This study utilized the unified theory of acceptance and use of technology 2 (UTAUT2) to examine usage intentions associated with virtual fitting services. Six independent variables were examined: performance expectancy, effort expectancy, social influence, facilitating conditions, hedonic motivation, and habit. The study collected responses from 445 participants who had utilized virtual fitting services. Regarding factors related to usage intentions associated with these services, performance expectancy and social influence were found to significantly influence the usage intentions associated with photo-based virtual fitting services. Furthermore, performance expectancy, social influence, and habit significantly influenced the usage intention of avatar-based virtual fitting services. This suggests that higher levels of performance expectancy and social influence positively impact the usage intentions associated with both types of virtual fitting services, while habit influences only avatar-based virtual fitting services. Moreover, the findings confirm that effort expectancy, facilitating conditions, and hedonic motivation from UTAUT2 do not significantly influence usage intentions associated with virtual fitting services. By analyzing factors influencing potential customers’ virtual fitting service usage intentions, this study can suggest effective strategies to increase usage intentions for companies providing virtual fitting services. Additionally, these findings can be utilized in the formulation of virtual fitting service marketing strategies.

The purpose of this study was to investigate preservice teachers’ understanding of democratic citizenship. This study utilized the democratic citizenship frame to assess 17 participants’ comprehension of this concept. The researcher designed a method course where participants in groups analyzed science activities to identify democratic citizenship components. Through the analysis of two science activities—one on energy and the other on climate change—and the development of science panels addressing various global issues, preservice teachers' understanding of democratic citizenship was enhanced. Preservice teachers showed a good understanding of critical thinking, communication and collaboration, and STS (science, technology, and society); and the most enhanced understanding of empathy, which was the least perceived in pre-survey, component of democratic citizenship. The democratic citizenship frame proved to be a valuable tool for teaching and learning this topic, particularly when applied to socioscientific issues in the classroom. More research-based revisions of the science curriculum are necessary, and more systematic practices with reflections are essential in teacher education.

This study was investigated in order to find composition and density of fisheries resource using bottom trawl in April, July, August, and November 2022 in the East China Sea. The average density of fisheries resource was estimated using the swept area method. As a result, 35 species were collected from the East China Sea. These included 21 fishes, six crustaceans, six cephalopods and two echinoderms. Seasonally, the average density of crustacean individuals per unit area were highest in November (692.1 inds./km 2 ), while cephalopod individuals per unit area were highest in August (39.4 inds./km 2 ). The average density of fish individuals per unit area were highest in August at 355.0 (inds./km 2 ).

전도 부인에 관한 연구는 교회 성장의 패러다임으로부터 벗어나지 못하고 있다. 즉, 전도 부인을 초기 한국 교회의 형성과 발전에 이바지한 인물로 묘사하는데 주력해 왔다는 것이다. 이와 같은 관점은 전도 부인의 공헌을 교회의 확장으로 환원시킬 뿐만 아니라 이들이 후대에 남긴 또 다른 신앙의 유산을 발견하지 못하게 된다. 이러한 문제의식을 중심으로 본 연구는 전도 부인의 정체성과 활동에 대한 새로운 이해를 도모하고자 한다. 먼저, 세계 기독교학의 등장으로 인해 서구 중심의 선교 역사의 이해로부터 벗어나야 할 필요성을 제기할 것이다. 이를 통해 우리는 전도 부인을 선교사들의 조력자로 축소시키지 않고 협력자 이자 지도자, 즉 주체적인 활동 주체로 볼 수 있게 될 것이다. 또한, 전도 부인을 교회의 형성, 성장, 그리고 발전 중심의 관점으로부터 벗어나 윤리적 관점에서 조망할 수 있게 된다. 본 연구는 주변성, 회복 탄력성, 그리고 환대의 세 가지 윤리적 개념을 통해 전도 부인의 정체성과 활동을 새롭게 이해할 것을 제안한다. 그 결과, 타인을 공감하 고, 위로하고, 돕고자 하는 사랑의 힘이 곧 전도 부인이 남긴 진정한 유산임을 깨닫게 될 것이다.

