• Cartoon and Animation Studies
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• s.15
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• pp.73-88
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• 2009

Light is a basic force that functions in all the formative arts. Light (brightness) is an important subject of study in that it contains the force to control emotion and has much influence upon the shaping of a visual image and a feeling. If an artist systematizes the characteristics of brightness and creates an image, he or she can acquire a useful tool of expression. Because light is a powerful medium of expression of a visual image, a study on the characteristics of brightness for the emotional expression of an image in the contextual relationship with narratives seemingly has a crucial meaning. Emotion is influenced by a visual image very much, and a visual image is inevitably influenced by light. The brightness by light is basically classified into bright, dim, and dark. And the three basic stages of brightness specialize an image according to the setting of scope of maximal and minimal luminosity, and the image is further differentiated by the size of bright portion or dark portion. Since emotion is such a phenomenon as immaterial and psychological, it is difficult to break down it. Furthermore, clarifying the principle of an image in which the shade of light is associated is impossible. However, the width of luminosity and the change of size can give quite a change to a visual image, and the visual image has further influence upon man's emotion too. Although the influence of brightness upon a visual image varies with extents, circumstances, and personal tastes and interests, even the same image clearly changes with the adjustment of brightness.

• Journal of the Korean Society of Costume
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• v.58 no.7
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• pp.13-30
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• 2008

Visual language is 'a form of communication without text'. Visual language is one of the strongest methods to spread knowledge. Uniforms could be interpreted as a symbolic language that establishes order in this complicated modern society by placing identity and responsibility on each members of various different organizations. In light of the above, the purpose of this research paper will be to analyze police uniforms of U.S.A, Great Britain, Italy, France and Korea as a form of visual language and interpreting them in terms of visual design in order to understand the fundamental ideas behind the designs and the effective applications thereof. Upon analysis of traffic police uniforms of each individual county mentioned above by separating each uniform's distinctive design, pattern, color, material and decoration based on visual factor, three characteristics of authority, dynamic functionality and friendliness were derived from comparing and analyzing each country's distinctive uniform design. The traditional unique role of police in our society was to maintain social order as their nature inherently possesses characteristic of authority and preservation, but has since undergone transition in many countries to appeal to the broader public by incorporating friendliness and dynamic functionality. Analyzing police uniforms in terms of visual linguistic sense requires a much more profound process of understanding beyond simple interpretation of configurative shapes. In conclusion, the true purpose of uniforms is to include and portray images of mankind's desire toward expressing ideas like 'mankind's bias toward existence beyond theirselves and the exercise of force through authority' and materializing such ideas into a physical form.

• The Journal of Korea Institute of Information, Electronics, and Communication Technology
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• v.15 no.1
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• pp.1-7
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• 2022

It has been found through physiological experiments that the visual neurons constituting the human visual cortex do not respond to all visual stimuli, but to a visual stimuli with specific conditions. In order to interpret such physiological experiments, a model that can simulate the firing characteristics of neurons including a linear filter with random gain was proposed. It has been proven through experiments that subspaces are formed. To verify the validity of the implemented model, the distribution of values for two pixels randomly extracted from four different visual stimulus data was observed. The difference between the two distributions was confirmed by extracting the central coordinate value, that is, the coordinate value with the most values, from the distribution of the total stimulus data and the spike ignition stimulus data. In the case of the entire set, it was verified through experiments that the stimulus data generating spikes is a subset or subspace of the entire stimulus data. This study can be used as a basic study related to the mechanism of spikes in response to visual stimuli.

• Korean Journal of Child Studies
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• v.26 no.5
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• pp.89-104
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• 2005

Ecological predictors of imaginative playfulness were researched to test relationships among preschoolers' individual characteristics, socioeconomic status, their visual media use, and their imaginative playfulness. Data were collected from 202 primary caregivers and head teachers in childcare centers in Michigan, U. S. A. Use of visual media was coded by the program categorization of Anderson et al. (2001) and the Television and Movie Violence Rating Scale (Huesmann et al. 2003). Imaginative playfulness was rated by the adapted Playfulness Scale (Barnett 1990). Results of hierarchical regression showed that child characteristics of age and gender predictors contributed to their imaginative playfulness. On the other hand, children's visual media use and socioeconomic status of their families did not predict their imaginative playfulness.

