• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Computer Information Conference
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• 2014.07a
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• pp.315-316
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• 2014

본 논문에서는 체감형 기능성 게임의 여러 요인들 중에 하지근력을 실질적으로 강화시키기 위해서는 어떠한 요인들이 필요하며, 그 요인들을 어떻게 구성 하였을 때 가장 큰 효과를 줄 수 있는지 요소들에 대한 구성에 대해서 분석하여 체감형 기능성 게임을 개발 하는 업체들에게 실직적인 효과를 줄 수 있는 요인들을 제시하는데 목적이 있다.

• Proceedings of the Korea Contents Association Conference
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• 2015.05a
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• pp.339-340
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• 2015

본 연구는 노약자용 기능성 운동 시나리오 설계에 앞서 특정 대상인 노약자들을 다양한 측면에서 이해하고자 수행하였다. 따라서, 노약자에게 적합한 운동 환경 및 게임 환경에서 고려해야 하는 사항들을 신체적 특성, 심리적, 인지적 특성 및 사회적, 물리적 특성 그리고 적합한 게임 환경 등에 대하여 체계적 문헌연구(systematic review)를 통하여 조사하고 범주화 한 후 전문가들의 검증을 거쳐 목록화하였다.

• KIPS Transactions on Computer and Communication Systems
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• v.5 no.10
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• pp.303-310
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• 2016

Recently there has been growing popularity in exergame, such as Wii Sport or Xbox Fitness game, which enables users to get physical exercise while playing the games. In such experienced exercise games, the user's posture recognition is very important to find out exactly how much the users need to take their body posture as compared to the proper posture. This paper proposes a new exercise posture recognition model designed for the exercise game content for the elderly. The proposed model is based on extracting feature points of a skeleton model provided by the Kinect sensor to generate the feature vectors to recognize the user's exercise posture information. This paper describes the design and implementation of the exercise posture recognition model and demonstrates the feasibility of this proposed posture recognition model through a simple experiment. The experimental results showed 94.52% of average accordance rate for 12 exercise postures of 10 participants.

• Journal of Korea Game Society
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• v.18 no.4
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• pp.53-64
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• 2018

The digital era opens with the changing times and many parts of life has become convenient. With this convenience of living, the obesity rate of people is gradually increasing, and the necessity of exercise is emerging. However, many studies have shown that many people do not exercise or stop exercising in three to six months. In this paper, we have designed and developed a "Walking Pet" prototype, a healthcare-inspired AR game, based on the theoretical background of exercise and the precedent studies to verify these facts. The developed "Walking Pet" provides exercise data to motivate the person to exercise and apply the pet system to eventually enjoy the exercise. In order to verify the effectiveness of the "Walking Pet" prototype developed in this paper, we surveyed 100 males and females in need of health care applications and surveyed the satisfaction of pure functional aspects.

• Journal of Korea Game Society
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• v.21 no.2
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• pp.33-42
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• 2021

Despite people's expectation, COVID-19 has turned out to be a burden people have to carry for a while. The age of "Untact" has come. While many outdoor activites have been restricted, it is crucial to find other ways to maintain physical/mental health ideally indoors. As a mediative gesture, people are now taking notice of 'Console games', through which they can party, travel, and exercise in virtual reality even harder than in real life. In thesis, we will examine Nintendo Switch Consoles in relation to direction Korean game industry has to take to maintain people's physical/mental health.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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• 2009.10a
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• pp.709-710
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• 2009

Current Serious games for medical treatment and rehabilitation are not usually suitable for actual patients because of the inconvenient user interfaces. The disabled or rehabilitants have limited ability to control the game contents. Therefore, it is very important to develop proper interfaces for such serious games. In this paper, we propose a serious game that utilizes the Nintendo wiimote controller and pattern recognition techniques. We also show the possibility of such contents for the future application to actual rehabilitation.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Computer Information Conference
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• 2018.07a
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• pp.225-226
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• 2018

본 논문에서는 사물인터넷 환경에서 걷기운동을 재미있게 할 수 있는 게임형 콘텐츠의 설계 및 구현, 효과에 대한 검증사례를 소개한다. 이 콘텐츠는 비콘이 설치된 계단을 걸음으로써 소모 칼로리를 계산하고 지속적으로 활동하도록 유도함으로써 운동효과를 향상시키도록 설계되었다. 본 콘텐츠의 설계 목표는 바쁜 현대인들이 활동 공간 안에서 가볍게, 재미있게, 지속적으로 운동할 수 있도록 하는 것이며 이 효과는 걷기 행사에 참여한 다수 사용자의 후기를 통하여 확인되었다. 본 콘텐츠는 여러 유형의 헬스 케어 시스템에 융합 가능할 것으로 기대한다.

