• 한국소음진동공학회논문집
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• 제24권2호
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• pp.108-116
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• 2014

With the increasing the importance of emotional quality of vehicle, the sound quality of systems with electric motor components has become increasingly important. Electric motors are used for windows, seats, sun roof, mirrors, steering columns, windshield wiper and climate control blowers, etc. In this paper, a study was conducted to identify sound quality factors that contribute to customer's satisfaction and preference of the window lift system. Jury test for subjective evaluation was carried out and sound quality index was developed. Averaged sound pressure level and sharpness were significant factors when glass moves down. Also, maximum loudness at stop section and averaged loudness were significant factor when glass moves up. Next, noise source identification was carried out using beam forming method during glass transferred section and impulsive noise at stop section. Several improvement methods were applied using the source identification result. And finally, the degree of sound quality improvement was judged using sound quality index.

• 한국생활과학회지
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• 제13권2호
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• pp.271-282
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• 2004

The purposes of this study were to research the behavior of consumption and needs about the female university students to provide useful information which would help finding the marketing source of cosmeceuticals. The sample was consisted of 464 female university students who had experiences of using the cosmeceuticals. Data were analyzed by factor analysis, frequency, x2-test, t-test, ANOVA(LSD) using SPSSWIN. The results were as follows: When the female university students purchased the cosmeceuticals, they considered the effectiveness and the price, so were satisfied with good effect and low price. The most important marketing methods in cosmeceuticals for female university students were through the internet and mail order shopping. Whereas, demerit factors of internet shopping were founded to be the complexity of exchange or refund and the little chance of free samples for trial. The good marketing strategies might be sending trial samples, future payment system after trial period, and/or supporting the event held in the university. Besides, it might be a consideration to have an event for the improvement by public trial. Anti-aging cosmeceutical was the most preferred item for female students, sun protection and whitening cosmetics next in order. Therefore, a target customer for cosmeceuticals might be lowered in age. The purchasing cost system and therapeutic effect of cosmeceuticals had to be developed for 20's. It was necessary to be safe and effective. The factors affecting the level of satisfaction for cosmeceuticals could be categorized into 4; market environment, simplicity of purchase, product merit and additional service. The needs for cosmeceuticals showed significant differences according to grade and kinds of product.

• Journal of Information Technology Applications and Management
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• 제24권4호
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• pp.41-55
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• 2017

Industrial Revolution is a concept and a development that has fundamentally changed our society and economy. Industry 4.0 focuses on the end-to-end digitization of all physical assets and integration into digital ecosystems with value chain partners. At present, we find ourselves at the beginning of this fourth stage, which is characterized by so-called "Cyber-Physical Systems". These systems are a consequence of the far-reaching integration of production, sustainability and customer-satisfaction forming the basis of intelligent network systems and processes. If South Korea ran toward global ICT with the advent of the Fourth Industrial Revolution, North Korea has adhered to a unique Juche science and technology. ICT in South Korea and North Korea seems very difficult to find common interests. However, as seen in the Internet and intranets, information and communication technology can find similarities in many areas than in general science and technology. There are many differences not only in the level of ICT and science and technology but also in the direction. And IT terminology and all technologies are also different. What are we preparing for the unification of North and South Korea? If we look at the science and technology sector at present, there seems to be no systematic preparation by the government. South Korea and North Korea need to be prepared for science and technology cooperation. First, it is necessary to understand the exact situation of North Korea's science and technology. In this study, we will perform research to establish mid and long term plans for revitalization of ICT cooperation between the two Koreas. In this study, we will determine the extent to which the two Koreas utilize ICT based on available ICT capabilities and technologies. To do this, we conducted research to measure and evaluate the ICT development index of North Korea using ICT international index.

