• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.8 no.12
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• pp.198-206
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• 2008

The fashion in the virtual world is emerging as a new genre. Gammer in virtual community shares the avatars and space for their activities and for flourishing their virtual lives, they start to demand indispensable daily items. The gammer's demands lead to the concept of second life in the virtual world which was introduced in 2003. The trading business system is realized at the virtual world with various daily items, developed by individual programmers, through the virtual money, which may converted into real money. Particularly, fashion industry's inherent nature of snagging on-line trading is no more, now, set to ready in the virtual world let alone various daily virtual items developed by individual programmers. The purpose of this study is, focused on the virtual second life, to introduce the model of fashion business in virtual world and overall informations regarding second life business systems so as to provide the fundamental data for opening the web.3.0 era. Further various fashion items in the virtual world, developed by individual programers, will be another boost for shaping another virtual fashion business genre.

• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.10 no.4
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• pp.458-470
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• 2010

As digital technologies have strongly impacted the whole social aspects, so museum recently emerging as an alternative or supplementary learning environment to school, after active adoption to the technologies, gave birth to museum websites called 'Virtual Museums' which, then, result in enhancing the educational roles and functions of physical museum. In this context, this study aimed to review the process of how virtual museum has been developed in terms of its educational roles and characteristics in accordance with the evolutionary development of web. Especially, the analysis of the status quo of the current virtual museums in both Korea and overseas presented specific aspects of the educational elements and roles embedded in virtual museum which have been emphasized in many related research and studies. The categories of the roles of the virtual museum, as a result, were classified into 'digital archive,' 'learning resources,' and 'communigy,' each of which were, then, further elaborated for its individual educational uses. Eventually this study purposed to expand the public awareness and knowledge of virtual museum as the alternative online learning environments needed in the 21st century.

• Journal of Korea Game Society
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• v.9 no.4
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• pp.21-32
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• 2009

In this paper, we present a model of a virtual world that incorporates different time periods, in contrast to current popular virtual worlds like Second Life, to utilize the digital space fully. The construction of a virtual world in which we include historical information in the virtual life simulation utilizing the world map and current space information is proposed. The reason for incorporating time is that the virtual world varies according to the politics, economics, society, and culture of a particular time period, so users are able to play in a distinct virtual world as a resident and make their communities of their own free will. Like the online encyclopedia Wikipedia, the model proposed in this paper is a project designed to be maintained by and expanded through the interactivity of users, but unlike Wikipedia, users of this virtual world will be able to live and interact in a world of their own creation in addition to contributing real information.

• Journal of Korea Multimedia Society
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• v.7 no.3
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• pp.388-398
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• 2004

This paper focuses on the reduction method of message traffic occurred when multiple participants collaborate in the distributed virtual environment. It is referred to as filtering method of update message to minimize data traffic exchanged in the virtual environment, and it is the essential process to improve the scalability of the virtual environment. Spatial partitioning method, a popular filtering technique, divides the whole environment into smaller sub-parts in order to make it small the regions to be maintained consistently. However, it is less flexible and adaptable because the information of area of interest must be configured before simulation. In this paper, the concept of dynamic area of interest is proposed, which is highly adaptable by applying dynamic environmental elements to AOI management. It uses multiple layering and multiple consistency algorithms for dynamic management, and makes it possible to consume system resource efficiently. For performance evaluation, experiments are performed with virtual avatars, measuring message traffic. Finally, the proposed model could be applied to the AOI management systems which accommodate massive users like MMORPG, or virtual communities.

• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.8 no.2
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• pp.132-139
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• 2008

The aim on this thesis is to develop virtual construction designing experience web-site in order to help non-professional to predict the actual construction working result by self-construction design, provided by virtual reality program, sharing knowledge of architectural design and materials on internet to solve certain problems. The way of study is using case of virtual reality technology which is practically using in architecture era recently; in construction design, deducting realizable virtual reality technology of limitation and its solution; analyze case of construction designing program which is currently used by professionals; constitute required essential functions as UI(User Interface) when constructing. Followed by result of study, as a proposal, in service, technical, and UI sectors are the way to construct its objectives for internet based virtual construction experience web-site.

