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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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An Empirical Study on the Influential Factors to User's Continuos Usage and Recommendation of SmartPhone-Games (구조방정식을 이용한 스마트폰 게임의 지속적 사용의도와 추천에 미치는 영향에 관한 실증적 연구)

  • Kwon, Hyeog-In;Kim, Ho-Il;Choi, Yong-Seok
    • Journal of Korea Game Society
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    • v.11 no.6
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    • pp.115-125
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    • 2011
  • Recently, a sharp increases of users of smartphone is not only cause an rapid growth smartphone-games market, but also secured it's position as a high value market. thus have to begets a multilateral study to the smartphone of newly-rising. however the earlier studies were researched previous smartphone, despite extended research is needed for smartphone-games. therefore the study's purpose is to draw a main factors it has a decisive effect for recommendation and sustainable-usage through recognizing the cause-and-effect relationship with purchase intention, purchase action, satisfaction, recommendation, and sustainable usage that based purchase-effect-factors of smartphone-games. for this study the questionnaire of 293 was taken. and structural equation model was adopted to analyze this study.

An analysis of in-service teachers' perceived interactivity with AI teachers through RPP(Role-Play Presentation) (RPP(Role-Play Presentation)를 통한 교사의 AI 교사와의 지각된 상호작용성 분석)

  • Ko, Ho Kyoung;Huh, Nan;Noh, Jihwa
    • The Mathematical Education
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    • v.60 no.3
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    • pp.321-340
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    • 2021
  • As many changes in the future society represented by the age of artificial intelligence(AI) are expected to come, efforts are being made to draw the shape of the future education and various research methods are being employed to support the attempts. While many research studies use methods for deriving generalized results such as expert survey and trend analysis in along with a review of literature, there are attempts to apply the scenario methodology to explore ideas and information needed within a changing context. A scenario method, one of the experiential learning strategies, aims to seek various and alternative approaches by establishing a plan from the present conditions considering future changes. In this study, in-service teachers' perceptions and expectations of the interactivity between human and AI teachers were visualized by applying the role-play presentation technique that grafted the concept of role-play game to the scenario method. In addition, the mandal-art method was introduced to support in conducting productive discussion during the teachers' collaboration. This method appeared to help to depict teachers' perceptions of AI teachers in the detailed and concrete form, which may flow in the abstract otherwise. Through analyses of the teachers' role-play presentations with the implementation of the madal-art method it was suggested that most teachers would want to collaborate with an AI teacher for improved instruction and individualized student learning while they would take the instructional authority over the AI teacher in the classroom.

A Study on The Self-identity in Role-playing Games - Focused on Lacan's Psychoanalysis (롤플레잉 게임에서의 자아 정체성에 관한 연구 - 라캉의 정신분석학을 중심으로)

  • Xiao Zhongyi;Choi Won-ho
    • The Journal of the Convergence on Culture Technology
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    • v.10 no.3
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    • pp.475-487
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    • 2024
  • As today's "ninth art", role-playing games recognized by most players due to their surreal themes and sustained reflection on social diseases. Through precise control of story-telling and game visuals, players develop an avatar identification during role-playing game. Based on Lacan's mirror stage theory, a new self-identity mechanism is established under the guidance of role-playing games. As a "player", the subject's interpretation of himself is shifted by the game order, and the subject identifies with the role-playing game while at the same time being structured by the desire of role-playing game. The immersive experience and emotional guidance of role-playing games all point to the most instinctive human desires. The psychoanalytic theory from Lacan's perspective explains the source of players' desire, and the expression of players' desire in the game. It also plays an important role in the emotional rendering and identity aspects of role-playing games. This paper is to establish that role-playing games do have an impact on the player's self-identity through a Lacanian psychoanalytic reading of role-playing games.