기술경영학은 1960년대 미국 공공연구기관의 체계적 연구관리(R&D) 필요성과 영국 고등교육기관의 관련 학술지 창간 등에 의해 태동된 후 현재는 전 세계 809개 이상, 국내 19개 이상의 기관에서 연구와 교육활동을 수행할 정도로 크게 확산되었다. 특히, 한국에서는 2007년부터 산업부를 중심으로 지속적으로 정부예산을 투입해 단기간 내에 양적·질적으로 대학원 수준의 기술경영 인력양성 체계가 자리 잡게 되었다. 한국의 기술경영학 교육과정은 현장중심형 교육과정 운영, 교육기관 간 표준화와 동형화, 인접학문과의 친연성 등에 있어 해외의 기관과는 다른 경로와 차별성을 보인다. 본 연구에서는 한국의 기술경영학 교과과정을 체계적으로 분석함으로써 그 정체성과 차별성을 확인한다. 이를 위해 본 연구에서는 기술경영학의 주요 교재 11종(한국어 3종, 영어 8종)을 분석하여 기술경영학의 교과과정의 주요 내용을 7개 주제영역으로 구분하고 인접학문과의 차별성, 기술경영학의 정의적 특성에 관해 논하였다. 다음으로는 기술경영 대학원과정을 운영하는 한국의 9개 대학원 교과과정을 7개 주제영역에 투사하였다. 분석결과, 한국의 대학원 교과과정은 기업에서의 기술경영의 운영 측면, 산업별/기술별 기술경영, 산학연계 프로젝트/ 세미나에 62.5%의 교과목이 배정되어 있었다. 즉, 한국적 기술경영 교육과정은 지역산업에서 필요로 하는 중간관리자급의 기술경영 실행인재의 양성을 주요 목표로 하고 있다고 볼 수 있다. 본 연구는 기술경영 교과과정의 분석 토대 위에 한국의 산업발전단계를 고려한 향후 기술경영학 교육의 발전방향을 시사점으로 도출하였다. 즉, 기술과 혁신의 개념과 특성에 대한 이론, 기업 기술경영의 운영만이 아니라 전략적 측면, 기술경영의 경제사회적 맥락에 대한 교육과정이 보강될 필요가 있다는 점을 제시한다.

The costs associated with law enforcement have seen a sharp increase, driven by rising personnel costs and the growing demand for policing services (Gascón, 2010; Urban Institute, 2020). Considerable discussion has arisen about how science can potentially help law enforcement “do more with less”, and some scholars have suggested introducing new crime control technologies to address this problem (e.g., Roach, 2022; Weisburd & Neyroud, 2011). With the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, police departments around the world had additional demand, as they were made responsible for overseeing and ensuring compliance with COVID protocols. As a response, some countries (e.g., Singapore and China; Barrett, 2021) resorted to employing service robots either alongside or in place of police officers to assist with COVID-related compliance tasks.

In recent business activities, well-being-based management approaches have become increasingly important. Consideration of consumer well-being is one of them. In particular, social demand and interest in health are incredibly high, and the health-related services market has significantly expanded. However, since the WHO's definition of health was established, the concept of health has become multi-dimensional. There is much overlap with other concepts, such as well-being and quality of life. As a result, even for health-related services that are supposed to contribute to consumers' health, the critical term "health" is still used ambiguously by both service providers and consumers. It could increase the uncertainty of the benefits of the services and cause difficulties in the continued use of services for consumers.

Online shopping has grown exponentially in the last decade, benefiting both consumers and companies. Among several advantages, online shopping lets consumers compare values and prices from different stores on multiple mobile devices in real time. In addition, for young people, it is a way of expressing their identity and independence.

The advent of virtual reality and augmented reality technologies have pushed user’s expectation for online experience to a new level. Social connections via texts alone can no longer satisfy appetite for the reality of virtual interaction. Subsequently, the metaverse is invented to reimagine the way people work, play, socialize and live online (Xi et al., 2022). Metaverse is “the post-reality universe, a perpetual and persistent multiuser environment merging physical reality with digital virtuality” (Mystakidis, 2022). The speed at which the Metaverse has evolved both in definition (first coined in 1992 by science fiction author Neal Stephenson) and research but also in practice, has been phenomenal. Earlier visions of what the Metaverse would be were limited to gaming (for example, Roblox, Fortnite, Zepeto), and gaming is still considered to be the most popular service in the Metaverse (Shin, 2022), where reality is replicated through the creation of a virtual 3D space including avatars interacting and communicating. This current immersive extended reality is a space where people not only can play, but work, learn, socialize, buy, and much more (Hollensen, Kotler, & Opresnik, 2022). It could be fair to assume that the potential of Metaverse being much more than simply gaming, took off after Mark Zuckerberg’s continuous references to the metaverse throughout 2020 and 2021, and the subsequent change of Facebook’s name to Meta in 2021. By 2026, it is estimated that 25% of people worldwide will spend at least one hour a day in the metaverse for digital activities, including shopping, working, entertainment and social interaction (Johnson, 2022).

