• Proceedings of the Korea Contents Association Conference
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• 2005.05a
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• pp.229-236
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• 2005

This paper is study about emotional Interactive avatar in cellular phone. When user ask what he want to the avatar, it answer with facial expression based on animation Charac- ter. So the user can approach more friendly to the avatar.

• Journal of Korea Game Society
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• v.8 no.1
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• pp.91-101
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• 2008

Most designers use professional 3D animation tools such as 3DS MAX to manually create animation. This manual method requires a great deal of time and efforts, and does not allow animation characters to interact with one another. In this paper, we design an AI middleware of form as 3DS MAX plug-in to solve these issues. We present an AI expression structure and internal processing method for this middleware, and the method for creating AI character's structure. It creates AI character's structure by drawing figures and lines for representing AI elements. For experiment, we have produced same animations with the traditional method and our method, and measured the task volume in both methods. This result verifies that the task volume is similar or higher than the traditional method in small-scale tasks, but up to 43% of the task volume is reduced in large-scale tasks. Using the method proposed in this paper, we see that characters in an animation interact each other, and task volume in large-scale tasks are reduced.

• Design Convergence Study
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• v.14 no.3
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• pp.1-15
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• 2015

Storytelling which is part of human nature, has changed over millions of years. The development of technology and media has shaped Storytelling into various forms and shapes, and due to the recent spread of smart devices, the influence of interactive storytelling has grown significantly. The technology which allows diverse and natural input of users, have transformed the listener to user and has allowed the user to 'experience' the story rather than 'hear' it. In line with the trend in the development of these technologies, this study seeks to design and implement an interactive tale for children on an ipad platform. Focusing on the interaction aspect, this story is designed mainly for 3-7 years olds, which contains various multimedia elements and interaction elements that use built in technology such as multi-touch technology and microphone technology to allow user input that aline with the context of story. Focusing on children's experience and empathy with the characters of the story, 'Three Little Pigs and the Wolf' contains 22 steps and was published in the itunes Store.

• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.10 no.9
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• pp.9-17
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• 2010

Nowadays, many research have been conducted on robots or interactive characters that properly respond to the users affection. In this paper, we develop an intelligent messenger that provides appropriate responses to text inputs according to user's intention and affection. In order to properly respond, the intelligent messenger adapts methods to recognize user's speech act and affection. And it uses an AIML-based interactive script to which tags are additionally attached to express affection and speech act. If the intelligent messenger finds a proper reply in the interactive scripts, it displays the reply in a dialog window, and an animation character expresses emotion assimilated with a user's affection. If the animation character is synchronized with a content robot through a wireless link, the robot in the same space with the user can provide emotional response.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Computer Information Conference
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• 2021.07a
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• pp.637-638
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• 2021

가상현실 기술은 사용자가 스토리에 참여할 수 있으므로 상호작용을 갖는 인터랙티브 미디어 및 교육 콘텐츠로 활용하는 것에 장점이 있다. 가상현실 공간은 3D 공간으로 구성되며 가상환경에서 사용되는 3D 캐릭터들을 제작하기 위하여 일반적으로 3D 모델링과 키 프레임 기반의 애니메이션 기법이 사용된다. 이러한 과정들은 상대적으로 큰 비용과 많은 시간이 소요됨에 따라 저예산의 프로젝트에서는 가상현실 기술을 적용한 콘텐츠 제작을 어렵게 만든다. 본 논문은 2D 만화 이미지와 만화 스타일의 애니메이션을 활용하여 가상현실 콘텐츠 제작기법을 제안하고, 만화 형식의 가상현실 콘텐츠를 제작하여 연구를 진행하였다.

• KIPS Transactions on Software and Data Engineering
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• v.2 no.11
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• pp.801-808
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• 2013

In the virtual space with the interactive 3D contents, the degree of mental satisfaction is determined by how fully it reflect the real world. There are a few factors for getting the high completeness of virtual space. The first is the modeling technique with high-polygons and high-resolution textures which can heighten an visual effect. The second is the functionality. It is about how realistic represents dynamic actions between the virtual space and the user or the system. Although the studies on the techniques for animating and controlling the virtual characters have been continued, there are problems such that the long production time, the high cost, and the animation without expected behaviors. This paper suggest a method of behavior control of animation by designing the optimized skeleton which produces the movement of character and applying the procedural technique using physical law and mathematical analysis. The proposed method is free from the constraint on one-to-one correspondence rules, and reduce the production time by controlling the simple parameters, and to increase the degree of visual satisfaction.

• Archives of design research
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• v.17 no.3
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• pp.51-60
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• 2004

The esthetics of 'grotesque' and its entertaining values have many things in common with the characteristics and properties of animation as a medium of expression. The ways to express grotesque images in animation have expanded its realm of expression with the development of modern image digitalization technologies. The grotesque images that were expressed by the combination of photographs and animations and objet animations have been developing its disharmony in a more realistic manner with full 3D animation technology and realistic motions of virtual characters with motion capture. The subject matter also has become more diverse with the advance of modern scientific civilization. An example is the appearance of Cyborg(cybernetic+organism) characters and the grotesque images in the modern times mainly start to appear in animations dealing with the isolation of human beings among its characteristics. Also, the changes of the expression methods of grotesque images along with the development of visual technology development in the future will transform its methodological forms by changing its expression methods to VR forms and interactive visuals. Thus it is expected that the grotesque images and characteristics will change into a visual genre which emphasizes dehumanization.

• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.21 no.3
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• pp.103-113
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• 2021

Rather than a directing method of existing animations, VR animation needs a different method of direction. Existing animations were displayed on a screen in movie theaters. But using an existing direction method for the 360° perspective in a VR animation makes it difficult for the user's gaze to move in a way the directors have intended. I analyzed 3 VR animations with a theoretical background of Rudolf Arnheim's visual perception theory and Bruce Block's visual factors that bring high attention. In the process of perception of space, focus on the gaze, movement of the gaze, the 'movement' factor was used most often to attract the gaze. An interactive VR animation attracts user's gaze by allowing users to participate in important points of the story. With an analysis of the animation, it proposed a gaze attraction through the movement of the character with an interaction directing method for reducing motion sickness. Also, it proposed intuitively attracting gaze movement by using GUI and attracting user's participation by using an interactive event with an interaction directing method of storytelling comprehension. With two types of directing proposal, we expect it to be utilized as a basic research method for attracting users to be immersed in storytelling while reducing cyber motion sickness, which is a problem in VR animation.

• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.8 no.12
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• pp.81-90
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• 2008

The development of digital technologies has changed the paradigm of an information-oriented society. Accordingly, the media-art and the net-art using digital media have been developed more interactively. Under the this influence, various experimental works using digital media are being produced and having a try to combination of art and digital on the network. In this paper, we looked into the relation between characteristics and playful of the net-art and analized the relation among interactive, network characteristics and intuitive play implemented on the net-art. Based upon these analyses, we intend to offer new aesthetic experiences through playful expression for humorous emotion on a traditional character, Dokkaebi.

• Journal of Korea Game Society
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• v.21 no.2
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• pp.55-66
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• 2021

The research studies how features of games can be utilized and converted into storytelling elements by analyzing specific transmedia storytelling cases. For the research, was selected for subjects of analysis. From the analysis conducted, first, how game can be expanded and transformed into interactive animations was observed. Also, use of representative elements of the original game, concepts and basic settings in was seen. And lastly, implementation of transmedia storytelling strategies that constitute narratives based on character creation and connection between spaces was also observed.