• Science of Emotion and Sensibility
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• v.10 no.3
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• pp.403-410
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• 2007

The most common method in the psychological measuring method for measuring user's emotions is to indirectly measure the user's emotion by using adjectives, called emotional words. The previous research, in order to observe user's emotional changes while they interact with a product, has extracted some emotional words and representative emotions, and made a set of subjective evaluation scale. In addition to adjective checklists, self-report questionnaire-type scales have been extensively used to assess user's emotions. This research suggested a self-report questionnaire-type scale using the representative emotions and a set of subjective evaluation scale made in the previous research. Also the reliability of the suggested self-report questionnaire-type scale was confirmed through the analysis of Cronbach's coefficient alpha. Therefore, the self-report questionnaire-type scale extracted through this research can be used in various ways to measure a user's user's emotions naturally expressed while using a product.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society for Emotion and Sensibility Conference
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• 2007.05a
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• pp.114-117
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• 2007

사용자의 감성을 측정하기 위한 심리적 측정방법 중에서 사용자가 느끼는 감성을 형용사와 같은 어휘를 통해 간접적으로 측정하는 방법, 즉 감성어휘를 추출하여 사용자의 감성을 측정하는 방법이 가장 보편화되어 있는 방법이다. 본 연구의 선행연구에서는 사용자가 제품을 사용하는 도중에 유발되는 인간의 감성 변화를 나타낼 수 있는 감성어휘들과 대표감성들을 추출하여 제품을 사용하는 도중에 표출되는 사용자의 감성을 측정하기에 적합한 주관적 평가스케일을 도출하였다. 사용자의 감성을 측정하기 위한 심리적 측정방법에는 감성어휘를 이용한 체크리스트 외에도 자기-보고 질문지형 스케일도 널리 사용되고 있다. 따라서 본 연구에서는 선행연구를 통해 도출한 주관적 평가스케일을 보다 더 효과적으로 활용하기 위하여 자기-보고 질문지형 스케일을 제안하였다. 향후 제안한 평가스케일에 대한 신뢰도(reliability) 및 타당도(validity) 검증을 통해 수정 보완함으로써 제품을 사용하면서 자연스럽게 표출되는 사용자의 감성을 효과적으로 측정하기 위한 척도로 활용할 수 있을 것이다.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society for Emotion and Sensibility Conference
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• 2008.10a
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• pp.82-85
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• 2008

사람과 제품의 인터랙션 과정 중에서 제품 사용 초기 단계에서의 사용자 감성을 평가해 보기위하여 본 연구에서는 처음 접하는 휴대폰을 사용하는 도중에 표출되는 사용자의 감성을 평가해 보았다. 전반적으로 사용성 측면을 상당히 고려하여 디자인한 제품이라고 할 수 있는 휴대폰의 경우 높은 사용적 만족성과 낮은 불편성이 표출되었다. 반면에 전반적으로 새로운 기능과 스타일에만 집중하여 사용자의 사용성 측면에 대해서는 다소 불편한 제품이라고 할 수 있는 휴대폰의 경우 낮은 사용적 만족성, 높은 불편성이 표출되었지만 그 외 심미성, 신규성, 유쾌성, 우수성에서는 높은 값을 나타내었다. 본 연구의 결과를 가지고 성급하게 제품의 사용성과 사용자의 감성에 대한 결론을 내리기에는 다소 미흡하지만 향후 제품 경험 시간에 따라 표출되는 사용자의 감성변화를 분석함으로써 제품의 사용성과 사용자의 감성 간의 관계를 보다 더 명확하게 밝혀낼 수 있으리라 기대한다.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society for Emotion and Sensibility Conference
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• 2009.05a
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• pp.73-74
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• 2009

본 연구에서는 선행연구를 통해 추출한 사용자가 제품을 사용하는 도중에 유발될 수 있는 인간의 감성 변화를 나타낼 수 있는 감성어휘 88 개 중에서 웹(Web)을 사용하는 상황에서 유발될 수 있는 사용자의 감성을 표현하기에 적합한 감성어휘를 추출하였다. 웹 사용빈도가 높은 남녀 대학생을 대상으로 설문조사를 실시하여 최종적으로 웹을 사용하는 도중에 유발될 수 있는 사용자의 감성을 파악하기 위한 감성어휘를 추출하였다. 본 연구를 통해 추출된 감성어휘는 웹을 사용하면서 표출되는 사용자의 감성을 측정하는 데에 필요한 평가자료로 활용할 수 있을 것이다.

