• Informatization Policy
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• v.31 no.1
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• pp.32-52
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• 2024

This study investigates the effectiveness of virtual reality agents as foreign language instructors with focus on the impact of different native language backgrounds and instructional roles. The agents were first distinguished as native or non-native speakers treated as a between-subject factor, and then assigned roles as either teachers or salespersons considered within-subject factors. An immersive virtual environment was developed for this experiment, and a 2×2 mixed factorial design was carried out. In an experimental group of 72 university students, statistically significant interactions were found in learning satisfaction, memory, and recall between the native/non-native status of the agents and their roles. With regard to learning confidence and presence, however, no statistically significant differences were observed in both interaction effects and main effects. Contextual learning in a virtual environment was found to enhance learning effectiveness and satisfaction, with the nativeness and the role of agents influencing learners' memory; thus highlighting the effectiveness of using virtual reality agents in foreign language learning. This suggests that varied approaches can have positive cognitive and emotional impacts on learners, thereby providing valuable theoretical and empirical implications.

• 한국HCI학회:학술대회논문집
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• 2006.02b
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• pp.815-819
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• 2006

가상현실에서 구현한 환경을 사용자가 실제처럼 느끼고 그 내용을 받아들이도록 하는 것은 중요한 목표이다. presence 는 "어떤 특정한 또는 이해할 수 있는 장소에 존재한다고 생각하는 인간의 지각" 상태를 나타낸다. 따라서 presence 는 가상환경에서 사용자가 얼마나 그 가상환경을 실제로느끼는지를 알 수 있는 중요한 파라미터 중 하나 이다. 또한 Presence 는 가상현실에서 경험하게 되는 여러가지 감각적인 정보들을 통하여 느끼는 종합적인 느낌을 반영하는 파라미터 이다. 따라서 같은 가상현실을 경험한다 할지라도 개인마다 느끼는 presence 는 차이가 있을 것이고 이러한 차이는 가상환경이 제공하는 정보의 차이에 대한 인식과 처리에 있어서도 영향을 미칠 것이다. 그러므로 이러한 차이는 관련된 뇌 영역의 활성화의 차이로 나타날 것이다. 가상현실 컨텐츠는 아바타를 통해서 정보를 전달하고 피험자가 그 내용을 바탕으로 생각해보는 내용으로 구성하였다. 아바타가 전달하는 내용은 명확하게 모든 정보를 알려주는 과제 와 중요한 정보를 생략하고 알려주는 과제 두 가지로 구성하였다. 그리고 피험자 개개인이 각각의 내용을 바탕으로 추론하는 동안 뇌 영역 활성화의 차이와 가상현실 경험 동안의 presence 점수와 관련된 뇌 영역을 알아보았다. 실험 결과 Right Lingual Gyrus (16, -95, 14), Left Lingual Gyrus (-15, -88, -16), Right Fusiform Gyrus (35, -81, -14), Right Lingual Gyrus (3, -67, 3), Left Inferior Temporal Gyrus (-43, -1, -36), Left Anterior Cingulate (0, -38, -10), Right Posterior Cingulate (2, -50, 10)에서 유의미한 상관 관계가 있었다.

• Journal of the Korea Computer Graphics Society
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• v.23 no.3
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• pp.9-17
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• 2017

This study proposes a third-person virtual reality content production pipeline to provide users with a new experience and presence in a new virtual reality environment. For this purpose, we first create third-person virtual reality content, which includes a story, fun factors, and game characteristic. It consists of a tutorial scene in which a user can pre-learn the proposed interface suitable for a third person different from existing virtual reality content and a content scene that achieves its purpose by using game factors based on the background story. Next, we design an interface suitable for the third-person virtual reality content. This study proposes an interface in which users can interact with a virtual environment or object by using their hand. The proposed interface consists of three steps: character movement, virtual object selection with multiple selection, and 3D menu control using virtual space. Finally, through the survey experiment, third-person virtual reality content produced based on the proposed interface was confirmed to be easily controlled while ensuring high satisfaction.

• Journal of the HCI Society of Korea
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• v.13 no.4
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• pp.5-14
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• 2018

The Empathy for Dementia using Virtual Reality (EDuVR) system, developed by the Jeju Provincial Dementia Center, is a 3D video system capturing the experience of dementia in a first-person perspective using 360 degree vritual reality (VR) technology. It was developed to create a greater understanding of dementia and to help people empathize with individuals with dementia through an immersive VR experience. The EDuVR shows how a dementia patient has impairments in memory, orientation, language, judgment and problem solving, as well as problems with activities of daily living. The present study reported the effectiveness of the EDuVR experience in changing public awareness of, and attitude toward, dementia. Sixty-six participants were assigned to the EDuVR (n = 34) or the conventional education (n = 32) groups, and two types of questionnaires - attitude and awareness questionnaires - were administered to the subjects before and after the EDuVR experience or education. The simulator sickness and presence questionnaires were administered to the EDuVR group to assess cybersickness and presence of the VR experience. As a results, the attitude and awareness toward dementia patients changed positively in both the EDuVR and the conventional education groups, and these changes did not differ between two groups. Only one person reported a significant level of cybersicness after experiencing the EDuVR system. These results suggest that the EDuVR enhances the level of understanding and empathy for dementia and would be a useful tool for improving awareness in the general public.