• 대한인간공학회지
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• 제33권6호
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• pp.499-513
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• 2014

Objective: The objective of this study was to examine frame ratio of text information and font size in the circle smartwatch. Background: Recently, electronic manufacturers try to develop the original metaphor of traditional wrist watch (circle) in terms of smartwatch. They endeavor to break the square display in order to improve emotional customer satisfaction. Method: The experiments examined twenty level of text information design, combinations of four frame ratios (1:1, 4:3, 16:9, 21:9) and five font sizes (6pt, 7pt, 8pt, 9pt, 10pt). Nineteen participants volunteered for the experiment. Dependent variables were WPM (Words per Minute), reading preference, design preference and total preference. Furthermore, small circle display was made by using circle display data (1.3inch), which was exhibited in IFA (International Funkausstellung) 2014. Results: As a result, ANOVA (Analysis of Variance) revealed that WPM, and task time preference affect the specific frame ratio and font size. Results of ANOVA for reading preference, design preference, total preference were grouped by post-analysis LSD (Least Significant Difference). Among users, display ratio (16:9, 21:9), and font size (9pt) were preferred. In conclusion, 16:9 display ratio and 9pt are adaptable for text information in 1.3inch circle display. Conclusion: From the study, it is shown that 16:9 display ratio and 9pt size are more adaptable for text information in 1.3inch circle display than others. It is mainly due to the fact that the order of frame ratio and font size may affect the usability of reading long text information in a small circle display. Therefore, when developers design a circle display, the square frame ratio and font size are required to be considered according to circle size. Application: The 16:9 display ratio and 9pt font size may be utilized as a text information frame in the circle display design guideline for smartwatch.

• 산업경영시스템학회지
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• 제38권4호
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• pp.168-176
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• 2015

Trends of integrating products and services lead to the emergence of Product-Service System (PSS). To implement and embody a PSS solution in new product development, a comprehensive design framework is allowed designers to facilitate the design factors of the PSS in complex business environments. A physical product, containing functionalities for services, is the role of medium between customers and a manufactures. Customers can access those metaphysical interfaces to utilize the product fully or expand its performances. The PSS is aiming to prolong its lifecycle while maintaining its expected quality. Since the quality can be represented as a measure which belongs to user's perspective, guaranteeing certain level of quality can be interpreted to sustaining customer satisfaction. The objective of this paper is to propose a PSS design framework to identify design factors for developing products and services by integrating object-oriented concepts and blueprinting in context of a business ecosystem. The proposed model is developed based on relationship products and services matching with their design factors. The products and the services are then brought together to form a PSS. Functions and processes can be categorized to identify the design factors in different levels using the object-oriented concepts. Objected-oriented concepts provide PSS analysis tools for describing a business process or a workflow process in the PSS. The blueprint is used to identify the relationships between the products functions and the service processes that are offered as part of a job. To demonstrate of the effectiveness of the proposed model, we use a case study involving a smart phone.

• 지능정보연구
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• 제16권3호
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• pp.99-120
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• 2010

