As the number of North Korean refugees increases in South Korean, their acculturation to life in their host country is coming to be an important social issue. This study explores some clothing-related barriers experienced by North Korean refugees and their moderating effects on acculturation to South Korea. Data were collected using a self-administered survey of 163 female and 37 male North Korean refugees in South Korea aged 20 to 69 years. Descriptive analyses, t-tests, ANOVA, Duncan tests, and moderated multiple regression were conducted using SPSS 20.0 and Process Macro v.3.3. The results show that the North Korean refugees who participated in the study had experienced clothing-related barriers regarding fashion terminology and shopping rituals in South Korea. In particular, those in their 60s perceived more clothing-related barriers than those in their 20s and 30s. Next, the clothing-related barriers experienced by North Korean refugees have a negative moderating influence on the relationship between self-esteem and acculturation in South Korea. This study provides a deeper understanding of the relationship between fashion and the acculturation of North Korean refugees to South Korea. The results of the study can be also helpful of government policy makers, practitioners, and academics to develop education programs for North Korean refugees.

This research aims to shed a light on the benefits and perceived risks to the willingness to use perceived by consumers, centering on design-customizing service catering to individuals’ tastes and needs, and to study their impacts on the use of a design-customizing service. The validation of how benefits and perceived risks affect the intention to use showed that only aesthetic and self-expressive benefits had significant impacts on the willingness to use. However, only time/economic loss and self-design risks had negative impacts on the willingness to use a service. By gender, there was no difference in benefits and perceived risks to willingness to use for the benefit factors, whereas in terms of perceived risks to willingness to use factors. By age, there were also differences in the effects of benefits and perceived risks to purchase on the willingness to use a rash guard customizing service. There were variations in the perceived risks to the willingness to use and benefits depending on age. In particular, it was found that there were no perceived risks to the willingness to use for the age group of 10s. As design-customizing services based on individual tastes have drawn more attention recently, this research on the benefits and perceived risks to purchasing a rash guard design customizing service, as well as their effects on service use (particularly backed up by comparative analysis by gender and age), is expected to provide insights into design-customizing service strategy development.

도마뱀부치(Gekko japonicus) 성체와 유체의 주야간에 있어 서로 다른 은신처에 대한 선호 및 경쟁 양상을 알아보기 위하여 실내 사육장에서 성체 9개체(암컷 3, 수컷 6), 유체 4개체를 47일간 사육하면서 연구를 수행하였다. 실험결과, 사육장 내에 설치된 은신처 내부의 온도와 내부에서 발견된 도마뱀부치의 체온은 높은 양의 상관을 보였으며, 야간에 은신처 내부보다 외부에서 더 많은 성체와 유체가 관찰되었다. 성체와 유체 모두 특정 은신처에 대한 선호를 보였는데, 특별히 성체는 주간에 온도가 높은 은신처를 더 높은 비율로 선호하였다. 유체가 가장 선호한 은신처는 주야간에 동일한 은신처였다. 최대비율로 이용한 특정 은신처의 이용률은 성체의 경우 주야 간 차이가 유의한 반면, 유체는 차이가 없었다. 체온의 경우 성체와 유생 모두 야간에 은신처 외부에서 발견된 개체가 내부에서 발견된 개체들보다 더 높았다. 성체와 유생 사이의 체온 비교결과, 주간에 성체의 체온이 유체보다 높았으나, 야간에는 차이가 없었다. 이러한 결과는 도마뱀부치가 야행성으로 나은 온도조건을 가진 은신처를 선호하고 성체와 유체 간에는 은신처 이용경쟁이 있음을 보여주며, 더불어 도마뱀부치의 체온과 활동성에 관한 기초정보를 제공해 준다.

In this paper, we develop a virtual experimental environment to investigate users’ eye gaze in human-robot social interaction, and verify it’s potential for further studies. The system consists of a 3D robot character capable of hosting simple interactions with a user, and a gaze processing module recording which body part of the robot character, such as eyes, mouth or arms, the user is looking at, regardless of whether the robot is stationary or moving. To verify that the results acquired on this virtual environment are aligned with those of physically existing robots, we performed robot-guided quiz sessions with 120 participants and compared the participants’ gaze patterns with those in previous works. The results included the followings. First, when interacting with the robot character, the user's gaze pattern showed similar statistics as the conversations between humans. Second, an animated mouth of the robot character received longer attention compared to the stationary one. Third, nonverbal interactions such as leakage cues were also effective in the interaction with the robot character, and the correct answer ratios of the cued groups were higher. Finally, gender differences in the users’ gaze were observed, especially in the frequency of the mutual gaze.