• The Journal of Information Systems
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• v.23 no.1
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• pp.1-28
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• 2014

소셜 네트워크 서비스의 확산과 더불어 소셜 네트워크 게임(이하에서는 소셜게임이라 함)이 부각되고 있다. 한편, 소셜게임이 인기를 끌면서 소셜 네트워크 서비스가 더욱 확산되는 계기가 되기도 한다. 사용자들을 소셜게임에 몰입하도록 유인하는 요인이 무엇인가를 파악하면 소셜 네트워크 서비스가 더욱 발전할 수 있는 방안을 찾을 수 있다. 따라서 본 연구는 사용자들을 소셜게임에 몰입하도록 유인하는 요인이 무엇인가를 분석하는데 있다. 본 연구에서는 대표적인 소셜 네트워크 사이트라 할 수 있는 페이스북의 소셜게임 사용자들을 대상으로 설문조사를 실시하였다. 280명의 사용자들을 대상으로 한 설문을 통해, 소셜게임에의 몰입, 게임스토리, 게임그래픽, 게임사회화, 게임 통제력, 게임 사용용이성의 관계를 구조방정식모형으로 분석하였다. 특히, 게임 사회화와 게임그래픽은 몰입에 직접적으로 영향을 주기도 하며 게임 사용용이성을 통해 간접적으로도 영향을 주었다. 한편, 게임스토리는 몰입에 직접적으로만 영향을 주고, 게임 통제력을 게임사용 용이성을 통해 간접적으로 영향을 준다. 본 연구는 몰입이론과 기술수용이론을 토대로 하고 있지만, 소셜게임에서의 몰입에 대한 최초의 연구이기 때문에 후속 연구에 지침이 될 수 있다. 또한 소셜게임을 개발하는 사업자들이 무엇에 역점을 두고 게임을 개발하고 서비스해야 할 것인가에 대한 지침이 될 수 있다.

• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.13 no.4
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• pp.86-96
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• 2013

This study is about utilizing social game as a gamification advertising platform. Since iPhone released to the world, the smart phone industry has rapidly increased. And the development of the smart phone industry has rapidly increased its rate of users in which it has led to leaping growths of new kind of service such as SNS(Social Network Service), and SNG(Social Network Game). The purpose of this study is predicting the development of advertising industry in smart phone paradigm shift. This study focused on social network game as a gamification advertising platform, and studied on case of which is social network game used as a gamification advertising platform. Finally, this study has developed suggestions for new way of advertising by utilizing Mobile social network game as a gamification advertising platform.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.14 no.11
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• pp.2586-2592
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• 2010

Currently social network games with an emphasis on the relationship between the friends, especially women users and the elderly users of over forties, have contributed to the expansion of game market attracting large audiences. Though recent interest in social network games and the explosive propagation of social network game into game industry, scholarly research for social network game is insufficient. The objective of the study is to explore the success factors for successful social network games through the depth interview with game experts. We suggest the guidelines for development of social network game. Commercial success of social network games and the number of users with the best game, farmville, were investigated for understanding key success factors in social network game field. As a result, social interaction, simple interface, asynchronous method, instrumental rationality factors have been identified. This result of the study will expect the guideline in order to develop a successful social network games.

• Journal of Digital Convergence
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• v.10 no.10
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• pp.457-463
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• 2012

Social network game (SNG) literally is a game based on the relationship between social network or Relationships with people is an important element in the game you need to make full use of them is that you can smooth progress. The form of a social network game activities in the social network game applications by linking corporate products and can be induced to purchase marketing and advertising through in-game social network game on the company's Web site or by connecting the mall and shop are also available. In this study, SNG business models, Case For game development, social commerce based on the new proposed future revenue model linking scheme is proposed.

• Journal of Korea Game Society
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• v.15 no.1
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• pp.171-184
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• 2015

Looking at the existing game-related research, innumerable researches such as game acceptance, user satisfaction, continuance intention, wold-of-mouse intention have been carried out. However, there was no cases that applying the concept of service recovery in game researches. The purpose of this study is to evaluate the impact on the characteristic of the mobile social network game that based on domestic mobile social network game platform which focusing on KakaoTalk games on the service recovery. In addition, the study analyzed the characteristic factors of mobile social network game on the basis of Organizational Equity Theory and Innovation Diffusion Theory to identified the causal relationship between those factors and service recovery. As a result, except the independent variable-compatibility, all of the characteristics factors of mobile social network game showed direct or indirect effects on service recovery. The results of this study are expected as a reference for presenting a new business model, reducing risk factors and enriching the related research of the gaming industry.