• Science of Emotion and Sensibility
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• v.14 no.1
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• pp.83-92
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• 2011

Because of the development of digital technologies and information-oriented products, the importance of user interface design and usability are increasing in recent year. So we need a systematic and rational way to measure and manage how effective the improvement of user interface is. The purpose of this study is to develop measurable ‘Usability Improvement Index' which signify how much usability has improved in user interface design. First, I made the framework of measuring and evaluating usability through analysis of existing usability metrics and previous studies. Then, I suggested the process of calculating 'Usability Improvement Index' based on categorizing characteristics of measurable usability and definition of usability metrics. The process is as in the following : measuring the present level of usability, analysis of problems, making alternative user interface design, measuring the improved level of usability, calculating Usability Improvement Index. For verification, the case study on application of Usability Improvement Index to usability improvement of application software of digital camcorder presented. This study is expected to assist 'goal oriented user interface design' and to manage usability systematically.

• Science of Emotion and Sensibility
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• v.11 no.2
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• pp.215-226
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• 2008

The previous research suggested a self-report questionnaire-type scale to measure a user's emotions naturally expressed while using a product. Using the scale, this research measured their emotions expressed while users use cellular phones naturally for a certain time without setting tasks. The results suggest that the cellular phone of high usability lead to higher 'Satisfaction in Usability' and lower 'Uncomfortableness' than the cellular phone with usability flaws. On the other hand the cellular phone with usability flaws lead to higher 'Uncomfortableness' and lower 'Satisfaction in Usability' but higher in other representative emotions such as 'Aesthetics', 'Novelty', 'Pleasure', and 'Excellence' than the other cellular phone. It can be insufficient to define the correlation between the product usability and the user's emotions based on the results of this research: however, the correlation between these two factors will be discovered in more detail by analyzing the changes of the user's emotions according to the length of time of using cellular phone.

• Science of Emotion and Sensibility
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• v.16 no.2
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• pp.167-176
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• 2013

User-created text data are increasing rapidly caused by development of social media. In opinion mining, User's opinions are extracted by analyzing user's text. A primary goal of sentiment analysis as a branch of opinion mining is to extract user's opinions from a text that is required to build a list of emotion terms. In this paper, we built a list of emotion terms to analyse a sentiment of social media using Facebook as a representative social media. We collected data from Facebook and selected a emotion terms, and measured the dimensions of valence and activation through a survey. As a result, we built a list of 267 emotion terms including the dimension of valence and activation.

• Science of Emotion and Sensibility
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• v.12 no.1
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• pp.19-32
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• 2009

Recently emotional relationships between industrial products and user experience are getting more attention than ever. However, current user interface design has focused just on the mechanical and logical aspects. This research proposed a new approach to improve user's emotional experience to interface design and introduced storytelling as a new possibility. Four types of user interface - logical interface, picture added interface, storytelling-applied interface, and storytelling-applied interface with a story script - were used for this research. Eighty college students participated in this research. Each participant was randomly assigned to one of four types of user interfaces. Additionally, their individual differences in affect intensity were measured. he results show that users reported more emotional experience in the storytelling-applied interface and storytelling-applied interface with a story script than the logical interface and just picture added interface. The results also suggest that the higher satisfaction was experienced for the storytelling-applied interface. And all those results are differentiated by the users' affect intensity. The users who have higher affect intensity expressed heavier emotional experience and deeper satisfaction for the storytelling-applied interface.

• Science of Emotion and Sensibility
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• v.13 no.3
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• pp.523-532
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• 2010

In the field of user interface design for interactive product, it is becoming more important than ever to understand emotional quality and its characteristics. By a series of experiments on emotional quality of user interface, this paper aimed to develope a systematic approach to investigating emotional quality. First, a emotional quality framework that consists of 6 dimensions (Usefulness, Easy of Use, Aesthetics, Stimulation, Identification, and Harmony) and 18 elements was developed through two experiments that users and UI expert participated in. Second, by conducting a user survey based on the emotional quality framework, it was illustrated how various emotional qualities of interactive product can be evaluated and what effects they have on overall satisfaction of the product. Finally, this paper analyzed the relative importance of emotional quality dimensions and the contextual factors that change emotional quality, and provided basic knowledge related to the construction of emotional quality for the succeeding studies.

• Science of Emotion and Sensibility
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• v.9 no.spc3
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• pp.167-177
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• 2006

In this study, we developed a tool for measuring user's emotions expressed while using a product in the natural and accessible environment for the design field. Also, using emotional word logging software VideoTAME, we measured a user's emotions expressed while using a product. In the testing module of VideoTAME, participants evaluate their emotional changes through playing and watching the video clips of their performing tasks in the experiment room. In the analyzing module, the researchers replay the results created by participants during the experiment and analyze the results using Microsoft Excel. In this research, we have asked users to examine their emotional changes while watching the recorded video clip of them in the experiment room performing a series of tasks using a cellular phone. In this experiment, there were no big differences in the representative emotions expressed for each characteristics of task. The reason for this can be assumed it is because of the emotional changes occurred while facing specific situations when performing a task rather than the task itself. If more data is collected and concrete statistical analysis is done, it is expected that we can clarify what effect a product's usability has on user's emotions.