• Journal of Families and Better Life
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• v.9 no.1 s.17
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• pp.1-11
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• 1991

This paper reviews the literature on life course as a perspective in family studies. Life course approach on family studies have been emerged since 1960. This approach, which is challenging accepted knowledge and theory, partly reflects a shift in analytic perspective from structural models to a more behavioral thrust that views as a actor in structured situations, Life course approach is a theoretical orientation for our understanding of the linkage between individual and family development in context of changing historical context. Life course approach contributes time, process, and context to receiving in sociological perspectives on family and kinship.

• Convergence Security Journal
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• v.14 no.7
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• pp.75-84
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• 2014

The advancement in ubiquitous healthcare specifically in preventive healthcare can lead to longer life expectancy especially for the elderly patients. To aid in preventing premature loss of lives as well as lengthening life span, this research aims to implement the use of mobile and wireless sensor technology to improve the quality of life and lengthen life expectancy. The threats to privacy and security have received increasing attention as ubiquitous healthcare applications over the Internet become more prevalent, mobile and universal. Therefore, we propose Context-aware Service of U-Healthcare Application based Knowledge using Ontology in secure health information exchange. This research also applies ontology in secure information exchange to support knowledge base, context modeling, and context reasoning by applying the general application areas for ontologies to the domain of context in ubiquitous computing environments. This paper also demonstrates how knowledge base, context technologies, and mobile web services can help enhance the quality of services in preventive ubiquitous healthcare to elderly patients.

• 한국HCI학회:학술대회논문집
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• 2009.02a
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• pp.346-350
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• 2009

According to the development of information technology, there are many services in our life. These services make our life safe and convenient. However, the increment of the services also causes the increment of human concern and effort to control these services. The context-aware service is the service that provided their functionality at the right time and to the right place by analysis user's current situation. The most previous studies about context-aware service regard that context-aware services are defined by the developer who has expertise in information technology. The definition of the context-aware services by the developer makes difficult to reflect user's personal preferences and life pattern to the services. In this paper, we propose an user interface EUCAS(by End-User, Context-Aware Service development) that make the user can define and manage their own context-aware service according to their preferences. We expect EUCAS can be effective user interface technology for providing personalized context-aware service.

• IEMEK Journal of Embedded Systems and Applications
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• v.5 no.1
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• pp.18-22
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• 2010

In real-time embedded systems, the responsibility is the most important thing because it is related to human life. Context switching is a part of which can slow down the responsibility. We therefore should minimize the amount of state that needs to be saved during context switching. In this paper, we introduce a new architecture (Register Farm) for context switching which can exchange two contexts in one cycle time. Although it might increase the cost of MCU design and the complexity of circuit, it cannot miss any interrupt during context switching. Consequently, Register Farm architecture can make embedded systems spread out in human life because it can increase reliability and responsibility in real time embedded systems.

• Educational Technology International
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• v.18 no.2
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• pp.249-263
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• 2017

The purpose of this study was to examine whether respondents showed gender differences in life- learning competency, self-directed learning ability, problem-solving ability, and academic achievement and to identify relationships among variables of university students in the context of higher education. To address those goal, the data set was analyzed that nationally collected from Korea Youth Competency Measurement and International Comparative Research III by National Youth Policy Institute in South Korea. 680 samples were used in the study that were 343 males and 337 females of university students. As results, statistically significant difference was showed in the participants' gender. Male university students were higher score than female university students in All variables. Also, learning agility in life-learning competency was strongly related to self-directed learning ability and problem-solving. Thinking skills in life-learning competency was strongly related to academic achievement in university students in higher education. In terms of learning strategy in the context of higher education, some suggestions have been made for university students.

• Journal of KIISE:Computing Practices and Letters
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• v.15 no.10
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• pp.781-785
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• 2009

We can constantly gather personal life log from developed mobile device. However, gathered personal life log in mobile environment have a large amount log and uncertainty such as uncertainty of mobile environment, limited capacity and battery of mobile device. Tagging task using a landmark such as a key word should be required to overcome the above problem and to manage personal life log. In this paper, we propose new tagging method and a life log tagging interface using high level context recognizer based on probability. The new tagging method extract high level context such as landmark of life log using recognizer which is modeled from bayesian network and recommend recognized high level context to user using tagging interface. Finally user can directly do tagging task to life log. This task is a special feature in our process. As the result of experiments in task support level which include usability, level of a goal, function and leading, we achieved a feeling of satisfaction of 81%.

• Journal of Software Engineering Society
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• v.24 no.1
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• pp.19-26
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• 2011

Since smart phones have various embedded sensors and high portability/usability, they have emerged as suitable targets to collect information and to provide intelligent services. That is, with a smart phone, we can collect information about user's circumstances and phone usage from sensors and infer his/her current state which is the significant basis for context-aware services. However, a service system should be founded on a context model to ensure reasonable context-awareness, because context information the system needs depends on its target services. Therefore, in this paper, we propose a hierarchical mobile context model for context inference of smart phone users in their daily life. We classify high-level context which can be draw from sensing data into three levels, Context-Behavior-Situation, and define inference methods for each level. With our mobile context model, we can user's meaningful context in his/her daily life besides simple actions or states.

