• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.13 no.1
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• pp.164-174
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• 2013

Since the advent of smart phone, a variety of text-based media are developed and used as popular communication tools even in mobile phone environment. This study explores differences in terms of users' perceived social presence level across different text-based media, specifically KakaoTalk, Facebook, SMS. A survey was conducted using items adopted from previous studies on social presence. 203 data points were collected and used for analysis. Across the whole sample, KakaoTalk is perceived as the highest in terms of perceived social presence level, followed by Facebook and SMS. Also, the users with higher level of sociality tends to reveal higher level of perceived social presence across all the media while younger and/or student users tend to maintain higher level of social presence perception across all the media. Further studies seem necessary investigating features of specific medium that may increase or decrease the perceived level of social presence.

• Journal of Korea Game Society
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• v.21 no.6
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• pp.13-30
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• 2021

This paper analyzed the user's presence experience and player experience in FPS according to game usage time using Steam's review data. Data was obtained through crawling using Python. In analysis result, it was confirmed that issues related to controllable physical presence and uncontrollable social presence emerged in the group with less game use time, and controllable physical presence was changed to controllable social presence in the group with more play timeFurthermore, through player experience analysis, it was found that the keyword "recoil," a factor in game play, was important.

• Proceedings of the Korea Contents Association Conference
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• 2011.05a
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• pp.73-74
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• 2011

이 연구는 정성적인 방법론을 통해 로커티브 미디어 환경의 증강현실에 의해 사용자가 경험하는 현존감 모형과 사회적 현존감의 특성을 살펴보고자 한다.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Computer Information Conference
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• 2016.01a
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• pp.223-226
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• 2016

본 논문은 최근 출시된 반 고흐 VR 예술작품의 2D 및 3D 콘텐츠에 대한 경험을 분석했다. 두 가지의 콘텐츠에서 쾌락적 특성이 강하게 나타났으며, 원작의 재생산된 작품으로서가 아니라 새로운 창작물로 인지되었다. 콘텐츠의 일반적 특성과 마찬가지로, 몰입감의 경우에도 2D 보다는 3D 콘텐츠에 대한 평가가 더욱 긍정적으로 이루어졌으며, 두 가지의 콘텐츠에서 가장 높게 평가된 몰입감 요인은 주의집중력으로 제시되었다. 특히 3D 콘텐츠의 경우, 다감각적 촉진은 가상공간에서의 현존감(presence)과 관련된 육체적 움직임에 대한 역동성에 영향을 미쳤으며, 원작에 대한 현존감은 가상공간에서의 현존감과 몰입감으로 대체되었다. 3D 기반의 콘텐츠는 학습에 대한 내재적 동기부여를 비롯, 그룹 토의의 활성화, 예술작품 및 작가에 대한 관심 증가 등의 몰입형 학습 도구로서의 효용성이 유의미하게 나타났다. 비록 2D 및 3D 콘텐츠의 몰입학습을 위한 도구로서의 적합성이 예술작품에 대한 감상 및 해석도구로서의 적합성보다 높게 제시되기는 했지만, 예술작품의 진정성과 아우라라는 관점에서 보면 '회화적 동일성'은 존재했지만 콘텐츠의 재창조적 특성으로 인해 '미학적 동일성'은 보장되지 못했다. 이러한 현상은 VR 예술작품의 콘텐츠 제작 목적의 상이함 뿐만 아니라 기술적 정교함 및 예술적 전문성 결여에 기인한다.

• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.11 no.8
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• pp.88-101
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• 2011

Locative media is fundamentally different from traditional media in terms of being packed with user's space, place, and position nearby, which does not simply mean user's physical coordinates. This study has been started that I was drawn by the tendency of which current locative media contents are based on 'location-based information,' and closely related with 'Augmented Reality.' I wonder how media user's psychological experience/involvement are revealed when the media environment changes by the progress of technology. I wonder how media users perceive 'social presence' formed by locative media in current locative media environment. Particularly, the fact that user's perception of social presence formed in locative media conflicts with the previous computer-mediated communication(CMC)'s attributes deepened my curiosity. In this study, the idea of 'more-proper-construct' is suggested, the characteristics of social presence in current locative media is considered, and is investigated by qualitative methodology how the 'location-based' attributes and 'AR' contribute to forming the social presence.

