• Title/Summary/Keyword: Game Psychology

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User Generated Storytelling based on Social Network in MMORPG - " World of Warcraft", "Mabinogi" - (MMORPG에서의 사회적 네트워크 기반 사용자 스토리텔링 - "월드오브워크래프트", "마비노기"를 중심으로 -)

  • Song, Mi-Sun
    • The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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    • v.9 no.1
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    • pp.187-196
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    • 2009
  • This paper studied out the prototype and the structure of UGS(User Generated Storytelling) based on social network in "World Of Warcraf" and "Mabinogi" as MMORPG(Massively multiplayer online role-playing game) and started with issues based on SNS(Social Network Service) in Internet. SNS has been supported by storytelling which is made by users to go through the contents in game space as well as by developers. This study drew elements toward social network in game and its new possibility as storytelling applied by communication theories based on social psychology. Today SNS is a major topic in web environment and this issue has influenced the game design and UGC. Under this situation, this study has a significant meaning because it proves that the factors toward social network in MMORPG is analyzed by UGCs.

The Effects of Narrative Therapy Group Counseling Program Using Role-Playing Game Format on Happiness and Negative Emotions in Children (롤플레잉게임 형식을 활용한 이야기치료 집단상담 프로그램이 아동의 행복감과 부정적 정서에 미치는 영향)

  • Kim, Bo-Kyung;Bae, Sung-Hoon;Chung, Eun-Jung;Hwang, Soon-Taeg
    • Journal of the Korea Convergence Society
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    • v.9 no.9
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    • pp.271-284
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    • 2018
  • The purpose of this study was to examine the effects of the narrative therapy group counseling program using RPG(Role Playing Game) format on happiness and negative emotions in children. The subjects of this study were 30 elementary school students who were referred to emotional and behavioral problems in a mental health center or elementary school in Seoul. They were allocated into an experimental group and a control group containing 15 students. Experimental group received a 60-minutes-session per week for 8 weeks. As a result, negative emotions of the experimental group statistically and significantly decreased compared with the control group, as well as the happiness. Results after 20 days showed that was maintained. In conclusion, the narrative therapy group counseling program using RPG (Role Playing Game) format in this study was found to be effective in reducing negative emotions and increasing happiness.

A Study of Gameplay based on Affordance (행동유도성 기반의 게임플레이에 관한 연구)

  • Song, Seung-Keun
    • Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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    • 2013.05a
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    • pp.170-171
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    • 2013
  • In aspect of HCI(Human Computer Interaction) gameplay is the procedure to solve the problem that gamers encounter in order to generate or discover a new rule to achieve gamers' goal. The goal of this research is to investigate the structure and understand the gameplay in aspect of affordance from ecological psychology rather than the traditional problem solving theory. This research selects 'World of Warcraft' as MMORPG(Massively Multiplayer Online Role Playing Game). Five expert gamers participated in this experiment. We record all gameplay using audio and video device. We conducted protocol analysis as qualitative method based on the verbal report and action protocol during game playing. As result, gameplay based on affordance includes selection and relation. We found that subjects selected one thing at once with attention. Moreover, we found that there were two behaviors : exploratory action and performatory action. We believe that learning, utilization, and transformation for affordance appear. The result of this research imply to suggest design guideline for game design methodology when designers develop game.

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Teacher's acceptance of digital games and related factors (학교 장면에서 디지털 게임 이용에 대한 교사의 수용도와 이에 영향을 미치는 요인)

  • Kim, Jee Yeon;Doh, Young Yim
    • Journal of Korea Game Society
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    • v.17 no.2
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    • pp.123-134
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    • 2017
  • The purpose of this study is to investigate how teachers' acceptance of digital games is constructed in the school context and what factors influence teachers' acceptance. To do this, we conducted a survey on teachers, school counselors, and professional counselors in August 2016. A total of 250 data were analyzed. As a result, it was confirmed that the teachers' acceptance of digital game is composed of 5 factors - need for supervision, willingness to use, concern & monitoring, acceptance as alternative activities, acceptance efficacy. As a result of multi-variate multiple regression analysis, it was found that the teacher's age, the 2 factors of digital media literacy, the teacher's attitude toward student's digital game usage, and teacher's evaluation of the impact of digital games on school achievement have different effects on the 5 factors of teachers' acceptance. This study is meaningful to identify how teachers' acceptance of digital games is constructed and to explore the main factors affecting teachers' acceptance of digital games.

A Study on FIFA Online3 Characters' Behavior and Transaction Method based on Transactional Analysis (교류분석을 기반으로 한 FIFA Online3 캐릭터 행동과 교류방식 연구)

  • Kim, Mi-Sun;Ko, Il-Ju
    • Asia-pacific Journal of Multimedia Services Convergent with Art, Humanities, and Sociology
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    • v.7 no.3
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    • pp.65-75
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    • 2017
  • This research studies the behavior patterns of a character in FIFA Online3, and the transaction patterns between the characters to present a character that acts like a real person and has social interaction with other characters. A character interacts with others mediated by balls in FIFA Online3, we analysis character's behavior and interactions more cleary. Providing the realistic behavior patterns of a character and the relation in the transaction patterns between the characters based on psychology theory, we can give a player the sense of reality. To define the behavior pattern of a character, this study applied the Ego-state as defined by Transactional Analysis(TA). Based on the Transactions in TA, this study then defined the transaction patterns between the characters, which are produced by the actions that a character in the game. This study also presented how to apply a character's transaction patterns with the examples. It showed that a character can act in the game like a real person by defining how a character acts and interacts in the game.

