Recently, the number of smartphone users has skyrocketed because of a plenty of useful services that smartphone applications provide. In the Information Systems (IS) literature, however, there has been little understanding about the effects of the service quality of smatphone applications on user satisfaction and loyalty. Thereby, this study examined 1) the effects of the service quality of smartphone applications on users beliefs, perceived usefulness and easiness and 2) the effects of the user beliefs as mediating variables on users' attitude, satisfaction, and loyalty. A survey was conducted and SEM was employed to analyze the data. The results showed that the service quality of smartphone applications affect users' attitude, satisfaction, and loyalty through the mediating variables.

It is not too much to say that the mobile game market has made a shared growth, together with the domestic smartphone distribution rate(31 million units). At present, the distribution of the smartphone has a lot of influences on the smartphone game market, in which the number of game users having a preference for an easy, simple game, and competing with actual personal acquaintances is ever increasing. This study, in an effort to look into what influence the game sound has on game scores consequent on user's characteristic among the smartphone game components, compared the game results through in-depth interviews with a game sound developer and a user group, and the sound/non-sound experiences in the course of playing games. As a result of conducting this research, it was found that age and game experience showed a significant difference on game results. On the basis of this research result, this study intends to suggest the direction of smartphone game production development that could meet both a game supplier and a user's demand.

Autotelic user activity and rich user experience can be the key factors causing immersion as an intrinsic motivation of steadily using smartphones. We have selected Csikszentmihalyi's Flow as a basic and theoretical framework of study on the intrinsic motivation. We have derived which user experience design factors bring about flow while using smartphones. We have collected specific key words by literature analyses, web sites survey and in-depth interviews and have summarized. As a results, the user experience design factor is categorized into usability, personalization, physical satisfaction, interactivity, aesthetic satisfaction, usefulness. The 6 design measures are different from general categories of previous media and interface design researches, but they are based on emperical data and realistic factors which reflect design characteristics of smart phones.

This study was conducted to investigate the characteristics of smartphone usage and posture of users during using smartphone. A survey was conducted for 983 smartphone users to understand the association between smartphone usage and including subjective symptoms associated with musculoskeletal disorders. Main results from the survey were as follows; 1) 18.8% of the subjects experienced musculoskeletal symptoms at least at one of body parts. Specifically, 8.1%, 5.6%, 4.1%, and 11.3% of the subjects experienced musculoskeletal symptoms at neck, shoulder, elbow, and hand respectively, 2) The symptoms of musculoskeletal disorders were also associated with amount of text message and time for daily usage of smartphone. Specifically, relative risks of musculoskeletal disorders at hand/wrist/fingers in terms of "amount of text message" and "time for daily usage" for experienced user were 1.425 and 1.368 respectively to inexperienced user. This study identified 'amount of text message' and 'time for daily usage' as the major risk factors of smartphone usage in terms of musculoskeletal symptoms. The results of the study provided a good basis in order to remove or reduce the risks associated with musculoskeletal symptoms due to smartphone usage.

Since the advent of smart phones in 2007, the population of smart phone user has been increasing at stunning rate in Korea. In spite of many benefits such as full internet access, location based service, and easy installation of new applications, many social and medical researches have been reported the concern of overuse of smart phones, especially for teenagers on game and internet addiction. However, most of studies are based on the survey research, so often questioned to be limited number of sample and subjective, which can be overcome by evident-based study. The paper presents a pilot development of Google Android app that provides the 24-hour-measured application usage pattern of smart phone users. A requirement study performed with medical doctors and phycologists are discussed and the key technical and application issues are discussed and their solutions are presented. The system is designed to be extensible so that social network and additional service can be applied based on the user. The measured data is expected to be used for study the cause and treatment of game and internet addiction for teenagers and adults.

Smart phones have drastically changed the life of today’s competitive world. Smart phone application (App) developers are trying their best to meet the customer requirements in the most efficient way while considering all its attributes. However smart phone service quality has been given less consideration comparatively during the last few years. This paper proposes a measurement method for improving service quality of smart phone application. This method combines the service quality performance model and process capability index. The service quality performance model is used to identify service items that require improvement. Process capability index is used to prioritize these items for improvement. We collected data on satisfaction level of customers who have used application service. By the proposed method, we found five significant service items from three categories - execution, security and resilience and prioritized those items for improvement.

