• 지능정보연구
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• 제20권3호
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• pp.45-58
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• 2014

몰입은 관람객이 콘텐츠를 관람할 때 관람객들이 콘텐츠에 몰두하고 있는 심리적 상태를 의미하는 것으로, 관람객의 몰입경험은 콘텐츠의 만족도에 긍정적인 영향을 미친다. 따라서 공연 같은 콘텐츠를 제공하는 기업들은 콘텐츠의 흥행을 위해 관람객의 몰입도를 측정하는 것은 매우 중요하다. 설문 등의 표본조사 방법을 통해 관람객의 몰입도를 측정 연구는 방송분야 등 에서 널리 사용되고 있다. 이러한 몰입도 측정방법은 콘텐츠 관람 이후 설문을 실시하기 때문에 몰입도를 실시간으로 측정할 수 없을 뿐만 아니라 몰입도 측정의 정확성이 저하되는 문제 등이 있다. 이러한 문제를 해결하기 위하여 생리적 반응이나 얼굴 표정 분석, 그리고 움직임 관찰 방법 등을 이용하여 몰입도를 측정하는 연구가 수행되고 있다. 생체 신호를 이용하여 몰입도를 측정하는 연구의 경우, 1인을 대상으로 생체신호를 측정할 뿐만 아니라, 많은 데이터 처리 시간과 비용이 소모되는 단점이 있어 많은 관람객이 관람하는 공연장에 적용하기에는 한계가 있다. 얼굴 표정인식 통해 몰입도를 측정하는 경우도 1인을 대상으로 하고 있으며, 밝은 조명의 실험실 환경에서만 가능하다는 단점이 존재한다. 또한 관람객들의 움직인 동기화를 이용하여 몰입도를 특정한 연구는 다중관객을 대상으로 하였지만, 이는 실험실 환경에 한정하여 적용된 사례이다. 따라서 본 연구에서는 공연장, 시사회관 등 많은 관람객들이 콘텐츠를 관람하는 실제 환경에서 다중관람객이 다중몰입도의 정량적 평가를 위한 시스템을 설계하고 개발하였다. 제안된 시스템은 외부장치, 서버, 내부장치 등의 3부분으로 구성되어 있다. 서울시 마포구 상암동에 위치한 DMC 홍보관에 상설 전시장으로 운영하고 있으며, 관람객들을 대상으로 데이터를 획득하고 있다. 제안하고 있는 시스템을 활용하면 콘텐츠의 어느 구간에서 관객들이 몰입을 하고 있는지, 어느 구간에서 몰입을 하고 있지 못한지 분석가능하기 때문에, 향후 콘텐츠 제작 및 마케팅에 유용하게 활용할 수 있을 것으로 기대된다.

• Asia pacific journal of information systems
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• 제20권2호
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• pp.63-86
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• 2010

