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Personal Informatics as an Information Ecology: Activity Trackers and Relational Affordances

  • Jarrahi, Mohammad Hossein
    • International Journal of Knowledge Content Development & Technology
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    • v.12 no.1
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    • pp.7-16
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    • 2022
  • With the proliferation of activity-tracking devices and other smart tools, more users leverage these personal informatics technologies to track their physical and fitness-related activities. The research on the benefits (and limitations) of these devices tends to focus on the use of a single tool, leaving out the interactions among multiple technologies, and how these interactions influence the way users perceive their affordances. Building from an ecological perspective, I extend this research by providing insight into the competitive and complementary relationships among activity tracking devices and other fitness-related and personal informatics technologies within the device ecology of technologies around the user. The affordances of these devices are therefore not enacted in isolation but are relational to understanding of other technological options and differing personal preferences and goals of the user.

Development of m-Health Application based on Medical Informatics Standards (의료정보 표준에 기반 한 m-Health 어플리케이션 개발)

  • Park, Hyun Sang;Kim, Hwa Sun;Jung, Hyun Jung;Cho, Hune
    • Journal of Korea Multimedia Society
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    • v.17 no.5
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    • pp.640-653
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    • 2014
  • Recently medical consumers pursue high leveled quality of life through active promotion, prevention, management activity of health as the importance of health during home life is emerged to meet the aging society and chronic diseases. In addition, people are directed to the m-Health for managing yourself their health by using smartphone and various personal health devices, if necessary transmits health data to the physician himself. In the previous studies, m-Health Application were developed and applied in the real clinical environment by adopting the medical information standards was rarely conducted. Therefore, in this study, the m-Health application platform was developed. Developed application was communicate with IEEE 11073 standard protocol using the Bluetooth Health Device Profile in personal health device via smart phone to process blood pressure information, and it converted to HL7 V2.6 ORU_R01 message for send to remote medical server. In addition, we tested the interoperability and safety of the developed application for 23 inpatient and 17 outpatient at D University Hospital. As a result, the blood pressure information has been transmitted without error.

Hospital Employees' Knowledge, Recognition and Practice on the Protection of Personal Information (개인정보 보호에 대한 의료기관 종사자들의 지식, 인식과 실천)

  • Jeong, Ji-Na;Moon, Inn-Oh
    • Journal of the Korean Institute of Oriental Medical Informatics
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    • v.21 no.1
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    • pp.1-13
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    • 2015
  • The aim of this study was to investigate hospital employees' knowledge, recognition and practice on the protection of personal information. A total of 250 hospital employees were selected using convenient sampling in J province. The data were collected using self-reported questionnaire and were analyzed using SPSS 18.0 program and descriptive statistics, Chi-squire test, t-test, ANOVA, and Pearson correlation coefficients. Average score for knowledge, recognition and practice were significantly associated with gender, education, hospital size and there was a correlation among knowledge, recognition and practice. The results of this study will help to develop education program on the protection of personal information for hospital employees.

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Explicating Personal Health Informatics Experience (퍼스널 헬스케어 디바이스 사용자 경험 연구)

  • Shin, Dong-Hee;Cho, Hoyoun
    • The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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    • v.17 no.1
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    • pp.550-566
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    • 2017
  • Recent advances in wearable devices and quantified-self movement increase the number of personal informatics application that may cause an concern to health industry and user. In this light, the goal of this study is to identify more effective ways of design and evaluation of personal informatics application for self-tracking and delivering health information to users. For this goal, this study conducted areal-world study that processes such that user can assess, be aware of, and self-reflect on their data and behavior activity. In doing so, this study aims to determine the psychological effects of forms of health feedback (comparative vs. non-comparative) and presentation modes (text vs. image) on users' tendencies toward health conservation. Results from a between-subjects experiment revealed that health information in a comparative and textual format was more effective in encouraging health conservation in participants than identical information presented in a non-comparative and image format. In addition, participants' level of health consciousness emerged as a significant predictor. Through this analysis of quantitative data and inferences, this study make a number of contributions to the user affordance research and its methodology of health informatics study and designing personal informatics application that support user's behavior change in various contexts.

A Review on The Comparative Study on Temperament And Character Inventory (TCI) And Constitutional-psychological Questionnaire (Temperament and Character Inventory(TCI)와 심리(心理)관련설문지의 비교연구에 대한 고찰(考察))

  • Kang, Dong-Woo;Oh, Hwan-Sup;Park, Young-Jae;Park, Young-Bae
    • The Journal of the Society of Korean Medicine Diagnostics
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    • v.15 no.1
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    • pp.29-46
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    • 2011
  • Objectives: The purpose of our study is to develop and verify questionnaire using temperament and character inventory (TCI) in the future by contemplating the comparative study on TCI and psychological testing Questionnaires. Methods: We investigate the research searched by keyword: 'TCI' and 'Questionnaire' through internet search engines, Pub Med, Science Direct and Springer Link. Results: The comparative study of TCI and psychological testing Questionnaires(SPAQ, BDI, TAS-20, MAC, DSQ) which have the purpose of diagnosing personal disorder is helpful for the verification of the level of adequacy of the concerned psychological testing Questionnaire and contributes to the understanding of psychobiological characteristics of each of personal disorders. The comparative study of TCI and psychological testing Questionnaires(MMPI, NEO, CPI) which have the purpose of comprehending general personality is helpful for the verification of the level of adequacy of the concerned psychological testing Questionnaire and contributes to the understanding of meaning of questionnaire-scales. The comparative study of TCI and constitution-psychological testing Questionnaire(QSCC II) is helpful for the verification of the level of adequacy and the understanding of the concerned constitution-psychological testing Questionnaire and contributes to the understanding of psychobiological characteristics of each of constitutions. Conclusions: TCI is a useful tool to understand the psychological testing Questionnaire more deeply and verify the level of the adequacy, and from now on for the development and verification of Oriental medicinal-psychological testing Questionnaire, the study comparing it with TCI should be actively used.