ART2 Based Fuzzy Binarization Method (ART2 기반 퍼지 이진화 방법)

  • Son, Jae-hyun;Lee, Sun-mi;Park, Choong-Shik;Song, Doo Heon;Kim, Kwang-Beak
    • Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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    • 2014.05a
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    • pp.82-85
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    • 2014
  • 퍼지 이진화는 영상에 대한 임계값을 원본 영상의 가장 밝은 픽셀과 가장 어두운 픽셀의 평균값으로 설정하고 이를 삼각형 타입의 소속 함수에 적용하여 영상을 이진화한다. 그러나 퍼지 이진화는 영상의 배경과 물체의 밝기 차이가 큰 경우에는 이진화가 효과적이지만 차이가 크지 않은 경우에는 소속 함수 구간을 효율적으로 설정할 수 없어 이진화를 효과적으로 할 수 없다. 따라서 본 논문에서는 이러한 문제점을 개선하기 위해 ART2 알고리즘을 적용하여 각 클러스터의 중심 값을 구한다. 그리고 각 클러스터의 중심 값에 해당하는 명암도를 이용하여 평균값을 구한 후, 이 평균값을 퍼지 이진화 방법에서 소속 함수 구간의 중간 값으로 설정하여 영상을 이진화 한다. 제안된 방법의 성능을 평가하기 위해 다양한 영상에서 제안된 방법과 기존의 퍼지 이진화 방법을 적용한 결과, 기존의 퍼지 이진화 방법보다 정보 손실이 적은 상태에서 영상이 이진화되는 것을 확인하였다.

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A study of utilizing key components in game trailer production - Focusing on production case of trailer "Thanatos" - (핵심 구성 요소를 활용한 게임 트레일러 제작에 대한연구 - 게임 트레일러 '타나토스' 제작 사례를 중심으로 -)

  • Jiang, HaiTao;Yun, TaeSoo;Lee, ByungChun;Lee, JeongGi
    • Asia-pacific Journal of Multimedia Services Convergent with Art, Humanities, and Sociology
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    • v.6 no.3
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    • pp.19-31
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    • 2016
  • Game Trailer plays the role of main marketing for promotion of game. Recently, the characteristic can be summarized as storytelling, graphics method, production technology, and game mechanics of 3D Game Trailer. Online game was produced as cinematic trailer in the beginning, but recently, in-game trailer has been produced as machinima production method for users. This method reveals functions, various contents, and graphics related to the game through trailer, and it is useful in giving information and curiosity related to the game. Machinima composes background and characters in a short period of time online due to recent 3D CG methods, and only dubbing needs to be proceeded. This saves production fee and production period, and it also has the advantage of having multi-story. Game trailer Thanatos is a video developed through machinima production method. This paper proposes production process and the importance of the key components of the whole project through the above four aspects to be used in the actual production stage by intuitively apply and analysis.

A Study on Applying Proxemics to Camera Position in VR Animation

  • Qu, Lin;Yun, Tae-Soo
    • International Journal of Internet, Broadcasting and Communication
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    • v.13 no.3
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    • pp.73-83
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    • 2021
  • With the development of science and technology, virtual reality (VR) has become increasingly popular, being widely used in various fields such as aviation, education, medical science, culture, art, and entertainment. This technology with great potential has changed the way of human-computer interaction and the way people live and entertain. In the field of animation, virtual reality also brings a new viewing form and immersive experience. The paper demonstrates the production of VR animation and then discusses camera's position in VR animation. Where to place the VR camera to bring a comfortable viewing experience. The paper, with the proxemics as its theoretical framework, proposes the hypothesis about the camera position. Then the hypothesis is verified by a series of experiments in animation to discuss the correlation between camera position and proxemics theory.

