Journal of Advanced Navigation Technology (한국항행학회논문지)

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Design and Development of XR Contents Authoring Framework for IT Convergence Education

융합영상콘텐츠 교육을 위한 XR 콘텐츠저작 프레임워크 설계 및 제작

  • 임익수 (홍익대학교 MR아트텍센터)
  • Received : 2020.12.02
  • Accepted : 2020.12.24
  • Published : 2020.12.30
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Abstract

Despite the growing educational demand for the extended reality (XR) convergence content creation for non-IT students, fewer studies have attempted to education material development. In this paper, non-IT students' requirement to create XR convergence contents was analyzed and designed framework system specification. The object-oriented application framework (OOAF) was developed for non-IT students to create XR convergence contents through simple interaction methods such as drag and drop in-game engines. To evaluate the developed framework XR contents development course was operated with 26 industrial design majors sophomore in university. More than 90% of students succeeded in working on prototype XR contents in Oculus Rift. This result will be expected to improve the quality of XR contents creation education for non-IT students and contribute to the growth of the future convergence contents industry.

비전공자 대상으로 확장현실기반 융합영상콘텐츠 제작에 대한 교육적 수요가 높아지고 있음에도 불구하고, 이를 실행할 수 있는 교육도구는 턱없이 부족하다. 이러한 문제를 해결하기 위해 본 연구는 비전공자 대상으로 확장현실기반 융합영상콘텐츠 제작에 대한 요구사항을 분석하고, 요구사항의 구현을 위한 프레임워크 기능을 설계하였다. 기능 설계를 바탕으로 프로그래밍 지식이 없는 IT 비전공자 학생이 게임엔진을 활용하여 드래그 앤드 드롭과 같은 간단한 방법을 통해 확장현실 콘텐츠를 제작할 수 있는 프레임워크를 설계하고 구현하였다. 여기서 프레임워크란 재사용 가능한 반 완성된 응용프로그램 템플릿 코드를 의미한다. 마지막으로 개발된 프레임워크의 교육 적합성을 알아보기 위해, 프레임워크를 사용하여 산업 디자인 전공 2학년 학생 26명을 대상으로 XR 콘텐츠 제작 교육을 수행하였다. 그 결과, 90%가 넘는 학생들이 실제 오큘러스 리프트에서 작동되는 수준의 콘텐츠 개발에 성공하는 것을 발견하였다. 본 연구의 결과는 비전공자를 위한 확장현실기반 융합영상콘텐츠 교육과정의 품질을 향상하는 데 활용될 수 있으며, 이를 통해 미래 콘텐츠 산업의 발전에 이바지할 수 있다.

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