• KIISE Transactions on Computing Practices
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• v.20 no.12
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• pp.670-675
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• 2014

Graphical user interfaces (GUI) in modern software deliver information visually, and a well-designed interface can provide information to the use in an organized and intuitive manner while poorly-designed interfaces can cause visual inconvenience and confusion. In order to effectively deliver information to the user, visual attention should be placed on a prominent location in the image. This paper introduces a method based on a human visual system (HVS) that can improve Metro-style GUIs by reducing a user's workload to visually find information. Our method is designed with spatial mapping and color mapping for buttons in the Metro-style GUI. Also we define a metric for Metro-style GUI effectiveness, including an optimization algorithm. The results show that our method improves the performance of visual search tasks in a Metro-style GUI.

• Journal of KIISE:Computing Practices and Letters
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• v.15 no.9
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• pp.649-660
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• 2009

To deliver services suitable to user's situation in the ubiquitous environment, the researches on realizing new services by combining existing ones have been continuously increased. But, it is difficult to provide the personalized services to each user located in the ubiquitous service space where multiple users coexist. In this paper, we propose a service composition model based on user-centered service scenarios and a system for providing personalized services through finding services suitable to user's situation and combining them. The proposed system supports a simple service discovery protocol for finding services from heterogeneous smart objects with limited computing power in the ubiquitous environment. The system aggregates and stores various service scenarios and data derived from users and executes the appropriate services for users. We design and implement a prototype system for the mobile personal device.

• KIISE Transactions on Computing Practices
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• v.24 no.1
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• pp.46-52
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• 2018

Software metrics as a way to evaluate software play a significant role in reducing software development costs and improving quality. However, the emergence of various software metrics creates the problem that the user must select the correct metric. Various strategies have been studied to solve this problem. However, existing studies still have difficulties in selecting metrics by requiring high user interventions. Therefore, in this paper, we propose a method that helps to select the right metric and the metric tools by using their various characteristics as selection criteria, instead of using weighted expressions to minimize user intervention.

• Journal of KIISE:Computing Practices and Letters
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• v.16 no.12
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• pp.1249-1253
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• 2010

As personal computers have been recently improved in performance, the multi tasking of running several applications at the same time has been generalized. Since only one task space is provided for performing such tasks on Windows operating system, a number of computer users feel inconvenient. In this paper, we propose a 3D Virtual Desktop System which can show a process of switching task spaces in 3D motion using DirectX. The proposed system can provide a computer user with more task spaces and the intuitive UI(User Interlace) such as Compiz of Linux.

• Journal of KIISE:Computing Practices and Letters
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• v.14 no.7
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• pp.694-702
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• 2008

The web might be today's most widely-used technology and over the past few years, the web has evolved through various phases and is a mature technology Specially, the web interface technologies, such as folksonomy, tagging, RSS have been developed and changed with respect to user-friendly. In this paper, we should apply to not only the general structure scheme but also the tagging technology for POI information management and develop POIM(POI Management tool)for it. For POI service with user-friendly, the user can available to define, modify, and delete for a specific POI object based on XML by using POIM and then these should be saved on GML.

• Journal of KIISE:Computing Practices and Letters
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• v.13 no.5
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• pp.338-342
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• 2007

In this paper we propose a user adaptive post-processing method to improve the accuracy of speaker dependent, isolated word speech recognition, particularly for mobile devices. Our method considers the recognition result of the basic recognizer simply as a high-level speech feature and processes it further for correct recognition result. Our method learns correlation between the output of the basic recognizer and the correct final results and uses it to correct the erroneous output of the basic recognizer. A multi-layer perceptron model is built for each incorrectly recognized word with high frequency. As the result of experiments, we achieved a significant improvement of 41% in recognition accuracy (41% error correction rate).

• Journal of KIISE:Computing Practices and Letters
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• v.16 no.5
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• pp.525-530
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• 2010

Currently, most context-aware services are built by developers. Some researchers argued that services should be defined by end users, who understand their own needs best. We view that the significance of enabling the user to define his/her personalized services will multiply as our living spaces grow smarter. This paper introduces a novel method called CASPER, which is capable of deriving personalized services from the log of user's activities of daily living. CASPER can generate useful services that even the user may not perceive, mining causality of events in the log. We present the algorithm of CASPER in detail and discuss the result of an experiment which we conducted as a proof of concept.

• Journal of KIISE:Computing Practices and Letters
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• v.16 no.7
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• pp.814-818
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• 2010

Online social networking services help people to migrate social networks from offline to online. Twitter, which has achieved incredible growth, showed that an online social networking service without offline bases can become large and successful. In this paper, we propose a twitter friend notification service using user‘s twitter messages and place recognizing technology. When there is a friend in user‘s nearby place, the service notifies the information to the users. Through the friend notification service, a user can easily extend his online social network to offline.

• Journal of KIISE:Computing Practices and Letters
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• v.16 no.4
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• pp.467-471
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• 2010

Weblog is one of the most spread web services. The content of the weblog includes daily events and emotions. If we collect personal information using mobile devices and create a weblog, user can create their own weblog easily. Some researchers already developed systems that created weblog in mobile environment. In this paper, user's activity is inferred from personal information in mobile device. The inferred activities and story generation engine are used to generate text for creating a weblog. Finally, the text, photographs and user's movement in Google Map are integrated into a weblog.

• Journal of KIISE:Computing Practices and Letters
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• v.16 no.2
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• pp.242-246
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• 2010

In this paper, we propose a quality assessment method of biometrics for estimating an authentication result in an user authentication system. The proposed quality assessment method is designed to compute a quality score called CIMR (Confidence Interval Matching Ratio) as a result by small-sample analysis like T-test. We use the C/MR-based quality assessment method for testing how to well draw a distinction between various biometrics in a multimodal biometric system. We also test a predictability for authentication results of obtained biometrics using the mean $\bar{X}$ and the variance $s^2$ in T-test-based CIMR. As a result, we achieved the maximum 88% accuracy for estimation of user authentication results.