• Journal of Digital Contents Society
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• v.14 no.2
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• pp.125-134
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• 2013

The mobile device users have been increasing significantly because of the development of Social network system and network technologies. Because of this popularity, there are various games in market based on the combination of the mobile device with social networks. It will be the potential market within the mobile games with the growth of popularity in various users. This paper proposes the possibilities for the development of mobile game in educational contents through the case study of the popular mobile games.

• Journal of Internet Computing and Services
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• v.13 no.1
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• pp.125-134
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• 2012

As the social networking service (SNS), Facebook, and Cyworld, is developing, the social network game and social business commerce based on this service is activated. Especially, the Social Network Game (SNG) is getting explosive interests and it becomes popular, because it is small scale and user can enjoy the game among close friends. The market for this game is getting larger every year, but still it has some limitations in developing the game. Especially, the current game engine is aiming for developing online or console game, and there is no exclusive game engine for developing SNG. Therefore, it takes lots of time for developing SNG with this game engine. In this paper, we described a design and development of the game engine optimized for developing SNG, which not only adapts the main characteristics of the previous game engine, but also considers the specific characteristics of the SNG. The engine also supports map for the simulation game that is the most popular game in SNG, and also provides modules and tools for developing character animation easily. The evaluation standard for the performance of the game engine is the output generation speed of image, text and character. And the results showed reasonable output speed for developing the SNG in generation of image, text, and character.

• The Journal of Society for e-Business Studies
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• v.18 no.1
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• pp.191-211
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• 2013

The deployment of social network service(SNS) makes the social network game(SNG) as the new value added service of SNS be popular. But, a few study had identified the reason of this popularity and the elements of SNG. Based on the social presence theory and media richness theory, we had tried to identify three community artifacts (i.e. persistent labeling, self presentation and deep profiling) and two media characteristics(i.e. vividness and interactivity) as the SNG elements in this research. Then we had empirically validated the effect of these elements on the SNGexperience (i.e. social presence, perceived enjoyment) and behavioral intentions (i.e. Continuous usage intention, willingness to pay and loyalty) of the users. We conducted a survey to the actual SNG users. 243 data were collected and analyzed by PLS algorism. The results indicated that the community artifacts mediated by the social presence and media characteristics could significantly affect on the experiences and behavioral intentions. These findings could contribute to identify what element could be the reason of social network game popularity and could also contribute to design more attractive social network game in practice.

• Journal of Korea Society of Industrial Information Systems
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• v.16 no.5
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• pp.173-184
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• 2011

Today smart devices such as smart phones, smart pads and tablets have become necessities of modern people in both daily life and business as they have widely proliferated. One of the most popular application areas of smart devices is a game-related area. Among these applications social network games, played with other users through social networks, are ranked top in their popularity. Though much research of PC games and online games have been performed, little research of social network games and the factors affecting acceptance of social network games are not vigorous yet. Therefore, we aim to analyze the factors and their structural influence on acceptance of social network games. We add a couple of factors such as Social interaction, Mobility, Subjective Norm, and Flow reg arding the characteristics of social network games and analyze the structural relationships among these factors using Structural Equation Modeling. Analysis results and implications are suggested with concluding remarks.

• Proceedings of the Korea Contents Association Conference
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• 2012.05a
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• pp.43-44
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• 2012

스마트 폰이 보편화되면서 소셜 네트워크 게임의 시장이 확장되고 있다. 온라인 커뮤니티를 기반으로 한 소셜 네트워크 게임은 유저의 수에 비례하여 수익이 발생하기 때문에 초기 유저 확보의 점유가 중요하다. 현재의 소셜 네트워크 게임은 체계적인 비즈니스 모델을 사용하지 않고 일반적인 게임 마케팅 비즈니스 모델을 사용하는 사례가 대부분이다. 초기 유저 확보를 위해서 객관적이고, 논리적인 수익 모델 및 수용 요인 분석이 필요하다. 본 논문에서는 이러한 요인을 멀티 레벨 비즈니스 모델을 디자인 한 후, 초기 유저 확보를 위한 정량적인 근거를 제안하였다. 소셜 게임 'Rich town'을 분석하여 초기 유저 유입 데이터를 도출한 데이터를 본 논문에서 제안한 멀티 레벨 비즈니스 모델에 적용하였다.