• 한국정보시스템학회지:정보시스템연구
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• 제16권2호
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• pp.69-91
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• 2007

The mobile computing environment has already matured and mobile services are activated throughout many industries. In the following years, these changes are expected to evolve into a ubiquitous computing environment. In the meantime, whether newly developed information technologies will thrive or diminished depends on user's intention to adopt them. Hence, the necessity of user-centered research considering ubiquitous computing in mobile computing environment is obvious. This study, thus, investigated ubiquitous factors in various literature related to ubiquitous computing and technology acceptance and it proposes a research model of the ubiquitous factors affecting user's intention to use mobile services, in terms of meaning(connectivity, mobility), service(contextual offer), compatibility(compatibility), and infrastructure(privacy, truth). The proposed model is expected to help both researchers and practitioners extend their understanding about the ubiquitous factors in mobile computing environment

• Journal of Information Technology Applications and Management
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• 제18권1호
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• pp.55-74
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• 2011

The growth in the use of ubiquitous computing based on mobile services as an enabler to conduct business more effectively has been phenomenal. Technology acceptance model (TAM) has been applied in different contexts to examine a wide range of information technologies (IT). As more and more companies are finding ways to utilize ubiquitous computing based on mobile services, an important issue is to understand what factors will impact the decisions of consumers in adopting the services. Based on TAM with three additional groups of external factors, i.e., service-related factors (ubiquitous access, context awareness) and technology-related factors (perceived security risk, network connectivity) that are theoretically justified as having influence on both perceived usefulness and perceived ease of use which are additionally considered, a research model for the investigated technology acceptance was developed and empirically examined, using responses from more than intended users of ubiquitous computing based on mobile services. The specific purposes of this study are as follows. Firstly, this study is to identify service beliefs considering unique characteristics for ubiquitous services such as perceived ubiquitous access and perceived context awareness. Secondly, this study is to investigate network characteristics beliefs such as perceived security and perceived connectivity. Thirdly, this paper investigates the relationship among variables such as ubiquitous characteristics, network characteristics, behavioral beliefs, and intention to use ubiquitous web services. This study uses a structural equation model to test the research model. The major results of this study are as follows. Firstly, ubiquitous access has a influence on perceived usefulness and perceived ease of use. Context awareness has an influence on perceived usefulness. Secondly, User familiarity has an influence on perceived usefulness and perceived ease of use, and intention to use. User innovativeness has an influence on perceived ease of use. Thirdly, perceived security risk has an influence on perceived usefulness and perceived ease of use. Network connectivity has an influence on perceived usefulness and perceived ease of use. Fourth, there exist differential effects among factors in structural model among information, transaction, and entertainment services.

• Asia pacific journal of information systems
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• 제15권2호
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• pp.195-218
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• 2005

The emergence of ubiquitous computing environment will change the service architecture of business information systems such as Decision Support System(DSS), which will be a new application. Recent mobile DSSs allow the decision makers to be benefited from web and mobile technology. However, they seldom refer to context data, which are useful for proactive decision support. Meanwhile, ubiquitous applications so far provide restricted personalization service using context and preference of the user, that is, they do not fully make use of decision making capabilities. Hence, this paper aims to describe how the decision making capability and context-aware computing are jointly used to establish ubiquitous applications. To do so, an amended DSS paradigm: CKDDM(Context-Knowledge-Dialogue-Data-Model) is proposed in this paper. What will be considered for the future decision support systems when we regard ubiquitous computing technology as an inevitable impact that enforces the change of the way of making decisions are described. Under the CKDDM paradigm, a framework of ubiquitous decision support systems(ubiDSS) is addressed with the description of the subsystems within. To show the feasibility of ubiDSS, a prototype system, CAMA-myOpt(Context-Aware Multi Agent System-My Optimization) has been implemented as an illustrative example system.

• 정보보호학회논문지
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• 제16권2호
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• pp.3-12
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• 2006

모바일 디바이스, PDA, 센서들의 확산은 실생활 공간이 지능적이고 향상된 서비스를 제공하는 스마트 공간으로 전환되는 유비쿼터스 컴퓨팅 환경이 구축될 수 있도록 하였다. 그러나 모바일 디바이스, PDA, 센서들과 같은 다양한 유비쿼터스 디바이스들의 초기 설계 단계부터 프라이버시 문제를 고려하지 않는다면 유비쿼터스 감시체제가 구축될 위험성이 있다. 또한 유비쿼터스 컴퓨팅 환경에서의 다양한 디바이스들은 대체로 컴퓨팅 연산 능력이 적기 때문에, 공개키 기반의 암호기술을 적용하는 것은 부적절할 수 있다. 본 논문에서는 유비쿼터스 컴퓨팅 환경에서의 사용자 프라이버시를 위하여 익명성이 보장되고, 컴퓨팅 연산 능력이 적은 디바이스를 위한 효율적인 사용자 인증 및 키 동의 프로토콜을 제안한다.

• 디지털산업정보학회논문지
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• 제6권2호
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• pp.1-9
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• 2010

The increasing popularity of mobile devices, such as cellular phones, smart phones, and PDAs, has fostered the need to recommend more effective information in ubiquitous environments. We propose the recommendation method for mobile contents service using contexts and prefetching in ubiquitous environment. The proposed method enables to find some relevant information to specific user's contexts and computing system contexts. The prefetching has been applied to recommend to user more effectively. Our proposed method makes more effective information recommendation. The proposed method is conceptually comprised of three main tasks. The first task is to build a prefetching zone based on user's current contexts. The second task is to extract candidate information for each user's contexts. The final task is prefetch the information considering mobile device's resource. We describe a new recommendation.

