• Journal of The Korean Association of Information Education
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• v.16 no.4
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• pp.489-502
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• 2012

Today computer education puts an emphasis on algorithm education. There are little researches about how to express the given problem in algorithm and how to interpret the expressed algorithm. In this study play-based learning methods dealing with flow chart which is one of the expressing tools of algorithm are developed for lower graders of elementary school. Then we diagnosed the learning possibility of the tool after applying the methods in a classroom environment. There are four types of learning game activities; sequential play, selective play, repetitive play and puzzle play. Puzzle play is a game that students need to reconstruct the learned content to a real flow chart by using flow chart cards. The result of an achievement test after teaching students flow chart showed that the group who took the play-based lesson got their average score with about 7.5% higher than the group who took the ICT-based lesson. Both the groups got their average scroe of more than 9 out of 10 after the lesson. This result shows that flow chart lessons are adaptable for the lower graders of elementary school. It also shows that play-based education can be exceptionally effective.

• The Journal of Korean Association of Computer Education
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• v.8 no.4
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• pp.87-95
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• 2005

A large part of the wireless Internet contents which the young people access through their mobile phones is mobile games. However, mobile games currently available in the market are mostly simple entertainment packages, and there are hardly any educational game contents. This research divided the middle school computer education curriculum into five parts-common PC knowledge, operating systems, word processor, Internet, and multimedia-and designed and implemented a crossword puzzles mobile game. The mobile game designed in this research was given an emphasis to allow access of school lesson contents anywhere and anytime through actual mobile telecommunication networks, so that the students may experience less barrier to more fun and entertaining educational contents. The developed educational mobile game was applied on 2nd year middle school students. The mobile game had positive educational effects.

• Journal of Digital Contents Society
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• v.10 no.3
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• pp.413-421
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• 2009

Recently, various kinds of arcade games are offered through the network with the internet's development. And for the Grid Logic game, it is opened up for everyone who uses the internet but it has a disadvantage that only the provided puzzles can be played. To improve this, in this paper, we developed a Grid Logic game contents using an image of user's as a puzzle. In order to do this, we suggested a threshold decision method, the pre-processing stage of image processing. We showed a method of detecting aim image from a binary image, showed up by the suggested way, and a method of changing into the game data and carrier of the meaning as a specific image at the end of the game are the objects of this paper. The suggested algorithm is constructed as a Java applet and applied to the 10 objects such as characters, logos, persons, etc. to show that this algorithm is suitable for the appropriate acquisition of the Grid Logic game data through the experiment.

• The Mathematical Education
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• v.45 no.4 s.115
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• pp.481-491
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• 2006

Diffy is a simple mathematical puzzle that provides elementary-school students with subtraction practice. The idea appears to have originated in the late nineteenth century with E. Ducci of Itali. Thirty years ago Professor J. Copley of the University of Houston introduced the diffy game to teachers in elementary schools and it widely spreaded out. During the diffy activity we naturally guess many interesting conjectures. First, does diffy always end? Second, does the head of diffy always exist? Third, for an arbitrary given natural number n, is there any possible method to find the diffy with the given length n? In this study I give the necessary and sufficient condition for the existence of the head of diffy. Using this condition I classify all possible heads of diffy and provide an algorithm to find the diffy with any given length n. With this algorithm I find four natural numbers with diffy length 200. To ensure my numbers are correct, I make a diffy program for Mathematica and check they are correct. I suggest the diffy game is good for enlarging the mathematical thinking to all graded students, especially gifted and talented students, It will produce rational consideration and synthetic judgement.

• Journal of the HCI Society of Korea
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• v.13 no.3
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• pp.5-15
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• 2018

The biggest characteristic of Social Network Game(SNG) is that games are played through competition and cooperation with the actual acquaintances based on SNS. Even though such competition and challenge spirit have been dealt importantly as preceding factors having influence on the flow in games in the existing game area, it is rare to find researches deeply considering the characteristics of ranking competition between acquaintances in SNG. Moreover, it was not considered that such acquaintances could be the targets of competition and also challenge at the same time in SNG. Therefore, this study examined the achievements(big differences in ranking, small differences in ranking) of the targets for comparison and closeness(strong ties, weak ties) with the targets for comparison as factors having influence on competition and challenge spirit, and also empirically analyzed the influence of such factors and interactions between factors on players' competition and challenge spirit in the ranking competitive society, by analyzing the characteristics of ranking competition between acquaintances in the mobile puzzle, SNG based on SNS through the analysis on the preceding research on the self-evaluation maintenance model of the social comparison theory. In the results, when preferentially exposing competitors with small difference in ranking and also exposing competitors with stronger ties, players' competition is stimulated, so that it can improve their challenge spirit. Such results of this study can be expected to a lot contribute to the actual design work of SNG ranking table contents.

