• Science of Emotion and Sensibility
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• v.15 no.4
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• pp.553-564
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• 2012

Tangible user interfaces have been developed in the area of Human-Computer Interaction for the last decades, however, the applied domains recently have been extended into the product design and interactive art. Tangible User Interfaces are the combination of digital information and physical objects or environments, thus they provide tangible and intuitive interaction as input and output devices, often combined with Augmented Reality. The research developed a design guideline for tangible user interfaces based on key properties of tangible user interfaces defined previously in five representative research: Tangible Interaction, Intuitiveness and Convenience, Expressive Representation, Context-aware and Spatial Interaction, and Social Interaction. Using the guideline emphasizing user interaction, this research evaluated installation in a science museum in terms of the applied characteristics of tangible user interfaces. The selected 15 installations which were evaluated are to educate visitors for science by emphasizing manipulation and experience of interfaces in those installations. According to the input devices, they are categorized into four Types. TUI properties in Type 3 installation, which uses body motions for interaction, shows the highest score, where items for context-aware and spatial interaction were highly rated. The context-aware and spatial interaction have been recently emphasized as extended properties of tangible user interfaces. The major type of installation in the science museum is equipped with buttons and joysticks for physical manipulation, thus multimodal interfaces utilizing visual, aural, tactile senses etc need to be developed to provide more innovative interaction. Further, more installation need to be reconfigurable for embodied interaction between users and the interactive space. The proposed design guideline can specify the characteristics of tangible user interfaces, thus this research can be a basis for the development and application of installation involving more TUI properties in future.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society for Emotion and Sensibility Conference
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• 2003.05a
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• pp.141-147
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• 2003

본 연구의 목적은 사용성과 평가에 기초하여 사용성과 착용성 평가에 기초하여 웨어러블 컴퓨터의 디자인 프로토타입을 개발하는 것으로서, 실증적 자료를 토대로 하여 웨어러블 컴퓨터의 디자인 적합성 및 물리적 인터페이스 속성을 개선하는데 목표를 두었다. 본 연구에서는 이를 위하여 웨어러블 컴퓨터에 디자인 시안 1종을 실물로 제작하고 컴퓨팅에 능숙한 일반 사용자 10명과 택배직에 종사하는 전문 사용자10명을 대상으로 디자인 시안을 사용하게 한 후, 디자인 시안의 사용성과 착용성을 평가하기 위한 심층면접을 실시하였으며, 그 결과 도출된 문제점을 실증적으로 분석하였다. ‘외관’, ‘관리의 용이성’, ‘컴퓨팅 기기 위치의 적절성’, ‘와이어 경로의 적절성’, ‘조작의 용이성’, ‘위험성’, ‘유용성’, ‘인지적 변화’, 의 9가지 항목별로 정성적, 정량적 분석결과를 도출하였으며, 이러한 결과를 기반으로 디자인 시안의 세부적인 디자인 수정안을 도출하였으며, 사용성과 착용성 평가를 바탕으로 한 현재의 기술을 통해 구현 가능한 웨어러블 컴퓨터의 디자인 프로토타입의 기본형을 그래픽 시뮬레이션으로 제시하였다.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society for Emotion and Sensibility Conference
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• 2003.05a
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• pp.23-28
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• 2003

본 연구는 이미지 센서를 통한 입력 기술 중 칼라 코드 입력 기술을 기반으로 한 웨어러블 컴퓨터를 디자인 및 구현하는 것을 목적으로 하였다. 본 연구는 실생활 응용 서비스 애플리케어션을 위해 도출된 컨셉 디자인으로부터 시작하여 실물 모델을 개발한 후 평가 및 수정 단계를 거쳐 최종 모델을 완성하였다. 이러한 일련의 과정을 거쳐 물리적 인터페이스와 의류로써의 가치를 고려한 칼라 코드 기반 '페트롤 재킷'형 웨어러블 컴퓨터가 디자인 및 구현되었으며 이러한 개발 과정은 의류학 및 인지과학의 이론을 근간으로 한 것이다. 본 연구에서 개발된 결과물은 기존의 하드웨어 중심의 웨어러블 컴퓨터를 의류에 접목 시키기 위한 초기 모형으로서 이는 앞으로 보다 인간 친화적인 웨어러블 컴퓨터를 개발하기 위한 초석이 될 것이라 전망된다.

• Journal of Korea Game Society
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• v.12 no.1
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• pp.57-65
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• 2012

Interactive games allow users to obtain embodied experience using the bodies as controllers. The same is true in interactive media arts where users engage in active participation. In contrast to video games, physical body feedback is desired and such practice can be found in robotic arts. I suggest that interactive media arts and interactive games should share common foundations. In this context, I introduce and explain an interactive robotic art work implemented. This work is a musical instrument that employs a robot which travels sitting on two strings in response to audience positions. In results, the robot modulates the vibrations of the strings by causing the effective lengths of the strings changed. The robot uses an economic multi-cell proximity sensor in order to track the audience. In the interaction, phenomenological tension could take place in the performative narrative space. In this paper, I discuss this interactive robotic work in the context of interactive games with a few examples.

• Journal of The Korean Association of Information Education
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• v.17 no.4
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• pp.421-432
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• 2013

The purpose of this study is to develop contents and an instructional model that support children's dramatic play by integrating the robot and augmented reality technology. In order to support the dramatic play, the robot shows various facial expressions and actions, serves as a narrator and a sound manager, supports the simultaneous interaction by using the camera and recognizing the markers and children's motions, records children's activities as a photo and a video that can be used for further activities. The robot also uses a projector to allow children to directly interact with the video object. On the other hand, augmented reality offers a variety of character changes and props, and allows various effects of background and foreground. Also it allows natural interaction between the contents and children through the real-type interface, and provides the opportunities for the interaction between actors and audiences. Along with these, augmented reality provides an experience-based learning environment that induces a sensory immersion by allowing children to manipulate or choose the learning situation and experience the results. In addition, the instructional model supporting dramatic play consists of 4 stages(i.e., teachers' preparation, introducing and understanding a story, action plan and play, evaluation and wrapping up). At each stage, detailed activities to decide or proceed are suggested.