Post-GWAS Strategies

  • Kim, Sang-Soo;Bhak, Jong
    • Genomics & Informatics
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    • v.9 no.1
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    • pp.1-4
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    • 2011
  • Genome-wide association (GWA) studies are the method of choice for discovering loci associated with common diseases. More than a thousand GWA studies have reported successful identification of statistically significant association signals in human genomes for a variety of complex diseases. In this review, I discuss some of the issues related to the future of GWA studies and their biomedical applications.

Named Entity Detection Using Generative Al for Personal Information-Specific Named Entity Annotation Conversation Dataset (개인정보 특화 개체명 주석 대화 데이터셋 기반 생성AI 활용 개체명 탐지)

  • Yejee Kang;Li Fei;Yeonji Jang;Seoyoon Park;Hansaem Kim
    • Annual Conference on Human and Language Technology
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    • 2023.10a
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    • pp.499-504
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    • 2023
  • 본 연구에서는 민감한 개인정보의 유출과 남용 위험이 높아지고 있는 상황에서 정확한 개인정보 탐지 및 비식별화의 효율을 높이기 위해 개인정보 항목에 특화된 개체명 체계를 개발하였다. 개인정보 태그셋이 주석된 대화 데이터 4,981세트를 구축하고, 생성 AI 모델을 활용하여 개인정보 개체명 탐지 실험을 수행하였다. 실험을 위해 최적의 프롬프트를 설계하여 퓨샷러닝(few-shot learning)을 통해 탐지 결과를 평가하였다. 구축한 데이터셋과 영어 기반의 개인정보 주석 데이터셋을 비교 분석한 결과 고유식별번호 항목에 대해 본 연구에서 구축한 데이터셋에서 더 높은 탐지 성능이 나타났으며, 이를 통해 데이터셋의 필요성과 우수성을 입증하였다.

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A Proposal for a Personal Branding Support Service in Social Media Times

  • Kawano, Yoshihiro;Obu, Yuka
    • Journal of Contemporary Eastern Asia
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    • v.12 no.2
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    • pp.49-59
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    • 2013
  • Social media such as Twitter and Facebook have become popular. In the age of social media, many people have become more active online. For example, about half of all global active Internet users are on Facebook (Perry 2012). Personal branding is a very important strategy to build on an individual's strengths, and this kind of branding is expected to contribute to self-actualization. Therefore, the presence of mentors who advise users to discover their own strong points for self-actualization is necessary. In this paper, we propose a personal branding support service, Mentors, which connects mentors and mentees. The core concept is: "Everyone has the face of both a mentor and mentee." The key function is sharing stages of self-analysis in human life design: Determining value, creating a mission, and forming a strategy. From this function, a good match between a mentor and mentee can be found. The program aims to improve human life by understanding the client's strengths and using social media effectively. Future work includes launching Mentors and evaluating its service.

Mobile Devices Technologies: Risks and Security

  • Alsaqour, Raed;Alharthi, Sultan;Aldehaimi, Khalid;Abdelhaq, Maha
    • International Journal of Computer Science & Network Security
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    • v.21 no.4
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    • pp.249-254
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    • 2021
  • Our society is depending on mobile devices that play a major role in our lives. Utilizing these devices is possible due to their speed power and efficiency in performing basic as well as sophisticated operations that can be found in traditional computers like desktop workstations. The challenge with using mobile devices is that organizations are concerned with the interference between personal and corporate use due to Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) trend. This paper highlights the importance of mobile devices in our daily tasks and the associated risks involved with using these devices. Several technologies and countermeasures are reviewed in this paper to secure the mobile devices from different attempts of attacks. It is important to mention that this paper focuses on technical measures rather than considering different aspects of security measures as recommended by the cybersecurity community.

Analysis of Elements Related to Information Culture Literacy in Overseas Informatics Curriculums (해외 정보 교육과정에서 정보문화소양 관련 내용 요소 분석)

  • Yang, HyeJi;Kim, JaMee;Lee, WonGyu
    • The Journal of Korean Association of Computer Education
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    • v.21 no.1
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    • pp.1-10
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    • 2018
  • Korea shifted the focus to competency-based curriculums in the revised national curriculum of 2015, and emphasized training creative convergence talents through informatics education. The informatics education curriculum included information culture literacy as a core competence so that the learners can gain knowledge of information technology-based information ethics and make ethical judgment and practice ethics. This study analyzed the elements related to information culture literacy in the informatics curriculums of the US, the UK, India, Japan, Australia and Germany for the purpose of providing implications with regard to the composition of elements that can foster information culture literacy. According to the analysis results, first, the term information culture literacy was included only in the informatics education curriculum of Korea. Second, the elements common to all countries are (personal) information protection, information security and copyright. Third, Korea's information society and career, India's avoidance of injuries, Germany's protection of health and environment were found only in the curriculums of respective countries. This study is significant in that it provided the orientation of improving the elements for fostering information culture literacy based on the results of analyzing overseas informatics curriculums.