• International journal of advanced smart convergence
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• 제13권1호
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• pp.129-139
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• 2024

In digital marketing, the strategic use of emojis in social media advertising, particularly on the Xiaohongshu app, significantly influences consumer acceptance and purchase behavior. This study examines the impact of emoji-laden advertisements and the role of brand metaphorical warmth on consumer perceptions. Employing a tailored questionnaire, the research explores how emojis affect brand advertisement reception, filling a gap in empirical research on emoji advertising effectiveness. Findings indicate that emojis, when used judiciously, enhance consumer acceptance and contribute to a positive brand perception. However, excessive use may undermine trust. Brand metaphorical warmth emerges as a crucial factor, suggesting that emojis can effectively convey warmth, fostering a deeper emotional connection with consumers. These insights offer practical implications for refining social media marketing strategies, advocating for a balanced approach to emoji usage in advertisements to optimize engagement and influence consumer behavior.

• 한국게임학회 논문지
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• 제21권6호
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• pp.51-62
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• 2021

본 연구는 메타버스에서 진행한 취업 면접 훈련 상황에서, 성별에 따른 이모지 사용이 사용자 경험에 주는 영향을 연구하였다. 이를 위해 이모지 사용, 면접관 성별, 그리고 사용자 성별의 2 × 2 × 2 혼합설계 실험을 통해 사용자가 느낀 친밀감, 상호이해, 그리고 대화에의 집중도를 측정하였다. 실험 결과는 이모지의 사용이 보다 긍정적인 사용자 경험을 불러오는 것으로 나타났다. 이러한 결과는 가상현실의 환경에서 진행하는 훈련과정에서, 적절하게 사용한 이모지가 취업 면접 훈련자의 불안감을 감소시키고, 더욱 긍정적인 능력을 이끌 수 있다는 시사점을 제공한다.

• International Journal of Advanced Culture Technology
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• 제12권2호
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• pp.180-189
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• 2024

We aimed to see if approach-avoidance visual experience would have different effects in the valence rating of emojis. Previous literature has shown that approach-avoidance tendencies have influences people's emotional perceptions. Up until now, research on emojis have been heavily focused on static emojis, which gives room for exploration whether if movement added on to emoji would elicit different emotional responses. In the study, we examined the impact of approach-avoidance visual experience of emojis via mobile interface, categorized into 4 experimental conditions (positive approach, negative approach, positive avoid, and negative avoid), and conducted semi-structured interviews to identify users' reasonings towards their valence ratings on specific emojis with approach or avoid movements. We found that positive approach emojis were the highest valence rating and preferred by the participants, while there were no differences between negative emoji approach or avoidance. Based on these findings, we conclude that positive emojis could be intensified to be more positive with approach motion, yet for negative emojis, individual differences or contextual differences may arise in its emotional ratings.

• Fashion, Industry and Education
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• 제16권1호
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• pp.46-55
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• 2018

The purpose of this exploratory study was to enhance the understanding of how brands tilize emojis in their marketing practices. A content analysis was conducted utilizing Google News as a search tool to access articles containing information pertaining to the use of emojis by brands. The combination of keywords used for the search were "emoji", "business", and "marketing". The search was narrowed down to the period of January $1^{st}$, 2014 - November $29^{th}$, 2017. This method generated a total of 604 trade publications with 55 of them providing information pertaining to specific brands and their use of emojis in their marketing strategies. A content analysis of trade publications has revealed that a variety of marketers have utilized emojis in their brand marketing practices. The entertainment, service, and food/drink industries have predominantly utilized emojis in their marketing practices, and their primary purpose for using emojis was to increase consumer engagement. Brands applied most of these emoji marketing strategies to an online or digital setting, whether it was social media pages, mobile applications, or any other form of computer-based marketing. Although there are limitations to this exploratory research in terms of its methodology, the findings of this study provide interesting insights into the potential of emojis as a marketing tool.

• 감성과학
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• 제26권4호
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• pp.93-102
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• 2023

Emojis and avatars are widely used in online communications, but their emotional conveyance lacks research. This study aims to contribute to the field of emotional expression in computer-mediated communication (CMC) by exploring the effectiveness of emotion recognition, the intensity of perceived emotions, and the perceived preferences for emojis and avatars as emotional expression tools. The following were used as stimuli: 12 photographs from the Yonsei-Face database, 12 Memojis that reflected the photographs, and 6 iOS emojis. The results of this study indicate that emojis outperformed other forms of emotional expression in terms of conveying emotions, intensity, and preference. Indeed, the study findings confirm that emojis remain the dominant form of emotional signals in CMC. In contrast, the study revealed that Memojis were inadequate as an expressive emotional cue. Participants did not perceive Memojis to effectively convey emotions compared with other forms of expression, such as emojis or real human faces. This suggests room for improvement in the design and implementation of Memojis to enhance their effectiveness in accurately conveying intended emotions. Addressing the limitations of Memojis and exploring ways to optimize their emotional expressiveness necessitate further research and development in avatar design.

