• Cartoon and Animation Studies
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• s.31
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• pp.249-266
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• 2013

The purpose of this research is to study a case of the minimalism on Game Graphic User Interface design in Computer game. It is to analyse the minimal tendency on Game Graphic User Interface design in several Computer games such as Prince of Persia, Mirror's Edge, Splinter Cell, Gears of War, Call of Duty4, Metro 2033, Crysis2. These games expanded the field of Game Graphic User Interface design with the unique form of minimalism. Minimalism came from the formative arts in the 1960s and influenced to other fields of art. It seems to be an expression of various styles that promptly meet the needs of the times. Therefore, in this research, I would highlight the phenomenon of minimalisation in Game Graphic User Interface design and research the influence of Minimalism that appears in modern design focused on "simplicity" and "minimum" which are representative trend of Minimalism.

• Proceedings of the Korea Contents Association Conference
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• 2009.05a
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• pp.737-742
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• 2009

As increasing emphasis is being placed on user experience design, the RIA technology is widely deployed for user interface and software operation on embedded devices including cell phones and TVs. In particular, RIA-based IPTV enables creation of various interactive contents via sophisticated animation and various input devices. This paper proposes a service framework for emotional contents on broadcast and communication-converged IPTV systems. We design a programming interface extension for IPTV-based flash contents and develop a prototype of flash runtime with the extended programming support. Since the proposed runtime was carefully designed to fully utilize the built-in graphic acceleration hardware in media processor, it supports high resolution graphic animation in resource-constrained IPTV environments.

• 한국HCI학회:학술대회논문집
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• 2008.02b
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• pp.534-539
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• 2008

Nowadays, UI(User Interface)'s main target area is getting larger from user's convenience oriented interface, to user's satisfaction oriented interface. In this study, we attempted 'Storytelling User Interface' for fulfillment of user's satisfaction. We analyzed UI in games, distinguished and clarified its effectiveness that conveys main contents and special features to its audience. The most important element in storytelling UI is 'Inherent Drama'. This was proved through the game analysis with Blizzard's 'Diablo', Sierra's 'Home world', Eden Games' 'Test Drive Unlimited', EA's 'Black And White', and Sony Entertainment's 'Eye Of Judgment'. And we divided storytelling elements into 3 pieces, Mood Design - that shows story's background, or traits, Natural Control - for user's feeling as a hero in the content, and Flow Directing - using animation, visual design and sound, etc. Via these elements, we can make the best use of background, icon, animation, every structures and flow in games. Finally, we embodied three pieces for putting in practice for effective improving interface.

• Journal of the Korea Computer Industry Society
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• v.4 no.4
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• pp.569-578
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• 2003

This paper presents a method in which the user produces a real-time facial animation by navigating in the space of facial expressions created from a great number of captured facial expressions. The core of the method is define the distance between each facial expressions and how to distribute into suitable intuitive space using it and user interface to generate realtime facial expression animation in this space. We created the search space from about 2,400 raptured facial expression frames. And, when the user free travels through the space, facial expressions located on the path are displayed in sequence. To visually distribute about 2,400 captured racial expressions in the space, we need to calculate distance between each frames. And we use Floyd's algorithm to get all-pairs shortest path between each frames, then get the manifold distance using it. The distribution of frames in intuitive space apply a multi-dimensional scaling using manifold distance of facial expression frames, and distributed in 2D space. We distributed into intuitive space with keep distance between facial expression frames in the original form. So, The method presented at this paper has large advantage that free navigate and not limited into intuitive space to generate facial expression animation because of always existing the facial expression frames to navigate by user. Also, It is very efficient that confirm and regenerate nth realtime generation using user interface easy to use for facial expression animation user want.

• Journal of Korea Multimedia Society
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• v.8 no.3
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• pp.389-397
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• 2005

In this paper, we study the synchronization method of animated simulations and VRs for on-line virtual reality education system. To build the data of animated simulations and synchronization modules of VRML content, the media-synchronizing technology, HTML + TIME and scripts are used. The VRML control module ismade into Java applet using the Java EAI provided for the web and the interface for VRML contents. To control the animation of VRML contents, the node information is extracted, and an animation production template capable of controlling animation in inter-connection with VRML content is made. With evaluation of the animation control performance, processing speed, synchronization performance between media in the system built, more improved results are obtained. We would like to suggest a education system with easy system construction and various multi-medium applicability by realizing HTML + TIME media synchronization and VRML web 3D virtual reality creation techniques, and animated images and 3D animation controls according to time using Java through this study.

