• Journal of Gifted/Talented Education
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• v.26 no.2
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• pp.389-404
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• 2016

This research aims to build a concept map reflecting gifted elementary students' perception on fun factors of the classes for the gifted. Data for this research was gathered through brainstorming of 80 students currently attending classes for the gifted. 10 of them were selected as focus group for classification and evaluation, and 140 gifted-class students were asked of the fun factors for level of agreement after concept map analysis. Results of the research were, first, 46 final statements about fun factors which are categorized into 6 sub-categories ('the gifted class teacher's encouragement and feedback', 'confidence and chance', 'teamwork and intimacy with gifted friends', 'fulfilling, beneficial, and rewarding feeling', 'new and special experiments', 'qualitatively different class level and learning environment'). Second, the gifted students showed highest level of agreement on 'new and special experiments' category among the 6 sub-categories. Implication of this research on the field has been discussed.

• Journal of the HCI Society of Korea
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• v.1 no.1
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• pp.63-71
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• 2006

For many years, the approach taken towards HCI(Human Computer Interaction) has focused on the usability of system and technology. Advances in computing and information technology has shifted the way people use and experience technology from merely using it to enjoying using it. But, there is a lack of theories to conceptualize fun and user fun experience, in the HCI. This paper describes an conceptual approach to "fun" and user's 'fun experience' in the interaction of technology. This paper defines "fun" as positive psychological energy which is produced by playing computer. And this paper provides characteristics of 'Fun experience', which are action mode, random order, free, and activated pleasant. This study provides insights into factors contributing to and influencing fun experiences and the relationships between them; symbol, newness, and vividness.

• Cartoon and Animation Studies
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• s.16
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• pp.33-47
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• 2009

This research investigated which evaluation factors in children's television animation programs children between 7 and 11 years of age value. We collected data by means of questionnaires among 120 children of elementary school first through fourth graders. As research result, the most important evaluation factors for children were fun and action, closely followed by innocuousness, purity, realism, comprehensibility, and violence respectively. Boys in both samples attached more value to fun and action in a children's television animation, whereas girls in both samples attached more value to innocuousness and fun.

• Journal of the Korea Furniture Society
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• v.20 no.2
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• pp.105-114
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• 2009

Recently, as living of people becomes economically liberal, people's interests are being directed to enjoying leisure and finding fun. The design area is not exceptional from this change and thus fun elements are working as important purchase factors when people are purchasing goods in addition to intrinsic uses of the goods. Along with the development of cutting-edge technologies, other manufacturing industries like electronics, automobiles etc are swiftly responding to this trend, but the furniture industry that has been perceived as a relatively low technical industry is not at all prepared for this trend. Here, this thesis is to suggest a direction for our furniture industry to go by proposing many potentials to apply fun elements to furniture through surveys of design cases addressing fun in other areas. The surveys made in this study are largely divided into the fun in the aspect of perception and the fun in the aspect of awareness. First, the fun in the aspect of perception of furniture can be experienced through the assembling of D. I. Y. furniture and this requires studies and efforts of developers in order to enable people to enjoy the processes of assembling as a sort of 'play' without feeling a burden in the processes of assembling. Second, the fun in the aspect of awareness of furniture can be created by boldly introducing new technologies and materials from other industrials and this includes adding other functions than the intrinsic use of furniture such as containing things.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.26 no.8
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• pp.1148-1157
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• 2022

In 2019, COVID-19 changed many people's lives. Among them, metaverse supports non-face-to-face services through various methods, replacing daily tasks. This phenomenon was created and formed like a culture due to the prolonged COVID-19. In this paper, the fun elements used in the existing game were organized to find out the fun factors of the metaverse, and the items and contents were reclassified according to the metaverse with five experts. Classification was classified using reproducibility, sensory fun [graphic, auditory, text, manipulation, empathy, play, perspective], challenging fun [absorbedness, challenging, discovery, thrill, reward, problem-solving], imaginative fun [new story, love, freedom, agency, expectation, change], social fun[rules, competition, social behavior, status, cooperation, participation, exchange, belonging, currency transaction], interactive fun[decision making, communication sharing, hardware, empathy, nurturing, autonomy], realistic fun[sense of unity in reality, easy of learning, adaptation, intellectual problems solving, pattern recognition, sense of reality, community], and creative fun[application, creation, customizing, virtual world].

