• Journal of Digital Convergence
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• v.9 no.6
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• pp.103-111
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• 2011

This study parent-children relationship with the youth of the Internet was to evaluate the impact on. Internet excess utility of adolescents was to influence the, and how we received its relation the influence. This study distinguished their patent-children relation according to the violence and non-interference level and Internet excess utility contains an everyday life problem, we can not do the work to plan, the excess Internet usage, and the complications of the another person. This distinguished with genernal, potent risk, high risk category. The result was as follows: First, potent risk and high risk category appeared in the parent-children relation to be the no- interference. This means that parent-children relation has an influence on internet excess utility of adolescent. Second, the role of parents is important to reduce internet utility of adolescent, and it must understand so that the development stage is careful. We need the supply for adolescent with play and experience program development which can enjoy the leisure culture. We need internet poisoning expert training and the treatment must be achieved with the counselling to be continuous to problem adolescents.

• Journal of Digital Contents Society
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• v.7 no.3
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• pp.133-137
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• 2006

The advent of multimedia as the new media was caused popularization of personal computer and evolution of technology. The age of multimedia instigated the coming of new paradigm. The computer have been changed reality as a human culture to simulation culture. And it have been developed as a connector between real world and cyber space. As a result, a man who have used a computer has a possibility of danger of immersion or addiction. Therefore we must have the media competence.

• Journal of Digital Contents Society
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• v.13 no.4
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• pp.501-516
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• 2012

The purpose of this study is to explore the fundamental nature and meanings of the experiences of university students with regard to their smartphone usage in order to prevent smartphone addiction and provide guidelines to develop effective interventions. Nine university students who were currently enrolled in an university located in a Korean province participated in this study. In-depth interviews were conducted from June of 2012 to July of 2012, and data were analyzed using Colaizzi's phenomenological qualitative method. As a results, five theme and 40 subthemes of experiences of problematic smartphone usage were identified. Those themes include 1) a desperate try to connect with others(exposing oneself without appropriate self-protection, seeking emotional comfort, hurt and mistrust); 2) excessive use of smartphone and loss of self-control(more smartphone usage over computer/over-immersion/excessive usage/habituation, loss of self-control); 3) psychological difficulties(excessive attachment and dependence, separation anxiety, clingingness, reduced patience) ; 4) threats to daily functioning (changes in priorities, regressed independent daily functioning, irregular daily patterns, health problems, interruptions from free messenger, academic difficulties); 5) potential for recovery(conflictual feelings and doubts over smartphone usage, importance of interpersonal(face-to-face) communications, willingness to cut down the use, hope for recovery). This study provided suggestions for the prevention effort against smartphone addiction.

• Journal of the Korea Convergence Society
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• v.13 no.1
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• pp.201-213
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• 2022

This study attempted to identify the influencing factors of Taobao Online Live Commerce influencer's attributes on Taobao Live Platform users' post-purchase satisfaction, repurchase intention and flow, and addiction. Through previous studies, researchers set the live commerce influencer attributes into four categories: expertise, attractiveness, interactivity, and aesthetics, and examined the effects of these attributes on consumers' repurchase intentions, flow and addiction. As a result of the study, it was confirmed that among the attributes of Live Commerce influencer, professionalism, interactivity, and aesthetics had a significant effect on the utilitarian shopping value in consumer satisfaction, and four attributes, including attractiveness, had a positive effect on the hedonic shopping value. In consumer satisfaction, hedonic shopping value had a positive effect on utilitarian shopping value satisfaction. In addition, it was found that consumers' satisfaction after purchase affects repurchase intention and immersion. The effect of flow on repurchase intention and addiction was also confirmed. It is hoped that this study will help revitalize influencer marketing in the growing live commerce market and provide basic data to contribute to establishing marketing strategies.

