• Journal of Korea Multimedia Society
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• v.8 no.4
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• pp.566-574
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• 2005

In spite of recent increase in the use of avatar in Web and Virtual Reality, there has not been a service that allows users to control directly the avatar behaviors. In addition, the conventional behavior control languages required a lot of complicated information for controlling the avatar motions. Moreover, in order to apply written languages to a different task domain, it was necessary to modify or rewrite the languages. In this paper, we define Task-Level Behavior Description Language and Motion Representation Language for more simple control of the avatar behavior. The first thing allows describing the avatar behaviors in each task domain, and The second thing enables writing detailed data for motion control. And in this paper, we developed an interpreter which can automatically change the Behavior Description Language to the Motion Representation Language. So this system allow users control the avatar behavior simply with only use the Behavior Description Language. The system was applied to shopping mall and the Task-level Behavior Description Language was compared with conventional languages to see how it was more effective in behavior description.

• Proceedings of the Costume Culture Conference
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• 2004.04a
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• pp.28-30
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• 2004

정보 기술의 발전으로 인해 서로 다른 곳에 있는 사람들이 인터넷을 통하여 하나의 가상 공간을 공유할 수 있게 되었고, 인터넷의 발달은 사람들이 가상공간에서 머무는 시간을 길어지게 하였다. 사람들은 오프라인의 편지보다는 온라인의 메일을 더 선호하게 되었으며, 얼굴을 마주하고 앉아 대화를 나누는 것보다 스크린을 마주하고 온라인에서 채팅을 하는 것이 자연스러운 생활의 일부가 되었다. (중략)

• Cartoon and Animation Studies
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• s.46
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• pp.181-206
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• 2017

In the near future, we are expected to live in a Mixed Reality environment where reality and virtuality coexist as today we live using the Internet and smartphones in our daily lives. The relevant content based on the idea of Mixed Reality crystallizing is currently expanding, and it is time for research on it. This study examines the current situation and the development direction of mixed reality contents. Typical mixed reality contents can be classify by wearability. We analyzed HoloLens, a mixed reality wearable device that is worn on a head, which is a example of wearable device. As an example of unwearable device, we also analyzed the Room2Room which is a communication system that combines video with augmented reality-based telepresence avatar. Mixed Reality content will develop in the direction of implementing expanded use of information and more natural realism through the interactive combination of Reality, Virtual Reality, and Augmented Reality. As head-mounted wearable technology develops, Mixed Reality content is expected to become popular by increasing the number of Mixed Reality device users if convenience and price competitiveness are secured. The way of unifying Mixed Reality wearable devices must be established in order to increase convenience, and the environment based on Mixed Reality will be created through diversifying leisure activity content. Telepresence Avatar is expected to develop into Mobile Hologram Avar as Mixed Reality content accessible anywhere and at anytime beyond space limits. Another potential for development of Telepresence Avatar is the combination of Avatar moving on user's thought, Augmented Human technology and Mixed Reality.

• Proceedings of the Korean Information Science Society Conference
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• 2001.10b
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• pp.259-261
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• 2001

본 논문에서는 네트워크를 통해 공유되는 가상공간에 참가자가 분신(아바타) 또는 실물 동영상의 형태로 자유로이 참가하여 가상세계를 현실감 있게 공유할 수 있는 시스템을 제안한다. Java3D를 이용하여 컴퓨터그래픽과 실영상을 실시간에 합성 렌더링함으로써 3차원 가상공간을 구현하고 있다. 분산환경에서의 실험을 통해 기술적 가능성을 제시한다.

• Journal of Fashion Business
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• v.17 no.5
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• pp.57-69
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• 2013

The purpose of this study is to compare the traditional shopping model and virtual avatar fitting model with regards to credibility and favorable impression effects on shopping mall satisfaction, product preferences, and purchasing intentions of apparel e-commerce. Questionnaires are distributed to 10-30s years old consumers who live in Seoul. Data are analyzed by descriptive statistics, Cronbach's ${\alpha}$, and regression analysis. The results are that the provoked credibility and favorable impression from the traditional shopping model affects the consumers' shopping mall satisfaction and buying intention in descending order. In additional, the credibility from traditional shopping model affects the product preference. The provoked credibility from the virtual fitting model influences the consumers' product preferences, and buying intentions. The favorable impression from the virtual fitting model affects shopping mall satisfaction. In general, provoked credibility from virtual avatar fitting model and traditional shopping model play key roles which could influence the consumers' buying intention.