• 한국정보과학회논문지:컴퓨팅의 실제 및 레터
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• 제12권3호
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• pp.170-182
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• 2006

컴퓨팅 서비스가 언제 어디서나 이용 가능한 유비쿼터스 컴퓨팅에 대한 연구가 활발히 진행되고 있다. 유비쿼터스 컴퓨팅 환경을 구축하기 위해 해결해야하는 문제 중 하나는 다양한 특성의 서비스들을 어떻게 효과적으로 제공하고 이를 관리하느냐는 점이다. 기존에 제안된 유비쿼터스 서비스 제공 시스템은 특정 종류의 서비스만을 지원하는데 중점을 두고 있다. 또한 상황과 서비스의 관계 표현 방법이 복잡해 다양한 사용자가 생활하는 복잡한 공간에서 서비스를 제공하는데 어려움이 있다. 본 논문은 이런 문제에 대한 해결 방안으로 Personal Kiosk (PK) 모델을 제안한다. PK는 모바일 단말기를 통해 사용자가 언제 어디서나 유용한 서비스를 사용할 수 있게 해주는 것을 목표로 하는 유비쿼터스 서비스 모델이다. 현재 단계의 PK는 로컬지역을 대상으로 연구되고 있다. 본 논문은 로컬지역에 PK 모델을 구현하기 위해 필요한 실내에서의 정밀한 위치인식기법과 효과적인 서비스 발견기법을 설명하며 이를 바탕으로 사용자의 위치, 권한, 시간정보를 이용해 개인화된 서비스를 제공하는 방법을 설명한다. PK 모델은 서비스를 이용하기 위해 소모되는 사용자의 노력과 시간을 크게 감소시켜 보다 편리한 모바일 서비스 환경을 구축할 수 있게 한다.

• 대한임베디드공학회논문지
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• 제2권4호
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• pp.233-241
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• 2007

In an ubiquitous environment, for controlling user access according to environment of users, a number of access control models enforcing dynamic environment of users have been proposed. However, they do not support personalized environments of each user and have a run-time overhead of searching active roles. In this paper, we propose a new model, PE-RBAC, that extends the RBAC architecture by addition of a personalized environment component as a constraint to accommodate dynamic and mobile users. In this model, a dynamic role activation is presented by using a new role-to-environment structure instead of the conventional role hierarchy, which makes it efficient to find the active roles according to a user's personalized environment.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제4권2호
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• pp.174-190
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• 2010

In ubiquitous computing, invisible devices and software are connected to one another to provide convenient services to users [1][2]. Users hope to obtain a personalized service which is composed of customized devices among sharable devices in a ubiquitous smart space (which is called USS in this paper). However, the situations of each user are different and user preferences also are various. Although users request the same service in the same USS, the most suitable devices for composing the service are different for each user. For these user requirements, this paper proposes a device recommender system which infers and recommends customized devices for composing a user required service. The objective of this paper is the development of the systems for recommending devices through context-aware inference in peer-to-peer environments. For this goal, this paper considers the context and user preference. Also I implement a prototype system and test performance on the real ubiquitous mobile object (UMO).

• 대한전자공학회논문지SP
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• 제43권1호
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• pp.67-74
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• 2006

모바일 단말 환경에서 상황인식 컴퓨팅 기술은 유비쿼터스 컴퓨팅의 핵심기술 중 하나이다. 상황인식 컴퓨팅은 사용자의 일상생활 활동에 능동적으로 반응하는 컴퓨터 응용들을 실현 가능하게 한다. 본 논문에서는 물체나 인간의 물리적인 활동 상태를 감지할 수 있는 가속도센서를 사용하여 모바일 디바이스에 적용한다. 인간의 활동 상태를 추정하기위한 방법은 평균, 표준 편차, 왜도와 같은 다양한 통계치를 분류를 위한 특징으로 활용하는 것이 몇몇 간단한 통계치만을 의존하는 기존의 방법들 보다 더 효과적일 것이다. 분류 알고리듬은 제한된 리소스를 가진 모바일 디바이스를 고려하여 기존의 신경망 대신 간단한 결정 트리를 이용하고자 한다. 유비쿼터스 컴퓨팅과 모바일 응용들을 위한 우리의 상황 검출 시스템의 실험은 기존의 방법들 보다 성능이 향상되었으며 그 결과를 제시한다.

• 한국실내디자인학회논문집
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• 제21권2호
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• pp.186-196
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• 2012

Information technology has changed the human life as well as the societal and economic paradigm. New office environments have been proposed to cope with emerging changes and to support working performances by reducing costs of office operation and business. Recently, office environments have adopted ubiquitous computing with a focus on collaboration to promote real-time enterprises. They become equipped with various mobile devices and pervasive technologies in wireless networks. This study aims to propose a direction for the adoption of mobile and pervasive computing on the new office environment. We investigate relate works and analyze new office types including mobile offices, telework centers and home offices. Using a customized questionnaire, the current conditions of the office environments and officers' demands were investigated and analyzed. In the end, we propose the direction for a ubiquitous office environment with a focus on two attributes, ubiquity and mobility. This research will be a basis for the development of ubiquitous offices that support the professionalism of works in practices.