Personalized services directly and indirectly acquire personal data, in part, to provide customers with higher-value services that are specifically context-relevant (such as place and time). Information technologies continue to mature and develop, providing greatly improved performance. Sensory networks and intelligent software can now obtain context data, and that is the cornerstone for providing personalized, context-specific services. Yet, the danger of overflowing personal information is increasing because the data retrieved by the sensors usually contains privacy information. Various technical characteristics of context-aware applications have more troubling implications for information privacy. In parallel with increasing use of context for service personalization, information privacy concerns have also increased such as an unrestricted availability of context information. Those privacy concerns are consistently regarded as a critical issue facing context-aware personalized service success. The entire field of information privacy is growing as an important area of research, with many new definitions and terminologies, because of a need for a better understanding of information privacy concepts. Especially, it requires that the factors of information privacy should be revised according to the characteristics of new technologies. However, previous information privacy factors of context-aware applications have at least two shortcomings. First, there has been little overview of the technology characteristics of context-aware computing. Existing studies have only focused on a small subset of the technical characteristics of context-aware computing. Therefore, there has not been a mutually exclusive set of factors that uniquely and completely describe information privacy on context-aware applications. Second, user survey has been widely used to identify factors of information privacy in most studies despite the limitation of users' knowledge and experiences about context-aware computing technology. To date, since context-aware services have not been widely deployed on a commercial scale yet, only very few people have prior experiences with context-aware personalized services. It is difficult to build users' knowledge about context-aware technology even by increasing their understanding in various ways: scenarios, pictures, flash animation, etc. Nevertheless, conducting a survey, assuming that the participants have sufficient experience or understanding about the technologies shown in the survey, may not be absolutely valid. Moreover, some surveys are based solely on simplifying and hence unrealistic assumptions (e.g., they only consider location information as a context data). A better understanding of information privacy concern in context-aware personalized services is highly needed. Hence, the purpose of this paper is to identify a generic set of factors for elemental information privacy concern in context-aware personalized services and to develop a rank-order list of information privacy concern factors. We consider overall technology characteristics to establish a mutually exclusive set of factors. A Delphi survey, a rigorous data collection method, was deployed to obtain a reliable opinion from the experts and to produce a rank-order list. It, therefore, lends itself well to obtaining a set of universal factors of information privacy concern and its priority. An international panel of researchers and practitioners who have the expertise in privacy and context-aware system fields were involved in our research. Delphi rounds formatting will faithfully follow the procedure for the Delphi study proposed by Okoli and Pawlowski. This will involve three general rounds: (1) brainstorming for important factors; (2) narrowing down the original list to the most important ones; and (3) ranking the list of important factors. For this round only, experts were treated as individuals, not panels. Adapted from Okoli and Pawlowski, we outlined the process of administrating the study. We performed three rounds. In the first and second rounds of the Delphi questionnaire, we gathered a set of exclusive factors for information privacy concern in context-aware personalized services. The respondents were asked to provide at least five main factors for the most appropriate understanding of the information privacy concern in the first round. To do so, some of the main factors found in the literature were presented to the participants. The second round of the questionnaire discussed the main factor provided in the first round, fleshed out with relevant sub-factors. Respondents were then requested to evaluate each sub factor's suitability against the corresponding main factors to determine the final sub-factors from the candidate factors. The sub-factors were found from the literature survey. Final factors selected by over 50% of experts. In the third round, a list of factors with corresponding questions was provided, and the respondents were requested to assess the importance of each main factor and its corresponding sub factors. Finally, we calculated the mean rank of each item to make a final result. While analyzing the data, we focused on group consensus rather than individual insistence. To do so, a concordance analysis, which measures the consistency of the experts' responses over successive rounds of the Delphi, was adopted during the survey process. As a result, experts reported that context data collection and high identifiable level of identical data are the most important factor in the main factors and sub factors, respectively. Additional important sub-factors included diverse types of context data collected, tracking and recording functionalities, and embedded and disappeared sensor devices. The average score of each factor is very useful for future context-aware personalized service development in the view of the information privacy. The final factors have the following differences comparing to those proposed in other studies. First, the concern factors differ from existing studies, which are based on privacy issues that may occur during the lifecycle of acquired user information. However, our study helped to clarify these sometimes vague issues by determining which privacy concern issues are viable based on specific technical characteristics in context-aware personalized services. Since a context-aware service differs in its technical characteristics compared to other services, we selected specific characteristics that had a higher potential to increase user's privacy concerns. Secondly, this study considered privacy issues in terms of service delivery and display that were almost overlooked in existing studies by introducing IPOS as the factor division. Lastly, in each factor, it correlated the level of importance with professionals' opinions as to what extent users have privacy concerns. The reason that it did not select the traditional method questionnaire at that time is that context-aware personalized service considered the absolute lack in understanding and experience of users with new technology. For understanding users' privacy concerns, professionals in the Delphi questionnaire process selected context data collection, tracking and recording, and sensory network as the most important factors among technological characteristics of context-aware personalized services. In the creation of a context-aware personalized services, this study demonstrates the importance and relevance of determining an optimal methodology, and which technologies and in what sequence are needed, to acquire what types of users' context information. Most studies focus on which services and systems should be provided and developed by utilizing context information on the supposition, along with the development of context-aware technology. However, the results in this study show that, in terms of users' privacy, it is necessary to pay greater attention to the activities that acquire context information. To inspect the results in the evaluation of sub factor, additional studies would be necessary for approaches on reducing users' privacy concerns toward technological characteristics such as highly identifiable level of identical data, diverse types of context data collected, tracking and recording functionality, embedded and disappearing sensor devices. The factor ranked the next highest level of importance after input is a context-aware service delivery that is related to output. The results show that delivery and display showing services to users in a context-aware personalized services toward the anywhere-anytime-any device concept have been regarded as even more important than in previous computing environment. Considering the concern factors to develop context aware personalized services will help to increase service success rate and hopefully user acceptance for those services. Our future work will be to adopt these factors for qualifying context aware service development projects such as u-city development projects in terms of service quality and hence user acceptance.