• Proceedings of the Korea Multimedia Society Conference
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• 2003.05b
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• pp.817-820
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• 2003

멀티미디어 기술 발전으로 인하여 최근 에듀테인먼트에 관하여 많은 연구가 이루어지고 있다. 에듀테인먼트(edutainment)는 교육(education)과 놀이(entertainment)의 합성어로 교육용 소프트웨어에 놀이를 가미하여 게임 하듯이 즐기면서 학습하는 방법이나 프로그램을 말한다. 본 연구에서는 교육과 놀이의 관계를 통한 에듀테인먼트에 대한 문헌연구와 그 제품에 대한 소비자의 기업이미지 파악을 위한 실증연구를 하여 에듀테인먼트의 과학적 개발과정의 이론적 토대를 마련하는 것을 제안한다.

• Korea Multimedia Society
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• v.2 no.1
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• pp.5-13
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• 1998

• Korea Information Processing Society Review
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• v.2 no.4
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• pp.20-24
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• 1995

• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.15 no.7
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• pp.170-180
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• 2015

With progress in emerging new media technology and associated device, there is growing interest in a new type of contents in the filed of children education. In this research, we developed a edutainment content for enhancing sociability and visual perception of children exploiting kinect. Recreating what is visually perceived with physical movement is adopted to develop visual perception. It is also designed such that one's sociability can be enhanced through experiencing natural physical contact and collaboration while interacting with the developed content. The prototype of the content was created through development of character to boost interest, a short animation for storytelling, and interactive programming. In the second pilot test which was done with the content improved through the first pilot test, it was observed that children easily played with it and actively participated in experiencing it. From this observation, it is expected that the developed content may work as a promising edutainment content which fosters children to enhance visual perception and sociability through natural interaction.

• Proceedings of the Korea Contents Association Conference
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• 2006.11a
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• pp.190-194
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• 2006

Recently, the education is trying to increase educational effect in self-directed teaming to attract learners' interest and concentration. For that reason, as interaction which makes learners step into lessons spontaneously than a simple convey of knowledge is getting more important, edutainment contents that introduce entertainment for education is being in the limelight. Especially, it needs how to design interaction in which the factors of pleasure and entertainment are emphasized for learners' immersion regarding with edutainment contents based on digital mediums. So, I'm going to present a method of curriculum design on educational factors and how to design interaction on enjoyment factors of interactive cartoon in order to increase educational effect. Through this research, I wish to provide the groundwork which makes interactive cartoon that carries infinite possibility become a new part of edutainment contents.

• 한국HCI학회:학술대회논문집
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• 2008.02a
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• pp.168-173
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• 2008

Recently, many researchers have studied on agent-based edutainment systems to improve students' learning experience. In this paper, we present AR Gardening which makes users experience interactive flower gardening with a bluebird, a learning companion agent, squatting in an augmented picture. The proposed system augments the animated bluebird to support interactive edutainment experiences. The bluebird perceives users' actions as well as environmental situations. It then appraises situational information to provide participants with problem-solving guidelines. Moreover, the bluebird responds like a companion than an instructor through anthropomorphic expression. To demonstrate our work, we exhibited the implemented AR Gardening and reviewed participants' responses to the system. In this exhibition, we could find that the learning companion-like bluebird helped users experience how to properly grow the flower in our educational setting. Ultimately, we expect that an augmented peer learning agent is one of the key factors for developing effective edutainment applications.

• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.7 no.9
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• pp.1-9
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• 2007

Recently, the primary school training courses requires creative human being who is able to solve problem in accordance with rapidly changing society. Accordingly, it needs development of edutainment contents that can develop creativity and heighten educational effect as attracting learner's interest. This paper intends to design educational game which can develop creativity. Method of research is based on the concept of creativity and theory of multiple intelligence. First, I pulled out educational elements of edutainment game which can develop ability to solve synthetic problem and then drew interest elements of edutainment game by combined game with form of cartoon. Secondly, creativity studying area set the 5 learning area of verbal, visual, mathematical, logical and analytic creativity and then, a course of learning was designed to have each 3 details of 5 teaming areas of creativity. Finally, it presented production direction of educational game by combined with 4 elements of the interest that is an avatar, achievement of a mission, a time limit and win a point.

• Proceedings of the Korea Contents Association Conference
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• 2009.05a
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• pp.59-65
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• 2009

An Edutainment Contents help the learners to recognize the problems effectively, grasp and classify important information needed to solve the problems and convey the contents of what they have learned. Owing not only to this game-like fun but also to the educational effect, The Edutainment contents can be usefully applied to education and training in the areas of scientific technology and industrial technology. This study proposes the Edutainment that users can apply to biotechnology by using intuitive multi-modal interfaces. In this study, a stereoscopic monitor is used to make three dimensional molecular structures, and multi-modal interface is used to efficiently control. Based on the system, this study easily solved the docking simulation function, which is one of the important experiments, by applying these game factors. For this, we suggested the level-up concept as a game factor that depends on numbers of objects and users.

• Journal of Korea Game Society
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• v.8 no.4
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• pp.65-73
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• 2008

In this paper, we designed and implemented edutainment platform that can be effectively applied to developmental disabilities for their education and treatment of sensibility and intelligence training. We developed embedded hardware and contents authoring tool to make multimedia contents operated on the hardware, a management tool to provide result of training, and a real-time monitoring tool for observing the state of study. The hardware is designed by considering the characteristics of developmental disabilities and provides visual, auditory and tactile sense to assist sensibility training for their attention. User-friendly and easy-to-use authoring tool enable teachers and non-specialist to make educational contents. Also the real-time monitoring tool make us to observe user's status even in the outside of classroom. The management tool stores result of training and make us to review the result for further steps. Using this edutainment platform, efficient repetitive training is possible without restriction of time and location. Also when it applied to practical education, we can recognize that our system is effective on improving the ability of attention and studying.

• Journal of The Korean Association of Information Education
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• v.15 no.2
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• pp.201-208
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• 2011

By result of statistics, over half of teachers college students recognized the computer science education is not important for elementary education as well as is having difficulties of learning in their real lectures. To solve these problems, this study proposed new edutainment learning program using unplugged computing. Firstly, we developed the learning content in computer science having edutainment attribute with unplugged computing and the teaching-learning methods. We also applied to college students in computer education that programs in two lectures and tested the efficiency of that program. As a result of test, the students have improved the self-lead learning and has a high level of academic achievement. Moreover, we found their perceptions were changed positively and felt the computer science as a worthy subject.