• Journal of Dental Anesthesia and Pain Medicine
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• 제19권4호
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• pp.227-233
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• 2019

Background: Dental anxiety in children is a major barrier in patient management. If dental anxiety in pediatric patients is assessed during the first visit, it will not only aid in management but also help to identify patients who are in need of special care to deal with their fear. Nowadays, children and adults are highly interested in multimedia and are closely associated with them. Children usually prefer motion pictures on electronic devices than still cartoons on paper. Therefore, this study was conducted to evaluate a newly designed scale, the animated emoji scale (AES), which uses motion emoticons/animojis to assess dental anxiety in children during their first dental visit, and compare it with the Venham picture test (VPT) and facial image scale (FIS). Methods: The study included 102 healthy children aged 4-14 years, whose dental anxiety was measured using AES, VPT, and FIS during their first dental visit, and their scale preference was recorded. Results: The mean anxiety scores measured using AES, FIS, and VPT, represented as $mean{\pm}SD$, were $1.78{\pm}1.19$, $1.93{\pm}1.23$, and $1.51{\pm}1.84$, respectively. There was significant difference in the mean anxiety scores between the three scales (Friedman test, P < 0.001). The Pearson's correlation test showed a very strong correlation (0.73) between AES and VPT, and a strong correlation between AES and FIS (0.88), and FIS and VPT (0.69), indicating good validity of AES. Maximum number of children (74.5%) preferred AES. Conclusion: The findings of this study suggest that the AES is a novel and child-friendly tool for assessing dental anxiety in children.

• 한국IT서비스학회지
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• 제19권1호
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• pp.129-144
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• 2020

Recent advances in digital purchase platforms allow consumer to easy to access online purchase, but the online purchase systems often occurs a negative situations such as service failure. When customer experiences negative service, they want to communicate with the company online chatting service. But not much is known about how customers online chatting service's contextual cues effectiveness. So, the current research seeks to examine the effects of type of online chatting service interface and company market status on customers' perception of service quality and satisfaction with online chatting services. The results of two studies show that, when customer experienced negative online service, they expected to a high status (vs a low status) company had offered better service. but their service request are not met, customers perceive better service quality if served by a low status (vs high status) company represented by a logo (vs. an emoji). These findings will help marketing practitioners strategically how design their chatting service interface according to the their status when they communicate with customer who experienced negative service.

• 문화기술의 융합
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• 제7권2호
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• pp.149-156
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• 2021

정치적 사안에 대한 대중의 의견과 인식을 객관적으로 이해하기 위한 방법으로 텍스트 마이닝을 통한 빅데이터 분석을 수행할 수 있다. 기존 어휘 사전에 기반한 텍스트 마이닝 알고리즘은 신조어와 같이 사전에 수록되지 않은 어휘를 분석하는데 한계가 나타난다. SNS를 통해 나타나는 사용자들의 의견은 많은 경우 신조어와 비속어를 포함하는데, 이러한 어휘들을 효과적으로 분석하지 못한다면 정확한 대중의 인식과 의견을 파악하기 어렵게 된다. 본 논문은 정치 섹션의 뉴스 댓글로부터 정치적 의미성을 지니는 신조어와 비속어를 효과적으로 추출하는 방법을 제안하고, 추출한 신조어휘들의 의미와 맥락을 이해하기 위한 다양한 방법을 제시하였음.

• 한국정보처리학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국정보처리학회 2023년도 춘계학술발표대회
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• pp.603-605
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• 2023

최근 SNS 의 발달로 인해 자신의 감정을 빠르고 효과적으로 전달할 수 있는 이모지의 중요성이 커지고 있다. 하지만 이모지를 수동으로 생성하기 위해서 시간과 비용이 많이 들고 자신의 감정에 맞는 이모지를 찾아야 하며 해당 이모지가 없을 수 있다. 기존 DCGAN 을 활용한 이모지 자동 생성연구에서는 부족한 데이터셋으로 인해 G(Generator)와 D(Discriminator)가 동등하게 학습하지 못해서 두 모델 간 성능 차이가 발생한다. D 가 G 보다 최적해에 빠르게 수렴하여 G 가 학습이 되지 않아 낮은 품질의 이모지를 생성하는 불안정 문제가 발생한다. 이 문제를 해결하기 위해 본 논문에서는 Latent vector 분포를 데이터셋에 맞게 조정하여 적은 데이터로 G 에서 안정적으로 학습할 수 있게 하는 G 구조와 다양한 이모지 생성을 위한 Latent vector 평균 조정 기법을 제안한다. 비교 실험 결과 불안정 문제를 개선하였고 FID 와 IS 수치를 통해 성능 개선 효과를 검증했다.

• International Journal of Computer Science & Network Security
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• 제21권6호
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• pp.304-311
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• 2021

The relevance of the research involves outlining the need for modern professionals to acquire new competencies. In the conditions of rapid civilizational progress, in order to meet the requirements of the labor market in the knowledge society, there is a readiness for continuous training as an indicator of professional success. The purpose of the research is to identify the impact of various forms of application of information technologies for lifelong learning in order to provide the continuous self-development of each person without cultural or age restrictions and on the basis of rapid digital progress. A high level (96%) of need of the adult population in continuing education with the use of digital technologies has been established. The most effective ways to implement the concept of "lifelong learning" have been identified (educational camps, lifelong learning, mass open online courses, Makerspace activities, portfolio use, use of emoji, casual game, scientific research with iVR game, implementation of digital games, work in scientific cafes). 2 basic objectives of continuing professional education for adults have been outlined (continuous improvement of qualifications and obtaining new qualifications). The features of ICT application in adult education have been investigated by using the following methods, namely: flexibility in terms of easy access to ideas, solving various problems, orientation approach, functional learning, group or individual learning, integration of leisure, personal and professional activities, gamification. The advantages of application of information technologies for continuous education (economic, time, and adaptive) have been revealed. The concept of continuous adult learning in the context of digitalization has been concluded. The research provides a description of the structural principles of the concept of additional education; a system of information requests of the applicant, as well as basic technologies for lifelong learning. The research indicates the lack of comprehensive research in the relevant field. The practical significance of the research results lies in the possibility of using the obtained results for a wider acquaintance of the adult population with the importance of the application of lifelong learning for professional activities and the introduction of methods for its implementation in the educational policy of the state.