• Journal of Digital Contents Society
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• v.13 no.4
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• pp.617-624
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• 2012

The purpose of this paper is to plan and implement e-storytelling for improving children's creativity, which consists of e-storytelling, thinking questions, and character sticker canvas. Especially It makes children draw paintings feel easier by character sticker. This webapp shows the flash animation e-storytelling and gives the question to answer by painting with a fertile imagination on the canvas as transforming the character sticker. A user can input the title of painting and store it when finish the drawing. This is an educational tool which makes educatees think more and express their ideas through questions. Therefore, we can check how much children's imagination is changed and diversed by the stored paintings.

• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.12 no.9
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• pp.146-155
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• 2012

I will analyze the current status and limit of domestic animation character theme parks as a new trend of Kids industry so that diagnose the future of performing arts specialized animation character theme parks through the examples of foreign ones such as , , , and . Revisiting ratio is the most important factor for the domestic animation character theme parks which are being built in downtown. Close interaction with visitors will be possible through great quality character shows. Top quality shows could make this possible so that visitors could be more familiar with the park and the revisiting ratio must be raised as well as the difference between the theme park and others would be emphasized.

• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.22 no.2
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• pp.294-304
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• 2022

The purpose of this study is to examine the effects of a character education program based on self-reflection using a liberal arts course at university. To this end, a single treatment group pre- and post-design was conducted in which data were collected at the beginning and end of the semester for 18 students. For statistical estimation suitable for a small sample size, a non-parametric test was performed to examine the significant mean changes of the data. This program was found to significantly improve the level of self-compassion, life satisfaction, and mental well-being of university students. Based on the above results, it was discussed that the liberal arts course for character education based on self-reflection could be useful as a character education for university students, and the implications and suggestions of the results of this study were presented.

• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.13 no.12
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• pp.945-956
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• 2013

The character industry is a high value-added industry, and is one of the strategic industries to be fostered. However, the character industry is struggling due to the lack of national consensus on the importance and value of the character industry. Therefore, in order to resolve this issue, the study used the character Input-Output Table of year 2009 of korea to analyze how much the character industry(Toys and games, Models and decorations) contributes to the national economy by measuring economic spreading effects of character industry on national economy. The results shows that character industry shows that production inducement coefficient is column 1.602, row 1.007, index of the sensitivity of dispersion is 0.543, Index of the power of dispersion is 0.864, value-added coefficient is 0.620, income inducement coefficient is 0.334, tax inducement coefficient is 0.066, employment inducement coefficient is 0.008.

• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.8 no.4
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• pp.100-107
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• 2008

The aim of this paper is to design an intelligent character manipulation system suitable for the wireless broadband network environment named as Wibro and for the recent social networking service (SNS). The main feature of our proposed system is an automatic synthesis of a character utilizing the meta data which is attached to each component stored in a character database. It is the second advantageous feature that a user can make or modify his or her own character by modifying the component animation clip of its character. Once the character database is created, it can be represented and utilized in several ways by utilizing the meta data which is related to personal properties including emotion, life style, favorite things, and so on. The system can be evolved to a more powerful one by adopting the more user-related information and the more intelligent synthesis module.

• International Journal of Contents
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• v.8 no.3
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• pp.83-93
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• 2012

In this paper, we propose a novel method that automatically generates real character images to familiarize existing OCR systems with new fonts. At first, we generate synthetic character images using a simple degradation model. The synthetic data is used to train an OCR engine, and the trained OCR is used to recognize and label real character images that are segmented from ideal document images. Since the OCR engine is unable to recognize accurately all real character images, a substring matching method is employed to fix wrongly labeled characters by comparing two strings; one is the string grouped by recognized characters in an ideal document image, and the other is the ordered string of characters which we are considering to train and recognize. Based on our method, we build a system that automatically generates 2350 most common Korean and 117 alphanumeric characters from new fonts. The ideal document images used in the system are postal envelope images with characters printed in ascending order of their codes. The proposed system achieved a labeling accuracy of 99%. Therefore, we believe that our system is effective in facilitating the generation of numerous character samples to enhance the recognition rate of existing OCR systems for fonts that have never been trained.

• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.17 no.9
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• pp.650-660
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• 2017

This study is to suggest a new method of analyzing personality types of characters in narrative. First, we examined the history of the taxonomy of character types that existed in narrative theories so far. Until now, the classification of character types in narrative theory consisted largely of a formal classification based on roles in narrative, a content classification based on human internal qualities, and a complementary classification in which the two classification criteria are united. The problem with the existing character classification type is difficult to categorize it in spite of the usefulness of the content classification based on human internal qualities. On the other hand, the classification based on the role of the character in the narrative does not help as much as a practical analysis methodology because the classification is formal. In this study, we try to solve this problem by introducing Shalom Schwartz's human value type, and to make human character's value type and human role correlated with each other as a new character analysis methodology. Schwartz's study of value type is a very effective method to grasp the motivation of human behavior, and it seems to be very meaningful in analyzing the directivity of characters.

• Proceedings of the Korea Contents Association Conference
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• 2008.05a
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• pp.703-707
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• 2008

Chinese has the biggest user in the world, is not only used to contact but also has ample cultural value and beautiful modeling. So it's widely used in our life. The Chinese character which is used in the T-shirt has a strong ability of transmit the information on the language. And it has a strong personality on the model too. It's more and more popular over the years with young people. The main objective of this research is to collect the structure data of Chinese character and the illustration of apply Chinese character on T-shirt between China and American. The second is to compare and analyze the number, construction, script, size, place, color, expression of the character. The others is to investigate the illustration of apply character on fashion design. And take the various manifestation of character as the foundation to put forward some new design project of apply Chinese character on the T-shirt.

• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.19 no.7
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• pp.110-119
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• 2019

is a movie about the frustration and the despair of young people in Korean society today. It is different from the previous Lee Chang-dong's film in that it provides the main character's perception and feelings about the world as the ultimate cause of the protagonist's actions. Lee Chang-dong's characters begin to change from . The main character of Burning goes one step further. He seems to believe that the main character's only weapon to overcome the logic and constraints of reality is obsessive and compulsive behaviors. Unlike previous movies, the character in Burning is a person who practices awareness and proves his character through action. I will analyze characters in to suggest the change of film form. Especially I will look at how the character's actions and the writer's own voice can meet and what results it bring about in this movie. It will lead to his changes in film form and an idea on the young people in Korean society today.

• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.19 no.6
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• pp.105-113
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• 2019

This study is to analyze the concentration of visual perception of the subject through the eye-tracking experiments targeting popular characters and to investigate it is effective to highlight which part of the character in inducing consumers' interest and curiosity. As a result of the study, the subjects paid more attention to the face than the character's body, and also noted a little attention to auxiliary elements such as pants, tees, shoes, and whiskers. These results mean there is clearly different factor in which the subject's gaze on the character frequently stays and does for a long time. Therefore, the designers should recognize the differences of the concentration of visual perception by character components as a differentiating factor to feel the emotional satisfaction such as the user's interest, empathy, and immersion in the character and actively reflect it when developing the character design. In addition, there was a difference in the visual perception concentration of each of the auxiliary elements, and if careful research is done on whether the influence factors are also due to individual characteristics or another influential factors, it will be a wider study on character design.