• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.6 no.11
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• pp.118-125
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• 2006

To solve the reverse function problem of computer games criticized nowadays, the main fact to be concerned in design should be to make feelings of satisfaction during playing and solving the given situation in the game world. In this paper, a design to fulfill the feelings of satisfaction directly and indirectly, controlling playable characters to help another non-playable character in some sort of danger is explained. The requirements to do so is analyzed and the result of demonstration is also presented.

• Journal of the Korea Computer Graphics Society
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• v.11 no.4
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• pp.39-44
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• 2005

인터랙티브 컴퓨터 게임과 컴퓨터 애니메이션에서, 유관절체의 움직임을 직관적으로 제어하도록 하는 것은 어려운 문제로 인식되고 있다. 이런 분야에서는 대부분 움직임의 대상이 되는 캐릭터가 많은 관절로 연결되어 있는데, 이때 각 관절을 사용자의 의도대로 쉽게 조종할 수 있도록 해주는 인터페이스를 디자인하기가 어렵기 때문이다. 본 논문에서는 자유도(DOF)가 높은 캐릭터의 움직임을 제어하기 위해 오랫동안 인형극에서 사용되고 있는 마리오넷 조종 기법[5]을 응용한 마리오넷 시스템을 제안하고자 한다. 우리는 가상 마리오넷 시스템을 물리기반 모델링과 햅틱 인터페이스를 기반으로 구현하였고, 이 시스템을 통해 높은 자유도를 가지는 유관절체 캐릭터의 복잡한 움직임을 쉽게 생성해낼 수 있었다. 그리고 사용자에게 햅틱 포스 피드백을 줌으로써 더욱 정교한 마리오넷을 조작이 가능하도록 하였다. 이 시스템을 일반적인 유관절체에 적용한다면 다양한 움직임을 쉽고 빠르게 생성할 수 있을 것이다.

• Journal of Digital Contents Society
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• v.7 no.1
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• pp.35-40
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• 2006

Game AI(Artificial Intelligence) technologies implement the movement of autonomous characters and control the movement of Non-Player Characters(NPC). In this paper, we present several types of game AI control systems such as Movement Scripts, FSM(Finite State Machines), Hierarchical State Machines, fuzzy State Machines, and Pathfinding techniques and their limitations.

• Korean Journal of Cognitive Science
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• v.32 no.2
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• pp.75-98
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• 2021

The purpose of this study was to confirm whether adolescents with a tendency to compare online game positions are unhappier than their peers who do not. In Experiment 1, participants were asked to compare the status of their game character with the game world average (below, equal, or above average), and were then measured on their changes in happiness (changes before and after the participant's status comparison). In Experiment 2, participants compared the status of their game character with a person they knew (whether it was lower or higher than their acquaintance), and were then measured on their subjective changes in happiness. In Experiment 3, participants were told that the status of their game character was lower/higher than the average, and were either presented or not presented with the information that their acquaintance's character held a lower/higher position. The subjective happiness level of the two groups was then measured. As a result, Experiment 1 confirmed that adolescents with generally low subjective happiness were unhappier when their game position was lower than the average and were happier when their game position was higher than the average. However, it was found that the happiness level of adolescents with generally high subjective happiness did not significantly change. Experiment 2 observed that adolescents with generally low subjective happiness were unhappier when their game position was lower than others in the game world and were happier when their game position was higher than others. However, this was not true for adolescents with generally high subjective happiness. Experiment 3 showed that adolescents with generally low subjective happiness were unhappier when someone else had a higher game position than themselves and were happier when someone else had a lower game position than themselves, regardless of their status in either situation. However, a significant change was not detected among adolescents with generally high subjective happiness. As a rare study confirming the effects of social status comparison on happiness in the virtual world, this study is noteworthy.

