• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Computer Information Conference
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• 2023.01a
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• pp.337-339
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• 2023

2025년 메타버스에서 주요 응용시장 전망에 의하면, 헬스케어 1,111억 달러, 제품개발 1,097억 달러, 교육 907억 달러, 프로세스 개선 848억 달러, 유통 622억 달러 규모로 성장할 것으로 예상된다. 또한, 2030년 메타버스 시장은 1조 5429억 달러 규모로 더욱 성장할 것으로 예상 된다. 시장이 커져가며 메타버스는 다양한 기관과 전문가들로부터 다양한 속성이 정의되고 있지만, 메타버스를 실질적으로 개발할 수 있는 기능을 제공하는 메타버스 플랫폼(metaverse platform)은 이러한 주요 속성이 얼마나 잘 적용되고 있는지 현 상황을 연구한다. 전 세계적으로 가장 많은 유저를 보유하고 있는 네이버 제페토와 2022년 9월 론칭하며 게임을 통한 메타버스 구현을 목표로 둔 넥슨의 메이플스토리월드에 메타버스의 주요 속성을 대입한다.

• Educational Technology International
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• v.24 no.2
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• pp.295-329
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• 2023

The recent development of metaverse-related technology has led to efforts to overcome the limitations of time and space in education by creating a virtual educational environment. To make use of this platform efficiently, applying learning analytics has been proposed as an optimal instructional and learning decision support approach to address these issues by identifying specific rules and patterns generated from learning data, and providing a systematic framework as a guideline to instructors. To achieve this, we employed an inductive, bottom-up approach for framework modeling. During the modeling process, based on the activity system model, we specifically derived the fundamental components of the learning analytics framework centered on learning activities and their contexts. We developed a prototype of the framework through deduplication, categorization, and proceduralization from the components, and refined the learning analytics framework into a 7-stage framework suitable for application in the metaverse through 3 steps of Delphi surveys. Lastly, through a framework model evaluation consisting of seven items, we validated the metaverse learning analytics framework, ensuring its validity.

• Electronics and Telecommunications Trends
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• v.39 no.2
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• pp.12-23
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• 2024

The Metaverse industry is developing rapidly, and related technologies are being actively improved. Tools such as controllers, keyboards, and mouses are used to interact in the Metaverse, but they are not natural and intuitive interfaces to resemble real-world interactions. Immersive interaction in a Metaverse space requires the engagement of various senses such as vision, touch, and proprioception. Moreover, in terms of body senses, it requires a sense of body ownership and agency. In addition, eliciting cognitive and emotional empathy based on non-verbal expression, which cannot be suitably conveyed to the digital world, requires higher-level technologies than existing emotion measurement solutions. This diversity of technologies can converge to build an immersive realistic Metaverse environment. We review the latest research trends in technologies related to immersive interactions and analyze future development prospects.

• International journal of advanced smart convergence
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• v.10 no.3
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• pp.181-186
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• 2021

Among human intellectual creations, the right granted by law to what is worth protecting is defined as intellectual property rights. Copyright is a legal right to creative finished products made by individuals, and in recent years, this legal right has been recognized as very important. In other words, copyright is a system created to protect the rights of individuals who created creations and to recognize their efforts. Works subject to copyright vary from poetry, thesis, novels to designs, paintings, music, and architecture, and the scope of the subject is gradually expanding. Recently, research has begun on how far the Metaverse design area absorbed into the real world among works. Computer-generated video productions and software program works are also subject to digital copyright protection, but it is also true that the interpretation of the author protection law for works, designs, and trademarks in the virtual world is unclear. This study aims to analyze copyrights based on case studies and theoretical backgrounds on copyright protection and to discuss the protection limitations of Metaverse design in the virtual world. In other words, the direction for the protection of Metaverse design is presented through clear distinction and definition of copyright protection in the tertiary virtual world. This study aims to present methods for design copyright protection in the era of Metaverse, respect copyright holders' creative activities, and develop our culture through protection of creations.

• The Journal of Information Systems
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• v.31 no.1
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• pp.219-238
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• 2022

Purpose The purpose of this study is to investigate the structural relationships between interest, interaction level, presence, which are the characteristics of metaverse, learning immersion, and learning satisfaction, which are learning factors. Design/methodology/approach A questionnaire survey technique was used to achieve the purpose of the study. A questionnaire survey was conducted from November 22 to December 5, 2021, with students with experience in non-face-to-face classes using Gather Town and a total of 114 copies of the questionnaire excluding those with insincere answers were used for empirical analysis. SPSS Win ver.23.0 was used for basic statistical analysis, and AMOS 22.0 was used for the establishment and analysis of a structural equation model. Findings According to the study findings, interest and interaction levels had effects on learning immersion and learning presence, self-efficacy on learning presence, and learning immersion and learning presence on learning satisfaction. This study is meaningful in that it conducted an empirical study to find variables for improving learning immersion by conducting classes based on metaverse. Based on the findings of this study, it was found that interest and interaction, which are the biggest characteristics of metaverse, sustain learning participation and immersion and increase presence thereby enhancing learning satisfaction so that the possibilities of metaverse as a next generation education platform passing the limit of existing real time video platforms can be peeped.

