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VIDEO GAME CULTURE AND INTERACTIVITY -An exploration of digital interactive media through a metaphorical approach to video game culture-

  • U, Tak
    • 한국게임학회지
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    • v.6 no.1
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    • pp.70-72
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    • 2009
  • This research is focused on defining interaction within the context of digital media and creating a multi cultural definition of interactivity. The concept of multi digital culture and a definition of interaction in digital media have often been overlooked by other researchers and this has caused the emergence of many different notions on this issue. As a result of these varied notions of the concept, public confusion has arisen regarding interactivity. The main purpose of this research is to find a suitable multi definition of interaction through examining local digital culture. In order to analogise multi digital culture, the video game culture is employed as a metaphor to interpret local digital culture. The reason for this is that a specific national culture can be easily identified within the video game culture. Four countries, South Korea, Japan, the U.S. and the UK have been chosen for comparison purposes. Case study, questionnaire and publicly accessible video game related data, such as, video game charts, are used for formalising and analysing unique local digital culture. The Heyri POP UP IMAGE Festival, S. Korea, was also used as a pilot study, with some of the above research methods being employed to analyse South Korean digital culture. In relation to western cases, interview and questionnaire were primarily used. The data from the case countries was carefully compared and analysed and then it became the basis of a theory of multi definition of interaction in digital media. The case study employed the cultural metaphor for this research and in addition video game culture related questionnaires and interviews with experts of interactive art genre, regarding new notions of digital interaction were utilised. The survey was conducted simultaneously in the four different cultural case nations of this research. Twenty respondents from each case nation participated in the survey, in order to investigate firstly, the existence of 'local digital culture' and secondly, the trends and phenomena of 'digital culture' in these four different 'local digital cultural areas'. In terms of interviews with experts of the interactive art genre, these were focused on obtaining their understanding of contemporary digital culture in their research. Using gathered data from the observation of local digital culture, the basic theory of interaction and the terminology of interaction are reformed. Localised definitions of interaction on digital media, control based interaction and communication based interaction are presented, in order to identify a 'locality' in terms of various contemporary digital cultures. As a result of analysing digital culture, new definitions of 'multi definition of digital interaction' were formulated. As mentioned above, 'control' and 'communication' based interaction were initiated, based on 'user to media' relationships. Based on the degree of physical interaction, 'liminal' and 'transitive' interactions were initiated. Less physical digital interaction is named 'liminal' interaction and more physical digital interaction is named' transitive' interaction. These new definitions of interaction were applied to the real world examples of uses of digital interaction, such as, digital interactive installation artworks and video games. The newly defined meaning of digital interaction can be applied to analysing digital interactive installation artworks and possibly indicate their future development and the prospects of future electronic games. Three leading digital interactive artists were selected for this analysis and their works were studied in terms of the implementation of 'multi definition of digital interaction'. Throughout these processes, the meaning of 'communication' in digital interactive media was emphasised. Many of the selected artists' digital installations were focused on 'communication' or 'interaction between each user through digital media', rather than the concept of 'control' in digital interaction, otherwise termed, 'communication with digital media'. In their artworks, interaction between each audience was digitally engaged within the physical interactive environment which was created by the digital media. Both the audience's action and all the reaction throughout the interaction between the audiences, triggered the digital media' s reaction. This audience-audience-media interaction is the key to understanding the concept of 'communication' in physical digital media and it is the main interactive concept upon which the selected digital interactive installation artists for this research and many other artists from similar fields, are concentrating their efforts. In the case of the video game, a similar trend was noticed to that of digital interactive installations. Based on this research's 'multi definition of digital interaction', the video game has evolved from the early stage of being conventional game, which was focused on control based interaction, to the on-line game which was focused on communication based interaction, to physical interactive games, such as, Nintendo Wii, which are focused on more physical interaction and finally, the ubiquitous interactive game, which is mainly concentrated on the concept of 'communication' in physical digital interaction. It is possible that this evolution of the video game concept of interaction is comparable to the progress of digital interactive artworks. This view is based on the fact that both genres show evidence that they are developing in the direction of the concept of 'communication', in terms of physical digital interaction. The important emphasis of this research's results is 'locality' and 'communication' in physical digital interaction. The existence of different digital culture trends, which were assessed by the 'multi definition of digital interaction', can explain the concept of 'locality' in digital interaction. This meaning of 'locality' may assist in understanding contemporary digital culture and can reduce possible misunderstanding as regards 'local' digital culture. In the application of the concept of digital interaction to the field of either artworks or video games, it is possible to form the opinion that an innovative concept of physical digital interaction is 'communication' within this context. This concept and its applications can improve the potential of both digital interactive culture and technology.