This study investigated the key factors that explain the continuous usage intention of mobile payment users in the post COVID-19 pandemic era. Based on the health belief model (HBM) and communication privacy management (CPM) theory, this study examined how the five constructs of HBM influence mobile payments continuous usage intention through perceived privacy risk and perceived security. It also investigated the moderating role of perceived privacy awareness on the relationship between perceived privacy risk and continuous usage intention as well as the moderating role of information sensitivity on the relationship between perceived security and continuous usage intention.

Integrating both the Computers-Are-Social-Actors Theory and Social Exchange Theory, this study investigates human-robot interactions in a frontline service setting. Data was collected via an intercept survey of 282 Gen Z visitors at a polytechnic library in Singapore. The data was analyzed using structural equation modelling with partial least squares. The results demonstrate the significant positive effects of robot anthropomorphism attributes, namely perceived warmth, perceived coolness, appearance, social capability, and personalized service on perceived trust as well as the significant positive effects of perceived coolness and social capability on positive emotion. Both trust and emotion affected consumer co-creation while only emotion impacted consumer wellbeing. The results add to the service robot literature and offer practical guidance for service managers to leverage trust in designing and personalizing inclusive service experiences for successful human-robot interactions.

Real world consumption is gradually being warped into an intangible form of digital virtual consumption. Virtual worlds, objects and experiences are often argued to be less valued or meaningful then their real reality counterparts. Though studies show how digital virtual consumption serves as ways of navigating and decoding normative boundaries of communal and cultural origin within virtual worlds. In this paper, we show how consumers balance their real-life responsibilities with consumption in virtual worlds. In an effort to better understand the phenomenon, we put forwards an analysis based on assemblage theory, which focuses on how agentic and communal capacities of component parts both enable and constrain various aspects of the consumption experience.

Metaverse blends the physical and virtual worlds, transforming the customer's shopping experience. This study aims to identify the psychological mechanism in the metaverse environment and the relationship between metaverse experience and consumer happiness. To identify metaverse experiences, both behavioral and functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) studies were conducted. In a behavioral study, we found that consumers' happiness increased when participants were in an immersive metaverse space. In the fMRI study, we found greater activation in the medial prefrontal cortex (MPFC) and lateral occipital cortex (LOC) regions in the high level of the immersive metaverse and found a positive relationship with consumers' happiness. This paper is the first attempt in marketing to provide an integrative brain map for the metaverse experience. This brain map helps marketers better understand the consumer experience. This study suggests that only in the immersive metaverse space where virtual and physical experiences interact can consumers become one with the virtual space and maximize customer experience values.

2020년 6월부터 8월까지 일본 도쿄 남쪽 940 km 해상에 위치한 니시노시마 화산이 분화하였다. 2020년 7월 말 발생한 분화로 인한 화산재와 화산가스 일부가 우리나라에 영향을 주었을 가능성이 있는 것으로 보도되었다. 본 연구에 서는 화산재 확산 수치모의 프로그램인 Ash3D를 이용하여 현지시각 2 02 0년 7월 2 8일 0시에 화산폭발지수 3의 분화가 발생한 것으로 설정하고 수치모의를 실시하였다. 수치모의 결과, 화산재가 니시노시마 인근에서 동풍을 타고 7월 30일 새벽 오키나와에 도달한 이후 남풍을 타고 북상하여 8월 1일 제주도에 상륙하고 시계방향으로 회전하듯이 이동하면서 8월 2일에는 남부지방에 영향을 주는 것으로 나타났다. 실제 측정된 PM10 미세먼지농도는 제주도 고산기상관측소에서 8월 1일부터, 부산 구덕산기상관측소에서는 8월 2일부터 상승한 것으로 나타나 니시노시마 화산 분화가 제주도 및 남 부지방의 미세먼지 수치에 영향을 준 것으로 보인다.