• Journal of the Korea Convergence Society
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• v.10 no.6
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• pp.139-146
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• 2019

In this study, we examined how consumers who experience HMD virtual reality advertising differ in their ad attitudes and memory effects according to Presence (cognitive presence, emotional presence, media presence) and engagement level. Particularly, in the case of memory effect, the information that the user memorizes through the advertising is divided into "Attribute-Related Memory (ARM)" and "Global-Related Memory (GRM)" Respectively. First, the attitudes toward HMD based virtual reality ads are positive regardless of the type of presence. Second, in the virtual reality advertising, if the level of engagement is low, ARM that memorizes the information of the product attribute is increased, whereas if the level of engagement is high, the GRM which is the memory of the attitude-based evaluation information about the product is increased appear. Third, if cognitive presence and media presence are low, then ARM is more memorable than GRM.

• Korean Journal of Cognitive Science
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• v.17 no.4
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• pp.357-373
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• 2006

Virtual reality (VR) provides a virtual experiment (VE) context consisting of information presented to the senses of the user. The user perceiver and interprets the VE context, and then naturally recognizes a level of realism in the VE. Presence is often thought of as the sense of 'being there' in the n. Presence includes overall feelings about the information conveyed from a virtual avatar to the user. Therefore, there must be brain mechanisms for integrating sensory information about presence.'Feeling of presence' is related with the user's cognition and perception about information on communication through medium. Thus 'feeling of presence' may characterize perceptual mechanisms in the brain. We studied these mechanisms by presenting a VR that consisted of an avatar telling a story about a social conversation. We performed covariance analysis on subjective brain activity (fMRI) during the story presentation with a presence score. The data analysis revealed that activity in several brain areas was correlated with the presence store. A positive correlation was shown in the right lingual gyrus, right cuneus, left lingual gyrus, right fusiform gyrus, left inferior temporal gyrus, anterior cingulate cortex and right posterior cingulate cortex of the brain. This study showed the brain mechanism to be related the feeling of presence and brain activities in our subjects, using VR to communicate information.

• Journal of Korea Game Society
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• v.11 no.4
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• pp.127-142
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• 2011

This study examined if realistic cues of violence - blood color (red), sound cues (screams of pain), and perspective (first-person) - influence user arousal, feeling of presence, and their memory for the game events and positions with personal experience of games. The relationship between arousal and presence was also analyzed with their effects on memory in a 3D modified shooter game (CounterStrike). Results indicated that both realism cues of violence increased the player's arousal regardless of the user's level of game experience, and the arousal had a significant relationship with engagement by affecting presence strongly. Especially, engagement (a sub-factor of presence) was stronger than other variables in explaining the memory effect, and it mediated the effect between arousal and memory. However, the first-person perspective did not show any significant effect on arousal, and had a negative effect on engagement.

• Journal of Digital Convergence
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• v.18 no.2
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• pp.475-482
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• 2020

The purpose of this study is to analyze the paths of the presence that influences the use of the virtual simulation in the special education classrooms. The participants consisted of 76 students who majored in special education in J and K universities. Participants took a three lectures of 3-h. that addressed the theory and practice of virtual technology such as virtual reality(VR) and augmented reality(AR), and then completed the questionnaires on participants' presence level and expectation level of virtual simulation for special education. Study results were as followings: (1) Enjoyment and Communication have direct effects on positive expectation, while Immersion has a direct effect on negative concern; (2) Reality, Accessibility Performance, Communication, and Immersion have indirect effects mediated by Enjoyment on positive expectation; and (3) Communication and Reality have indirect effects mediated by Immersion on negative concern. Lastly, the implications and suggestions for future research were presented.

• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.21 no.1
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• pp.1-11
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• 2021

The users of a chatbot messenger can be better engaged in the conversation if they feel intimacy with the chatbot. This can be achieved by the chatbot's effective expressions of human emotions to chatbot users. Thus motivated, this study aims to identify the appropriate emotional expressions of a chatbot that make people feel the social presence of the chatbot. In the background research, we obtained that facial expression is the most effective way of emotions and movement is important for relationship emersion. In a survey, we prepared moving text, moving gestures, and still emoticon that represent five emotions such as happiness, sadness, surprise, fear, and anger. Then, we asked the best way for them to feel social presence with a chatbot in each emotion. We found that, for an arousal and pleasant emotion such as 'happiness', people prefer moving gesture and text most while for unpleasant emotions such as 'sadness' and 'anger', people prefer emoticons. Lastly, for the neutral emotions such as 'surprise' and 'fear', people tend to select moving text that delivers clear meaning. We expect that this results of the study are useful for developing emotional chatbots that enable more effective conversations with users.