• 컴퓨터교육학회논문지
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• 제8권2호
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• pp.61-73
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• 2005

이동통신 단말기가 생활필수품이 되면서, 모바일게임은 혁신적 디지털 엔터테인먼트의 새로운 버전으로 각광받고 있다. 다른 컴퓨터 게임과 마찬가지로 모바일게임도 사용자에게 가상공간에서의 독특한 경험을 가질 수 있게 해준다. 본 연구에서는 청소년들 대부분이 소유하고 있는 모바일 단말기를 이용한 게임에 대해 이용과 만족 관점에서 연구를 하였다. 설문조사를 토대로 분석한 결과, 청소년들의 모바일게임 이용동기는 현실에서의 탈출, 자극과 환상감, 도전과 경쟁, 시간보내기와 기분전환, 사회적 상호작용 등으로 밝혀졌다. 인구통계학적인 요인과 게임경험 등을 독립변수로 하여 만족도와 동기요인 등에 관한 추가분석을 시도한 결과, 대부분의 인구통계학적인 요인들은 통계적으로 유의한 것으로 나타났다. 본 연구의 결과는 향후 모바일 단말기를 활용한 모바일 에듀게임의 개발과 서비스 확산에 도움이 될 것이다.

• 한국멀티미디어학회논문지
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• 제21권6호
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• pp.712-722
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• 2018

This study investigates the merits of incorporating augmented reality in mobile games and proposes a mobile game application that combines augmented reality technology with gaming. The proposed study postulates that augmented reality technology can be employed for developing games on smartphones. The proposed application involves the implementation of a 3D virtual object in the real world by incorporating a target image. The proposed application also employs an intuitive interface with simplified manipulation based on touch, and allows players to collect and combine items for acquiring new items, thus making it elementary to pass the game stages. Furthermore, a ranking system has been introduced in the proposed application for enhancing the amusement factor of the game. The novelty of the proposed application lies in the fact that the virtual button function has been employed for combining physical and virtual objects while playing the game, without incorporating location-based services.

• 한국정보처리학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국정보처리학회 2011년도 춘계학술발표대회
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• pp.40-42
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• 2011

Smart hand-held devices like iPhone, iPad, Andriod and other mobile-OS machines are becoming a well known part of our daily lives. Utilization of these devices has gone beyond the expectations of their inventors. Evolution of Apple's iOS from a mobile phone Operating System to a wholesome platform for Portable Gaming is an adequate proof. Using these smart devices people are downloading applications from numerous online App Stores. Utilizing remote storage facilities and confining themselves to computing power far below than an entry level laptop, netbooks have emerged. Google's idea of Chrome OS coupled with Google's AppEngine is an eye-opener for researchers and developers. Keeping all these industry-proven innovations in mind we are proposing a Context-Driven Cloud-Oriented Application Architecture for smart devices. This architecture enables our smart devices to behave smarter by utilizing very less of local resources.

• 한국게임학회 논문지
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• 제15권1호
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• pp.171-184
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• 2015

기존 게임 관련 연구를 살펴보면 게임의 수용, 사용자 만족, 지속사용 의도, 구전 의도와 같은 연구는 수없이 많이 진행되어 왔으나 서비스 회복의 개념을 게임 연구에 적용시킨 사례는 전무한 상태이다. 본 연구는 국내 주요 모바일 소셜 네트워크 게임 플랫폼인 카카오톡 게임을 중심으로 모바일 소셜 네트워크 게임 특성이 서비스 회복에 미치는 영향을 알아보고자 한다. 또한 공정성 이론과 혁신 확산 이론을 바탕으로 모바일 소셜 네트워크 게임 특성 요인을 분석하고 해당 요인들과 서비스 회복과의 인과관계를 규명하였다. 그 결과 적합성을 제외한 모든 모바일 소셜 네트워크 게임 특성이 서비스 회복에 직 간접적인 영향을 미친다는 사실을 밝혀냈다. 이러한 연구결과는 향후 게임 산업의 새로운 비즈니스 모델을 제시하고 위험 요소를 줄여주며 게임 관련 연구의 발전에 기여할 수 있는 참고자료로 활용될 것이라고 기대하고 있다.