• The Journal of the Institute of Internet, Broadcasting and Communication
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• v.12 no.1
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• pp.275-281
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• 2012

Community network is a communication environment where heterogeneous devices can access and communicate with each other at any time and at any space to share information. To do so, mobile devices are required to be self-configured even in absence of communication infrastructures. Semi-infrastructured wireless ad-hoc network is a promising solution to meet with such a requirement. This paper proposes the VTC(virtual topology coordinator) system as an evaluation tool for examining network protocols that are intended to be deployed in the semi-infrastructured ad-hoc networks. VTC emulates multi-hops wireless network topology virtually using a mechanism of selective receiving MAC frame in a small area, where only a single hop communication is available. VTC system cannot consider all properties introduced in real wireless network, but do more wireless properties than verification through simulation.

• Journal of Internet Computing and Services
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• v.25 no.3
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• pp.93-100
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• 2024

This study empirically examined the influence of motivation for using the metaverse virtual community Ifland on satisfaction and intention to continue usage, as well as the moderating effect of innovativeness. Specifically, the study identified the motivations for using Ifland among its users and analyzed their relationships with satisfaction and intention to continue usage. For this purpose, a survey was conducted targeting 303 university students who had experience using Ifland.The results of the study are as follows: Firstly, the motivations for using Ifland were identified as entertainment and relaxation, information-seeking, social interaction, and self-expression motives. All of these motivations were found to have a significant impact on user satisfaction. Secondly, satisfaction with Ifland was found to influence intention to continue usage. Thirdly, innovativeness was found to moderate the relationship between entertainment and relaxation motives and satisfaction, and it was confirmed to play a moderating role between satisfaction and intention to continue usage.

• 한국경영정보학회:학술대회논문집
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• 2007.06a
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• pp.103-108
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• 2007

인터넷 사용자들의 증가와 여러 기기들의 발달에 따라 인터넷 사용자들은 새로운 형태의 커뮤니케이션을 스스로 발전시킬 수 있었고, 이러한 흐름이 최근 UCC의 폭발적인 증가로 이어졌다. 하지만 최근까지 사용자들이 왜 자신이 스스로 노력을 들여서 UCC를 공유하는 지에 대한 명확한 설명은 부재한 상황이다. UCC공유동기는 기존에 지속적으로 연구되어 왔던 가상커뮤니티나 온라인구전활동의 참여동기를 상당부분 가지고 있으나 이들로 설명할 수 없는 새로운 참여동기를 포함하고 있는 것으로 보여진다. 본 연구에서는 이러한 UCC 공유 동기를 파악하기 위해 UCC 공유 경험이 있는 사람들을 대상으로 설문을 수행하였고, 요인분석을 통해 UCC공유동기가 '자가 창조의 즐거움', '커뮤니티에 대한 책임감', '자아표현 욕구', '타인과의 교제', '보상'의 동기로 요인화될 수 있음을 밝혀냈다. 그리고 이들 동기가 UCC 공유 의도에 어떤 영향을 주는지를 알아보았다. UCC공유의도를 양적인 측면과 질적인 측면으로 나누어, 앞에서 요인화 된 5가지 UCC동기가 각각에 어떤 영향을 주는지를 확인하였다. 본 연구의 결과를 통해 UCC를 공유하는 사용자들을 좀 더 이해할 수 있을 것이고, UCC를 비즈니스모델로 하는 온라인기업들에게 UCC참여 및 양질의 서비스를 제공할 수 있는 가이드를 제시할 수 있을 것이다.

• Information Systems Review
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• v.4 no.2
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• pp.309-322
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• 2002

In this paper, we study changes in company revenue structure. For this, we introduce a new concept for an expanded e-business community - Supra Hub. Based on this concept, we analyze current problems with regard to revenue structure in industry-specific cases and propose advisable alternatives. These alternatives are derived from Burts research on Network and Organization. We conclude that new community is coming connecting industry-specific networks.

• The Journal of Information Systems
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• v.25 no.1
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• pp.135-158
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• 2016

Purpose Virtual communities change the way people communicate and share information. The purpose of this paper is to find how internet social capital and individual motivations influence the information sharing in virtual communities. This study considers the social capital theory, individual motivations, information sharing, and community promotion to construct a theoretical model. Design/methodology/approach Social capital focuses on three dimensions that include 6 factors: social interaction ties, centrality, shared language, shared vision, trust and reciprocity. Individual motivations include 2 factors: reputation and enjoy helping. To confirm the research model and the hypotheses, 426 effective questionnaires were used for the final analysis. Findings The result of data analysis demonstrates that social interaction ties, centrality, shared language, trust, and reciprocity were significant in affecting information sharing behaviors. However, reputation, enjoy helping, and shared vision does not appear to have a significant influence on information sharing behaviors. The information sharing was positively related to community promotion.