• 한국HCI학회:학술대회논문집
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• 2007.02b
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• pp.27-32
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• 2007

핸드폰이 단순한 커뮤니케이션 도구에서 종합 엔터테인먼트 기기로 빠르게 진화되고 있으며 이를 뒷받침 하는 하드웨어와 네트워크 기술 역시 계속 발전해 나가고 있다. 또한 핸드폰이 다양한 기능을 제공하고 휴대폰에 내장된 어플리케이션의 종류가 많아 짐에 따라 UI에도 많은 변화가 일어나고 있지만 주로 사용성을 개선하는 기능적인 개선으로 치중되고 있는 상황이다. 본 연구의 목적은 핸드폰 UI를 새로운 관점으로 접근하여 '재미'라는 요소를 접목한 실험적인 UI를 기획하고 이를 적용하는 데 있다.

• Journal of the Korean Applied Science and Technology
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• v.37 no.4
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• pp.807-819
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• 2020

The purpose of this study is to investigate the relationship between the motivation to participate in sports for elderly, the factors for fun, leisure satisfaction, and exercise persistence. In order to analyze the data, a total of 200 questionnaires were distributed to senior citizens participating in sports programs at the Senior Citizen Welfare Center in Seoul, and a total of 183 copies (91.5%) of data were used as valid samples excluding 17 unfaithful responses. For data processing, frequency analysis, confirmatory factor analysis, Cronbach's α, concentration validity, discriminant validity, concept reliability, correlation analysis, and structural equation model verification were performed using IBM AMOS 21.First, the motivation to participate in sports for the elderly influenced the fun factor. Second, the motivation to participate in sports for the elderly influenced leisure satisfaction. Third, the motivation to participate in sports for the elderly influenced the exercise continuation. Fourth, the fun factor of sports for the elderly influenced leisure satisfaction. Fifth, the fun factor of elderly sports influenced the exercise continuation. Sixth, the satisfaction of sports for the elderly affected the exercise continuation.

• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.12 no.6
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• pp.170-181
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• 2012

The study on the analytical and productive methodolgy of visual culture contents is meaningful because cultural contents are regarded as a national growth industry. The fundamental notion of cultural contents is researched based on the notion of visual culture, and important factors of the fun are analyzed as a creative motive of visual culture contents. So this paper provides anaytical methodologies for the fun in visual culture contents, which are based on semiotic theories of Charles Morris, Roland Barthes and Roman Jakobson. These analytical matrix can be references for the study of the mechanism of fun and the basic theory for using fun effects in the visual culture contents.

• The Korean Journal of Food & Health Convergence
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• v.7 no.3
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• pp.1-11
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• 2021

Purpose of the research: This study aims to explain the state of marketing using fun among recent popular marketing strategies. Although companies are using various differentiated marketing strategies to gain a competitive edge, among them, fun marketing has constituted the most effective area of interest recently. Research design and methodology: To extract the customer selection attributes of fun marketing, after reviewing the literature, six optional attributes were selected from the factors of fun marketing towards consumers such as funny design, language play, celebrity use, funny taste, how to eat, and newtro (new + retro). Out of 300 questionnaires, 276 were used for analysis, excluding unscrupulous or incomplete questionnaires. The results were reviewed for validity and reliability using SPSS andAMOS, and the hypothesis was verified using structural equation modelling (SEM). Principal results: The results showed that funny design, language play, and newtro statistically significantly affected customer satisfaction, but celebrity use, funny taste, and eating methods had no significant effect. It was also confirmed that satisfaction had a statistically significant effect on repurchase intention. Major conclusions: This study can serve as basic data to enhance the marketing strategy of the food service industry, and it provides theoretical and practical implications.

• Journal of Korea Society of Industrial Information Systems
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• v.23 no.1
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• pp.109-122
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• 2018

Gamification is receiving much attention from a variety of fields of life as it has tremendous potential to help people get experienced with 'fun' by the elements of game mechanism and thus attract their voluntary participation eventually to reach the state of 'flow'. Some studies examined this process with a focus the relationship between game elements and flow while others regarded the game elements as fun elements and discussed the relationship between fun and flow. However, starting from the fact that the fundamental reason humans play a game is for fun and fun is in turn induced through game elements, our study defines fun as an emotion and uses it a factors are also introduced as control variables for the study on the belief that game elements affecting fun will apparently vary depending on the cultural dimensions. This study confirms that difference exists in correlations between game element, fun, and flow, depending on the different cultural settings. By comparing samples from Korea and Austria, each representing the east and the west respectively, it was found that 'social fun' affects flow and both 'relationship' and 'reward' are in turn affecting social fun in case of Korea. On the other hand, Austrian case reveals that cognitive fun affects flow and game elements affecting cognitive fun are 'story' and 'reward'.