• Journal of Digital Convergence
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• v.7 no.2
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• pp.71-81
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• 2009

This paper studied the impact of Internet addiction on school life adaptation of high school students. We searched the literature on Internet addiction for such research and analyzed the impact that Internet addiction has on school life fitness. The SPSS statistics program was used for Internet addiction factor analysis and the analysis was carried out through the structure equation model. The family relation, individual relation, school relation and friend relation factor were deduced to Internet addiction as a result. It was revealed that the individual relation factor among Internet addiction factors had an influence on school life fitness. It is expected that this research will prove helpful in providing preventative education for Internet addiction

• Journal of Digital Convergence
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• v.9 no.3
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• pp.21-29
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• 2011

Recently, the side effects from the online game is appearing to adolescent to serious level. This research studied the system to protect adolescent from excessive game usage, the system to limit an online game service connection at the midnight time. Namely we found at a shutdown system introduction of adolescent out about cognition, problems with the game poisoning and effects with shutdown system and alternative policy. The investigation results were as follows. First, only 17.5% of adolescent knew a shutdown system. Second, they were recognizing about the game poisoning seriously. Also the half degree thought them efficiently about a shutdown system introduction. The policy about a shutdown system introduction were as follows. First, public education is activate, and we must keep adolescent from exposing to private education in the entrance examine competition. Second, we need the thing to increase the conversation time of the children with put parents to develop desirable family education program. Lastly, the supply must be achieved with leisure culture contents development of adolescent.

• Journal of Digital Contents Society
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• v.18 no.4
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• pp.691-698
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• 2017

The purpose of this study was to investigate parental concern about infant's smartphone usage experience. The research participants were 6 parents with infants lived in Seoul and Gyeonggi province. The data were collected by focus group interviews. The results of this study revealed that parent's smartphone usage experience could be classified as "Everyday life" and "Supporting tool of parenting". And parental concern could be classified as "Uncertain educational expectation", "Developmental problems", and "Addiction propensity". This study could contribute to understanding the problems of smartphone usage of infants, and providing basic materials for parent education about correct guidance and addiction prevention of digital devices including smartphone.

• Journal of Digital Contents Society
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• v.17 no.5
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• pp.339-348
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• 2016

While the development of digital media has positive aspects of knowledge enlargement and a new communication channel, it also demonstrates a lot of unexpected defects, such as personal isolation, addiction, obsession or Attention Deficit Hyperactivity. Thus, the author considers it is urgent to develop the contents specifically designed for children in this new digital environment and would like to propose the combined Children's device and contents using the new concept of Mixed Reality. The Mixed Reality that mixes real world and virtual world provides the opportunity that can experience the new concept of play education by using touchable interface of children's real life toy cars together with the virtual world in the smart phones. This Mixed Reality that is extended from sole senses will lead the children to develop the concentration, sense of reality and imagination and also to experience the enlarged play and education concept.

• Journal of Digital Convergence
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• v.20 no.4
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• pp.519-528
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• 2022

The purpose of the study was to further investigate the direction for one-person experience design based on visual shift due to the isolation one has experienced after the COVID-19 and the factors regarding it. The study involves eight female participants who are in their twenties via digital platform. The participants were instructed to choose digital image similar to COVID-19 and to write down facts based upon the image and the researcher will look into the result microscopically. The researchers found that the isolation factors include decreased face-to-face communication, reliance on social media, heavy usage of OTT platform, limited outdoor occasion and activity, limitation of untact technology and education program, fear over the pandemic and so on. The study has shown that the one-person experience design should be heading in a direction where it adopts space design that can crossover online and offline world, digital complex design to embody realness as well as the communication design to regain the relationships with others.

• The Journal of the Convergence on Culture Technology
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• v.9 no.6
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• pp.339-345
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• 2023

Design exists behind technology. Design is intertwined with the needs of daily life and market structures, and while dealing with technology, it can become insensitive to its meaning. Unlike other social media platforms, Instagram consists of image-based content. The purpose of this study is to examine the addictive design of Instagram. Furthermore, we discuss the ethical responsibilities that designers must have. A theoretical framework for understanding Instagram design is established through a review of major domestic and international literature that has been previously studied. Understand the history, structure, and functions of Instagram and identify Instagram designs that promote social media addiction. In this study, we introduced the mechanism by which Instagram promotes user addiction through design issues. (1) Pull-to-Refresh (2) Red color in push alarm (3) Profile photo border expression in Instagram Story. This design stimulates users' social desires and FOMO, forming the structure of obsessive Instagram usage habits. Instagram is an example that forces us to reconsider the ethical role of design and designers along with the advancement of technology. In today's world, the intrinsic value of what they create, including our society and life itself.