• Archives of design research
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• v.12 no.1
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• pp.145-154
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• 1999

With the introduction of digital technology since the late 1970s, we have been shifting from the industrial era into the information age. New communication systems have changed our concept of reality. Korea has a wealthy communication heritage with its own language and alphabet. However, Korean typography today has struggled to keep its originality, and does not hold up well to international standards. Korean contemporary typography is not efficient for communicating. It is not orderly, organised and simple. It has currently become complicated and decorative. Moreover, many young designers are attracted by imitations of western trends. It is now time for Korea to reveal its own identity. How can it develop a new typographic language that is more sympathetic to Korean tradition\ulcorner How will Korean information design produce a contemporary style with international relevance that contributes to world culture\ulcorner This thesis will be developed a new Korean typographic language that relies more on Korean traditions. Simultaneously, in this thesis will be examined Swiss typography as a relevant style for a new Korean typography to incorporate. Swiss typography maintained a similar philosophy to Korean tradition with its emphasis on clarity and simplicity. This study will be explored the potential of creating a contemporary Korean typographic solution which combines the traditions of Korea with the clarity of Swiss typography. The first attitude of the new typographic language should focus on legibility. The second condition of the new typographic philosophy based on the ability of designers is interpretation of context. The third concept of the new language is founded on an objective, rational design attitude. The final mental attitude of the new typographic language should feel a deep obligation to traditions. It is crucial time for Korean alphabet to establish a relevant standard rather than goes uncritically with the international current. Korea has had worthy traditions. It is suggested that the answers to 'good design' lie in the study of Korea's own history. Simultaneously, the research of Swiss design which is a

• Archives of design research
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• v.19 no.2 s.64
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• pp.31-42
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• 2006

This study originates from the following critical mind; what will the office of the future be like? and what technology will we rely upon most to communicate with colleagues or to access business information. In the office environment today, new technology has compelled new work paradigm and has greatly affected the capabilities of the individual to work in a more productive and efficient manner. However, even though new computer technology has changed the business world so rapidly, it is very difficult to see the changes that have been taken place. As an aim of the study, creating a mobile tool for office workers that successfully supports their work and communication was explored, and this study explored future work environment with a 5 years technological and social perspective. As a result of this study, the bON brings new visions to the mobile professionals via various interfaces. The bON, a mobile device, is both a system of work and of communication for office workers. The bON, as an integrated tool for working and communicating, forms the basis for a mobile information gateway that is equally capable of functioning as a mobile desk. The basic underlying idea is that all formal meeting places and hallways in the office are equipped with large wall-mounted screens. The bON collaborates with these media in various ways to enhance productivity and efficiency. The main challenge for the bON to enhance both mobility and quality of information is using new technology including bendable and flexible display and soft material display and sensors. To answer for the strong needs for mobility, the whole size of the device is fairly small while the screen is rolled inside the device. For Graphical User Interface, moreover, a new technique called Multi-layering Interface was adopted to stretch user's visual limits and suggests new direction in designing mobile device, equipped with small size display.

• Journal of Korea Game Society
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• v.11 no.4
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• pp.15-26
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• 2011

Game level design is a collaborative work to create a virtual world for a computer game including maps, agents, monsters, objects, players and events based on predefined its game scenario. It is a promising collaborative design application. The game level design generally requires much time and cost, as the size of its target game space becomes huge. However, traditional game level design tools do not provide concurrency control mechanisms among multiple participating game designers. They do not provide consistency of undo and redo mechanisms for erroneous collaborative tasks during iterative modifications and updates of collaborative tasks among multiple designers. In this paper, we propose a concurrency control and a collaborative editing mechanism to enhance productivity of the collaborative game level design. The proposed system provides hierarchical structures of shared objects and a concurrency control mechanism for each object. The proposed system also provides a consistent undo and redo mechanism to enhance modifications and updates on intermediate results of the level design procedures.

• Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society
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• v.17 no.8
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• pp.423-432
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• 2016

Due to the increase in the number of transfer lines and ground level connections with mixed-use high-rise buildings, the Seoul Metro suffers from loaded signage fatigue because of the presence of too many signs. The purpose of this research is to propose ways of improving the wayfinding on the Seoul subway station by examining the signage and (applying the) universal design (UD) concept. A review of the literature explored five universal design components, viz. the accessibility, safety, equitability, perception, and aesthetics. The field investigation found that the ceiling and wall type and general information boards were high on the information hierarchy. The survey respondents merely perceived universal design concept, however, most needed principle. The IPA found that the signs should be appropriately laid out, spaced and located from the perspective of accessibility, and their unity and harmony were other aspects that could be improved while general information boards should include important landmarks outside. In conclusion, this study suggests that the universal design signage concept should be applied to every station and that specific stations should have a duly sign system.

• Archives of design research
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• v.11 no.1
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• pp.291-302
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• 1998

This paper covers the development process of multimedia evaluation system, especially focused on customer satisfactory factors while customers navigating net-based Interactive multimedia system. Customers usually experience new level of interaction cased by newly developed web-based technology In ordinary multimedia system. However, if it gives customers satisfactory experience is a matter of question. To find out the relationship between customer satisfaction and interactivity factors exposed by multimedia system, a model has been developed which describes the structure of web-based multimedia system and its relation to customer satisfactory factors. Five different experiments, including 'semantic differential', 'focus group interview', and 'expert review', has been conducted and four customer satisfactory factors were identified. Those are 'customery value', 'structural perfectness', 'visual perfectness', and 'contemporaneity'. With these factors and newly delveoped evaluation system, 7 different web-site has been evaluated and analyzed at the end of this report.

• Archives of design research
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• v.11 no.1
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• pp.173-184
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• 1998

This study deals with the visual quality in the future urban landscape and architectural environment, and as such, aims to identify a scientific and objective aesthetic and visual quality from the perspective of empirical aesthetics. The empirical aesthetics provides a framework that can be utilized in understanding human perception, consciousness, and behavior and a way to categorize the visual quality and to explain and predict its effect. The study examines various theories on environmental perception, cognition, and some new approaches to environmental aesthetics, and tries to present aesthetic properties that can be applied to environmental design. First, the aesthetic experience in visual perception can be defined as a combined effect of psychobiological properties and human activity, i.e. an interaction between the formal and symbolic signs in environment and the conceptual framework of man. The effect of visual quality differs and varies a great deal, depending on the sociocultural, personal and collective value system, so it is hard to define it in absolute terms. Second, the impact of visual quality and its aesthetic effect has to do with pleasure, preference, the aptitude for survival, and self regulation. Third, aesthetics is one of the areas that can benefit a great deal from an interdisciplinary approach. and an empirical study such as this can be used as a basis for design, planning, and evaluation.

• The Journal of the Convergence on Culture Technology
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• v.9 no.1
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• pp.111-118
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• 2023

The purpose of this study is to study jewelry designs presented to general consumers who seek new products and diversity. We would like to present a modular jewelry design with a structure and combination method that is distinct from jewelry in a multimodal replacement method that allows various product modules sold in the past to be worn interchangeably. Problems are likely to occur when a number of existing rather small parts are manufactured in a complex combination method, and difficulties may follow when consumers replace decorative parts and lose them in the process of assembling small fixture parts. Therefore, in order to reduce these problems, we try to make it different from jewelry products made with a simple and simple design so that it can be easily replaced and worn without the need for other coupling parts, and produced using the latest 3D printer (Rapid Prototyping). In this study, based on the experience and know-how gained while engaging in field work, it was possible to make a real object and focused on minimizing problems during the production process, and through this, time and economic loss can be reduced. The purpose of the study is to produce improved jewelry products by expressing more sophisticated and differentiated shapes by using 3D programs (CAD).