• Convergence Security Journal
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• v.13 no.3
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• pp.3-8
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• 2013

Recently, the technology and services make progress in IT sector to facilitate the rehabilitation, as well as the exercise that aims to promote the health. To provide the opportunity for new services, various challenges have to be fulfilled, including the blurring boundaries among industries, spread of new technologies, and various demands. Seizing on this opportunity, the fusion and convergence have been accelerated. The trends towards the fusion and convergence are inherent in content industry and spreading to other sectors, which makes the cultural desire of customers fulfilled in a more diverse manner. In particular, the research has been conducted, using the game, in the new technology cultural contents which have shown noticeable fusion and convergence between IT and exercise rehabilitation areas. Such games can be classified into the motion-based game, serious game, and virtual reality game. Those game contents are forming the market fast based on the contents for education, sports, exercise rehabilitation, healthcare, etc., and have very great potential for growth. This study is intended to analyze the fusion and convergence system of exercise rehabilitation through those games and present a direction for future development.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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• 2008.05a
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• pp.491-494
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• 2008

최근 유비쿼터스의 활용이 확장되고 있다. 헬스분야에도 예외는 아니다. 기존의 헬스 싸이클은 단지 고정된 싸이클에 현재 자신의 속도와 맥박 등의 일반적인 정보만 제공하기 때문에 장시간이나 장기간의 운동을 하기에는 시간이 지날수록 흥미도가 떨어지고, 자신에 맞는 운동을 하기도 어렵다. 본 논문에서 논의하는 헬스 싸이클은 센서 네트워크와 DB를 접목한 상증 인식 시스템을 이용하여 자신이 현재 상태와 운동 진행 상태를 분석한 맞춤 운동을 할 수 있다. 사용자는 부착된 체온센서와 심전도센서를 통해서 자신의 상태를 실시간으로 확인하게 된다. 센싱된 신호들을 효율적으로 관리하기 위해서 센서네트워크를 형성하여 모든 신호들은 싱크노드에 집중되게 된다. 이 신호들과 DB에 기록된 사용자의 과거 운동기록을 활용하여 현재 운동중인 사용자의 신체적인 상태를 체하게 된다. 이러한 상황인식을 통해서 운동자에게 위험한 요소를 제거하거나 효과적인 운동이 가능하도록 자동으로 제어해주는 것이 이 헬스싸이클의 특징이다. 또한 여기에 충격감지 센서, 유압펌프제어, Python을 이용한 3D 게임엔진을 더하여 운동시에 가상현실적인 상황을 만들고자 하였으며 장시간의 운동에도 흥미가 떨어지지 않도록 하는 것도 상기 헬스싸이클의 특징이다.

• Journal of the Korea Society of Computer and Information
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• v.27 no.3
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• pp.45-52
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• 2022

A tangible sports game is an exercise game that uses sensors or cameras to track the user's body movements and to feel a sense of reality. Recently, VR indoor sports room systems installed to utilize tangible sports game for physical activity in schools. However, these systems primarily use screen-touch user interaction. In this research, we developed a V-Catch Vision system that uses AI image recognition technology to enable tracking of user movements in three-dimensional space rather than two-dimensional wall touch interaction. We also conducted a usability evaluation experiment to investigate the exercise effects of this system. We tried to evaluate quantitative exercise effects by measuring blood oxygen saturation level, the real-time ECG heart rate variability, and user body movement and angle change of Kinect skeleton. The experiment result showed that there was a statistically significant increase in heart rate and an increase in the amount of body movement when using the V-Catch Vision system. In the subjective evaluation, most subjects found the exercise using this system fun and satisfactory.