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본 연구의 목적은 센다 미츠루의 건축이론을 실제로 반영한 유아교육기관 원장들이 어떠한 방식으로 놀이환경을 조성하고 있으며, 마련된 공간이 지니는 특징과 그 의미를 탐색하는 것이다. 연구참여자는 IRB 승인 절차를 거쳐 선정된 3명의 원장이며, 2023년 1월과 7월에 걸쳐 심층면담과 현장관찰을 통해 자료를 수집하였다. 수집된 자료를 분석한 결과, 다음과 같은 세 가지 특징이 도출되었다. 첫째, 연구참여자는 유아의 자유로운 놀이를 보장하기 위해 다양한 놀이공간을 마련하여 유아의 놀이 욕구를 충족시켰다. 둘째, 여러 놀이공간을 순환적 통로로 연결하여 아이들의 동선이 끊기지 않고 유연하게 이어지도록 설계하였다. 셋째, 공간 곳곳에 어포던스적 요소를 삽입함으로써 유아 스스로 놀이를 확장하고 재구 성할 수 있는 가능성을 제공하였다. 이러한 결과는 유아의 시선에서 놀이환경을 구성해야 함을 강조하며, 교육공간 설계에 있어 관점의 전환을 요구한다.

The purpose of this study was to explore how principals of early childhood education institutions, who have incorporated Mitsuru Senda’s architectural theory, create play environments, and to analyze the characteristics and meanings of the spaces they provide. Three principals, selected through the IRB approval process, participated in the study. Data were collected through in-depth interviews and field observations conducted between January and July 2023. Analysis of the data revealed three key findings. First, the participants created diverse play spaces to meet children’s play needs and to ensure their free engagement in play. Second, the play spaces were interconnected through circular pathways, allowing children’s movements to be continuous and flexible. Third, affordance-based elements were embedded throughout the environment to stimulate children’s desire to play and to encourage spontaneous exploration. These findings highlight the necessity of designing play environments from the perspective of children, suggesting a critical shift in how educational spaces are conceptualized and organized.

최근 건강에 대한 사회적 관심이 증가함에 따라 피트니스 센터는 소비자의 신체적, 심리적 건강에 중요한 역할을 담당하고 있다. 하지만 운동 참여는 장기적인 투자와 노력이 필요한 활동이므로, 피트니스 센터의 생존은 소비자의 시간 지향성에 영향을 받을 수 있다. 이러한 맥락에서 본 연구는 소비자의 현재·미래 시간 지향성을 각각 반영하는 배달앱과 금융앱 사용 량이 피트니스 센터의 폐업률과 어떤 관계를 갖는지 분석하고, 더 나아가 소비자의 소득 수준이 이 관계를 어떻게 달라지게 하는지 탐구하였다. 연구 결과, 현재 지향적 성향과 관련된 배달앱 사용량이 많을수록 피트니스 센터 폐업률이 높아 양(+)의 상관관계를 보였으며, 이 관계는 고소득 지역에서 강화되었다. 한편, 미래 지향적 성향과 관련된 금융앱 사용량은 폐업률과 유의미한 관계가 없었으나, 고소득 지역에서는 금융앱 사용량이 많을수록 피트니스 센터 폐업 률이 줄어드는 음(-)의 관계를 보였다. 본 연구는 피트니스 센터 폐업 요인에 대한 초기 연구로 서 학문적 의의를 가지며, 피트니스 센터 생존 전략 수립을 위한 실무적 시사점을 제시한다.

As public interest in health has recently grown, fitness centers play a critical role in supporting consumers’ physical and psychological well-being. However, as participation in fitness activities requires sustained effort and long-term commitment, the survival of fitness centers may depend on consumers’ time orientation. This study investigates how the amount of food delivery app usage and financial app usage relates to fitness center closure rates, as these apps reflect individuals’ present- and future-oriented preferences, respectively. It further examines how consumers’ income levels moderate these relationships. The results reveal a positive relationship between food delivery app usage and fitness center closure rates, which is amplified in higher-income areas. Moreover, financial app usage generally has no relationship with fitness center closure rates, but shows a negative relationship in high-income areas. This study provides an early investigation into the factors contributing to the closure of fitness centers and offers practical implications for developing strategies to support their survival.

