• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.13 no.12
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• pp.680-689
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• 2013

In recent, much attention has been paid to the educational serious games that provide both fun and learning effects. However, most educational games have been targeted at the infants and children, and it is still hard to use such games in higher education. On the contrary, this paper aims to develop an educational game for teaching mathematical programming to the undergraduates. It is well known that most puzzle games can be transformed into associated optimization problem and vice versa, and this paper proposes a simple educational game based on the subset sum problem. This game enables the users to play the puzzle and construct their own mathematical programming model for solving it. Moreover, the users are provided with appropriate instructions for modeling and their models are evaluated by using the data automatically generated. It is expected that the educational game in this paper will be helpful for teaching basic programming models to the students in industrial engineering or management science.

• Journal of Korea Game Society
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• v.14 no.5
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• pp.7-14
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• 2014

Since educational and fun elements coexist in an educational game, it is important to come up with standards that can elicit fun with the game as well as educational standards. Many of the existing developed educational games have received low marks in the characteristics of entertainment and game design. Thus, how to make up for their entertainment characteristics is important. This paper analyzes gaming elements of puzzle games that were released for smart phones and gained massive popularity from their users and will apply them to educational games. Such games that have gained popularity and won a commercial success include Anipang, Anipang 2, Candy Crush Saga, Farm Heroes Saga and Pokopang. This study will analyze gaming elements of these games. By analyzing the educational games, it is applied to the game elements of casual games. In addition, we have proposed a element that can enhance the immersive. Game design elements that can improve entertainment characteristics include game rules, stages and missions. Elements that can increase immersion include items, background maps and new learning environments. This paper has significance in that it analyzes entertainment characteristics, which mean the fun of games through those that have been a commercial success and applies them to educational games.

• Journal of Digital Convergence
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• v.19 no.6
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• pp.281-284
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• 2021

The importance of early childhood education has increased and early childhood education has become an important part of the education industry. Scientific and rational early childhood education can effectively promote the development of children's intelligence and is very important for the development of physical and mental health. As a rich and diverse game, educational games have been widely used not only to improve children's sense of cooperation and thinking, but also to help children develop awareness of competition and rules. Stability and personality formation stimulate young children's brain development and expect children's intellectual improvement.

• The Journal of Korean Association of Computer Education
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• v.8 no.4
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• pp.87-95
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• 2005

A large part of the wireless Internet contents which the young people access through their mobile phones is mobile games. However, mobile games currently available in the market are mostly simple entertainment packages, and there are hardly any educational game contents. This research divided the middle school computer education curriculum into five parts-common PC knowledge, operating systems, word processor, Internet, and multimedia-and designed and implemented a crossword puzzles mobile game. The mobile game designed in this research was given an emphasis to allow access of school lesson contents anywhere and anytime through actual mobile telecommunication networks, so that the students may experience less barrier to more fun and entertaining educational contents. The developed educational mobile game was applied on 2nd year middle school students. The mobile game had positive educational effects.

• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.8 no.2
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• pp.83-90
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• 2008

An on-line game is growing of very fast through characters of the interactive Computing and internet environment. In addition, an edu-game combing the advantages of the game and the education increase gradually. The paper proposes an edu-game system for providing knowledge through the hierarchical structure. The system differs from existing ones that combine a game and an on-line education. There are three different goals as follows. First, the paper proposes three-level of knowledge hierarchies. The method enables users to understand more easy and systematic and interesting education. Second, the graphic interface of a puzzle type is able to contact more conveniently and it provides beauties and functionalities. Third, Among them, specifically the knowledge hierarchy is not forced to users and the method also can study in detail and users can enjoy systematically e-education by using the general type of a puzzle game.

• Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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• 2007.11a
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• pp.157-160
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• 2007

네트워크로 연결된 온라인상의 게임은 상호 작용이라는 특성을 통해 빠르게 성장하고 있다. 이와 함께 흥미로운 요소를 가진 있는 게임의 장점과 온라인 교육의 장점을 결합한 교육용 게임이 등장하고 있는 추세이다. 하지만 이러한 온라인 교육용 게임은 단지 게임과 교육을 결합 하는 것에만 치중하여 심층적인 학습이 이루어지지 못할 뿐만 아니라 인터페이스 또한 교육효과에 크게 영향을 미치지 못하고 있는 실정이다. 이에 본 논문은 이러한 문제점에 초점을 맞추고 이를 위해 새로운 방법을 제안하였다. 교육의 방법에 있어서 퍼즐이라는 게임의 형식을 기반으로 세 단계 계층구조를 통한 지식전달의 체계를 제안하고 있으며 누구나 쉽게 접근 가능한 인터페이스 방법 또한 함께 제안하였다.

• Journal of Korea Game Society
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• v.20 no.3
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• pp.35-44
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• 2020

In this study, we propose a reliable command placement recognition algorithm using tangible commands blocks developed for our coding puzzle platform, and present its performance measurement results on an Augmented Reality testbed environment. As a result, it can recognize up to 30 tangible blocks simultaneously and their placements within 5 seconds reliably. It is successfully ported to an existing coding puzzle mobile app and can operate an IoT attached robot via bluetooth connected mobile app.

• Proceedings of the Korea Contents Association Conference
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• 2006.11a
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• pp.172-175
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• 2006

Hamel has a scholastic value as the first person, who announces Jeju and Korea to Europe. However, there has been little research on developing digital contents except a few books about Hamel. We develop an educational game on PDA using Hamel, based on Hamel character, Jeju's unique culture, multimedia technology, and so on. Compared with the previous games, it is different from the form of gathering points and has various game scenarios through interactions between Hamel character and game space. The structure of this game, which connects Jeju culture and cyber space together, represents the form of a digital storytelling. You can study through this game. It uses quizzes about Jeju culture, crossword puzzles, finding a sequence, finding differences between two pictures to teach users, and fixing pieces of a figure, etc. When we made the game, we divided it into some independent modules to make new game series easily using contents of the other provinces.

• The Journal of the Convergence on Culture Technology
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• v.9 no.5
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• pp.543-548
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• 2023

This study emphasizes the need to understand digital transformation and addresses the development process of functional mobile games with the theme of digital transformation. Through previous research, we found that existing mobile games do not reflect the changes in industries and jobs in the future. In this study, we designed and developed an educational mobile game that can help young people develop digital literacy skills and understand core skills for future changes in industrial structure and jobs due to digital transformation. It utilizes Unity 3D and combines the best features of puzzle, card, and board games. While there may be limitations in terms of expertise in developing educational content, it is important to note that we have presented content that can provide a futuristic view of careers through a game that is highly preferred by students. Considering the direct and indirect educational effects of the game, it is expected to be useful as a vocational education content in the classroom through tablet devices that have recently been distributed in schools.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Building Construction
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• v.22 no.2
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• pp.219-228
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• 2022

In this study, to improve educational motivation and learning outcomes, a mobile app using game elements was developed, and the effect of its application in rebar work education was analyzed. Using the 4F(Figure out-Focus-Fun design-Finalize) process, which is a game development model, a mobile learning app for rebar work was developed that considers the characteristics of college students familiar with smartphone use, and the app was developed in a manner that utilizes game mechanics such as learning missions and points to stimulate a learner's interest and improve educational motivation. The results show that the proposed app for rebar work is positively evaluated in terms of interface style, perceived usefulness, perceived ease of use, perceived enjoyment, attitude toward using, and intention to use. Therefore, it can be concluded that using the learning game app for rebar work in classes can contribute to improving a learner's performance in various aspects.