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Study of Representation Methodology by Comparative Analysis between Information Visualization and Knowledge Visualization (정보시각화와 지식시각화의 비교분석을 통한 표현방법 연구)

  • Jang, Seok-Hyun;Lee, Joo-Youp;Lee, Kyung-Won
    • 한국HCI학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 2008.02b
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    • pp.392-398
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    • 2008
  • 이 연구는 정보의 효과적인 전달을 목적으로 하는 정보디자인에 있어서 지식의 활용에 대해 고찰하며, 정보시각화와 지식시각화의 특성에 대한 비교분석을 목적으로 한다. 지식은 일종의 고부가 가치의 정보로서 주어진 데이터에 관한 인간의 인지활동을 내포하고 있다. 지식은 정보에 관한 사용자의 해석, 인지, 이해 등을 거친 것으로서 정보 이상의 가치를 지닌 것으로 사용자의 심상과 인지를 확장시켜 새로운 정보와 지식의 생성 및 의사 결정에 사용될 수 있다. 지식의 표현은 현재 정보의 양적 팽창으로 인해 정보디자인에서 나타나는 정보과중, 해석오류와 오역, 사용자 태도 등의 문제를 해결하는 대안이 될 수 있다. 지식시각화는 지식의 전달과 장조를 위한 방법론으로써 사람들이 알고 있는 것을 좀 더 풍부한 의미로 전달한다. 또한 개인 또는 그룹 사이의 지식의 장작을 촉진하고 전달을 개선하며 습득을 용이하게 할 수 있다. 이 연구는 지식시각화란 정보디자인의 새로운 연구 분야로써 이론적 부분을 정립하고 표현방법 및 효과적인 프로세스 모델 설계를 연구하였다. 정보시각화와 지식시각화의 이론적 특성과 표현 방법 요소의 비교분석을 통해 지식시각화의 성격과 특정을 파악하였다. 또한 지식시각화의 대표적 표현방법을 도출하고, 지식의 표현에 적함한 시각화 방법 에 관해 고찰하였다. 더불어 지식의 실질적 표현에 기초가 되는 지식 구조화에 적합한 시각화 프로세스 모델을 제안하였다. 일반적인 시각화에서는 다양한 관점 제시나 지원구분을 하고 있지 않기 때문에 이 연구를 통해 도출되는 시각화 요소를 이용한 합리적인 시각화 프로세스 모델은 지식의 표현에 있어 효과적일 것이라 생각한다.

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Development of an Interactive Video Installation Based on Zhuangzi's Butterfly Dream (장자 나비의 꿈을 소재로 한 인터렉티브 비디오 구현)

  • Kim, Tae-Hee
    • Journal of Korea Game Society
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    • v.11 no.2
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    • pp.29-37
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    • 2011
  • As a field in Digital Arts, interactive video introduced the mirror metaphor to the foundation of media, given its characteristic as a medium that extracts an audience image in a particular perspective. The interactive video work introduced in this paper addresses conceptual topics in the extension of Zhuangzi's Butterfly Dream and illustrates the technological approaches that employ an intensity-based computer vision processing in order to obtain the silhouette of audience for multiple graphical butterflies to draw an audience image. Users generate narratives in the interaction with the projected image. Sound is used in order for the system to provide augmented perception in the space and to add more rooms for narratives. The computer vision and the graphics methods introduced in this paper are suggested as tools for interactive video.

John Ruskin's Study of Nature (존 러스킨의 자연 연구)

  • Lim, Shan
    • The Journal of the Convergence on Culture Technology
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    • v.6 no.2
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    • pp.299-304
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    • 2020
  • This paper considers the research content and its historical significance of the Study of Nature conducted by John Ruskin(1819-1900) who had a profound influence on art, architecture, social reformation, and preservation of natural environment in Great Britain. Because Ruskin's Study of Nature would be the key to understand totally the implicative meaning of his various academic trials for integrating a wider contexts among human, culture, and society, without being bound by the rules of conventional disciplines. For Ruskin, 'Nature' is defined as 'a system' governing every aspects of human and non-human beings, formulating certain laws of composition. This system has an ecological quality to form a state of harmony by internal interaction and process. Such organic quality of nature worked as 'a metaphor' in Ruskin's research practices. Therefore, Ruskin's Study of Nature would be the conceptual basis for organizing and connecting its various elements of Ruskin's spiritual world.