A Study on Analysis of Color characteristic of On-line of Game Play Image of according to the Users (온라인 게임 플레이영상의 이용자에 따른 색채 특성 분석 연구)

  • Jang, Hyun-Joo;Jung, Hyung-Won
    • Journal of Digital Convergence
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    • v.15 no.10
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    • pp.399-404
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    • 2017
  • If game images use colors improper for certain ages, the characteristics of games disappear, and the efficiency of image expression drops. thus a study in color is very important. Nevertheless, there is a lack of research on this subject. In this study, we investigated the difference of color of game images according to users. User group is divided into all users and users over 18 years old. Among the rank of games,10 each from games for all ages and games for non-teen-rated are selected, and the game-playing images are taken as snapshots to have 100 each images each, A total of 2000 images were extracted and the mean values of RGB and HSB of each game were obtained and independent sample t test was performed. The results showed that the RGB color values between the two users were significantly significant. In the future, it is expected that it will be helpful in color selection when developing psychotherapy games and emotional games using color psychology. Furthermore, we will use color image scales to express colors as adjectives, analyze colors in a variety of ways, and investigate the difference in color of game images in each country.

The Effect of Gamification on Employee Behavior: The Mediating Effects of Culture and Engagement

  • HAMZA, Ibrahim;SAROLTA, Tovolgyi;SHATILA, Khodor
    • The Journal of Asian Finance, Economics and Business
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    • v.9 no.5
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    • pp.213-224
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    • 2022
  • In recent years, gamification has been a hot issue due to its positive impact on organizational success. The proper application of game elements in an organizational context is required for gamification implementations. Gamification remains an area of active research for its behavior molding potential. Employee engagement is a critical component in assessing employee behavior and is considered crucial for organizational success. Research questionnaires were completed online between March 2021 and February 2022. Our targeted sample encompassed low and mid-level personnel of Asian and Middle eastern employees working in Hungary. The questionnaire was introduced using google forms. Our sample size consisted of 203 respondents (N = 203). Research results indicated gamification's significance in increasing employees' intrinsic motivation and therefore boosting organizational engagement levels. Gamification improved employees' task performance and the overall quality of work. Organizational culture had a mediating role between gamification and employees' behavior. Organizational culture and employee behavior are in close correlation. Research findings also proved engagements' mediating effect on employees' behavior. The results of the research showed that gamification in human resources has risen in popularity, especially in terms of its impact on employee behavior and performance. The study's findings demonstrated that gamification has a positive impact on organizational performance and collaboration.

I CAN stand this, but WE CAN'T: discontinuity between choices for self vs. group modulated by group competition during the ultimatum game (최후통첩 게임에서의 개인의사결정 vs. 그룹의사결정: 그룹 간 경쟁의 의한 조절효과)

  • Kim, Hye-young;Kim, Hackjin;Han, Sanghoon
    • Korean Journal of Cognitive Science
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    • v.27 no.3
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    • pp.407-420
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    • 2016
  • We live under the consequences of countless decisions, among which significant number of decisions is made by representatives acting on behalf of us. However, individuals often make disparate decisions depending on which identity they are assigned as an agent or with which opponent they are interplaying. In the current research, behavioral discontinuity depending upon actor identity and social relationship was investigated using the ultimatum game. Participants behaved in a more economically rational way when they acted as a group representative compared with when they made decisions as a private individual. However, the direction of the individual-representative discontinuity was reversed when rivalry came into play. Furthermore, more fairness was requested to accept the offers in the interaction with the rival compared with the neutral countergroup. Especially when interacting with the rival group, participants showed contrasting level of decision bias - measured by rejection rate toward unfair offers - according to the degree of mind attribution to the opponent. Specifically, the greater participants attributed a mind to the rival group, the more they rejected the unfair offers from it. The present research is important in that it provides insight into individuals' decision-making in a group context, which sometimes forgoes the financial gain of the entire group and ultimately leads to the sub-optimization of social welfare.

The Study on the Government's North Korea Policy through Game Theory (게임이론을 통해 살펴본 역대정부의 대북정책 연구)

  • Ryu, Ho-Kuk;Lim, Gye-Hwan
    • Convergence Security Journal
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    • v.17 no.1
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    • pp.69-79
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    • 2017
  • This study focuses on the fact that the past government has been consistent with the one-sided withdrawal policy without any clear countermeasures in relation to the ongoing nuclear development of the DPRK. The purpose of this study is to improve the understanding of South Korea's North Korea policy and to present the direction of the North Korea policy in the future by comparing and researching the North Korea policy pursued by Lee Myung - bak government / Park-Geun-Hye government. Such an attempt will provide a basis for evaluating the previous government's policies toward North Korea, and will also help to find alternatives to sustainable inter-Korean relations and North Korea policy to achieve a unified Korea.

Rhyme of Truce, Training Program for moral psychology in Cyberspace

  • Cho, JeongHee;Lim, Chan
    • International journal of advanced smart convergence
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    • v.8 no.1
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    • pp.176-183
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    • 2019
  • Rhyme of Truce is an educational program that helps you develop the ability to cope with cyber violence rightly. we aim to produce educational contents that will last a long time in the memory of specially children. By combining the room escape game and Leap motion / VR, the program reflects the user's motion and action in real time. The Keyboard Worrier comes into contact with the user and causes violence, and the user who is attacked by the monster see several negative messages written in red and hears abuses sound. Users enter the virtual space decorated as the cyber world. They can experience cyber-violence indirectly but vividly, and if language violence, which has been overlooked and recognized only as "letters", is executed offline, it will directly wonder if cyber-violence should also be regarded as a means of violence. Users have the opportunity to cope with violence autonomously. When a user is attacked by an in-game monster, there are two ways to choose from. First, fighting against with a keyboard (which is a symbol of language violence) just like a monster. Second, report the abuser to cyber bureau police. Both methods make them to escape the room, but when they get out of the room and return to the home and read the message through the monitor, users can recognize which action was right for.