• Journal of Digital Convergence
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• v.18 no.8
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• pp.29-35
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• 2020

This study identified the impact of augmented reality advertising on attitude toward advertising and memory according to the type of presence and flow level. The presence (cognitive, emotional, media) and flow level (high vs. low) of the augmented reality(AR) advertising were set as independent variables and analyzed by Two-Way MANOVA. As a result of the research, first, the augmented reality advertising attitude was positive when the emotional presence and flow level were high. Second, when the flow level is high, the ARM such as product attribute information increases, but when the flow level is low, the evaluation-oriented GRM increases. Third, emotional presence increases GRM when the flow level is high, but ARM increases when the flow level is low. Fourth, the memory effect was low regardless of the flow level. In the future research, it would be desirable to produce augmented reality advertisements through virtual brands in the generalization of research.

• The Journal of Korea Institute of Information, Electronics, and Communication Technology
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• v.5 no.4
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• pp.198-205
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• 2012

This study deals with development of an evaluating tool for flow experience and presence to evaluate interactive digital contents. The tool is able to measure the grade of flow and presence by surveying with their factors which are known to affect flow experience and presence. One of reasons for reducing flow experience and presence in 3D digital contents is that the experience in the virtual world is different from user's prerequisite learning in the real life. The recent interactive contents using physical movement of users as an input is possible to provide unsafe situation to users due to the different experience. The suggested flow measurement tool is able to evaluate presence and flow experience of an interactive 3D contents as well as flow and presence factors are possible to use as a general guideline for all stages of producing interactive 3D digital contents.

• Journal of Convergence for Information Technology
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• v.12 no.4
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• pp.278-285
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• 2022

This study presence in VR advertising into three types presence. Further, through an experiment, the study empirically verifies the kind of recalled information depending on the flow which forms users' attitudes towards the content. The experiment was conducted with a factor design between 3X2 subjects. Hyundai Motor's Ioniq VR video was conducted, and a questionnaire of 143 subjects was used for the study. The results revealed that positive attitudes were formed towards the advertisement used in the experiment when the level of emotional presence was the highest. In addition, higher flow levels established positive attitudes towards the advertisement. and Cognitive presence's effects on memory, ARM such as product-attribute information was found to increase when the flow level is high; however, GRM such as overall product evaluation was found to increase when the flow level is low.

• Journal of KIISE:Computer Systems and Theory
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• v.35 no.8
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• pp.378-384
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• 2008

Many embedded systems are supporting Java as their software platform via Java virtual machine. Java virtual machine manages memory automatically by providing automatic memory management, i.e. garbage collector. Because only scarce memory is available to embedded system, Java virtual machine should use small memory and manage it efficiently. This paper introduces two memory management techniques to exploit small memory in Java virtual machine which can execute multiple Java applications concurrently. First, compaction based garbage collection is introduced to overcome external fragmentation problem in presence of immovable memory area. Then garbage collector driven class unloading is introduced to reduce memory use of unnecessary loaded classes. We implemented these techniques in working embedded system and observed that they are very efficient, since more Java applications are able to be executed concurrently and memory use is also reduced with these techniques.

• Science of Emotion and Sensibility
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• v.5 no.1
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• pp.1-7
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• 2002

This paper studies on the human cognition of object's weight in virtual environment. We design the force input device which consists of a 3D mouse and a simple spring. It provides users with force feedback. The user can measure the weight of an object by the grasping force to move or lift it up in the virtual environment. Three kinds of experiments are performed. The first one is performed to analyze the relationships between the object's weight and its volume. The second one is to find the relationships between the object's weight and the its texture and finally the third one is to find the relationships between the object's weight and the force used to move an object. We conclude from the analysis of the experiment that object's volume or texture are not the critical factor for user to realize its weight. But the grasping force is critical and meaningful in realizing its weight so that the virtual environment with force cue provides users with more immersive environments. And, also the force input device is effective enough for user to feel the weight of the object.

• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.21 no.1
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• pp.434-445
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• 2021

With the development of realistic content technology and related infrastructure, interest in the use of virtual reality content is growing. Accordingly, in the field of safety education, more and more cases of producing virtual reality-based safety education (VR safety education) contents such as experiencing disaster situations realistically by supplementing the shortcomings of existing lecture-style education. This study looked at the characteristics and effects of VR safety education compared to the existing safety education, and analyzed 104 VR safety education contents produced and disclosed to date into nine classifications based on content and form. Based on the degree of relevance between items and the two axes of 'interactionability' and 'vividness of the environment', VR safety education contents could be categorized into three types: tangible lecture type, simulation type, and game type. Through this study, we hope to contribute to the planning and production of quality VR safety education contents by considering the purpose of safety education and the characteristics of types with the expected effects.