• Journal of Korea Game Society
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• v.21 no.6
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• pp.63-74
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• 2021

Metaverse fits well with the lifestyle of MZ generation who carries smart-phones at all times and value their identity. This study proposes a planning model that develops Minhwa, traditional Korean culture and arts, into art galleries on Zepeto, a metaverse platform. To this end, the characteristics of the metaverse platform, open world, sandbox, creator economy, and avatar, are analyzed and developed into a planning to open a Minhwa museum on Zepeto. While reinterpreting traditional Korean art in a modern way, it is worth researching as a metaverse planning and development model suitable for the new-tro sensibility of the MZ generation.

• International Journal of Internet, Broadcasting and Communication
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• v.14 no.4
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• pp.36-40
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• 2022

Many parts of life have been changed due to the unprecedented coronavirus outbreak, and Noncontact has now become a general culture of society around the world. Also, many years later, after the Fourth Industrial Revolution, it is now deeply embedded in the human lifestyle. The purpose of this paper's research is to investigate the metaverse perception before and after Corona. It was confirmed that the number of metaverse, the central keyword, was 70971 before Corona, but 261767 after Corona, which was more than three times the frequency. In addition, it was confirmed that the number of COVID-19, the reference point of this study, increased significantly to 1,9236 during the pre-COVID-19 period. Through this, it can be inferred that the metaverse accelerated and developed significantly after the corona. Metaverse about Keywords such as cryptocurrency, cryptocurrency, coin, and exchange appeared before Corona, and the word frequency ranking for blockchain, which is an underlying technology, was high, but after Corona, the word frequency ranking fell significantly as mentioned above. As such, it was confirmed that keywords for metaverse were changing before and after Corona, and as such, Consumers' perceptions were also changing.

• Journal of Korea Game Society
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• v.21 no.3
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• pp.79-90
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• 2021

Currently, for teenagers, the metaverse is becoming an important space for communication and experience. Due to the development of AI technology, experiences in the metaverse space are diversifying, which means that experiences in the virtual world can affect the real self. Therefore, this study attempted to examine the necessity of establishing a new concept of empathy across the metaverse for the AI era. In accordance with literature studies related to empathy, one was confirmed that the concept of empathy has been changing according to social ideas in times. In addition, with the result of the analysis of recent research trends, it was considered that the current study of empathy is generally taking a view as a measure of 'upright sociality.' In the end, this study suggest the necessity of redefined empathy in order to cultivate upright sociality in the metaverse.

• Smart Media Journal
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• v.11 no.6
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• pp.9-17
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• 2022

In the COVID-19 pandemic era, non-contact services were demanded and the use of extended reality and metaverse services increased rapidly in various applications. In this paper, we analyze Gather.town, ifland, Roblox, and ZEPETO metaverse platforms in terms of user interaction, avatar-based interaction, and virtual world authoring. Especially, we distinguish interactions among user input techniques that occur in the real world, avatar representation techniques to represent users in the virtual world, and interaction types that create a virtual world through user participation. Based on this work, we highlight the current trends and needs of human-metaverse interaction and forecast future opportunities and research directions.

• Fashion & Textile Research Journal
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• v.24 no.6
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• pp.707-718
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• 2022

The metaverse is emerging as the next digital environment for people not only to interact and collaborate with others, but also to have virtual consumption experiences. In this study, virtual fashion items for the consumer's digital self are deemed significant products with consumption value. Drawing from the regulatory focus theory, this study examines how consumers' promotion and prevention focus influence value perception and buying behaviors of virtual fashion items in the metaverse context. The data were collected through an online survey. A total of 546 consumers in their twenties who are aware of the metaverse responded to a self-administered questionnaire. The results showed that promotion focus influenced all the perceived consumption values of virtual fashion items such as the economic, visual authority, hedonic, and social value, whereas prevention focus influenced only the visual authority value. Visual authority value negatively affected both purchase intention and willingness to pay premium price, while others had a positive effect. The findings provide theoretical evidence that consumers' regulatory focus is critical in buying virtual fashion items and suggest that marketers devise effective strategies to stimulate consumers' regulatory focus and to emphasize the economic, hedonic, and social value of the items in the metaverse context.