최근 고객들의 비대면 접점 서비스 이용도가 높아짐에 따라, 비대면 채널은 다양한 데이터의 분석을 통해 고객 만족도를 향상시킬 수 있는 유용한 창구로 인식되고 있다. 이러한 비대면 채널의 대표적 영역으로 콜센터를 들 수 있으며, 콜센터 운영에서 고객 만족도에 가장 큰 영향을 미치는 요소는 상담 인력의 규모인 것으로 알려져 있다. 즉, 일정수준 이상의 고객 만족도를 유지하기 위해서는 충분한 상담 인력을 확보하는 것이 관건이지만, 불필요하게 많은 인력을 확보하는 것은 인건비 측면에서 비용의 낭비를 초래할 수 있다. 따라서 부족하지도 않고 넘치지도 않을 정도의 적정 인력을 산출하는 능력은 콜센터 운영의 핵심 경쟁력으로 인식되고 있으며, 최근 콜센터에서는 적정 인력의 규모를 예측하기 위해 WFM(Work Force Management) 업무 전담 부서를 설치하고 콜량을 정확하게 예측하기 위한 노력을 기울이고 있다. 콜량 예측을 위해 현업에서 주로 사용되는 방법은 담당자의 직관에 의존하는 방법으로, 일정기간의 콜량 평균을 담당자가 주관적 판단에 의해 보정함으로써 이루어진다. 하지만 이러한 방식은 담당자의 주관적 성향에 크게 좌우된다는 한계를 갖고 있어서, 최근에는 다양한 예측 모형을 시스템화한 WFMS(Workforce Management System) 패키지가 널리 활용되고 있다. 하지만 이 시스템은 초기 도입 시 매우 고가의 구축비용이 발생하며, 신규 요인 발굴 시 이를 즉각적으로 시스템에 반영하기 어렵다는 한계점을 갖고 있다. 이를 극복하기 위해 본 연구에서는 데이터 마이닝의 대화식 의사결정나무 기법을 이용함으로써, 객관적이면서도 업무 배경 지식을 충분히 활용할 수 있는 예측 모형을 수립하고자 한다. 또한, 본 연구에서 수립한 모형의 정확성 평가를 위해, 국내 최대 규모의 한 자동차 보험사 콜센터의 4년 8개월 간의 실 데이터를 사용한 실험을 수행하고 그 결과를 제시하였다. 실험에서는 기존의 WFMS와 본 연구에서 제안하는 두 가지 모형인 대화식 의사결정나무 기반의 예측 모형, 일반 의사결정나무 기반의 예측 모형의 세 가지 모형에 대해, 다양한 오차 허용범위 하에서의 사고콜 및 고장콜에 대한 예측 적중률을 평가하였다.

• 통상정보연구
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• 제4권2호
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• pp.253-277
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• 2002

현재 정보통신기술의 비약적인 발전은 물리적인 거래 패러다임을 전자방식으로 확대시키는 극적인 변화를 주도하고 있다. 주지하는 바와 같이, 금융서비스는 거래당사자간 대부분의 금융거래를 지원하고 있다. 그러므로 전자거래의 확대는 금융서비스를 제공하는 모든 금융기관들에도 영향을 미치고 있다. 이에 따라 모든 금융기관들은 정쟁에서 살아남기 위해 e-Finance 시스템을 도입하여 인터넷금융 서비스를 제공하고 있다. 본 연구의 목적은 이용자측면에서 인터넷을 이용한 e-Finance의 이용 실태와 확산요인을 분석함으로써 e-Finance 고객서비스의 질적인 향상과 신속한 확산 그리고 올바른 전략 수립에 기여하는 것이다. 본 연구는 기존문헌 검토와 요인 및 신뢰도 분석을 통해 e-Finance 자체에 대한 지각된 효율성과 지각된 신뢰 및 안전성, e-Finance 시스템에 대한 신뢰도, 기술적 요소, 고객서비스 품질 그리고 개인특성에 있어 혁신성향 등 6가지를 확산요인으로 채택한다. 로지스틱 회귀분석을 이용한 가설 검증 결과에 따르면, e-Finance시스템에 있어서 기술적 요소와 고객서비스 품질 그리고 개인 특성에 있어 혁신성향은 e-Finance의 확산여부에 각각 유의수준 0.05와 0.01%에서 통계적으로 정의 영향을 갖는 것으로 나타났다. 그렇지만 e-Finance 자체에 대한 지각된 효율성과 지각된 신뢰 및 안전성은 이의 확산여부에 별다른 영향을 미치지 않는 것으로 나타났다. 또한 e-Finance 시스템과 관련하여 시스템의 신뢰도는 통계적으로 이의 확산에 유의적이지 못하였다. 본 연구는 추후 이용자 측면에서 e-Finance 확산요인에 관해 실증적 연구를 하는데 기본적인 자료로서 이용될 수 있고, 이에 대한 기업이나 정부의 정책 수립 또는 구현과 금융기관의 고객서비스 품질정도 결정에 이용될 수 있다. 그러나 본 연구는 만족요인과 이의 e-Finance에 대한 영향을 다루지 못했다는 점과 국내 이용자만을 대상으로 했다는 점 그리고 다중희귀분석을 실시하지 못했다는 점 등 몇 가지 한계를 갖는다.

