• Industrial Engineering and Management Systems
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• v.11 no.1
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• pp.123-132
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• 2012

Recently, global environmental problems have become serious due to human economic activities. Therefore, in order to build a sustainable society in which human economic activities coexist with nature, it is important to promote and enhance environmental education. As a preceding study, a board and computer game of "Ecopoly," which is the game for education on global environmental problems, were developed. This study further aims to develop algorithms which make decisions in Ecopoly, to automate decision-makings of opponents using the algorithms, and to develop the environmental educational game "Ecopoly V" which enables self-learning. In order to develop the algorithms, the board game of Ecopoly was played, and each player's decision-makings at the all points at which players make a decision were observed and analyzed. From the analyses, it became clear that the decision-makings were distinguished by 3 characteristics; Ecology type, Economy type, and Balance type. Based on the characteristics, the factors and standard values of each decision-making were made clear. Algorithms were developed based on the factors and standard values. Ecopoly V was developed by incorporating the algorithms into the computer game of Ecopoly. Experimental testing of the game was conducted and the validity of the game was verified.

• Journal of Korea Game Society
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• v.19 no.5
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• pp.151-164
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• 2019

In this study, we developed a visual novel game as one of the donation campaign strategies. In study 1, we developed a visual novel game for the elderly who live alone. In study 2, we also examine how game affects personal distress and empathic concern, the emotions that trigger help behavior. The results showed that game can promote both emotions effectively. Moreover, empathic concern completely mediated between game and donation intention. This result suggests that visual novel games can be an effective tool for stimulating user's altruistic motivation to do donation behavior.

• Journal of Korea Game Society
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• v.19 no.1
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• pp.121-134
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• 2019

This article examines technological innovation's impact on the game production field and on the developers' subjectivity and labor. It focuses on the appearance of the new stage of digitalization via mobile devices during the period when the leading sector of game industry rapidly shifted to Mobile games. Though the in-depth interview with the game developers, this article explores the changes in organizational and management approaches and in the developers' experience and perception of their labor. Given the serious shortage of the related literature, I believe this analysis could provide a new perspective in understanding the gameswork of specific time and location.

• Cartoon and Animation Studies
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• s.47
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• pp.273-294
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• 2017

Korea has suffered numerous casualties due to a lot of accidents caused by safety insufficiency in recent years. Therefore, safety education is more important than ever before, and 'how to educate with what contents' is an important subject. Especially, experience education is effective rather than theoretical education because of the nature of safety education. However, it is not easy to design and develop these safety education programs. There is not much opportunity to access first-aid training, which is a part of safety education, unless it is compulsory to learn through public institutions. As a result, program utilization on safety education in Korea is still insufficient to what it should be. With that taken into account, this study proposed an effective serious game with fun and immersion for medical first-aid education. To do this, we analyzed five medical games through 20 cases of first-aid applications and elicited five factors that enhance the usability of serious games. With an analysis of five medical games, we selected one game to borrow the game rules, and applied the elicited five elements in the forms of level-up structure, iterative learning, compensation outcomes, competition system, and information transfer. The proposed medical education functional games should have 1) a character that plays a role of a patient, 2) a narrative flow that shows the situation, 3) the user should judge the situation and induce first aid. 4) compensation, levels, and simple repetition should be designed, and 5) information should be shared with the others in the given community. The results of this study is believed to contribute to enhance the medical emergency education in Korea.

• Journal of Korea Game Society
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• v.16 no.6
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• pp.121-130
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• 2016

The purpose of this study was to develop the customized diet education game (Roly-Poly 160) for type II diabetes and to test its effectiveness. The diet education game for type II diabetic is composed of three kinds of modules as Meal self-management, Card Game, and Quiz Game. Meal self-management was developed to manage the dietary information of each day and to observe changes in the 12-month period. Card game is to find a changed card based on the recommended meal menu during a limited time and Quiz game is to learn knowledge while solving the quizzes about diet. Data was collected from September 28th to October 28th, 2016 at C hospital and G hospital in G district, and 5 times for 1 hour for every 30 people with type II diabetes who applied for diabetic diet education. Knowledge of diabetes and 2 hour postprandial blood glucose were measured repeatedly before and after the experiment. After the Roly-Poly 160 experiment, the knowledge of type II diabetes was statistically significantly increased (p = 0.04), and the fasting blood glucose and the 2 hour postprandial blood glucose decreased statistically decreased (p <.05) and Roly-Poly 160 game clinical efficacy was verified.

