the study, we also suggest that the government and local autonomous entities should increase administrative and financial supports to execute the district-based visiting nursing system in wider areas.

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