최근 여행에 대한 수요가 증가하고 다양한 여행 상품이 개발됨에 따라, 여행 중 소비자가 방문하는 각 장소에서의 소비자 행동 및 평가의 중요성이 부각되고 있다. 특히 지역 발전 및 소상공인 상생을 위하 여 소비자의 각 방문지 만족 요인에 대한 이해는 실무적 마케팅 전략 수립에 큰 도움이 될 것으로 기대된다. 본 연구는 방문지 만족 요인으로서 방문지 체류 시간에 주목하여 고객의 방문지 체류 시간이 방문지 만족도에 미치는 영향을 살펴보고, 더 나아가 이와 같은 영향이 고객의 여행 동기에 따라 어떻 게 달라지는지 알아보고자 한다. 이를 위해 전국 각지 여행자 11,520명의 설문 데이터를 순서형 로지 스틱 회귀분석을 통해 분석한 결과, 소비자가 여행 중 특정 장소에 오래 머무를수록 해당 장소에 대한 만족도가 높아지는 것으로 나타났다. 또한, 체류 시간과 만족도의 긍정적 관계는 여행 동기가 휴식 혹 은 자기 개발 및 교육일 때 더욱 강하게 나타났다. 본 연구는 방문지 만족도 요인으로서 방문지 체류 시간을 제시하였다는 점에서 의의가 있으며, 개별 방문지 만족도에 집중함으로써 세분화된 단위에서의 실무적 활용 가치를 지닌다. 더불어, 여행 동기의 조절 요인으로써의 역할을 탐색함으로써 여행 마케 팅 연구에 새로운 관점을 제시하고, 실무적 차원에서도 다양한 시사점을 제공하였다.

As travel demand increases and diverse products emerge, understanding consumer behavior and evaluations at each travel destination has become essential. In particular, identifying drivers of satisfaction at each place can inform marketing strategies that support regional development and local businesses. This study investigates the effect of length of stay at each place on place-level satisfaction, highlighting it as a key determinant. Furthermore, this research examines how this relationship varies depending on travelers’ motivations. Using travel log and survey data from 11,520 travelers across South Korea, ordinal logistic regression analyses reveal that longer stays lead to higher place satisfaction. This positive effect of length of stay on place satisfaction is stronger when travel motivation is either relaxation or self-development. This study contributes to the literature by identifying length of stay as a key determinant of place satisfaction. By focusing on satisfaction at the level of individual place rather than the overall trip, it offers practical insights at a more granular level. Furthermore, by examining the moderating role of travel motivation, the study introduces a new perspective to travel marketing research and provides practical implications.

The purpose of this study is to identify the effects of middle and high school girls' cremation behavior on self-efficacy and friendship. For this purpose, cremation behavior was set as an independent variable, self-efficacy as a parameter, and friendship was set as a dependent variable. This study was conducted from June 10 to July 20, 2020, on 300 female students attending Chungcheong-do middle and high schools. The statistical program of Window SPS 21.0 was used for data analysis, frequency analysis was performed to identify the general characteristics of the study subjects, and the Cronbach's α coefficient was used to verify the reliability of the measurement tools. Technical statistical analysis was performed for the average and standard deviation of variables, and linear regression analysis and three-stage mediated regression analysis was performed to verify the hypothesis. First of all, the study found that cremation behavior has a positive effect on self-regulation efficiency and persistence, which are lower variables of self-efficacy. Second, makeup behavior has been shown to have a positive effect on friendship. Third, an analysis of the effect of self-efficacy on friendship showed that it had a positive effect on the relationship. Fourth, self-regulating efficacy, persistence, which is a sub-factor of self-efficacy, has a partial mediating effect, and confidence has a full mediating effect. The results of the study showed that the makeup of middle and high school girls plays an important role in forming relationships in peer groups, and has a positive impact on psychological stability, healthy self-building, and self-confidence. Based on research results reflecting the environmental characteristics of female students by expanding the number of middle and high school girls nationwide, it is believed that there is a need to develop and operate programs for the curriculum for the education of cremation methods as a way to improve self-efficacy and maintain the closeness of friendship.