다양한 불교 수행법들이 국내에 알려지고, 명상 또한 대중화되고 있다. 불교 수행방법을 과학화하여 다양한 심리치유법이 개발되어 유용하게 활 용되고 있다. 이러한 흐름 속에서, 연구자는 불교의 기본 개념 중 하나인 사띠(sati)의 중요성에 주목했다. 사띠에 대응하는 한글 번역어는 ‘마음챙 김’, ‘알아차림’ 등으로 제시되지만, 명료한 합의가 이루어지지 못했다. 이것은 사띠 개념의 복잡성을 시사한다. 본 논문은 문헌연구와 함께 사띠에 관한 실제 사례를 연결하는 의미 있는 연구다. 본 논문의 목적은 사띠의 실천 사례를 관찰하기 어려운 국 내의 연구 상황에서 계율 실천과 사띠 훈련의 연관성을 파악하고자 했다. 태국의 승려들이 빠알리어 계본에 명시된 항목을 어떻게 실천하는지 조 사하여, 논의함으로 국내의 사띠 연구에 좋은 자료를 제공함과 동시에 수 행 및 일상에서의 사띠 실천 가능성을 높이고자 한다.

PURPOSES : During the summer of 2018, a heat wave (temperatures > 33°C) lasted for more than 30 days, causing blow-ups at eight different locations in South Korea. The blow-up phenomenon occurred when the internal temperature of the concrete slab increased. Simultaneously, as the concrete slab expands excessively, the length of the end of the slab increases, thus resulting in a lateral compressive force; when the slab cannot withstand this force, it rises or breaks. Blow-up is caused by a variety of factors, including increased temperature and humidity, accumulation of incompressible substances inside discontinuous surfaces, alkali–silica reactions, and aging of the concrete pavement. Several researchers have presented models to forecast blow-ups, such as the A. D. Kerr and G. Yang models, which have been applied to explain the blow-up phenomenon. However, this model has some limitations. This paper discusses a method to overcome these limitations. METHODS : Buckling, the most important theory describing the blow-up phenomenon, was reviewed, and the buckling principle was confirmed. Subsequently, the input variables of the Kerr and Yang models and the mechanism for predicting the occurrence of blow-ups were identified. The PGBA program was used to confirm the lifetime of the expansion joint and the blow-up occurrence time based on the expansion joint spacing to review the limitations of the two studied models. RESULTS : The Kerr and Yang models did not consider variables such as the expansion joint spacing or length of the integrated adjacent slab. In other words, it is necessary to reconsider the appropriateness of blow-up time predictions in relation to changes in expansion joint spacing and slab length. The expansion joint lifetime and blow-up occurrence time were predicted using the PGBA program. It was confirmed that as the expansion joint spacing increases, the expansion joint lifetime decreases. However, the blow-up occurrence time was shown to be the same (equal to 59 years), which is a limitation of the Kerr and Yang models used in the PGBA program. This resulted in a limitation in which variables for the expansion joint spacing cannot be used. CONCLUSIONS : Through blow-up simulation experiments and actual field data, an appropriate slab length should be determined, and a blow-up model should be developed based on the slab length. If a blow-up prediction based on concrete slab length and a blow-up model based on are developed, the blow-up prevention technology will be applied to the appropriate blow-up time and location to avoid traffic accidents and reduce human and property damage.

본 논문은 자폐성장애 아동에 대한 바른 이해를 위해 2018년부터 2022년까지 5년 동안 연구자가 자폐성장 애 아동의 사회적 기능 향상에 개입하면서 연구 참여자인 자폐성장애 아동과 주고받았던 6하 원칙에 의한 질문과 답의 내용을 토대로 재구성한 결과물이다. 이는 특수교육과 사회복지적인 접근을 융합한 임상적 개입실천의 성과를 산출한 것으로, 자폐성장애인의 삶의 모습과 문화를 드러내기 위해 자문화기술 지 연구방법을 활용하였다. 본 연구의 결과 첫째, 자폐성장애 아동의 행동문제는 아동 자신의 욕구를 표현 하고 충족시키기 위한 의사소통과 사회적 상호작용의 일환으로 시작되었음을 파악하였다. 둘째, 자폐성장 애 아동의 되풀이되는 일상이야기를 통해 드러나는 반복적이고 제한적인 관심과 활동은 자폐성장애인의 문화를 드러내며 이 아동의 원활한 일상생활 적응과 교육적 성취 준비를 위한 사회적 기능의 향상에 기여할 수 있는 매우 중요한 열쇠이다. 이런 연구 결과를 토대로 하여 본 연구는 자폐성장애인에 대한 바른 이해와 그것을 바탕으로 하는 사회복지 실천개입의 재구조화를 본격적으로 논의해야 할 필요성을 제안하였다.