• Journal of Korea Game Society
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• v.15 no.1
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• pp.101-114
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• 2015

A recent online game is growing with the combined action of content as well as operating services. However, in previous studies, with a lot of focus on content characteristics of game than the game operating service quality studies have been carried out. This study targeted research online sports games, operating service quality and content characteristics of the game are analyzed effects of word-of-mouth and continued usage intention by applying Expectation Confirmation Model. as a result, it has found that as a result, it has found that sense of reality turned out to be a major variable affecting the content of the game even expectation confirmation. Directly and indirectly, it was confirmed that the role of empathy affect to expectation confirmation and satisfaction.

• Journal of Korea Game Society
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• v.17 no.5
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• pp.71-80
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• 2017

In this study, the differences in flow and loyalty according to the type of online game players were analyzed. Game players spending more than two hours per week were found to have statistically significant higher degree of flow than players spending less than two hours a week. Players who play games for more than three hours a week were found to have higher degree of loyalty than players spending less than those who played for an hour a week. Players who played games for more than six months showed statistically significant higher degree of flow than players who played less than six months. Players who played games six to nine months showed higher degree of loyalty than players who played under three months. High-level/status game players showed higher degree of flow and loyalty than low-level/status game players.

• Korean Journal of Child Studies
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• v.24 no.5
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• pp.43-58
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• 2003

This research was conducted to comprehend the effects of computer games on the development children's visual perception. First, the effects of experience of computer games on children's visual perception abilities was analyzed. Second, the effects of different types of computer games on children's visual perception abilities were examined. And third, the interaction effects of sex and computer game types were examined. The subjects of this study were 78 5-year-olds engaging public kindergarten located in Cheung-Ju. To analyse data, percent, mean, standard deviation, and ANCOVA were used. The results showed that children's visual perception abilities were improved significantly with the experience of computer games. And the improvement of children's visual perception varied significantly according to the type of computer game. No interaction effects were found between a child's sex and the types of computer games.

• Korean Journal of Child Studies
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• v.33 no.5
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• pp.1-17
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• 2012

The purpose of this study was to examine the effects of the literary approach using a game strategy on young children's phonological awareness and writing abilities. The subjects were selected from two classes of 'H' and 'M' Kindergarten in G city. The research tools used were the Phonological Awareness Ability Test, which was corrected by Jo, Kim, and Jeong(2006) and used to measure young children's phonological awareness abilities, and Lindberg(1987)'s Kindergarten Writing Assessment which was adapted and used by Noh(1994) in order to assess writing abilities. The literary approach activity using a game strategy used in this study resulted in an improvement in young children's phonological awareness abilities and writing abilities. These results suggest that these activities are valuable tools and can be applied successfully in the childhood education field as teaching aids.

• Korean Journal of Child Studies
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• v.15 no.2
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• pp.55-68
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• 1994

A survey analysis of home video games was carried out for 1,018 elementary school children. Children responded to a questionnaire consisting of sociodemographic variables, degree of game participation(frequency and mean time), control behavior(eg. resting during games, lightening interior), and physical symptoms(eg. eyestrain, headache, trembling, paralyses) during and/or after playing games. Statistical analysis was done by frequency, percentile, and chitest. The results showed that many children enjoyed video games frequently and played continually, that few children did control behavior during games. Main variables related to degree of game playing and control behavior were sex, game experience, parent's education, and mother's activity. In particular, the results implied that the level of physical symptoms during and/or after game differed by lighting factors.

• Journal of Korea Game Society
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• v.20 no.1
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• pp.107-120
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• 2020

Since the revision of the ICD-11 of the WHO, the level of social discourse on internet game use disorders has been increasing. However, existing studies have mixed terms and causal relationships with game use disorder or game addiction. This study was conducted with high school students aged 16 to 18, focusing on internet game addiction. As a result of the analysis, the greater the obstacles to daily life and self-regulation, the higher the risk of falling into internet game addiction. This study has a significance in reestablishing the causal relationship of Internet game addiction.

• Korean Journal of Health Education and Promotion
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• v.28 no.1
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• pp.37-47
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• 2011

Objectives: The purpose of this study was to explore the influential factors of family function, parent-child communication, and family satisfaction on Korean adolescents game use. Methods: The participants were 940 adolescents in Seoul. A structured questionnaire was used to collect data. The study variables were family function, parent-child communication, family satisfaction, and game use. Results: Game use was different by gender, age, time to spend in game during weekdays and weekend. Game use had significant negative correlations with family cohesion, family adaptability, communication with father, communication with mother, and family satisfaction. Multiple regression analysis showed that 20.3% of the game use was explained by gender, communication with mother, hours of playing games during weekdays, family adaptability, and hours of playing games during weekend. Conclusions: These results suggest that being male and lack of communication with mother, low family adaptability, game hours during weekdays and weekend can be potential risk factors for excessive game use in the adolescents, which should by considered in developing a prevention program for excessive game use focused on family factors.

• Journal of Korea Game Society
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• v.12 no.4
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• pp.53-64
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• 2012

This article is a analysis & diagnosis on the shifting of regulation paradigm for arcade game in Korea. Arcade market is decreasing market size after 2006. Arcade platform is characterized by the individuality & PC-based ability. This rapidly changes of the environment are facilitating the gambling in arcade game market. For the protecting the gambling in arcade game market, regulation paradigm needs the shift. To game center & speculative behavior, from game & gambling criteria. The regulation on arcade game in China is a meaningful case, when we make the new paradigm.

• Journal of Korea Game Society
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• v.11 no.2
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• pp.69-79
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• 2011

Online game industry and item trade have grown up fast after 2000. And there has been a perspective that online game and item trade are the cause of the crimes, especially cyber crime like hacking, virus. But there was no positive research about the opinion, so this article studies the relations among online game, item trade and crime. The results suggest that online game and item trade maybe a cause of cyber crime and property crime. But online game and item trade don't increase the total number of crime. That means that online game and item trade substitute the way how crime happens. Online game and item trade substitute no-property crime to property crime.

• Journal of Haehwa Medicine
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• v.16 no.2
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• pp.295-302
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• 2007

Objectives : To help Oriental medicine clinical studies for the game addiction treatment, this study analyzed the tendency of research into game addiction recently published in PubMed Methods : This study analyzed 13 research papers on game addictionpublished in PubMed over the past 3 years. It measured annually and for each country the number of papers published, the number of subject, the period of research, the method of study, the objective of study, and intervision, respectively and intervision, and the result of study overall Results : There were research papers concerning internet & online game, computer game, gambling, video game. The subject of study were adolescents, high school students, children, young adult. there are many reaearch papers on negative results of games. there are research papers of the mechanism or factors of game addiction. Conclusions : Recent research subject of game addiction were mostly the defect of game.