本研究的目的在于了解初高中女学生的化妆行为对自我效能感以及交友关系产生的影响。为此，把化妆行为、自 我效能感和交友关系分别设定为自变量、参变量、应变量，从2020年6月10日至7月20日期间，以忠清道初高中300 名在校女学生为对象进行了问卷调查。资料分析使用的是Window SPSS 21.0统计软件，为了掌握研究对象 的一般特性进行了频度分析，同时为了验证测量工具的可信度，使用了Cronbach’s α系数。另外，为 了变量的平均偏差和标准偏差，实施了技术统计分析；为了假设检验，进行了线性回归分析和三阶段 媒介回归分析。经研究分析，得出的结论如下。第一，化妆行为对自我效能感的子变量自信心、自我 调节效能感、目标持续性产生正向(+)影响。第二，化妆行为对交友关系产生正向(+)影响。第三，经 分析，自我效能感对交友关系产生正向(+)影响。第四，自我效能感的子变量自我调节效能感、目标 持续性对具有部分媒介效应的自信心呈现正向媒介效应。另外，通过研究得知，初高中女学生的化妆 行为不仅在同龄群体中的交友关系方面发挥重要作用，而且对心理稳定、形成健康自我以及提高自信 心方面也产生积极影响。鉴于此，今后有必要把研究范围扩大至全国的初高中女学生，并基于反映女 学生环境特性的研究成果，开发并运营可提高自我效能感以及维持亲密交友关系的化妆教育课程软 件。

This study was conducted to find the effects of social and psychological expectations on the makeup behavior of middle and high school girls who were growing into prospective adults. The research was based on prior studies of the social roles and social behaviors that are actively expressed, not as a means to improve their appearance, or self-respect through makeup behavior. The survey was conducted on 300 middle and high school girls, and the technical statistics, correlation, and linear regression analysis were implemented using the SPSS WIN 21.0 program. The results and contents of the study are as follows: First, the higher the social and psychological expected effect, the higher the sense of self-respect. Second, the higher the social and psychological expected effect, the more enjoyable the change is due to subjective makeup behavior. Third, the higher the sense of self-respect, the more fashionable the makeup behavior is. Girls' high school students have high expectations for makeup, and due to the higher expectations, they more actively take makeup actions, and the higher self-respect, the more they show their individuality and make up for their shortcomings. With in-depth research that takes into account the personal characteristics of female middle and high school students, the older generation is the basic data for understanding the culture of female middle and high school students as well as a basis for understanding the psychology of female middle and high school students.

梳理前期研究成果得出的结论是‘化妆不是单纯打扮外表的手段，而是扮演社会作用以及积极表现自我的社 会行为’。本文目的是基于前期研究成果，了解即将成年的初高中女生对化妆的社会心理预期效果给自尊感以 及化妆行为产生的影响。为此，以300名初高中女生为对象进行了问卷调查，并利用SPSS WIN 21.0软件，进 行了技术统计分析、相关关系分析以及线性回归分析。经分析研究，得出如下结论。第一，社会心理预期效 果越高，自尊感就越高。第二，社会心理预期效果越高，通过能动的化妆行为，可获得的变化乐趣更高。第 三，自尊感越高，引导流行的化妆行为越明显。换句话说，一方面初高中女生对化妆的期待心理较高，这种 期待越高，就能越激发更加积极的化妆行为；另一方面自尊感越高，越会通过时尚流行的化妆方法，呈现个 性、弥补缺点，同时通过化妆行为，转换心情。今后，有必要基于初高中女生的个性化特点进行深层次研 究，从而加深对初高中女生化妆文化的理解，并掌握在文化层面不断变化的初高中女生化妆心理。