• Archives of design research
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• v.17 no.2
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• pp.199-208
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• 2004

In cyberspace based on internet, users constitute communities and interact one another. Avatar means not only the other self but also the 'another being' that describes oneself in the cyberspace. If user's avatar shows expressive faces and behaves according to his thinking and emotion, he will have a feel of reality much more in the cyberspace. If avatar's countenances can be animated by just typing characters in avatar-based chat communication, the user is able to express his emotions more effectively. In this study, emotion-expressing vocabulary is analyzed and classified. Emotion-expressing vocabulary is essential to develop self-reactive avatar system in which avatar's countenances are automatically converted according to the words typed by users at chat. The results are as follows; First, emotion-expressing vocabulary selected out of Korean adjectives and intransitive verbs is made up of 209 words and is classified into 25 groups. Second, there are only 2 groups out of the 25 groups for positive expressions and others are for negative expressions. Therefore, negative expressions are more abundant than positive expressions in Korean vocabulary. Third, avatar's countenances are modelled according to the 25 groups by using the Quantification Method 3. The result shows that the emotion-expressing vocabulary has dose relations with avatar's countenances and is useful to communicate users' emotions. However, this study has some limits, in that Korean linguistical structure - the whole meaning of context - cannot be interpreted quantitatively.

• Journal of Korea Game Society
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• v.12 no.1
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• pp.91-101
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• 2012

The avatar gender, the basic element that constitutes the identity of the MMORPG player, can be created by the player due to the nature of the game through the system provided within the game. Thus, players exhibit a different attitude from reality regarding avatar gender. Gender customization in virtual space is an expansion of the identity in an effort to express one's identity in various ways. A number of users manage avatars with the opposite gender where it was found that male players preferred the female avatar persona. In this study, the player attitudes regarding gender was analyzed using Q methodology and the motivational factors for gender swapping and the generalization phenomenon was determined. This study will be significant as critical standards in the usability evaluation of the MMORPG customization system.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea CI
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• v.41 no.5
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• pp.41-49
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• 2004

As a means of overcoming the linguistic barrier between different languages in the Internet cyberspace, a sign-language communication system has been proposed. However, the system supports avatars having the same model structure so that it is difficult to communicate between different avatar models. Therefore, in this paper, we propose a new gesture communication system in which different avatars models can communicate with each other by using a FBML (Facial Body Markup Language). Using the FBML, we define a standard document format that contains the messages to be transferred between models, where the document includes the action units of facial expression and the joint angles of gesture animation. The proposed system is implemented with Visual C++ and Open Inventor on Windows platforms. The experimental results demonstrate a possibility that the method could be used as an efficient means to overcome the linguistic problem.

• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.9 no.1
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• pp.197-204
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• 2009

This study aims to examine the realistic self-esteem of adolescents and perception of adolescents toward avatar in an attempt to understand basic aspects of their distinctive lifestyle fundamentally relative to the cyber culture on the web, given that the adolescent which is significant in forming self-esteem period plays an important role in the psychological aspect of adolescents. As for method of research, this study analyzed the self-esteem of users, their preference for avatar, and the perception toward avatar, in order to understand their psychological and social maturity. The result of study indicated that the increased self-esteem in reality among the adolescents led to the increased preference for avatar relative to the cyber culture on the web, which in turn increased the recognition of others' avatars. Those findings suggest that adolescents tend to assign self-esteem to avatar as great as themselves. Thus, it may be important to help adolescents form their self identity from the perspective psychological maturity, so that a sound and healthy web culture can be formed depending on the formation and level of self-esteem among adolescents.

• The KIPS Transactions:PartB
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• v.11B no.5
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• pp.597-602
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• 2004

In spite of recent increase in the use of avatar systems in Web and Virtual Reality, there has not been a service that allows users to control directly the avatar behaviors. In addition, the conventional behavior control languages required a lot of complicated information for controlling the behaviors, so that users had difficulty using them. To apply written languages to a different task domain, moreover, it was necessary to modify or rewrite the languages. In this paper, for the avatar behavior control more simply define, “Task-Level Behavior Description Language,” which allows description the avatar behaviors in each task domain and “Motion Representation Language,” which enables writing detailed data for motion control. The system, developed in this paper, “included an Interpreter,” which automatically creates the Motion Representation Language, allowing users to easily control the avatar behaviors simply with the Behavior Description Language. The system was also applied to cyber classes, and the Task-level Behavior Description Language was compared with conventional languages to see how it was more effective in behavior description.