• Journal of Korea Game Society
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• v.9 no.2
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• pp.51-58
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• 2009

The purpose of this study is to clarify correlation between preference for game element and game addiction in elementary-school students. In the current elementary-school students, the game addiction is reaching the serious situation. However, there are almost no research that specifically inquired into preference for game element in elementary-school students, and research that inquired into relationship between game element and game addiction. Therefore, this study aims to prevent game addiction by clarifying correlation between the addiction to game and the relevant game element. As a result of researching, the preference for game element was significantly higher in male students than in female students. And, the students of preferring a game were higher compared to the students of not preferring a game. The preference for the social desire satisfaction was higher in the lower academic achievements. The preference for the sensible desire satisfaction and for the intellectual desire satisfaction was the highest in students of preferring RTS game. And, the preference in students of preferring racing and action game was the lowest.

• Journal of Korea Game Society
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• v.17 no.1
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• pp.63-70
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• 2017

Occupational self-efficacy is one of the factors necessary for successful occupational rehabilitation of persons with intellectual disabilities. In this research, we investigated to see whether participating in a game-based training for job affects occupational self-efficacy. We compared a group who played a job-training game during traditional training with a group who participated only in traditional training. The results indicate that overall occupational self-efficacy of the game-based training group was affected significantly compared to the control group. Among the four subcategories, problem solving self efficacy and stress management self-efficacy showed significant improvement.

• Journal of Korea Game Society
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• v.20 no.2
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• pp.153-162
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• 2020

In this research, a VR game was developed to experience the fire evacuation from a fired building, intending calm and fast reaction in urgent fire situations. The user should move out through the fire door, stairs and corridors toward exit door using the VIVE controllers. When the user can't proceed the path because of fire flame or smoke, he/she should turn back to find another path. A building of Hoseo university was modeled and tests were carried out by students with polls focused on the usability and the effectiveness of this VR game. The result has been analyzed to show their responses.

• Journal of Korea Game Society
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• v.10 no.1
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• pp.3-13
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• 2010

This research will suggest a Digital Physical Field Game (Digital PFG) as a new ubiquitous paradigm. Based on the evolution of videogame paradigm which is affected by the social paradigm evolves, meanings of "participation" and "communication" as an interaction in the videogames are examined. Additionally, a general concept of ubiquitous games and its limitations are also investigated. Based on that, a new game paradigm which contains a concept of ubiquitous games, Digital PFG's main concepts and examples are newly designed and proposed. As contributions of this research, next are expected, such as, improved immersive contents for the serious games and new approaches to the theme and science parks design as a user participated digital contents.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Computer Information Conference
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• 2012.07a
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• pp.111-112
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• 2012

게임의 순기능을 이용해 교육, 훈련, 치료 등의 목적으로 개발된 기능성 게임은 이용자들의 게임 선택을 위해 게임의 품질과 관련된 정확한 정보가 제공되는 것이 중요하다. 기능성게임의 품질을 평가하기 위한 기술적, 비기술적 영역 가운데 비기술적 영역은 기능성게임의 종류를 반영한 요소들로 구성된다. 본 연구는 교육용 기능성 게임의 비기술적 품질 평가 영역을 추출하고 이를 검증하였다. 본 연구를 위해 사용된 방법론은 다른 종류의 기능성 게임의 품질평가 요소 추출을 위한 가이드 역할을 할 것으로 기대된다. 향 후 본 연구의 결과를 이용하여 교육용 기능성 게임의 품질 평가 메트릭을 개발할 예정이다.