We have surveyed users’ practical requirements for the acceptance of smartphones. We also have analyzed users’ reviews from Galaxy S3 and iPhone 4/4S communities based on Technical Acceptance Model, a theoretical approach on the acceptance of media. From the view of perceived usefulness, the most frequent review category is about appearance of device followed by application and user interface in order, both from Galaxy and iPhone communities. Perceived ease of use puts appearance the first, UI the second and application the last for Galaxy. IPhones have UI, appearance and application in order.Both communities show strong positive responses about attitude toward using and behavioral intention to use. Cross analysis presents differences in the category of perceived usefulness and perceived ease of use but no difference in the category of attitude toward using and behavioral intention to use. We have collected and analyzed users’ interests by practical keywords. The study results can be used in the field of smartphones game, design and so on.

The purpose of this study was to assess the influence of the duration of smartphone usage on cervical and lumbar spine flexion angles and reposition error in the cervical spine. The study included 18 healthy smartphone users (7 males and 11 females). We measured the kinematics of the upper and lower cervical and lumbar spine flexion angles and the reposition error of the upper and lower cervical spine after 3 s and 300 s smartphone use in sitting. A paired t-test was used to compare the effects of the duration of smartphone usage on the kinematics of cervical and lumbar spine flexion angles and reposition error. The flexion angles of the lower cervical and lumbar spine and the reposition error in the upper and lower cervical spine were significantly increased after 300 s smartphone of use (p<.05). However, the flexion angle of the upper cervical spine was not significantly different between the 3 s and 300 s smartphone of use (p>.05). These findings suggest that prolonged use of smartphones can induce changes in cervical and lumbar spine posture and proprioception in the cervical spine.

사회복지란 인간을 대상으로 하는 서비스이다. 이에 사람과의 소통과 일상에의 집중 및 총체적인 안정감은 그 무엇보다 중요하다. 본 연구의 목적은 사회복지대학생들의 스마트폰 중독과 우울에 관하여 조사하여 미래의 사회복지사인 대학생들의 스마트폰 중독 실태와 우울 그리고 그 관계를 파악하고자 하였다. 본 연구는 스마트폰을 사용하는 현재 사회복지를 전공하는 대학생 193명을 설문조사하였다. 연구결과 첫째, 스마트폰 중독 실태로는 학생들이 스마트폰을 사용함으로 스트레스를 해소하고자 하였고, 처음 생각한 시간보다 과다 사용하게 됨을 알 수 있다. 둘째, 스마트폰 중독과 우울간의 관계에서는 스마트폰 중독은 사용시간, 사용요금, 우울과 관계가 있는 것으로 나타났다. 이에 앞으로 이러한 중독적인 경향성의 지속적인 파악과 함께 사용시간을 가급적 통제할 수 있는 다양한 방안을 모색하여야 하겠다.

스마트폰 게임 사용자들의 급속한 증가와 모바일 사용이 급증함에 따라 개인의 인증서 사용은 필수적으로 사용하도록 하고 있다. 이 개인 인증서는 편리하면서도 개인의 정보유출 및 도용의 우려가 항상 존재하게 되어 사용자들의 불안감은 항상 함께 공존하고 있다. 이에 즈음하여 본 논문에서는 기존의 아이디와 비밀번호를 입력하던 방식을 개선하여 보다 쉬우면서도 타인이 도용하지 못하게 대응하도록 철저한 개인인증 보안 알고리즘을 적용하여 실제 스마트폰 게임 인증 사용시에 적용할 수 있도록 시뮬레이션 해 보고자 하였다. 본 논문의 수행 결과로는 안전한 스마트폰 게임 인증 서비스의 활성화와 더불어 무선 인터넷 뱅킹 서비스, 온라인 쇼핑 등 무선 인터넷을 이용한 전자 상거래의 활성화에 기여할 것으로 기대된다.