• Asia Marketing Journal
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• 제15권3호
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• pp.53-77
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• 2013

As advertising and promotions are categorized as operating expenses, managers tend to reduce marketing budget to improve their short term profitability. Gauging the value and accountability of marketing spending is therefore considered as a major research priority in marketing. To respond this call, recent studies have documented that financial market reacts positively to a firm's marketing activity or marketing related outcomes such as brand equity and customer satisfaction. However, prior studies focus on the relation of marketing variable and financial market variables. This study suggests a channel about how marketing activity increases firm valuation. Specifically, we propose that a firm's marketing activity increases the level of the firm's product market information and thereby the dispersion in financial analysts' earnings forecasts decreases. With less uncertainty about the firm's future prospect, the firm's managers and shareholders have less information asymmetry, which reduces the firm's cost of capital and thereby increases the valuation of the firm. To our knowledge, this is the first paper to examine how informational benefits can mediate the effect of marketing activity on firm value. To test whether marketing activity contributes to increase in firm value by mitigating information asymmetry, this study employs a longitudinal data which contains 12,824 firm-year observations with 2,337 distinct firms from 1981 to 2006. Firm value is measured by Tobin's Q and one-year-ahead buy-and-hold abnormal return (BHAR). Following prior literature, dispersion in analysts' earnings forecasts is used as a proxy for the information gap between management and shareholders. For model specification, to identify mediating effect, the three-step regression approach is adopted. All models are estimated using Markov chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) methods to test the statistical significance of the mediating effect. The analysis shows that marketing intensity has a significant negative relationship with dispersion in analysts' earnings forecasts. After including the mediator variable about analyst dispersion, the effect of marketing intensity on firm value drops from 1.199 (p < .01) to 1.130 (p < .01) in Tobin's Q model and the same effect drops from .192 (p < .01) to .188 (p < .01) in BHAR model. The results suggest that analysts' forecast dispersion partially accounts for the positive effect of marketing on firm valuation. Additionally, the same analysis was conducted with an alternative dependent variable (forecast accuracy) and a marketing metric (advertising intensity). The analysis supports the robustness of the main results. In sum, the results provide empirical evidence that marketing activity can increase shareholder value by mitigating problem of information asymmetry in the capital market. The findings have important implications for managers. First, managers should be cognizant of the role of marketing activity in providing information to the financial market as well as to the consumer market. Thus, managers should take into account investors' reaction when they design marketing communication messages for reducing the cost of capital. Second, this study shows a channel on how marketing creates shareholder value and highlights the accountability of marketing. In addition to the direct impact of marketing on firm value, an indirect channel by reducing information asymmetry should be considered. Potentially, marketing managers can justify their spending from the perspective of increasing long-term shareholder value.

• 한국식품영양과학회지
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• 제34권7호
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• pp.1028-1034
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• 2005