• Design Convergence Study
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• v.16 no.6
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• pp.169-184
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• 2017

There is a lot of needs that are not expressed as much as the expressed needs in familiar products and services that are used in daily life such as a smartphone. Finding the 'Inconveniences in familiar use' make it possible to create opportunities for value expanding in the existing products and service area. There are a lot of related works, which have studied the definition of hidden needs and the methods to find it. But, they are making it difficult to address the hidden needs in the cases of familiar use due to focus on the new product or service developing typically. In this study, we try to redefine the hidden needs in the daily familiarity and approach it in the new way to find out. Because of the users' unability to express what they want and the complexity of needs which can not be explained clearly, we can not approach it as the quantitative issue. For this reason, the basic data type selected as the user behavior data excluding all description is the screen-shot of the smartphone. We try to apply the integrated rules and patterns to the individual data using the qualitative coding techniques to overcome the limitations of qualitative analysis based on unstructured data. From this process, We can not only extract meaningful clues which can make to understand the hidden needs but also identify the possibility as a way to discover hidden needs through the review of relevance to actual market trends. The process of finding hidden needs is not easy to systemize in itself, but we expect the possibility to be conducted a reference frame for finding hidden needs of other further studies.

• 한국HCI학회:학술대회논문집
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• 2006.02a
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• pp.474-479
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• 2006

컴퓨터 기술이 발전함에 따라 3 차원 입력시스템을 통한 모델링이 가능하게 되었다. 2 차원 시스템은 평면 입력을 공간상의 데이터로 바꾸기 위한 많은 기능과 메뉴들이 존재하지만 3 차원 시스템에서는 그러한 복잡한 기능 없이 입력 데이터가 곧바로 모델링에 적용될 수 있다. 하지만 아직까지 3 차원 입력시스템에서 모델링을 수행하는 디자이너에게 익숙한 스케치 방법을 고려하지 못하고 있는 실정이다. 디자이너에게 가장 익숙한 모델링 방법은 스케치북에 선으로 그림을 그리는 것이기 때문에, 모델을 변형하는 방법은 이를 벗어나지 않도록 해야 한다. 평면 스케치에서 디자이너가 그리는 선은 모델의 윤곽을 잡아주고 모델의 특징이 되는 부분을 표현하게 된다. 이러한 선의 입력을 통한 스케치를 3 차원 모델링에서 그대로 사용하기 위해서는 공간에서의 점이나 면이 아닌 선의 입력을 모델링에 적용할 수 있어야 한다.

• Proceedings of the ESK Conference
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• 1995.10a
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• pp.231-239
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• 1995

인간중심의 작업설계는 오래전 부터 공학의 중요한 과제로 여겨왔다. 이에 인간은 여 러가지 다양한 형태의 도구를 만들고 개선해 왔으며, 이 중 Handtool은 중요한 도구 중의 하나 이다. 인간과 도구가 그 사용에 있어 최적의 조화를 이루어갈 때 위험요소는 사라지게 되고 작업의 부하는 줄어들며, 작업시간의 단축과 함께 작업의 정확도는 나아지게 된다. 기술의 발달은 갈수록 복잡하고 위력적인 도구를 발명해 내고 있지만 아직도 우리의 주변에는 이의 설계에 있어 인간공학적인 요소가 충분히 고려되고 있다고는 할 수 없다. 실제로 최근에 와서는 많은 수 공구들이 동력화되고, 그 성능은 갈수록 나아져 가고 있는 반면, 이의 사용 으로 인한 사고라든지, CTS(Carpal Tunnel Syndrom)과 같은 누적외상병은 별로 나아짐이 없이 경우에 따라서는 오히려 심해져가고 있다. 따라서 도구의 인간공학적인 다지인의 목적은 위험요소의 제거, 작업부하의 절감 그리고 작업능력의 향상에 있다고 할 것이다. 기존의 연구 중 개별적인 Handtool의 인간공학적인 디자인의 예는 이미 많이 연구가 되어 있다. 그러나 이 러한 연구들의 사례는 일관된 시스템적인 접근방식을 갖지 못하여 본 연구에서는 인간공학적인 측면에서 Handtool의 설계를 위해 고려되어야 할 요소와 함께 그 체계적인 접근방식을 제시한다.