• 유통과학연구
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• 제10권11호
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• pp.89-99
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• 2012

Purpose - Mobile devices, especially mobile terminals capable of telecommunication and wireless connectivity, are leading the advancements in consumer electronics. Digital convergence drives the functions of various devices, such as cellular phones, MP3 players, personal digital assistants, and gaming, into a single device. This trend would continue and applications such as digital audio and video streaming (including personalized content delivery mechanisms) would soon be on a handheld device. As customers want mobile convergence devices, manufacturers are driving new initiatives in the emerging mobile device market. Given the roles played by device design and service content in user satisfaction of a mobile convergence device, this study focuses on identifying and measuring the constructs for the process by which user satisfaction is achieved. This study synthesizes the expectation-disconfirmation paradigm with empirical theories in user satisfaction. Device and service levels are separated, and nine key constructs for user satisfaction of mobile convergence devices are proposed. Insight into this process could help web-based businesses to improve user satisfaction, thus enhancing the effectiveness of e-commerce for sellers and buyers. Research design, data, methodology - This study draws on three users of mobile convergence devices as examples. To test there search model and hypotheses, survey questionnaires were sent to 607 mobile device users. Mobile device users were initially identified from several members, and subjects were randomly drawn. Data from 577 survey responses were finally analyzed. The unit of measurement and analysis in this research study is at a personal level. Results - The measurements for the constructs were developed and tested in a two-phase study. In the first phase, the device and service dimensions were identified, and instruments for measuring them were developed and tested. In the second phase, using the salient dimensions of the device and service as the formulating first-order factors, instruments were developed and empirically tested to measure satisfaction of the device and service. In measuring satisfaction of mobile convergence devices, the critical tasks are to identify the key constructs of such user satisfaction and to develop validated instruments to measure them. Hence, the results of this study have immediate implications for businesses and for research in user satisfaction of mobile convergence devices. Conclusions - This study provides reliable instruments for operationalizing key constructs in the analysis of user satisfaction of mobile convergence devices within the expectation-disconfirmation paradigm. Hence, convergence device makers will be able to examine whether their websites meet their customers' expectations by examining the device aspect of the mobile convergence device customers, and the service aspect expectations and disconfirmation. Moreover, the introduction of expectation and disconfirmation constructs brings the marketing aspect of convergence devices into focus for such retailers, an aspect crucial to the effective design of websites for online businesses. In addition,this study provides the metrics required to initiate future studies on user satisfaction of mobile convergence devices.

• Journal of Communications and Networks
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• 제18권5호
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• pp.806-817
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• 2016

Opportunistic routing (OR) has been proposed as a viable approach to improve the performance of wireless multihop networks with lossy links. However, the exponential growth of the bandwidth-sensitive mobile traffic (e.g., mobile video streaming and online gaming) poses a great challenge to the performance of OR in term of bandwidth guarantee. To solve this problem, a novel mechanism is proposed to opportunistically forwarding data packets and provide bandwidth guarantee for the bandwidth-sensitive traffic. The proposal exploits the broadcast characteristic of wireless transmission and reduces the negative effect of wireless lossy links. First, the expected available bandwidth (EAB) and the expected transmission cost (ETC) under OR are estimated based on the local available bandwidth, link delivery probability, forwarding candidates, and prioritization policy. Then, the policies for determining and prioritizing the forwarding candidates is devised by considering the bandwidth and transmission cost. Finally, bandwidth-aware routing algorithm is proposed to opportunistically delivery data packets; meanwhile, admission control is applied to admit or reject traffic flows for bandwidth guarantee. Extensive simulation results show that our proposal consistently outperforms other existing opportunistic routing schemes in providing performance guarantee.

• 디지털콘텐츠학회 논문지
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• 제17권2호
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• pp.105-109
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• 2016

본 논문은 안드로이드 게임 콘텐츠 개발시 여러학문의 융합과 게임개발간의 관계에 대해서 개발자의 입장에서 고찰하고자 한다. 스마트폰의 대중화가 가속화됨에 따라 모바일 게임은 다양한 형태의 게임들이 모든 연령대의 유저들에게 어필되는 시대가 되고 있다. 본 연구에서는 기존의 보편화된 게임을 차별화시켜 남녀노소 즐길 수 있는 새로운 장르의 모바일 게임을 제작하며 이에 대한 경험을 설명하고자 한다. 실제 게임을 제작하는 과정을 통해서 게임기획, 기획된 내용을 바탕으로 게임제작을 한다. 동시에 각 프로세스별 여러학문간의 상관관계에 대해서 연구한다.

