• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Computer Information Conference
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• 2011.01a
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• pp.217-220
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• 2011

영상 압축 기술의 발전과 인터넷의 보급으로 사람들은 언제 어디서나 고화질의 미디어를 쉽게 접할 수 있게 되었다. 또한 미디어 플레이어에서 문자열의 출력을 지원함으로써 사용자들은 쉽게 영상의 자막을 만들고 볼 수 있는 환경이 만들어졌다. 그러나 문자는 번역을 위한 역할만 할 뿐 미디어에서 나타내고자 하는 감성을 전달하는 역할은 하지 못한다. 본 연구에서는 애니메이션 캐릭터와 콘텐츠 로봇을 사용하는 새로운 의미전달 기술을 적용한 감성형 콘텐츠 서비스를 제안한다. 제안하는 기술은 동기화 시나리오를 구성하여 미디어가 재생되는 동안 애니메이션 캐릭터 데이터를 제공하며, 또 다른 출력장치인 로봇과 동기화되어 상황에 따른 로봇의 움직임을 통해 시청자에게 내용 전달의 효과와 함께 감성 전달의 효율을 증대시켜주는 역할을 한다. 본 논문에서는 감성형 콘텐츠를 제작한 후 시현을 통해 감성 전달의 효율이 높아짐을 확인하였다.

• The Journal of the Institute of Internet, Broadcasting and Communication
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• v.23 no.1
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• pp.1-6
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• 2023

Uncanny Valley is a theory proposed by Japanese robot engineer Masahiro Mori in 1970, and refers to the point where the likability drops sharply when the appearance of a robot becomes very similar to a human being without a fully equipped robot. In this study, the theory of existing literature, related papers, and experimental data were analyzed to examine the Uncanny Valley effect that affects character design. The purpose of this study is to analyze whether the Uncanny Valley effect is applied to modeling virtual characters distributed in the Unreal Engine Marketplace. To this end, 15 characters were selected based on the similarity with humans in the Marketplace of the Unreal Engine, and similarity with humans and likability were investigated and analyzed. As a result of the experiment, it was confirmed that the Uncanny Valley effect was similarly applied to virtual character modeling, and through this, guidelines for the use of characters by indie game developers or individual developers using Unreal engines were presented. In addition, through result analysis, we tried to examine the direction to be pursued when designing characters.

• Cartoon and Animation Studies
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• s.48
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• pp.85-116
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• 2017

The purpose of this study is to analyze conditions that robots depicted in cinematographic works like animations or movies sympathize with and form an attachment with the nuclear person and organize characterizing strategies for emotional sympathetic robots. Along with the development of technology, the areas of artificial intelligence and robots are no longer considered to belong to science fiction but as realistic issues. Therefore, this author assumes that the expressive characteristics of emotional sympathetic robots created by cinematographic works should be used as meaningful factors in expressively embodying human-friendly service robots to be distributed widely afterwards, that is, in establishing the features of characters. To lay the grounds for it, this research has begun. As the subjects of analysis, this researcher has chosen robot characters whose emotional intimacy with the main person is clearly observed among those found in movies and animations produced after the 1920 when robot's contemporary concept was declared. Also, to understand robots' appearance and behavioral tendency, this study (1) has classified robots' external impressions into five types (human-like, cartoon, tool-like, artificial bring, pet or creature) and (2) has classified behavioral tendencies considered to be the outer embodiment of personality by using DiSC, the tool to diagnose behavioral patterns. Meanwhile, it has been observed that robots equipped with high emotional intimacy are all strongly independent about their duties and indicate great emotional acceptance. Therefore, 'influence' and 'Steadiness' types show great emotional acceptance, the influencing type tends to be highly independent, and the 'Conscientiousness' type tends to indicate less emotional acceptance and independency in general. Yet, according to the analysis on external impressions, appearance factors hardly have any significant relationship with emotional sympathy. It implies that regarding the conditions of robots equipped with great emotional sympathy, emotional sympathy grounded on communication exerts more crucial effects than first impression similarly to the process of forming interpersonal relationship in reality. Lastly, to study the characters of robots, it is absolutely needed to have consilient competence embracing different areas widely. This author also has felt that only with design factors or personality factors, it is hard to estimate robot characters and also analyze a vast amount of information demanded in sympathy with humans entirely. However, this researcher will end this thesis as the foundation for it expecting that the general artistic value of animations can be used preciously afterwards in developing robots that have to be studied interdisciplinarily.

• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 2008.10b
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• pp.325-326
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• 2008

서비스 로봇은 인간과 상호 교감을 하기 때문에 감성기반 인터렉션을 가지고 있어야 한다. 그리고 로봇이 인지하는 상황과 환경이 같을지라도 감정 기반 행동 결정 모델의 출력이 달라질수 있도록 한다. 이는 설계하고자 하는 감정 기반 행동 결정 모델의 특성을 변화함으써 해결하고자 하며, 감정 모델의 특성은 성격을 의미한다. 따라서 사람과 같이 성격을 달리함으로써 로봇이 감정을 느끼고 이에 따른 반응을 행동으로 옮길 때, 성격을 반영한 결과를 보이게 된다. 본 논문에서 제안하는 감정 엔진 모델은 reaction dynamics와 internal dynamics, emotional dynamics, behavior dynamics, 성격 등의 다섯 가지 요소로 구성되어 있다. 모든 dynamics는 성격에 영향을 받아 결과를 출력한다. 실험을 위하여 시뮬레이터를 구현하여 성능을 검증하고, 실제 로봇에 적용하기 위하여 3D 캐릭터기반의 헤드 로봇 시스템을 사용하였다.

• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 2003.11c
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• pp.464-467
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• 2003

본 논문에서는 워터마킹을 응용한 동적 캐릭터 기술을 제안한다. 오디오 신호에 임의의 동작을 위한 일련의 동작코드를 들리지 않게 삽입하면, 이 캐릭터는 선행 처리된 오디오 파일이 재생될 때 마이크를 통해 얻은 소리를 처리하고 은닉된 코드를 추출함으로써 그 코드에 지정된 행동을 할 수 있다. 예를 들어 로봇이 동작코드가 은닉된 음악에 맞추어 지시된 춤을 출 수 있는 것이다. 이를 위해 우리는 워터마킹 기술을 적절히 응용하였으며, 제안된 기술은 공기(air)를 매질로 삼는 아날로그 채널에서 발생하는 잡음, 로봇과 음원의 거리에 따른 음의 감쇄, 그리고 동기화 등과 같은 문제들을 해결하였다. 여러 가지 상황에 따른 제안된 기술의 실험을 통해 제안된 기술의 성능을 입증하였다.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Computer Information Conference
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• 2012.07a
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• pp.31-32
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• 2012

본 논문에서는 3D 캐릭터의 애니메이션을 제작하기에 앞서 kinect를 활용하여 캐릭터의 동작을 모션캡처를 통해 쉽게 제작하는 방법을 다룬다. 또한 제작된 캐릭터 애니메이션을 md2포맷으로 export하고 안드로이드 환경의 OpenGL을 활용하여 재생하는 기술을 제안하고 이를 이용하여 향후 스마트폰 증강현실에서 도우미로서 소프트웨어 로봇 또는 에이전트의 다양한 감성 행동을 제작하고자 한다.

• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.10 no.9
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• pp.9-17
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• 2010

Nowadays, many research have been conducted on robots or interactive characters that properly respond to the users affection. In this paper, we develop an intelligent messenger that provides appropriate responses to text inputs according to user's intention and affection. In order to properly respond, the intelligent messenger adapts methods to recognize user's speech act and affection. And it uses an AIML-based interactive script to which tags are additionally attached to express affection and speech act. If the intelligent messenger finds a proper reply in the interactive scripts, it displays the reply in a dialog window, and an animation character expresses emotion assimilated with a user's affection. If the animation character is synchronized with a content robot through a wireless link, the robot in the same space with the user can provide emotional response.

• Proceedings of the Korea Contents Association Conference
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• 2008.05a
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• pp.193-197
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• 2008

Character Design in Animation is usually used to get probability visually with unity between appearance and feature of character. Especially the horn of Japanese robot animation is not only the one of the feature of the genre but also shows difference between eastern and western culture. It is not difficult to find a case as the horned robot design, otherwise Nagai Go's comics like "Mazinger Z", "Getter Robo" "UFO Robot Grandiger" dedicated to set a horned design as a pattern. In the Nagai Go's work, horn is not only an ornament but also is used as a tool which reveals violent human nature.

• 제어로봇시스템학회:학술대회논문집
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• 2000.10a
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• pp.383-383
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• 2000

In this paper, a motion adaptation control is applied for animation of 3-D human character. The method includes parameterization of joint motion data, motion adaptation based on body ratio of character, dynamic adaptation using genetic algorithm, etc. The feasibility of motion adaptation technique is verified by applying to motion control and adaptation of a 3-D human character.

• Cartoon and Animation Studies
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• s.47
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• pp.381-412
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• 2017

Character conveys rich storytelling and various design elements. Domestic characters are changing and developing in various forms through SNS and offline sources, which are being developed in the aspect of contents industry. The purpose of this study is to find out and discuss the factors that character users are using Korean characters as storytelling and color factor. In terms of storytelling, they prefer adventure, fantasy, absurd and humorous stories. In terms of color, it seems that they prefer a character with simple and simple color/ warm color and warm / cute color composition. On the other hand, characters with a simple story, which is the main subject of early childhood education, fashion, or toys in the aspect of storytelling, are not preferred. In terms of color, it was shown that 4 or more colors were combined without a main color. These main colorless characters gave complex feelings that are not preferred. In terms of storytelling, it is necessary to develop and develop the contents of OSMU(One-source Multi use) through story development with adventure and fantasy structure. In terms of color, it is necessary to configure the user with a simple and simple color which is preferred by the users. Also, the assembly robot toy character needs to increase the satisfaction of the character through simple color composition. As a result of this study, the factors that satisfy the users in terms of storytelling and color are derived. These results will contribute to the development of theoretical aspects, storytelling aspects, and character design industry aspects. Despite the significance of the above paper, it was inevitable to limit the research on the analysis of the storytelling of specific characters, the research through the color analysis framework, the accurate data analysis on the color analysis, and the simple comparative analysis of one.