• International Journal of Automotive Technology
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• v.7 no.1
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• pp.35-41
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• 2006

Driving simulations were performed to evaluate the effect of providing both visual information and body sensory information on changes in steering characteristics and the amount of perspiration in drift cornering. When the driver is provided with body sensory information and visual information, the amount of perspiration increases and the driver can perform drift control with a moderate level of tension. With visual information only, the driver tends to easily go into a spin because drift control is difficult. In this case, the amount of perspiration increases greatly as compared with the case where body sensory information is also provided, reflecting a very high perception of risk. When body sensory information is provided, the driver can control drift adequately, feeding back the roll angle information in steering. The importance of the driver's perception of the state of the vehicle was thus confirmed, and a desirable future direction for driver assistance systems was determined.

• Journal of the Korean Society of Environmental Restoration Technology
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• v.16 no.6
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• pp.17-29
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• 2013

Recently, the importance of forest landscape as a visual resource has been increased, so it is emphasized that the necessity of forest landscape management through 'Forest landscape management master plan' and 'National Forest landscape belt'. As such, this study aims to suggest a method for forest landscape management plan considering visual landscape analysis and regional landscape resources in case of Sangju-si, Gyeongsangbuk-do. Accordingly, this study has investigated regional landscape resources and surveyed existing forest conditions of target area. In order to analyze the characteristics of visual landscape, landscape control points are selected through viewshed analysis. And, Forest landscape plan is suggested 3 areas considering comprehensive analysis of forest landscape resources survey and characteristics of visual landscape:the landscape resource management area, the landscape resource restoration area and the landscape resources exploit area.

• Proceedings of the Korea Contents Association Conference
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• 2014.11a
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• pp.175-176
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• 2014

영화<씬 시티>는 프랭크밀러 원작의 만화 '씬 시티'를 영화로 만든 작품이다. 흑백영상과 조명, 원색의 컬러와 뒤에 배경을 컴퓨터그래픽으로 배치함으로써 표현주의를 바탕으로 한 필름 느와르 장르와 원작의 컷을 사용하여 그래픽 노블 이미지를 영상으로 연출하였다. <씬 시티>를 분석하여 이를 통한 영상 미학적 특성과 비쥬얼 스토리텔링에 대해 살펴 볼 수 있는 연구라 사료된다.

• Proceedings of the Korea Contents Association Conference
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• 2014.11a
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• pp.173-174
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• 2014

최근 월트 디즈니의 애니메이션 '겨울왕국 (Frozen, 2013)'은 주제곡 'Let it go'와 함께 전 세계적 열풍을 일으켰다. 뮤지컬 애니메이션 장르로 제작된 '겨울왕국'의 특성을 고찰하기 위해 '겨울왕국'을 소재로 제작된 뮤지컬, 무비컬, 뮤지컬 애니메이션을 사례로 하여 사례비교 분석코자 한다. 이를 통해 뮤지컬 애니메이션의 영상매체적 기능과 영상미학적 특성을 살펴볼 수 있는 연구라 사료된다.

• Journal of Korean Institute of Industrial Engineers
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• v.27 no.2
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• pp.190-196
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• 2001

This study aims to develop three types of the visual fields: stationary field, eye field, and head field, which are classified depending upon the eye and head movements. A visual experiment taking target size, target color, and meridian into account was conducted, in which the L32 orthogonal array was employed. The results showed that target size and meridian were significant at ${\alpha}$=0.01 in all three visual fields. Contrary to expectation, target color was significant at ${\alpha}$=0.10 only in the head field. Furthermore, the differences in size of the head field depending upon four target colors were negligibly small. Three linear regression models were provided to generate visual fields which are appropriate for given visual task's characteristics. In addition, a simple method using adjusting factor was also proposed so that anyone without knowledge for human factors/ergonomics can easily generate and use them when designing or evaluating visual tasks. It is expected that the visual fields presented in this study can be easily used even by non-ergonomic experts in real situations due to their simplicity.

• Journal of Digital Convergence
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• v.16 no.3
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• pp.439-449
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• 2018

The purpose of this study was to examine the effect of VR news focused on recall, understanding, enjoyment, visual fatigue and reuse intention through experimental study. Using Window SPSS 21.0 and AMOS 21.0 program, the data was analyzed by exploratory/confirmatory factor analysis, reliability analysis, correlation analysis and path analysis. The Results are as follows. First, presence and immersion among VR news characteristics influenced positively on users' recall of VR news. Second, presence, interactivity and immersion among VR news characteristics influenced positively on users' understanding of VR news. Third, presence, interactivity and immersion among VR news characteristics influenced positively on users' enjoyment of VR news. Fourth, presence among VR news characteristics influenced negatively on users' visual fatigue of VR news. Fifth, presence and immersion among VR news characteristics influenced positively on users' reuse intention of VR news. This study will provide on an important implication understanding VR news characteristics and VR news users.