This study was conducted to investigate the perception of the harmfulness of cosmetics components according to safety interest in the use of daily cosmetics by female college students. For 30 days from September 1, 2019 to September 30, 2019, 791 female college students in Seoul and Gyeonggi area were surveyed. 727 copies were selected as the final analysis subjects and conducted by self-administering. The data were analyzed by using SPSS 21.0 program. The results showed that the safety awareness of ingredients according to the safety interest of cosmetics was higher than the functional awareness(p<0.001). The recognition of cosmetic reliability showed that the level of trust in organic cosmetics was high, and the recognition of cosmetic harmfulness was the highest in oxybenzone, and the safety awareness of the ingredients of the product was high in the order of synthetic coloring agent, synthetic flavoring agent, and oxybenzone. As a result of the study, safety awareness of cosmetics is high, but safety education and publicity are needed to recognize the harmfulness of cosmetics ingredients. It is considered that more systematic and professional education on chemical substances such as the use of allergen-inducing substances by customized cosmetics managers as well as education and promotion on safety of various cosmetics to be more diversely prepared due to the emergence of diverse functional cosmetics and customized cosmetics managers is needed.

Based on the preceding studies, this research is intended to analyze the service quality status of beauty shop owners and consider their relationship with customer satisfaction. The purpose of these studies is to provide basic data for improving the quality of beauty services by providing a way to efficiently cope with the customer’s intention to revisit and buy again. The prior study on quality improvement of beauty service and customer satisfaction was collected and reviewed to analyze the impact of quality of service on customer satisfaction, the impact of customer satisfaction on repeat visits, and factors affecting improvement of beauty service quality. As the customer satisfaction level increased due to the higher quality of the service, customers tried to select predictable services to minimize the risk associated with the purchase of the service, as the level of quality of service experienced by the customer may vary depending on the service provider’s knowledge and ability to solve problems such as spontaneity. They said that they feel satisfied with the quality of service when they show consideration and interest such as comfort and convenience facilities as a motive for revisiting, and that they will continue to develop customized beauty service programs to select and train talented employees, standardize beauty service processes, and develop customized beauty service programs to improve beauty service quality in the future.

This research mainly focuses on the expanding role of coffee shop from a place to simply consume coffee to a more socio-cultural space, alongside the general growth in the coffee franchise market. This research conducted a survey on 254 subjects who are university students in Seoul and Kyonggi Province. By setting the brand personality of coffee franchise as an independent variable, brand loyalty and attachment as dependent variables, this study attempts to identify the relations between the variables as well as analyze customers’ differential preferences on brands and their moderating effects. To analyze the adjustment effect of a particular brand, Multilevel Confirmatory Factor Analysis (MCFA) and Multigroup Structural Equation Model (MSEM) was conducted. This research is unique in that it focuses on the coffee franchise brand itself, beyond the conventional research that were more focused on other factors like the physical environment or the quality of service, and this approach would potentially be useful for coffee franchises' marketing strategy especially in the fast-changing customer demands in the coffee franchise industry.

This presentation collected and reviewed a survey of beauty consultants to study the professionalism of beauty consumers and the professionalism of consulting professionals. Based on the results, we examined and studied consumer awareness, awareness and expertise of beauty consultants, and satisfaction with counseling when purchasing cosmetics. According to the survey, consumers were highly aware of beauty consultants, but found that their satisfaction with cosmetics products was declining. Most customers needed professional and systematic counseling from beauty consultants when purchasing cosmetics. Therefore, it is urgently needed to develop a professional education system to secure the professional expertise of beauty consultants. In the future, beauty consultants are required to develop a comprehensive knowledge of skin, understand the efficacy and harmful ingredients of cosmetics, understand custom cosmetics, and improve the prescription of cosmetics according to consumers' skin types through accurate skin diagnosis.

This study analyzed the effect of female university students' level of awareness of cosmetics ingredients on purchasing behavior. A survey of 369 female university students attending universities in North and South Chungcheong provinces was conducted and a statistical analysis (SPSS) was conducted. Beauty majors showed a high level of interest in cosmetics ingredients and recognition related to the display of ingredients before cosmetics, while other academic majors were found to purchase them after comparing them over the Internet. The limitations of this study are limited to female university students from universities in North and South Chungcheong provinces, which makes it difficult to generalize the results of the study to all female university students. Therefore, in future studies, it is necessary to expand the scope of the study by gender, age and region.