Design of Rehabilitation Program Contents using Motion Detection Sensors (동작인식센서를 이용한 재활 프로그램 콘텐츠 설계)

  • Jang, Jae-Youl;Lee, Young-Sik;Kim, Do-Moon;Lee, Tae-Hee;Choi, Chul-Jae
    • The Journal of the Korea institute of electronic communication sciences
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    • v.13 no.4
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    • pp.903-910
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    • 2018
  • The necessary rehabilitation training for patients with disability currently does not match the actual amount of training conducted, which requires interest in rehabilitation treatment, continued investment and infrastructure for rehabilitation contents, while the most common forms of rehabilitation treatment comprises of art, music, and play treatments. In this paper, we provide a game-style rehabilitation program including audio and visual elements through motion detection process on the patient and design a digital game rehabilitation program that allows different level of management for various categories of disabled people.

Study on 2D Sprite *3.Generation Using the Impersonator Network

  • Yongjun Choi;Beomjoo Seo;Shinjin Kang;Jongin Choi
    • KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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    • v.17 no.7
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    • pp.1794-1806
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    • 2023
  • This study presents a method for capturing photographs of users as input and converting them into 2D character animation sprites using a generative adversarial network-based artificial intelligence network. Traditionally, 2D character animations have been created by manually creating an entire sequence of sprite images, which incurs high development costs. To address this issue, this study proposes a technique that combines motion videos and sample 2D images. In the 2D sprite generation process that uses the proposed technique, a sequence of images is extracted from real-life images captured by the user, and these are combined with character images from within the game. Our research aims to leverage cutting-edge deep learning-based image manipulation techniques, such as the GAN-based motion transfer network (impersonator) and background noise removal (U2 -Net), to generate a sequence of animation sprites from a single image. The proposed technique enables the creation of diverse animations and motions just one image. By utilizing these advancements, we focus on enhancing productivity in the game and animation industry through improved efficiency and streamlined production processes. By employing state-of-the-art techniques, our research enables the generation of 2D sprite images with various motions, offering significant potential for boosting productivity and creativity in the industry.

A Study on the Production of 2D Pixel Game Objects Using Basic Shape (기본도형을 활용한 2D Pixel 게임 오브젝트 제작연구)

  • KIM, Do-Kyung
    • Proceedings of the Korean Society of Computer Information Conference
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    • 2022.07a
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    • pp.213-215
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    • 2022
  • 현재 게임들에서 Retro 풍이 일면서 다시 2D그래픽이 주목을 받고 있는 현상이 발생하고 있다. 물론 과거에도 2D 그래픽풍의 게임이 없었던 것은 아니나 근래에 들어서는 그 양상이 좀 더 진화되어 유저들에게 어필을 하고 있어 주목이 되고 있다. 현재 출시된 멀티 플랫폼 게임 엔진 중 게임 개발사에서 많이 사용 중인 엔진은 Unity3D 엔진이다. 본 논문에서는 Unity3D 엔진을 이용한 2D게임 그래픽 제작에 대해 논하고자 한다. 유니티 엔진은 C#, 자바스크립트로 코드를 작성할 수 있다는 이유로 C#과 모노 기반 코드로 개발되었다고 알려져 있었다. 실제로 엔진의 런 타임 부분은 C++과 마이크로소프트 닷넷 API, 에디터 프로그램은 C#으로 개발되었다. 스크립트는 유니티 내에서 바로 수정은 하지 못하고 Mono Develop등 유니티를 지원하는 스크립트 에디터에서 수정할 수 있다. 이에 본 논문에서는 멀티 플랫폼 게임 엔진을 이용한 2D 게임 그래픽인 Pixel Art 구현을 제안 하고자한다. 이를 통해서 다양한 멀티 플랫폼 기반의 게임 설계 및 개발에 도움이 되었으면 한다. 어떤 요소들이 2D게임을 선택하는 데에 있어 영향을 끼치는가에 대해서 알아보고, 세부항목에 따른 기본 도형을 이용한 게임 오브젝트 제작의 특징과 그 이유가 사용자에게는 어떤 의미를 가지는가에 대한 것을 알 수 있다.

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