• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.16 no.11
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• pp.20-28
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• 2016

Recently, with various smart devices being used, more attention is paid to digital content development for kids. Many parents and teachers are using digital contents both at home and the classroom. However, there are many concerns on the delayed language ability development and lack of social skills due to children's overuse of digital technology. This study reviewed related literature on digital content for kids including storytelling videos, flash, animation, multimedia fairy tales, and app-books. Based on that, digital contents design guidelines were proposed. It was expected that by appropriate digital content design, children would like reading books just as they like watching digital contents.

• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.18 no.10
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• pp.40-52
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• 2018

Media can be considered as a type of play for kids in this new media era. Researches on media content for kids have mainly focused on educational effect or specific features such as design, but a great deal of kids content is created for fun and enjoyment. This study analyzes fun factors of the most popular kids content on Youtube: Kongsuni and Friends, Carrie and Toys, and Pinkfong. The result shows that seven fun factors can be grouped into three categories; 1) Self-determination and independence are related to the media environment; 2) Sensuous vividness, empathy, and physical dynamic are related to the content; 3) Self-expression and social interaction are related to associated activities. This study extends our perspective on kids content by analyzing fun factors in the comprehensive process of media consumption.

• Proceedings of the KAIS Fall Conference
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• 2011.05a
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• pp.217-219
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• 2011

본 논문에서는 유아의 인지적 발달 능력을 고려하여 유아의 눈높이에 맞는 3D 콘텐츠를 제작하여 유아들이 환경보호를 위한 지식을 습득하여 환경보호 행동을 실천할 수 있도록 구현 하였다. 본 콘텐츠는 환경교육의 실천 방향을 제시하고 유아들의 흥미를 유발하여 환경교육의 효율성을 증대할 수 있는 환경교육용 3D콘텐츠를 구현하고자 한다.

• Proceedings of the KAIS Fall Conference
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• 2010.11a
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• pp.200-202
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• 2010

본 논문에서는 유아환경 인식변화를 위한 환경교육용 2D 웹 콘텐츠를 구현하여 유아가 손쉽게 활용하고 유아환경 인식 변화를 향상시킬 수 있는 웹 콘텐츠를 구현하는 것을 최종목표로 한다.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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• 2010.05a
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• pp.617-620
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• 2010

최근 증강현실(Augmented Reality)에 대한 관심이 증대되고, 이와 관련된 기술들이 발전함에 따라서 증강현실이 다양한 분야에 적용하려는 시도가 늘어나고 이에 대한 활용에도 기대가 모아지고 있다. 본 논문에서는 증강현실을 이용하여 유아용 학습 콘텐츠를 제작하고 구현하였다. 구현한 콘텐츠는 가상세계와 실제세계의 정확한 상호작용을 위하여 도서의 표지에 있는 마커에 유아에게 친숙한 캐릭터를 띄우므로 집중력을 높임과 동시에 학습보조자가 원활하게 콘텐츠를 사용할 수 있도록 하였다. 또한 콘텐츠의 페이지마다 여러 마커를 동시에 두어 콘텐츠의 일부분이 장애물에 의해 가려지더라도 원활한 마커 인식을 할 수 있도록 하였고 상황에 맞게 3D 모델(2D, 동영상 포함)이 증강되는 동시에 사운드가 재생되도록 하여 학습에서의 현존감과 몰입을 높여 학습효과를 극대화하는 결과를 얻을 수 있도록 제작하였다.

• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.11 no.3
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• pp.116-127
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• 2011

This paper proposes interactive game elements for children : contents, design, sound, gesture recognition, and speech recognition. Interactive games for early children must use the contents which reflect the educational needs and the design elements which are all bright, friendly, and simple to use. Also the games should consider the background music which is familiar with children and the narration which make easy to play the games. In gesture recognition and speech recognition, the interactive games must use gesture and voice data which hits to the age of the game user. Also, this paper introduces the development process for the interactive skipping game and applies the child-oriented contents, gestures, and voices to the game.

• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.13 no.5
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• pp.146-158
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• 2013

The purpose of this study is to analyze the story-retelling structure of tablet PC-based applications that designed to help infants to create stories. Owing to the popularization and the usability of smart devices, infants have become from content consumers to creators who reconstruct stories in creative ways, based on the stories they heard. In those participatory process, infants experience enjoying stories independently and expanding the meaning of texts. Story-retelling is an adequate methodology that cultivates creativity, expressiveness, and literacy ability to infant. Consequently, this study investigates three types of story-retelling in , , and , and searches structure elements and methods of story-retelling in integrated approach. In conclusion, the story-retelling applications that provide 'creative gap' have educational value, because they allow infants to demonstrate imagination by filling in the gap and to realize the rule of stories.

• Journal of Convergence for Information Technology
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• v.7 no.6
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• pp.209-218
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• 2017

To propose a contents model for children's smart watch, this study interview 15mothers who have a child using smart watches. Most mothers purchase smart watches for children to warrant their security and manage their schedules, and they use them for sending a call or text to their children, tracking or managing children's location and schedule. Mothers were satisfied with a smart watch's function of communication and safety management, but dissatisfied learning-oriented contents and worrried about bad influenced on children development. Through in-depth interviews, this study propose a persona model for children's smart watch for enhancing parent-child interaction and physical cognitive language socioemotional convergence play contents.

• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.7 no.2
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• pp.132-141
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• 2007

Traditional music education for infants is the most important step of forming human knowledge. Since their rapid development of intelligence and emotion has an educational value not only it improves the human knowledge but also it makes infants understand the unique emotion of Korean people. Under the several circumstances, however, we have no enough contents for traditional music education. Thus, by researching and analyzing the existing educational contents and complementing them properly for multimedia environment as a form of animation, we perform a series of experiments to infants who are attending to the kindergarten with interactive animations which are familiar with infants. Infants become interested in the contents and after the lesson of the short bamboo flute content, they show the clear improvements for the playing on a musical instrument. This proves that the Korean music educational content realized with animation can be an alternative plan to improve the educational effect by causing enjoyment and interest of infants.

• Journal of Digital Convergence
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• v.17 no.11
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• pp.451-457
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• 2019

Reflecting the current craze for early childhood education, the demand for learning contents has soared, kids content is emerging as a key topic of the contents industry. The industry developing digital content for young learners is called the 'angel industry', it is attracting a lot of attention because of the increased demand for early childhood education. This paper selects characters used in successful digital products to study character design for OSMU children's educational contents. Through advanced research, analysis criteria were prepared and analyzed to derive general success strategies for character design. As a result, common design features in the analyzed characters were found and confirmed the need for further research. Hopefully, this study will contribute to OSMU character design and lead to improved development of educational contents and commercialization of various characters.