• Korean Journal of Cognitive Science
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• v.6 no.2
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• pp.47-79
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• 1995

Since the early age of computer graphics, facial animation has been applied to various fields, and nowadays it has found several novel applications such as virtual reality(for representing virtual agents), teleconference, and man-machine interface.When we want to apply facial animation to the system with multiple participants connected via network, it is hard to animate facial expression as we desire in real-time because of the size of information to maintain an efficient communication.This paper's major contribution is to adapt 'Level-of-Detail'to the facial animation in order to solve the above problem.Level-of-Detail has been studied in the field of computer graphics to reperesent the appearance of complicated objects in efficient and adaptive way, but until now no attempt has mode in the field of facial animation. In this paper, we present a systematic scheme which enables this kind of adaptive control using Level-of-Detail.The implemented system can generate speech synchronized facial expressions with various types of user input such as text, voice, GUI, head motion, etc.

• 한국HCI학회:학술대회논문집
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• 2006.02a
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• pp.836-842
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• 2006

3D 애니메이션 제작에서 동작의 타이밍(예를 들면 timing&spacing, slow-in, slow-out)은 연기의 의미와 느낌을 정확히 표현하기 위한 매우 중요한 요소 중의 하나이다. 따라서 이러한 타이밍의 편집은 애니메이션 작업에서 필수적이라고 할 수 있는데, 이를 기존의 3D 애니메이션 시스템에서 수행하기에는 기술적으로 많은 어려움이 있었다. 첫째로 타이밍의 편집은 시간축 자체를 변형하는 문제이기 때문에 보간 곡선에 대한 재매개변수화가 필요한데, 이러한 가능은 기존 애니메이션 시스템에서 제공되지 않는다. 둘째로 타이밍 편집에는 종종 애니메이션 감독이 직접 참여하기도 하는데, 일반적으로 3D 애니메이션 시스템의 사용에 익숙하지 않기 때문에 원하는 결과를 직접 만들어 보기가 어려웠다. 본 논문에서는 이러한 문제들을 해결한 새로운 애니메이션 타이밍 시스템을 구현하였다. 이 시스템은 렌더링된 영상파일들과 애니메이션 장면 파일을 입력 받아 사용자가 타이밍 편집을 하고, 그 결과를 애니메이션 장면 파일에 다시 기록하는 방식으로 구현된다. 타이밍 편집은 기존 셀 애니메이션 제작 방식과 유사한 방식으로 프레임을 삽입하거나 삭제하는 가능과 시간왜곡 (time-warping) 그래프를 직접 조정하여 타이밍을 조정하는 가능을 제공한다. 전자는 제작도구에 익숙하지 않은 감독이나 셀 애니메이션 작업자들이 직관적으로 사용할 수 있는 기능이고, 후자는 좀 더 세밀한 타이밍 조정을 위해 제공하는 가능이다. 사용자가 편집한 타이밍 결과는 각 동작변수의 보간곡선을 재매개변수화하여 애니메이션 파일에 기록된다. 본 논문에서 구현한 시스템은 실제 애니메이션 제작에 보편적으로 사용되는 마야 애니메이션 파일을 지원하도록 구현되었다.

• The Transactions of the Korea Information Processing Society
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• v.1 no.2
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• pp.163-171
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• 1994

The paper describes a design and implementation of a user interface system between a temporal database management system (DBMS) and a graphical display system. This interfacing system consists of a temporal DBMS, a graphical display system, and an interface control system. The temporal DBMS supports time and the graphical display system draws a graphic using an icon. The interfacing system shows the graphical animation with time factors by using a graphical knowledgeable. We describe how to interface them as well as the structure of temporal DBMS and graphical display system.

• Proceedings of the ESK Conference
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• 1995.10a
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• pp.56-61
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• 1995

Multimedia systems present information by using various media, for example, video, sound, music, animation, movie, etc., in addition to the text which has long been used for conveying the information. Among many multimedia applications, the multimedia information retrieval systems commercialized in the form of multimedia encyclopedia CD-ROMs, benefit by using various media for their ability to present information in an efficient and complete way. But using various media may cause end users' confusion and furthermore, poor user-interface design often exacerbates the systems. For appropriate design of the user interface of multimedia information retrieval systems, we investigated the characteristics of the multimedia information retrieval systems and listed 35 variables that might affect the usability of the user interface. And we selected 10 variables through some procedures such as brainstorming, literature survey, expert opinion, relevance analysis and feasibility analysis, in order to perform a screening study which will remarkably reduce the cost and time in conducting subsequent human factors experiments.

• 한국HCI학회:학술대회논문집
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• 2008.02a
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• pp.469-474
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• 2008

Recently popular media, book, has problems to satisfy a child who wants to be a character in a story, because it just transmits fixed story. Therefore, many people are interested in interactive contents that are changed variously by user's acting in multimedia division. This paper introduces an interactive pop-up book system that can control a story of book by interesting interactivity. This system suggests a special story graph that transforms a linear architecture story to a interactive story by traversing diverse node We focus to make a special pop-up book interface and wind blowing interface for physical environments to have interesting and familiar user interaction, and to conclude by user studies. We also investigated user preference for various interactive story paths, so we can excluded unnecessary stories and surveyed to compare before the excluding and after. Finally, story paths that user prefers are introduced in the Interactive Popup Book System.