• Journal of the HCI Society of Korea
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• v.1 no.1
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• pp.63-71
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• 2006

For many years, the approach taken towards HCI(Human Computer Interaction) has focused on the usability of system and technology. Advances in computing and information technology has shifted the way people use and experience technology from merely using it to enjoying using it. But, there is a lack of theories to conceptualize fun and user fun experience, in the HCI. This paper describes an conceptual approach to "fun" and user's 'fun experience' in the interaction of technology. This paper defines "fun" as positive psychological energy which is produced by playing computer. And this paper provides characteristics of 'Fun experience', which are action mode, random order, free, and activated pleasant. This study provides insights into factors contributing to and influencing fun experiences and the relationships between them; symbol, newness, and vividness.

• 한국HCI학회:학술대회논문집
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• 2008.02b
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• pp.274-280
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• 2008

최근에는 정보 가전의 사용이 크게 증가하였고, 다양한 제품 출시와 기술의 발전에 힘입어 제품에 따른 사용성에 있어 큰 차이가 없게 됨에 따라 사용성(usability)의 개념(Gould and Leuis, 1985; Benner, 1984)이 단순한 편리성과 기능성에서 사용자의 경험을 중시하는 방향으로 확장되었다(Carroll, J.M., 2004). 이러한 측면에서 유희적인 측면은 점점 강조되고 있는 실정이다. 아이콘은 GUI 환경에서 사용자가 이루고자 하는 바를 실제 공간에서 대상을 직접 조작하는 방식과 비슷하게 조작할 수 있도록 해줌으로써 중요한 구성요소로 인식되고 있다. 하지만 지금까지 아이콘과 관련된 대부분의 연구들은 아이콘의 기능적인 측면만을 다루어 왔으며, 아이콘이 가질 수 있는 재미나 즐거움과 같은 유희적인 측면에 대한 연구는 거의 이루어지지 않았다. 본 연구에서는 재미와 즐거움을 유희적인 요소로 규정하고 아이콘의 사용성과 주관적인 평정에 있어 재미가 어떠한 영향을 주는지 알아보았다. 그 결과 전형적인 인터페이스와 재미있는 인터페이스는 객관적인 사용성(Ergonomics quality)에 있어서 차이가 나지 않았음에도 불구하고, 사용자들은 재미있는 인터페이스에 대해 더 호감이 가고 매력적이고, 좋다고 평가하였다. 본 연구는 아이콘 디자인에 있어 기본적인 기능을 유지하면서도 참신성을 기준으로 재미요소를 추가하였을 때에 본래의 아이콘이 가지는 장점을 살리면서도 사용자의 경험을 풍부하게 해줄 수 있다는 것을 발견했다는 점에서 의의가 있다.

• Journal of Korea Game Society
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• v.19 no.2
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• pp.135-144
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• 2019

This study examined the role of enjoyment in the relationship between perceived auditory feedback (PAF), which provides information about the situation during game play, and user experience factors. 100 undergraduates played a mobile game, 'Classy Royale' and took a survey about their user experience. As a result of analyzing the available data from 98 participants, PROCESS MACRO showed that PAF was positively associated with enjoyment, immersion, and intention to use; enjoyment mediated the effects of PAF on immersion and intention. These results can help game research and development regarding the functional value of audio factors.

• Asia-pacific Journal of Multimedia Services Convergent with Art, Humanities, and Sociology
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• v.7 no.9
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• pp.215-223
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• 2017

Various methods for creating interesting games are used in the development process. Because the empirical part is difficult to measure and analyze, it usually only measures and analyzes the parts where data are easy to quantify. This is a clear limit to the fact that the experience of the game is important.This study proposes a system that recognizes the face of a game user and measures the emotion change from the recognized information in order to easily quantify the experience of the user who is playing the game. The system recognizes emotions and records them in real time from the face of the user who is playing the game. These recorded data include time and figures related to the progress of the game, and numerical values for emotions recognized from the face. Using the recorded data, it is possible to judge what kind of emotion the game induces to the user at a certain point in time. Numerical data on the recorded empirical part using the system of this study is expected to help develop the game according to the developer 's intention.

• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.7 no.4
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• pp.83-90
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• 2007

Flow theory has been borrowed from psychology to address positive user experiences with computers and Internet. The flow experience in computer-mediated environment (CME) has been correlated to increased communication, loaming, exploratory behavior and positive affect. A comparative experiment between CME and traditional paper-pencil environment was conducted to verify whether particular environments or interfaces are more conducive to yielding flow among users. The results showed that there were no differences in flow dimensions except 'enjoyment' between CME and paper-pencil environment. But the distorted senses of time among users were significantly different between the media environments.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Computer Information Conference
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• 2020.07a
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• pp.455-456
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• 2020

본 논문에서는 게임 사용자들이 요구하는 게임 경험치에 대하여 제안한다. 게임 경험치는 사용자들이 게임을 처음 접하는 단계에서 게임을 즐기는 동기 부여적인 측면과 게임을 진행함에 따라 게임 내 밸런스를 유지하기 위한 매우 중요한 요소이다. 게임을 즐기는 요소로서 게임의 재미요소에 대한 연구는 다양한 방면으로 진행되어 왔다. 그러나 게임 경험치 획득에 대한 구체적인 연구는 없었다. 게임 사용자들이 요구하는 게임 내 경험치 획득에 관하여 연구하기 위하여 사용자 그룹을 선정하여 사용자들이 각자 자기경험을 바탕으로 캐릭터의 레벨이 상승함에 따라 요구하는 경험치를 시각적으로 확인하면서 구체적인 값을 제시하도록 하였다. 이러한 결과는 향후 게임을 개발하는데 있어 사용자 요구를 반영하여 보다 일반적인 게임 경험치를 부여하는 기준으로 사용될 수 있다.

• Journal of Korea Game Society
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• v.15 no.6
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• pp.17-28
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• 2015

This study attempted to identify differences in user experience and app game fun, satisfaction, use intention between fitness app games at different level of interaction design. The playtesting method was conducted on 100(male 50, female 50) university students using 'Enjoy Your Fitness', a fitness app game developed by The Center for Health Communication Studies. The results found that more interactive app game is higher in the level of user experience such as fitness accomplishment, flow, and interest. Fitness app game's fun, satisfaction, use intention is also higher on interactive fitness app game. As the study verified that interactive fitness app game had stronger effects in user fitness experience and user experience than general fitness app games through experimental studies, it may contribute to design fitness mobile app game for health improvement.

• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.7 no.8
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• pp.182-190
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• 2007

Virtual world is the 3D graphical interactive environment that networked by electronic communications. Virtual Worlds offered flow experience for a long time to their users. They blur the boundaries of work and play, so bring out the concept of Fun Labor. If we can accept the principle of equivalence between Fun Labor and Real Labor, the Fun Labor may be one of the solutions of the large unemployment problem in the information society. And the Fun Labor is the new type of labor that corresponds the subjectivity of users who want interesting experience as much as they spend money and times. This situation means that the users of Virtual worlds are structuring the identities as the Residents who act the Fun Labor. It'll be very important to examine the social effects of this situation.

• Journal of Digital Convergence
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• v.19 no.6
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• pp.1-9
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• 2021

Artificial intelligence (AI) devices are rapidly emerging as a core platform of next-generation information and communication technology (ICT), this study investigated consumer usage behavior and user experience through AI devices that are widely applied to consumers' daily lives. To this end, data was collected from 600 consumers with experience in using AI devices were derived to recognize the attributes and behavior of AI devices. The analysis results are as follows. First, music listening was the most used among various attributes and it was found that simple functions such as providing weather information were usefully recognized. Second, the main devices used by AI device users were identified as AI speakers, smartphone, PC and laptops. Third, associative images of AI devices appeared in the order of fun, useful, novel, smart, innovative, and friendly. Therefore, practical implications are suggested to contribute to provision of user services using AI devices in the future by analyzing usage behaviors that reflect the characteristics of AI devices.

• Science of Emotion and Sensibility
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• v.12 no.4
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• pp.531-544
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• 2009

In the past, objective usability was one of the most important aspects when user used system. But nowadays user's subjective experiences are getting more critical element than objective usability in HCI(human-computer interaction). Most people own their mobile phone and use it frequently these days. It is especially important to make user's subjective experiences more positive when using devices like mobile phones people frequently carry and interact with. This study investigates whether the interfaces which express the emotion give more positive experiences to users. Researchers created mobile phone prototypes to compare the effect of mechanical melody feedback(the major auditory feedbacks on mobile phones) and emotional voice feedback(recorded human voice). Participants experienced four kinds of mobile phone prototypes(no feedback, mechanical melody feedback, emotional voice feedback and dual feedback) and evaluated their experienced usability, hedonic quality and preference. The result suggests that person's perceptional fun and hedonic quality were getting increased in the phone which gave the emotional voice feedback than the mechanical melody feedback. Nevertheless, the preference was evaluated lower in the emotional voice feedback condition than the others.