This study analyzes how the employees’ perceived ethicality of employers’ leadership influences the employees’ organizational commitment in the hotel industry, as well as whether individual cognitive characteristics serve as a moderating variable in the relationship between ethical leadership and organizational commitment. Thus, this research conducted a survey on 297 subjects who work in the top hotels in South Korea, from June 25th 2017 to July 27th 2017. Following the experiment, structural equation modeling was used to analyze the causal relationship between ethical leadership and organizational commitment, as well as Multilevel Confirmatory Factor Analysis (MCFA) and Multigroup Structural Equation Model (MSEM) for verifying the moderating effect of individual cognitive characteristics. As a result, procedural justice, transparency, and integrity of ethical leadership was found to be influencing the employees’ organizational commitment. Moreover, within employees’ individual cognitive characteristics, sequential processing ability was found to serve as a moderating variable in between ethical leadership and organizational commitment. This study concludes by explaining how following research with consideration of different positions of hotel employees could contribute to obtaining a better understanding of effective human resource management.

While duty-free sales service employees’ personalities are influenced by individual cognitive psychological characteristics such as serial thinking, irregular thinking, abstract thinking, and specific thinking, those cognitive characteristics are also deeply related to the level of job satisfaction regarding the general occupation and job abilities. This study analyzes how emotional labor can also be a factor that moderates the correlation between job satisfaction and individual cognitive psychological characteristics. This study shows how the group with higher abstract thinking skills has positive effect on overall job satisfaction in both the correlation between individual cognitive psychological characteristics and job satisfaction as well as emotional diversity and control of emotional imbalance. This study further suggests duty-free sales service employees to implement personality tests in the recruiting process as well as assigning tasks to employees by taking their cognitive psychological characteristics into account.

The purpose of this study is to propose the model for developing tourism products by market segmentation of chinese tourists visiting Korea. In order word, the research attempts to analyze chinese tourist's expectation for Cheju Island where is designated 'No-Visa Area', and to suggest useful marketing strategies for tourism market segmentation. To achieve the purpose of this study, this has theoretical study and empirical study. In theoretical study, this defined 'Chinese tourist', 'tourism market segmentation' and 'tourism products' in aspect of tourism through the documentary study. In empirical research was conducted based on the previous theoretical studies. 381 chinese tourist who visited korea were selected as samples of this study. And the answers were processed by SPSS PC Ver 10.0 to yield frequency Analysis, Reliability Analysis, ANOVA and Regression Analysis. This study results chinese tourists visiting Cheju Island have activity disposition, tourist convenience, and destination intention. In the view of tourism market segmentation, positive the rising generation was selected as a target market. They have many interest in visiting Cheju. In addition, this research suggests improvement for attracting more chinese tourist to Cheju Island in terms of law and regulations, accomodations, and marketing. It is believe that study will greatly contribute to obtain competitive edges of Cheju's tourism industry.

The purpose of this study is to find out Chinese tourist's disposition in Jeju where is designated 'No-Visa Area' for Chinese tourist and to suggest the marketing strategies which is able to satisfy Chinese tourist's wants and activate Chinese tourist's visit. For this, first of all, based on in depth understanding about Chinese tourist and structural problem in Jeju tourism, practical and effective strategies can be implemented, resulting in attracting more Chinese tourists to Jeju. So it should be inquired of preparation to receive Chinese tourist in Jeju and getting them satisfying tour service and Jeju's tourism public relation for chinese market which is called 'sleeping tourism giant'. The contents of this study are as follows : Ⅰ. Introduction to the purpose and method of this study, Ⅱ. Present situation of Jeju's Chinese tourism, Ⅲ. Problem and Improvement, Ⅳ. Conclusion.