• 대한의용생체공학회:의공학회지
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• 제34권1호
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• pp.1-7
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• 2013

According to the frequent use of mobile devices, risk of repetitive strain injury for the finger joints was increasing recently. The purpose of this study was to investigate the difference of muscular endurance limit of the thumb between adults and children. A total of thirty subjects (15 adults: $41.0{\pm}7.9$ years and 15 children: $9.5{\pm}2.7$ years) was recruited for this experiment. Maximum voluntary contraction (MVC) of the thumb was measured for 100 trials for each subject by using a push-pull gauge. From the maximum peak value obtained, three main factors (MVC, endurance limit, and fatigue index) were defined to quantify fatigue characteristics of the thumb flexor muscle. The experimental results showed that the mean of MVC, endurance limit, and fatigue index of the children were approximately 50% compared to the adults (p < 0.001). From the results of Pearson correlation test, the endurance limit was highly correlated with weight, age, hand length rather than height. Based on this study, children are more vulnerable to repetitive task using the thumb such as text/SNS messaging, gaming, and scrolling.

• 경영정보학연구
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• 제9권2호
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• pp.15-39
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• 2007

모바일게임은 새로운 수익원의 창출과 무선 애플리케이션 및 서비스의 제공이라는 잠재적 이점을 제공하는 혁신적인 엔터테인먼트 기술로 떠오르고 있으며, 다른 형태의 컴퓨터게임과 같이 가상세계의 흥미로운 디지털 경험을 줌으로써 독특한 가치를 제공하고 있다. 본 연구에서는 모바일 게이머의 게임 이용 동기를 기반으로 게이머를 분류하고, 분류된 게이머 집단에 대해 인구통계 속성과 모바일게임 이용 형태 및 게임 이용 시간의 차이를 실증적으로 검증하였다. 통계적 검증 결과 나이, 성, 모바일 단말기, 모바일 게임 경험 및 선호하는 게임 방식에 따라 게임 이용시간에 차이가 있는 것으로 나타났다. 또한 게임 이용 동기를 설명할 수 있는 변수에 대한 설문조사 결과를 요인분석한 결과 탈출, 사회적 상호작용, 경쟁/도전감, 환상감/각성, 접근 용이성이라는 모바일게임 이용 동기를 도출했으며, 이러한 동기요인을 중심으로 군집분석을 수행하여 멀티게이머(Multi-gamers), 커뮤니케이션 중심 게이머(Communication-focused gamers), 모바일 액티브게이머(Mobile active-gamers)라는 3개의 게이머 집단을 구분하였다. 이들 집단 간의 모바일게임 이용 특성과 모바일 단말기 이용 현황 및 사회 경제적 변수에 대한 특성을 비교한 결과 통계적으로 유의한 차이를 발견하였다.

• 예술인문사회 융합 멀티미디어 논문지
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• 제8권10호
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• pp.1-9
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• 2018

The purpose of this exploratory study is to identify the mobile phone applications (apps) used by foreign tourists visiting South Korea through a pilot study using focus groups and individual interviews. Concentrating on tourist mobile app use in a smart tourism environment and categorized through a taxonomy of mobile applications lays the framework and determines the factors boosting tourism smartphone app trends by foreign tourists visiting South Korea. Researchers collected data through ethnographic methods and analyzed it through qualitative research to uncover major themes within the smart tourism app use phenomenon. The researchers coded, counted, analyzed, and then divided the findings gleaned from a pilot study and interviews into a taxonomy of seven logical smartphone app categories. The labeling and coding of all the data accounting for similarities and differences can be recognized and are logically discussed in the implications of the apps used by tourists to assist tourist destinations. More specifically these findings will assist smart tourism destinations by better understanding foreign tourist smartphone app use behavior. Tourists visiting South Korea interviewed in this study exhibited significant mastery of Internet of Things (IoT) technologies, craved free WiFi access, and utilized smartphone apps for all facets of their travel. Findings show major concentrations of app use in bookings of accommodations, tourist attractions, online shopping, navigation, wayfinding, augmented reality, information searching, language translation, gaming, and online dating while traveling in South Korea.