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Real-time Interactive Particle-art with Human Motion Based on Computer Vision Techniques (컴퓨터 비전 기술을 활용한 관객의 움직임과 상호작용이 가능한 실시간 파티클 아트)

  • Jo, Ik Hyun;Park, Geo Tae;Jung, Soon Ki
    • Journal of Korea Multimedia Society
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    • v.21 no.1
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    • pp.51-60
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    • 2018
  • We present a real-time interactive particle-art with human motion based on computer vision techniques. We used computer vision techniques to reduce the number of equipments that required for media art appreciations. We analyze pros and cons of various computer vision methods that can adapted to interactive digital media art. In our system, background subtraction is applied to search an audience. The audience image is changed into particles with grid cells. Optical flow is used to detect the motion of the audience and create particle effects. Also we define a virtual button for interaction. This paper introduces a series of computer vision modules to build the interactive digital media art contents which can be easily configurated with a camera sensor.

Structural Design of Interactive Storytelling (인터렉티브 스토리텔링의 구조적 디자인)

  • 이준희
    • Archives of design research
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    • v.16 no.4
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    • pp.375-384
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    • 2003
  • Interactive storytelling is a scenario created "on the fly" with digital content through user interaction. Every time interaction occurs between the user and content, a brand new story is created. Interaction intrigues people because it provides different story from same content. Through conventional media, people shared same content and experience. However through interactive media, people encounter unique experience, over same content possibly everytime they use it. People we, by their nature, very interactive being. However, interacting with media is not an activity that people are accustomed to. Hence, designing content has been all migrating experience from existing media to an unfamiliar ground. Unique and adoptive ways of designing content for digital interactive media is being sought out from the need as the result of the evolution of integrated society and emerging information technology. People are already used to some of interactive storytelling through hyper text in CD-ROM and web sites. More complicated and different structured models were born through games that offered graphics, virtual spaces and interactivity. When drawn onto a structural graph, few attributes and similarities seem to occur. This paper will try to outline and discuss structural graphs of interactive storytelling methods and suggest some ways for better storytelling design.

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DEVS Modeling for Interactive Motion-based Mobile Contents Authoring Tool (모바일 기기 환경의 인터렉티브 모션 기반 콘텐츠 개발 도구와 DEVS 모델링)

  • Ju, Seunghwan;Choi, Yohan;Lim, Yongsoo;Seo, Heesuk
    • Journal of Korea Society of Digital Industry and Information Management
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    • v.11 no.2
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    • pp.121-129
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    • 2015
  • Interactive media is a method of communication in which the output from the media comes from the input of the users. The interactive media lets the user go back with the media. Interactive media works with the user's participation. The media still has the same purpose but the user's input adds the interaction and brings interesting features to the system for a better enjoyment. We need a digital content using a dynamic motion and gesture of the mobile device. We made an authoring tool for content producers to easily create interactive content. We have tried to take advantage of the interaction by using a touch screen and a gravity sensor of the mobile device. This interaction may lead to allow the user to participate in the content, it can be used as a key device to assist in engagement. Furthermore, our authoring tool can be applied to various fields of publishing content.

Modules of Directing Interactive Media Moving Images (인터랙티브미디어 영상의 쌍방향성 연출구조에 관한 연구)

  • Kim, Hyo-Yong;Kim, See-Eun
    • The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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    • v.12 no.3
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    • pp.84-94
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    • 2012
  • The year 2011 witnessed interactive communication media and digital instrument experience a substantial growth in popularity within developed nations as well as developing nations in part due to the ongoing development of internet and information technology. The development of interactive media and technology have contributed to the increased progress of not only digital contents but also to the development of diverse interactive arts. This study will demonstrate how the direction of interactive media moving images through interactive media by utilizing the use of interactive art directing modules which will aid by expressing the theme and the directing concept of the art. To aid in the understanding of interaction directing module, two examples of art works are used as samples cases - "Room Two"(Mixing Lab in a museum; Interactive media art & Experimental mixing, Seoul Art Center, 2006) and a RPG(Role-playing game) style Game. Through these cases, this study intends to enhance the yet insufficient reference for interactive media art and assist artists attempting interactive media moving images through interactive media.