본 연구는 우리나라 기혼남녀를 대상으로 배우자 지지와 감정적 자기개방 수준에 따라 어떤 군집이 존재하는지와 각 군집의 특성을 밝히는 데 목적이 있다. 이를 위해 서울․경기 및 충청과 경상지역을 포함한 우리나라 전국에 거주하는 기혼남녀 406명을 대상으로 배우자 지지 척도와 감정적 자기개방 척도, 결혼만족도 척도를 통해 자료를 수집하였으며, 군집분석과 일원분산분석, 사후검정을 실시하여 분석하였다. 연구 결과, 배우자 지지와 감정적 자기개방에 따라 4개의 군집이 도출되었는데, 군집1은 감정적 자기개방과 배우자 지지가 모두 높은 ‘고개방-고지지형’, 군집2는 부정적 감정의 개방이 낮고 배우자 지지가 높은 ‘부정감정 저개방-고지지형’, 군집3은 부정적 감정의 개방이 높고 배우자 지지가 낮은 ‘부정감정 고개방-저지지형’, 군집4는 감정적 자기개방과 배우자 지지가 모두 낮은 ‘저개방-저지지형’으로 나타났다. 또한 각 군집들은 성별과 결혼기간, 자녀유무와 결혼만족도에 따라 유의한 차이를 보였다. 이러한 4가지 군집의 도출은 우리나라 기혼자들이 배우자 지지와 감정적 자기개방에 따라 다양한 군집으로 존재할 수 있으며, 부부 상담에 찾아온 내담자들에게 개입할 때 배우자 지지와 감정적 자기개방에 따른 군집별 결혼만족도의 특성을 이해하면서 보다 효과적으로 접근할 수 있음을 시사해준다. 마지막으로 본 연구의 제한점과 후속연구를 위한 제언을 논의하였다.

The purpose of this study was to classify and identify the characteristics of spousal support and emotional self-disclosure of married men and women. A survey was conducted with 406 married men and women nationwide, and cluster analysis, one-way ANOVA, and a posteriori test were carried out. Results from cluster analysis suggested the presence of four clusters. Cluster 1 was termed the ‘high disclosure-high support type,’ Cluster 2 was termed the ‘low negative emotional disclosure-high support type’, Cluster 3, the ‘high negative emotional disclosure-low support type’, and Cluster 4, the ‘low disclosure-low support type.’ Significant differences were revealed from examining the differences between clusters based on gender, marriage duration, child status, and marital satisfaction. Implications, limitations, and suggestions for future study are discussed.

FOSS(free and open source software)는 라이선스의 제약 없이 자유롭게 소스코드를 재사용하거나 수정 및 배포할 수 있는 소프트웨어로서, 정보시스템 구축의 새로운 대안으로 자리잡아가고 있다. 최근 GIS의 컴퓨팅 환경이 웹으로 확장되면서 FOSS를 활용하여 공간데이터를 공유하거나 시각화하기 위한 시도들이 이루어지고 있다. 기존의 연구들을 통해 볼 때, 웹GIS에서 FOSS 애플리케이션들은 환경 및 생태 정보 제공을 위한 지도서비스가 주를 이루며 분석지향적인 사례는 매우 드물다. 또한 공간 DBMS(database management system), GIS툴, 통계패키지 등의 FOSS가 개별적으로 웹GIS에 활용되어 왔으나, 개방성과 재사용성이 우수한 이들 FOSS를 커플링(coupling)하면 공간자료의 공유, 시각화에서 더 나아가 공간데이터의 통계분석을 지원하는 웹GIS가 구축 가능할 것이다. 이에 본 연구에서는 웹 환경에서 DBMS, GIS툴 및 통계패키지를 커플링하는 브로커리지(brokerage) 모듈을 개발하고, 이를 이용하여 공간자료의 저장, 질의, 처리 및 통계분석을 수행하며 그 결과를 시각화하는 FOSS 기반의 웹GIS 프레임워크를 제시하고자 한다. 공간 DBMS로는 래스터와 벡터가 모두 지원되는 PostGIS을 이용하였고, 공간데이터 프로세싱에는 GRASS, 통계분석에는 R, 시각화를 위한 지오브라우저로는 Google Maps와 Google Earth를 사용하였다. 이러한 FOSS들의 커플링을 위한 브로커리지 모듈은 운영체제 독립적인 Java 언어로 구현되었으며, API(application programming interface)를 통해 JSP(Java Server Pages)에서 참조하여 웹 인터페이스를 구성하도록 하였다. 본 시스템에 대한 테스트에서는, 남한지역의 NDVI(normalized difference vegetation index)와 환경요소 간의 회귀분석을 수행하는 프로토타입을 통해 공간데이터의 공유, 프로세싱, 시각화, 분석에 있어서의 가용성이 검토되었다.