본 논문은 손을 자유롭게 사용하기 어렵고 대화로 의사 전달이 힘든 편마비 환자를 위하여 스마트폰 문자입력 인터페이스와 재활 훈련 콘텐츠를 개발하였다. 다섯 개의 가속도 센서를 각각의 손가락에 부착하여, 이에 대한 손가락 움직임 정보를 활용하였으며, 스마트 폰과의 데이터 전송은 블루투스 모듈을 이용하였다. 각각의 손가락의 움직임에 대한 최고값을 설정하고 센서동작에 대한 경계값과 비교하여 손가락 움직임을 감지하였다. 본 논문은 이러한 데이터를 활용하여 문자입력 인터페이스에 적용하였으며, 또한 편마비 환자들의 재활에도 적용하고자 재미있는 콘텐츠를 이용하여 환자의 재활 훈련 효과를 높일 수 있도록 하였다.

In product process it is agreeable to testify and reflect the customer's needs in design and function and to create attractive quality factor effectively. In this study used KANO model to catch the excellent quality factors in SmartPhone and aimed to help design. We made a survey and performed customer factor analysis.

In the future, smartphone convergences are not only based on the on/offline integration, but also with the integration between mobile communications and broadcasts. Therefore, there is a need to search for new direction of mobile device that enables variety user applications that are different from the existing size and application issue. The aim of this research is to improve user interface of smartphone's functional attribute. We study on the analysis of smartphone's functional attribute by AHP. The survey results in this paper showed that the most preferable attribute of smartphone among the 8 was the wireless internet 25.3%, followed by messaging 20% and application 19.8%, which totaled to 62.5%. But the samples used were mostly limited to those aged 20 through 30. So the results are not considered as a representative preference of all smartphone users, and should be considered otherwise before materializing them to a product. Therefore, for the more liable results the further research should be conducted to gather data from a variety of users of all ages, and the functional attribute should be analysed through QFD.

본 연구는 작업속성에 따른 스마트폰의 심미성이 주관적 사용성과 객관적 사용성에 미치는 영향을 살펴보았다. 기존의 여러 연구에서 심미성이 주관적 사용성과 객관적 사용성에 미치는 영향에 대해 살펴보았지만, 아직까지도 심미성과 객관적 사용성의 관계는 모호했다. 본 연구에서는 동일한 기능을 가지지만 다른 심미성을 가진 스마트폰을 사용하여 36명의 피실험자에게 3가지 타입의 작업(정보입력작업, 정보검색작업, 정보유희작업)을 수행하도록 하였으며, 이때의 수행도와 주관적 평가가 기록되었다. 그 결과 높은 심미성이 낮은 심미성에 비해 주관적 사용성이 사용 전과 후에 높게 평가되었지만, 사용 전에 비해 사용 후에는 그 차이가 줄어들었다. 또한 심미성이 높은 것이 작업수행시간이 더 오래 소요되었다. 하지만 작업속성과 심미성에 의한 교호작용은 보이지 않았다. 본 연구의 결과는 심미성은 감성적 만족도뿐만 아니라 다양한 효과를 가진다는 것을 보여주었다. 본 연구의 결과는 사용성 평가에서 심미성이 주관적 사용성과 객관적 사용성에 미치는 영향을 예측할 수 있게 해줄 것이라고 기대된다.

As contemporary building construction type is getting higher and deeper, construction equipment usage is getting more, and related fatal accidents are on an increasing trend. Because of this, a method was drawn which could grasp the present state of construction equipment management and manage safety of the equipment more easily for accident prevention by choosing 2 kinds of Construction equipment which cause safety accident frequently among the equipment mainly used in construction site. This study suggested a method about construction equipment safety management using "smart phone" base which could be used in safety management for construction equipment by whomever in construction site. After attachment of QR code included safety checklist, It became possible that site managers could check more efficiently by scanning with their smart phone when they inspect equipment. Moreover, by the construction interested who didn't know what and how they have to inspect could point out unsafe condition in the early stage of equipment entering or take unsafe one out of the site by using new smart phone safety checking system is installed, it became possible that critical accident caused by construction equipment was prevented in advance.