• Proceedings of the Korea Society of Design Studies Conference
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• 2001.10a
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• pp.26.1-26
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• 2001

• Journal of Korean Institute of Industrial Engineers
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• v.32 no.2
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• pp.111-119
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• 2006

In the last decade, the research of the usability of mobile phones has been a newly evolving area with few established methodologies and realistic practices that ensure capturing usability in evaluation. Thus, there exists a growing demand to explore appropriate evaluation methodologies that evaluate the usability of mobile phones quickly as well as comprehensively. This study aims to develop a task-based usability checklist based on heuristic evaluation in views of mobile phone UI practitioners. A hierarchical structure of UI design elements and usability principles related to mobile phones were developed and then utilized to develop the checklist. In order to demonstrate the practical effectiveness of the proposed checklist, comparative experiments were conducted on the usability checklist and usability testing. A majority of usability problems found by usability testing and additional problems were discovered by the proposed checklist. It is expected that the usability checklist proposed in this study could be used quickly and efficiently by usability practitioners to evaluate the mobile phone UI in the middle of the mobile phone development process.

• 한국HCI학회:학술대회논문집
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• 2007.02b
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• pp.541-547
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• 2007

최근 디지털 컨텐츠의 기하급수적인 증가와 함께 사용자가 접하고 관리해야 하는 파일의 양이 급격히 늘어나고 있으며 이에 따라 폴더의 계층구조가 넓고 깊어지는 현상이 나타나고 있다. 현재 파일시스템은 크게 두 가지 형태로 나누어 볼 수 있는데, 사용자 자신에게 의미 있는(semantic) 계층구조(hierarchical structure)형태의 폴더 내에 파일을 저장하는 방식과 Meta Tag를 사용한 방식이다. 이러한 두 가지 파일시스템을 사용자가 인식하고 Conceptual Model을 형성해 가는 과정에 있어서 사용자의 지리적, 역사적 전통 등의 문화적 요소들이 기저에서 작용하게 된다. 본 연구에서는 각기 다른 문화적 성향을 가지고 있는 사용자 간의 File System을 인식하고 구조화하는데 있어서 차이점이 있을 것이라는 가설을 수립 하였고, 가설을 검증하기 위하여 파일 시스템의 사용 행태를 분류하고, 이러한 행태들이 사용자의 문화적 요소에 따라 어떠한 차이를 보이는지에 대하여 페이퍼 프로토타이핑 등의 기법을 사용하여 실험을 설계 하였다. 또한 이러한 연구모델의 검증을 위하여 파일럿 테스트를 진행하여 실효성 있는 가설검증방법에 대한 모델을 제안하고자 한다.

• 한국HCI학회:학술대회논문집
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• 2006.02a
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• pp.909-917
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• 2006

In the last decade, the research of the usability of mobile phones has been a newly evolving area with few established methodologies and realistic practices that ensure capturing usability in evaluation. Thus, there exists growing demand to explore appropriate evaluation methodologies that evaluate the usability of mobile phones quickly as well as comprehensively. This study aims to develop a task-based usability checklist based on heuristic evaluations in views of mobile phone UI practitioners. A hierarchical structure of UI design elements and usability principles related to mobile phones were developed and then utilized to develop the checklist. In order to demonstrate the practical effectiveness of the proposed checklist, comparative experiments were conducted on the usability checklist and usability testing. Majority of usability problems found by usability testing and additional problems were discovered by the proposed checklist. It is expected that the usability checklist proposed in this study could be used quickly and efficiently by usability practitioners to evaluate the mobile phone UI in the middle of the mobile phone development process.

• 한국HCI학회:학술대회논문집
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• 2008.02b
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• pp.152-157
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• 2008

The customer satisfaction of WAP service greatly relies on the usability of the service due to the limited display size of a mobile phone and limitation in realizing UI (User Interface) for function keys, browser, and OS (operating system) Currently, a number of contents providers develop and deliver varying services, and thus, it is critical to control quality level of UI in consistent standards and manner. This study suggests usability index evaluation system to achieve consistent UI quality control of various WAP services. The system adopts both top-down and bottom-up approaches. The former concerns deriving UI design components and evaluation checklists for the WAP, based on the usability attributes and UI principles. The latter concerns deriving usability-related evaluation checklists from the established UI design features, and then grouping them from the viewpoint of usability principles and attributes. This bidirectional approach has two outstanding advantages: it allows thorough examination of potential elements that can cause usability problems from the standpoint of usability attributes, and also derives specific evaluation elements from the perspective of UI design components that are relevant to the real service environment. The evaluation system constitutes a hierarchical structure by networking usability attributes, UI guideline which indicates usability principles for each attribute, and usability evaluation checklist for each UI component that enables specific evaluation. Especially, each evaluation checklist contains concrete contents and format so that it can be readily marked in O/X. The score is based on the ratio of number of items that received positive answer to the number of total items. This enables a quantitative evaluation of the usability of mobile WAP service. The validity of the proposed evaluation system has been proved through comparative analysis with the real usability problems based on the user test. A software was developed that provides guideline for evaluation objects, criteria and examples for each checklist, and automatically calculates a score. The software was applied to evaluating and improving the real mobile WAP service.

• Journal of Korea Society of Industrial Information Systems
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• v.22 no.4
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• pp.117-129
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• 2017

The Purpose of this Study is to Identify the Learning Modules of the National Competency Standard (NCS) Related to the Information Systems Development Curriculum of 4-year Colleges, to Explore the Possibility of Applying NCS to the Curriculum, and to Examine Implications. The Importance of 26 Competency Units in the Applied SW Engineering of NCS was Compared by Area Experts Composed of 14 Information Systems Developers and Professors of 7 Universities who Teach Software Engineering Subjects Through the Hierarchical Analysis Process (AHP). The Results of the Study as Follows. First, the Relative Importance of the Competency Elements was in order of 'Confirming the Requirements', 'Checking the UI Requirements', 'Designing the Physical Data Repository', 'Testing Developer Integration', and 'Fixing Developer Defects'. Second, while the Entry and Intermediate Level Developer Group Determined that the Competency Elements Related to the IS Development Implementation Stage is more Important, the Advanced IS Developer Groups Consider the Competency Elements Related to the Theory-oriented Design Stage as Important Competency. In Addition, the Group of College Professors was Found to Choose all the Practical and Theoretical Competency Elements that Two Developers Groups Considered Important. Implications of the Study Suggested that the Job Performance Competence and Quality of Education Related to IS Development can be Enhanced.