Bringing the Multiscalar Approach into Feminist Spatial Studies: On the Study of Women's Movement (페미니스트 공간연구에 다중스케일적 접근 접목하기: 여성운동연구를 중심으로)

  • Hwang, Jin-Tae;Jung, Hyunjoo
    • Journal of the Korean Geographical Society
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    • v.50 no.1
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    • pp.123-139
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    • 2015
  • This paper attempts to complement the methodological and conceptual lack of spatial thinking in Korean women's movement research and to facilitate further discussion on this field of research, by drawing on recent academic discussion on scale developed particularly among the Western critical and feminist geographers. The purposes of the paper are following. First, it addresses the need to utilize the concept of scale in women's movement research. Numerous spatial metaphors often proliferated with indiscretion in the feminist approach have rather tended to hinder fully understanding the spatiality of social movements. In order to examine the spatiality of social movements as both conceptual tool and praxis, not merely as metaphor, the paper incorporates main issues in recent scale discourses with particular attention to the debate between Marston and Brenner, and explores their implications for women's movement research in Korea. Second, it emphasizes the multi-scalar approach by highlighting the role of micro-scale, the less studied side in social movement literature. The public and the private divide, the long time battle ground in feminist research, is often intermingled with the hierarchical scalar understanding which considers the global as more powerful and important than the local. The reproductive realm, however, is indispensably related to production and political economic realm. The paper explores the very site where both the public/private divide and the hierarchical scalar understanding can be dismantled. It is the site where the private becomes public and the local becomes the global (and vice versa). Drawing on a brief example of an anti-FTA movement of women with strollers in Korea, it examines the way the multi-scalar approach advances the understanding of Korean women's movement.

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What Is a Monster Narrative? Seven Fragments on the Relationship between a Monster Narrative and a Catastrophic Narrative (괴물서사란 무엇인가? - 괴물서사에서 파국서사로 나아가기 위한 일곱 개의 단편 -)

  • Moon, Hyong-jun
    • Cross-Cultural Studies
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    • v.50
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    • pp.31-51
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    • 2018
  • The concept of 'monsters' have become popular, again, in recent times. A number of 'monster narratives' that discuss monsters such as zombies, humanoids, viruses, extraterrestrials, and serial killers have been made and re-made in popular media. Noting such an interesting cultural context, this article attempts, first, to find out some essential prototypical elements of a monster narrative and, second, to relate it with a catastrophic narrative. Correspondingly, the word 'monster' has been used as a conceptual prototype category that denies universal and clear definition, which makes it as one of the most widely used and familiar subjects of the use of metaphor. The prototypical meanings of various monster figures can be converged on a certain creature of being in this way held out as bizarre, curious, and abnormal. The monster figure that surpasses existing normality is also connected to 'abjection,' such as something that is cast aside from the body such as the bodily functions seen in its associated blood, tears, vomit, excrement, or semen, and so on. Nevertheless, both the monster figure and abjection produce disgust and horror in the minds of ordinary spectators or readers of media using this metaphor to heighten excitement for the viewers. The abject characteristic of the monster figure also has something in common with the posthuman figure, meaning to apply to a category of inhuman others who are held outside of the normal category of human beings. In the similar vein, it is natural that the most typical monster figures in our times are posthuman creatures embodied in such forms as seen with zombies, humanoids, cyborgs, robots, and so on. In short, the monster figure includes all of the creatures and beings that disarray normalized humanist categories and values. The monster narrative, in the same sense, is a type of story that tells about others outside modern, anthropocentric, male-centered, and Westernized categories of thought. It can be argued that a catastrophic narrative, a literary genre which depicts the world where a series of catastrophic events demolish the existing human civilization, ought to be seen as a typical modern-day monster narrative, because it also discounts and criticizes normalized humanist categories and values as is the result of the monster narrative. Going beyond the prevailing humanist realist narrative that are so familiar with existing values, the catastrophic narrative is not only a monster narrative per se, but also a monstrous narrative which disrupts and reinvents currently mainstream narratives and ways of thinking.