A Study on Interactive Media Art Contents on Physical Computing Technology (피지컬 컴퓨팅 기술 기반 인터렉티브 미디어 아트 콘텐츠에 관한 연구)

  • Li, Yi-Xian;Seo, Chang-Jin
    • Journal of Digital Convergence
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    • v.10 no.5
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    • pp.193-197
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    • 2012
  • On this paper is the project about which is base on Interactive Media Arts technology. What's more, the audience not only enjoy the images or performances on screen but also appear to be one important element in such interactive media. Therefore, it's function is to combine Physical computing and other perception like the musical instruments playing, then finally arriving to be real-time and capable to be interactive.

Analysis of the Adaptability and Methods of Public space in media - Focused on new-media and HCI theory - (공공공간에서 나타나는 미디어 특성에 관한 연구 - 뉴 미디어와 HCI 이론을 중심으로 -)

  • Koh, Gwi-Han;Kang, Seon-Gyung
    • Korean Institute of Interior Design Journal
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    • v.22 no.1
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    • pp.203-210
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    • 2013
  • With digital technology, space design is developing in a new direction with the changing paradigm. The space creates an interactive environment by motivating the User's active participation through the digital madia. In this social stream, it is very important to think about how this new paradigm affects the spatial design and the interactions between social changes and spatial design paradigm, so that we can understand design paradigm of our time. Hence, in this research, we will think about social characteristic and design paradigm of digital age by questioning how spatial design is changing in the digital age and how digital technology is affecting spatial design. this study analyzed about the space form, digital media setting, user interactivity of the examples of experience space using digital media. fields of our society, interactive space with the concept of HCI became a big issue in environmental design field. In this interactive space, various types of informative factors of the given space are sent using sensor and computer networking technology to the main system, and the main computer system sends manipulated output media to interactive devices. So, a user's movement in the space is more than just a movement itself user's movement now forms a important spatial structure that leads the narrative of the space. Researcher will analyze the characteristic of a public space and progress this research supposing that space needs this interactive design.

A Study for Visual Perception of for Interactive Media Interface to Realize the Contents of Child Participation Type (아동 참여형 콘텐츠 구현을 위한 인터렉티브 미디어 인터페이스의 시지각 연구)

  • Oh, Moonseok;Won, Jongwook;Han, Gyuhoon
    • Journal of Korea Society of Digital Industry and Information Management
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    • v.11 no.2
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    • pp.101-112
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    • 2015
  • New media which appeared in accordance with the development of IT technology includes elements of the interaction to be developed as an interactive media. In the field of interactive media which can be most actively applied, there is the filed of experience exhibition based on the active participation of people who experienced. Interactive media applied to the experience exhibition area, in order to have an effective communication that is based on a high degree of immersion, has been utilized as a platform for educational contents. This study is intended to explore the elements of visual perception for developing an optimized interface in the perspective of children who are the main subject of educational contents to present the criteria for the development of an interface for children. Thus, this paper derives the elements by the analysis of the visual perception elements of children and the experiment for the immersion environment. By analyzing the results, this study is to present the criteria of the visual perception elements for the development of interactive media contents for children.

A study on the interaction of analog sensibility expression in the interactive media arts - Focusing on "The Manual Input Sessions"(2004), one of the interactive media works done by Golan Levin (인터랙티브 미디어 아트에서의 아날로그 감성 표현의 상호작용에 대한 연구 - Golan Levin의 인터랙티브 미디어 아트 작품 중 "The Manual Input Sessions"(2004)를 중심으로)

  • Lee, Jin;Lee, Seung-Yeon
    • Proceedings of the Korean Society for Emotion and Sensibility Conference
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    • 2012.05a
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    • pp.23-24
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    • 2012
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