본 연구에서는 강원도 소재 대학교에 재학 중인 학부 학생을 대상으로 교내 학생식 당 이용 실태 및 급식서비스 수준을 조사$\cdot$분석하고 컨조인트 분석기법을 이용하여 가상 학생식당의 주요 속성에 대한 고객의 효용수준을 파악함으로써 신규 학생식 당의 계획 단계에서 중점을 두고 논의해야 할 필수요소를 도출하고 신규 학생식당의 모델을 제시하고자 하였다. 학생들의 학생식당 이용실태 분석 결과, 주당 평균 3.4회 학생식당을 이용하고 있었고, 이용 이유는 거리가 가깝고, 가격이 저렴하며 신속하게 식사를 해결할 수 있기 때문이었다. 급식서비스에 대한 전반적인 만족도$(2.77\pm0.82)$와 지불한 가격에 대해 인지되는 급식의 질인 가치 $(2.68\pm0.78)$ 모두 불만족하고 있는 상황이었다. 급식서비스의 12가지 세부 속성에 대한 인식도 조사 결과, 신속한 배식과 식당 운영시간, 가격, 식사량에 대해서는 비교적 수행 수준이 보통 이상으로 평가하였으나, 고객 불만사항 처리나 식당 시설 및 분위기에 대해서는 상당히 불만족하고 있는 것으로 나타나 이에 대한 개선이 절실한 것으로 사료되었다. 신규 학생식당 모델 도출을 위한 컨조인트 분석 결과, 급식서비스의 4가지 속성이 상충하는 상황에서 고객은 가격$(37\%)$, 분위기$(30\%)$, 음식$(22\%)$, 거리$(11\%)$ 순으로 중요하게 여기고 있었으며, 8가지의 가상급식소 프로파일 중에서 '프로파일 2', 즉 $6\~10$분 정도의 거리에 위치하고 여유롭고 편안한 분위기에서 4가지 정도의 반찬과 함께 후식을 2,000원 정도의 가격으로 판매되는 식사가 제공되는 급식소가 조사대상 대학교의 현재 여건에서 제안할 수 있는 신규 학생식당의 모델로 결론지어졌다. 본 연구 결과에서 도출된 이상적인 급식소 모델이 현장에 적용되어 새로운 급식소가 개소된다면 고객의 요구도가 적극 반영된 급식소 특성으로 인하여 현재 제기되고 있는 급식서비스에 대한 불만을 감소시키는 동시에 고객 만족을 꾀할 수 있으리라 사료된다. 또한 신규급식소에서 일정기간의 급식서비스를 제공한 후, 급식서비스에 대한 고객의 평가가 실시되어 현재의 연구결과와 비교된다면 본 연구에서 제안한 급식소 모델의 효과성도 평가될 수 있을 것으로 여겨진다. 덧붙여 고객의 평가 수준이 낮았던 급식서비스 속성의 개선이 함께 동반된다면 현재 급식소의 급식서비스 질 개선을 통한 고객 만족도의 증진이 가능하리라 본다.

• 의료ㆍ복지 건축 : 한국의료복지건축학회 논문집
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• 제21권4호
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• pp.27-36
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• 2015

Purpose: Of late, the focus of service design is moving toward emphasizing customer satisfaction and taking users' experience more seriously. In addition to the change in perspective in service design, scholars in this area are paying more attention to service design methodology and process, as well as its theory and real-world case studies. In the case of medical space, there have been few studies in attempting to apply service design methods useful for deriving user-focused results. The author of this paper believes, however, case study-oriented approaches are more needed in this area rather than ones focusing on theoretical aspects. The author hopes thereby to expand the horizon to practical application of spatial design beyond service design methodology. Methods: In order to incorporate the strengths of service design methodology that can reflect a variety of user opinions, this study will introduce diverse tools in the framework of double diamond process. In addition, it will present field cases that successfully brought about best results in medical space design. It will end with summarizing the ideal process of medical space design which is reasonable and comprehensive. Results: Medical service encompasses preventive medicine as well as treatment of existing medical conditions. A study in establishing the platform of medical service design consists of a wide range of trend research, followed by the summary of two-matrix design classification based on results of the trend research. The draft of design process is divided into five stages composed of basic tools for establishing spatial flow lines created by matching service design tools with each stage of space design processes. In all this, most important elements to consider are communication and empathy. When service design is actually applied to space design, one can see that output has reflected the users' needs very well. The service design process for user-oriented medical space can thus be established by interactions on the final outcome and feedback on the results. Implications: One can see that the service design with the hospital at its center produces the result that encompasses the user's needs best. If the user-focused service design process for medical space can be extended to other space designs, the author believes that it would enhance the level of satisfaction for users and minimize trials and errors.