• The Journal of the Convergence on Culture Technology
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• v.9 no.5
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• pp.543-548
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• 2023

This study emphasizes the need to understand digital transformation and addresses the development process of functional mobile games with the theme of digital transformation. Through previous research, we found that existing mobile games do not reflect the changes in industries and jobs in the future. In this study, we designed and developed an educational mobile game that can help young people develop digital literacy skills and understand core skills for future changes in industrial structure and jobs due to digital transformation. It utilizes Unity 3D and combines the best features of puzzle, card, and board games. While there may be limitations in terms of expertise in developing educational content, it is important to note that we have presented content that can provide a futuristic view of careers through a game that is highly preferred by students. Considering the direct and indirect educational effects of the game, it is expected to be useful as a vocational education content in the classroom through tablet devices that have recently been distributed in schools.

• Proceedings of the Korea Contents Association Conference
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• 2010.05a
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• pp.505-507
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• 2010

본 논문에서 구현한 게임은 과거 사용자들이 즐겨했던 퍼즐 게임인 헥사 게임에 기본을 두고 있으며 슈팅 및 빠른 조작의 유도로 기존의 퍼즐 게임보다 긴박감 및 몰입성을 배가하였다. 또한 모바일 환경에서 판타지풍의 분위기를 새롭게 적용하여 게임 진행상의 전체적인 흐름은 아기자기 하며 신비스럽게 게임을 구성하였다. 더욱이 판타지 게임의 느낌을 살려 기존의 틀에 박힌 도형 맞추기 퍼즐에서 탈피하였고, 제안한 게임을 통하여 사용자에게 공간 및 도형 지각력을 향상시킬 수 있으며 나아가 실험을 통하여 높은 게임성과 교육적으로도 효과가 있음을 확인할 수 있었다.

• Journal of Korea Multimedia Society
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• v.21 no.1
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• pp.69-76
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• 2018

Augmented Reality (AR) technology has rapidly been applied to various application areas including e-learning and e-education. Focusing on the design and development of android tablet application, this study targeted to develop infant music education using AR technology. We used a tablet instead of personal computer because it is more easily accessible and more convenient. Our system allows infant users to play with teaching aids like blocks or puzzles to mimic musical play like game. The user sets the puzzle piece on the playground in front of the tablet and presses the play button. Then, the system extracts a region of interest among the images acquired by internal camera and separates the foreground image from the background image. The block recognition software analyzes, recognizes and shows the result using AR technology. In order to have reasonably working recognition ratio, we did experiments with more than 5,000 frames of actual playing scenarios. We found that the recognition rate can be secured up to 95%, when the threshold values are selected well using various condition parameters.

• Proceedings of the Korean Information Science Society Conference
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• 2011.06c
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• pp.343-346
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• 2011

대부분의 퍼즐 게임에서 발생 할 수 있는 중요한 문제 중 하나는 교착상태 문제이다. 본 논문에서는 이러한 교착상태를 해결하기 위해 퍼즐 게임을 그래프 기법으로 나타낸 뒤, 이를 이용한 새로운 교착상태 발견 기법인 Cycle Detection을 제안한다. 기존의 기법들은 알고리즘을 수행하는데 너무 많은 시간이 걸리거나, 패턴에 대한 데이터베이스가 구축되어 있어야 하기 때문에 실시간으로 교착상태를 발견하기엔 문제가 있다. 본 논문에서는 이러한 문제점을 해결하기 위하여 탐색해야 하는 노드의 개수를 최대한 줄이는 Local search 기법과 Pruning 기법을 적용하여 퍼즐 게임을 플레이하는 동안 실시간으로 교착상태를 발견할 수 있는 기법을 제안한다. 본 기법은 성능을 평가하기 위해 실제 퍼즐게임 환경에서 알고리즘을 수행하고, 그 결과로 검색하는 노드의 개수와 검색 시간을 기존의 기법과 비교하여 성능향상을 확인하였다.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Computer Information Conference
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• 2021.07a
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• pp.521-522
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• 2021

본 논문에서는 2019년 COVID-19로 인한 사회적 거리 두기 단계 증가에 따라 집에서 여가시간을 보내는 사람들이 많아짐에 따라 Unity 개발툴 기반 VR(Virtual Reality) 다중접속 지원 게임을 개발했다. 기본적으로 협동게임이고 게임 속에서 문제해결 능력을 요구하기 때문에 문제해결 능력향상에 도움이 되고 다중접속으로 만남을 통해 서로 소통하고 상호작용을 한다.