The FOSS (free and open source software), which ensures free reuse and redistribution of source code without restrictions of license, has become a new approach to building an information system nowadays. With the trends of GIS extension to the web, the utilization of FOSS for sharing and mapping of spatial data is also thought of as a valuable work. While existing FOSS applications for web-based GIS simply focused on the mapping of environmental and ecological information, the research on analysis-oriented FOSS for web-based GIS has been rarely carried out. Moreover, web-based coupling of spatial DBMS (database management system), GIS tool, and statistical package was not sufficiently challenged although each of the components has been well utilized. Hence, the objective of this paper is to present a GIS application framework for coupling server-side FOSS for geographical visualization and analysis on the web. We implemented a brokerage module for the invocation of FOSS functions on the server and developed an API (application programming interface) for coupling PostGIS, GRASS, and R Statistical Package. We also employed Google Maps and Google Earth Plug-in as a geo-browser for the visual exploration of spatial data. A feasibility test for our system was carried out using a regression analysis for the relationships between NDVI (normalized difference vegetation index) and environmental factors in South Korea.

지리정보 및 시공간정보의 활용은 사용자 중심의 모바일 애플리케이션 발전에 있어 매우 중요한 역할을 담당한다. 현재 지도서비스와 연계된 스마트폰 애플리케이션은 다수 제공되고 있으나, 지리정보를 활용하는 연구는 관광정보, 버스정보 등 소수의 사례만이 보고되었다. 이러한 연구들에 부가하여, 모바일이라는 개인화된 환경을 고려할 때 사용자 자신과 관련된 정보와 지도서비스를 결합하는 지리정보 애플리케이션의 개발이 매우 필요하다고 하겠다. 이에 본 연구에서는 스마트폰의 네이티브 애플리케이션인 캘린더와의 동기화를 통해 개인스케줄을 지도서비스와 결합하는 애플리케이션을 구현함으로써 위치, 시각, 일정 등 개인화된 상황문맥을 스마트 폰에서 활용하는 방안을 제시하고자 한다. 본 애플리케이션은 개방형 운영체제로서의 잠재력을 가진 안드로이드 탑재 스마트폰을 타겟으로 하여 자바 언어로 개발되었으며, GPS 위치정보와 구글맵스 지도서비스를 활용하여 개인스케줄을 지도화하고, 사용자 주변 도로교통상황의 표시, 지오코딩에 의한 장소검색 등의 기능을 제공한다. 이 애플리케이션 구현에 사용된 코드들은 라이브러리 형태로 패키징되어 다른 애플리케이션 개발에 재사용 및 확장 가능하다.

Geographical information can play an important role in developments of user-centered applications for mobile computing. Although an increasing number of Smartphone applications working with maps are now provided, very few have been reported to GIS colleagues. In addition to recent studies on the Smartphone applications for tourism and bus guidance, a more personalized application combining user’s own information with internet maps will be also necessary in terms of the personal mobile GIS. This paper proposed a method for utilizing personal contexts like location, time, and schedule in combination with map services on the Smartphone. We implemented a Smartphone application that communicates with the native Calendar application and the GPS module in order to visualize the location and time of user’s schedule on the Google Maps. Our application is based on the Android operating system that possesses considerable potential as an open-source software. In addition to the geovisualization of personal schedules, it includes the presentation of traffic information around the user and the functions for place retrieval via geocoding. The Java codes in our application were packaged in the form of a library so that it can be extensible to other Android applications using the Calendar, GPS, and Goolge Maps.