• Journal of Korea Multimedia Society
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• v.9 no.7
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• pp.927-937
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• 2006

Auto-playing programs are often used in behalf of human players in MMORPG(Massively Multi-player Online Role Playing Game). By playing automatically and continuously, it helps to speed up the game character's level-up process. However, the auto-playing programs, either software or hardware, do harm to games servers in various ways including abuse of resources. In this paper, we propose a way of detecting the auto programs by analyzing the window event sequences produced by the game players. In our proposed method, the event sequences are transformed into a set of attributes, and the Decision Tree learning is applied to classify the data represented by the set of attribute values into human or auto player. The results from experiments with several MMORPG show that the Decision Tree learning with proposed method can identify the auto-playing programs with high accuracy.

• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.21 no.6
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• pp.759-778
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• 2021

This study was carried out to verify whether there were any differences in accepting moral issues between adolescents who played using characters of high status (either objectively or subjectively highly ranked within a game) in the online game world and those who played using characters of low status (either objectively or subjectively lowly ranked). It also investigated whether there were moderating interactional effects for the amount of time spent on playing games and the influence of adolescents' social statuses in games over accepting moral issues. Results showed that, overall, adolescents who played using a lower-ranking character in the game world displayed a higher acceptance of moral issues than those who played using characters of the two other categories (equal to average level or higher). Furthermore, interactional effects were observed for those who played using a low-ranking character and spent longer hours playing games, as they were more likely to accept moral issues. This study is significant in that it offers many implications, as a rare study that verified the effects of cyberspace status on moral judgements made in the real world.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Computer Information Conference
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• 2020.01a
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• pp.153-154
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• 2020

기존 VR컨트롤러는 현손에 별도의 컨트롤러를 들고 조작해야만 해왔다. 이는 현실감을 느끼기 위한 시각적인 요소를 충족시켰음에도 몰입도를 떨어뜨리는 요소이다. 본 연구에서는 현실감을 더욱 증가 시키는 것을 전제로 뇌파를 이용한 VR컨트롤러 기술을 적용하고자 한다. 현재 대중화 되어 있는 VR 장치들을 보면 움직이는 의자, 보행을 위한 장치, 캐릭터 조종을 위한 손에 쥐는 컨트롤러 등을 사용하고 있다. 이러한 장치들은 가상현실을 더욱 현실처럼 느끼기 위한 보조적인 장치들이지만 장치를 설치하기 위한 공간을 많이 차지하기 때문에 일반 가정에서는 잘 사용하지 않는다. 또한 손에 있는 컨트롤러로 가상 현실속의 동작을 구현하다 보니 아무리 내 눈앞에 보이더라도 '단순한 게임이다'라는 생각을 가지고 있어 몰입도가 떨어질 수밖에 없다. 본 논문은 이러한 문제점들을 개선하기 위해 기존의 VR컨트롤러 대신 뇌파입력을 적용한 '머신러닝을 통한 뇌파 VR컨트롤러' 기술을 제안한다. 기존의 VR컨트롤러와는 다르게 빅 데이터 처리기술인 머신러닝을 이용하여 뇌파 데이터를 처리하고 그 데이터들과 입력되는 뇌파 값을 비교하여 가상현실 속의 캐릭터의 동작을 제어할 수 있다.

• Proceedings of the Korean Information Science Society Conference
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• 2007.10c
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• pp.301-304
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• 2007

Role-Playing Game (RPG)에서는 플레이어가 조종하는 캐릭터 외에도 컴퓨터가 조종하는 Non-Player Character(NPC)가 등장한다. 플레이어는 NPC와 이러한 상호 작용들을 통해 점점 게임의 세계관을 이해하면서 게임에 몰입할 수 있게 된다. 이를 위해서 일반적으로 시나리오나 세계관에 따라 필요한 NPC를 생성, 배치하고 적당한 대사와 퀘스트를 부여한다. 그러나 이러한 구조에서는 NPC는 항상 정해진 정적인 대사만을 할 수 있다. 그 결과, 플레이어들은 NPC와 플레이 시간이 길어질수록 반복되는 대사에 흥미를 잃고 점점 대사를 읽지 않고 진행에 필요한 부분만을 얻어내려 하게 된다. 또한 이러한 구조는 게임 콘텐츠를 추가하고자 할 때, 새로 생성하는 NPC의 대사를 전부 새로 작성해야 하는 단점도 존재한다. 본 논문에서는 이러한 동적인 게임 환경 구축을 위한 방법으로 온톨로지 기반의 대화 생성 시스템을 제안한다. 제안하는 시스템은 플레이어가 NPC와 대화하고 싶은 내용과 관련된 키워드를 제시하면 온톨로지를 이용하여 제시한 키워드와 관련이 있고, 현재 상황과 조건이 맞는 대화나 퀘스트를 제공한다. 그 결과, 유저와의 상호 작용이 중요해지므로 플레이어의 게임 몰입도를 더욱 높일 수 있다. 또한 시스템 구축 과정에서 생성되는 온톨로지를 이용하여 다른 다양한 기능들을 추론할 수 있는 장점이 있다.