• Journal of Families and Better Life
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• v.23 no.5 s.77
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• pp.27-38
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• 2005

There have been many requests for development of senior housing in Korea. Therefore it was very important to review how senior houses are established and managed in other countries. In this point, this research compared the actual conditions of the homes for the elderly in the U.K, U.S.A and Japan. Through the process, this research aimed to find the implications for Korea. The research was conducted by the literature review on senior congregate housing with Franklin's(1998) social constructionism perspective. This kind of research might be utilized as a theoretical framework for performance of any systems of housing for the aged. In this study, the researchers suggested the implications of senior congregate housing as follows. Firstly, in terms of structural context, government in the U.K, U.S.A., and Japan were positively concerned with solving the housing problems for senior citizens despite some differences. Secondly, from an institutional context, institutions related with provision, construction, and management of senior congregate housing were systematically consolidated and they all adapted the housing and welfare policy. Thirdly, in organizational context, there was an organization in charge of provision and management that exclusively oversaw the housing for the elderly in both the public and private sectors. Fourthly, in operational context, standards regarding space were clearly set both for individual units and common spaces as well as for facilities and services for the residents. Finally in terms of intersubjective context, the competency of housing manager and ways to involve the families which were important for residents' independent life were under study.

• Journal of The Korean Association For Science Education
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• v.15 no.3
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• pp.325-331
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• 1995

The purpose of this study is to analyze learning objectives of biology contents in SATIS 14-16. Modified the 5th NAEP three dimentional science assessment framework was used to analyze learning objectives of SATIS 14-16. This study will be a basic data for the development of STS programs in KOREA. The following results were obtained. 1. In a content dimension, 'structures and functions of organism'(63.9%) was the most frequently found, followed by 'the nature and our Iives'(22.1%), 'a continuity of Iife'(9.4%) and 'our surrounding Iives'(4.7%). 2. In a cognitive dimension, an understanding of scientific knowledge(32.7%) was the most frequently found, followed by an improvement of inquiry ability(25.6%), attitude(24.7%), and scientific knowledge and its application(17.0%). 3. In a context dimension, a personal context(32.8%) was the most frequently found, followed by a social context(27.3%), a scientific context(20.0%) and a technological context(20.0%). 4. There were some differences in behavior when each content was compared. In 'surrounding lives' and 'a continuity of life', an understanding of scientific knowledge was the most frequently found. In 'structures and functions of organism' and 'the nature and our lives', proportions of four behavioral catagories were relatively even. 5. There were some differences in context when each content was compared. In 'surrounding lives', scientific context was the most frequently found, whereas in 'structures and functions of lives', individual context was found the most frequently. In 'a continuity of life', scientific and social context were found more frequently than others. In 'the nature and our lives', social context was the most frequent one.

• 한국HCI학회:학술대회논문집
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• 2006.02a
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• pp.728-734
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• 2006

유비쿼터스 컴퓨팅 환경에서 상황정보 관리자는 특정인 주변의 상황정보의 변화를 관찰하여 그 사람의 현재 상태를 추론하는 역할을 한다. 지금까지의 상황정보 관리자는 사용자의 상태를 추론하는 과정에서, 관련된 상황정보 값들의 변화를 곧바로 사용자 상태의 변화로 간주하기 때문에, 사용자의 의도와는 상관없이 빈번하게 사용자 상태가 변화되는 결과가 초래되었다. 다시 말하여, 실제 사용자가 현재의 추론된 상태를 계속 유지하고 싶은 의도를 지닌 경우에도, 주변의 특정 상황정보의 값이 규칙에서 규정한 것과는 다르게 조금이라도 변하게 되면, 현재까지 유지되던 사용자의 상태 상황정보가 새로이 추론된 사용자상태 상황정보로 대체되게 되는 것이다. 따라서 해당 사용자는 전 상태를 기반으로 받고 있던 서비스를 더 이상 제공받지 못하게 되는 문제가 생기게 된다. 본 논문에서는 실제로 지속될 필요가 있는 것과 지속될 필요가 없는 상황정보를 구분하여 사용자의 상태 상황정보를 관리하고 범용적으로 적용될 수 있는 메커니즘을 제안한다. 본 메커니즘을 적용하게 되면, 사용자의 상태 상황정보의 존립에 영향을 미치는 주변 상황정보의 값이 달라지게 되어도, 활성화되어 있던 당시의 사용자의 상태정보는 '보류'된 상태로 남아있다가 활성화시키는 이벤트가 발생하였을 때에 '재개'되어 보류되기 전까지 서비스의 상태 그대로, 사용자의 생활패턴과 의도에 부합되는 서비스를 지속적으로 제공할 수 있게 된다.