• Science of Emotion and Sensibility
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• v.24 no.3
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• pp.3-16
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• 2021

Studies have found that people with higher social status pay little attention to other people's emotions and facial expressions. However, only a few studies have made similar observations on adolescents with high cyberspace social status. Therefore, this study sought to identify how adolescents with different online game character social statuses interpreted the smile emoticons in negative and positive situations, that is, did they perceive the emoticon to be positive (smile, encouragement, and consolation) or negative (derision, ridicule, and sarcasm). In Experiment 1, the participants were separated into three groups; those who had a lower than global average online game character status, those who had the same as the global average, and those who had higher than the global average. The participants were then asked to judge the meaning of the smile emoticon received in various positive or negative situations. In Experiment 2, the game character levels of the participants were set to be either higher or lower than the others' characters, and they were again asked to judge the meaning of the smile emoticon received in the positive or negative situations. In Experiment 3, the participants were separated into four groups; lower level than the average game character status (no information on the level of acquaintance's game character), lower than the average but higher than the character of the other, higher than the average status (no information on the other's character level), and higher than the average but lower than the character of the other, and asked to judge the meaning of the smile emoticon in positive or negative situations. It was found that when participants had a lower-level character compared to the average, had a lower-level character than the other, and had higher than the average but lower than the other's character, they interpreted the smile emoticon as derision, ridicule, or sarcasm. However, participants with higher level characters, higher than that of the other, and lower than the average but higher than the other interpreted the emoticon as a smile or consolation. This study was significant because it demonstrated the impact of an adolescent's social cyberspace status on their online communication.

• (The) Research of the performance art and culture
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• no.43
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• pp.293-322
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• 2021

The present study examined the scientific awareness appearing in Korean tokusatsu series by focusing on Vectorman: Warriors of the Earth. As a work representing Korean tokusatsu series, Vectorman: Warriors of the Earth achieved the greatest success among tokusatsu series. This work was released thanks to the continued popularity of Japanese tokusatsu since the mid-1980s and the trend of robot animations. Due to the chronic problems regarding Korean children's programs-the oversupply of imported programs and repeated reruns-the need for domestically produced children's programs has continued to come to the fore. However, as the popularity of Korean animation waned beginning in the mid-1990s, inevitably the burden fr producing animation increased. As a result, Vectorman: Warriors of the Earth was produced as a tokusatsu rather than an animation, and because this was a time when an environment for using special effects technology was being fostered in broadcasting stations, computer visual effects were actively used for the series. The response to the new domestically produced tokusatsu series Vectorman: Warriors of the Earth was explosive. The Vectorman series explained the abilities of cosmic beings by using specific scientific terms such as DNA synthesis, brain cell transformation, and special psychological control device instead of ambiguous words like the scientific technology of space. Although the series is unable to describe in detail about the process and cause, the way it defines technology using concrete terms rather than science fiction shows how scientific imagination is manifesting in specific forms in Korean society. Furthermore, the equal relationship between Vectorman and the aliens shows how the science of space, explained with the scientific terms of earth, is an expression of confidence regarding the advancement of Korean scientific technology which represents earth. However, the female characters fail to gain entry into the domain of science and are portrayed as unscientific beings, revealing limitations in terms of scientific awareness.