This study aimed to analyze how game interaction affects user experience and smoking attitudes of smoking simulation game. To verify differences in smoking attitudes and user experience such as arousal, flow, spatial presence, social presence, and empathy in game interaction and simple watching, a playtest experiment was performed among 100 male smokers. The smoking simulation used for the experiment was the ‘Smoking Sims’ developed by the group of researchers from ‘Hallym University Health Communication Center’. As a result, in eliciting negative attitude toward smoking, which is a functional effect of the smoking game along with the flow, spatial presence, and social presence, active gaming behavior appeared to be more effective than the passive watching behavior. Such result has shown that game media has better communication effect than usual visual media as a tool for anti-smoking campaign.

Recent university students are under a lot of stresses due to academic performance, employment, and anxiety about the future in the fierce competition. Mobile games can be used as a plan which can reduce the stresses of these students. However, if they play too long the games, it will cause another big problems. In this paper, we experimented to look for the best mobile game time to alleviate the stresses of university students as follows. First, we chose 16 people which have more stress load than the average student through stress tests by the basic diagnosis questionnaire. Second, we did total eight experiments on the stresses of the subjects in the study. That is, the experiment was carried out once before the test, 6 times for the mobile game (60 minutes), and once before the experiment. Third, we did T-test and multivariate analysis on the collecting data. As a result, it is proved that the mobile game for about 20 minutes could derive the effect on reducing stresses.

Recently, mobile Social Netwrok Game(SNGs) including characters have emerged in the game market. Basically, it is based on not only the mobile environment and technology but also the form and concept of SNG. Most characters of mobile SNG take characters which have the role of avatar or non-player character. This kind of characters allows own their characteristic to create and design them based on the mobile and SNG system. Therefore, the goal of this paper is to analyze character design with the elements of mobile graphic such as visual, sound, motion and so on. Then we would discuss the features of character design for mobile SNG and comment the limits and consideration for effective design. For this research, the first of all we would discuss the concept and theory of mobile SNG and the design elements for the game characters by the publications, including thesis, articles, and books. Seondly, this paper will be focused on character examples in 20 mobile SNGs which are selected in top selling and analyze them. Finally, we would discuss the characteristics of mobile SNG character and the methods of possibilities and considerations for effective design.

This research examined the effects of learning on driving simulation game in virtual reality environment. We tested the difference of presence and learning effects such as learning persistence and learning transfer between general monitor and 3D virtual reality device, Oculus Rift by playtesting experiment. One hundred drivers with a license participated in the experiment of two modes of gaming environment. As a result, the user’s presence was found to be significantly higher in VR than general monitor game. As functional effects of the driving serious game, learning persistence and transfer of learning showed significant differences between two modes. This study validates the effects of virtual reality on learning, as an aspect of serious game function. The results contributes to theoretical and practical application of virtual reality in interactive serious games in the future.

Modern football has transformed into a scientific football based on data. With this trend, various methods for tactics studies and outcome prediction have been developed on the perspective of data analysis. In this paper, we propose a structural equation model for football game. We analyze critical factors that affect to the winning of game except psychological parts and the causal relationship between latent variables and observed variables is statistically verified through the proposed structural equation model. The results show that the Passing ability and the Ball possession affect to the Attack ability, and consequently it has a positive impact on the winning of game.

Evolutionary computation is a powerful tool for developing computer games. Back-propagation neural network(BPNN) was proved to be a universal approximator and genetic algorithm(GA) a global searcher. The game of Tic-Tac-Toe, also known as Naughts and Crosses, is often used as a test bed for testing new AI algorithms. We tried to recognize the strategic fitness of a finished Tic-Tac-Toe game when the parameters, such as a sequence of moves, its game depth and result, are provided. To implement this, we've constructed an evolutionary model using GA with back-propagation NNs(GANN). The experimental results revealed that GANN, in the very long training time, converges very slowly; however, performance of recognizing the strategic fitness does not meet we expected and, further, increase of the population size does not significantly contribute to the performance of GANN.

The paper suggests Game Motion Library Tool that utilizes Kinect 2.0 to simplify pipeline of character motion production that fits into the game concept and to use saved motion data actively. In order to develop Game Motion Library Tool, motion library was constructed to be organize motion data with BVH file which was produced by using Max Script language that can enable FBX file and motion data collected through Kinect 2.0 to be used in 3ds Max, and then BVH file was brought to the 3ds Max to convert it to BIP file automatically and applied in characters.

In On-line game,the generation and flow of game money is the most important thing that is how to take user experience, being consumed contents in game. To spend game money has a strong relationship with the game contents, systems and level design. This paper have tried to diagram between game flow and needs point of user for giving guidances developing games through a working-level analyzing. It also can allow us to see a point of game flow with business model for game developer or researcher. I hope that this study helps further studies and researches for a variety of genres and can be served as a foundation regarding the issue

Although motivation and fun are important for effective speech therapy, the conventional speech therapy is often conducted by using a textbook which can be boring to the speech-handicapped. The present study is to develop a speech therapy serious game for rehabilitation of the handicapped with articulation and fluency in speech. A speech therapy game was developed in the present study through the following four-step approach: (1) benchmarking analysis of 8 speech therapy systems, (2) analysis of 22 parents, (3) development of the framework of the speech therapy game and ideas for speech therapy game contents, and (4) implementation of the speech therapy serious game system using C# and the game engine Unity. The speech therapy serous game developed in the study can be of help for rehabilitation of articulation and fluency for the speech-handicapped.

In cloud and game servers, SSDs are used as cache on large capacity disk-based storage. In that configuration, the SSD can be exploited as write-back or write-through cache. Though the write-back cache can improve write performance significantly, data can be lost when the SSD fails. On the contrary, performance improvement is limited in the write-through cache though it has high reliability. By the way, reliability can be improved by applying RAID technique to SSD cache while exploiting write-back for better performance. In this paper, we analyse the reliability and the performance of hybrid storage using SSD cache over disk-based primary storage. In particular, we mathematically analyse reliability and also measure performance of real storage systems with various SSD cache configurations.

Recently, the computer software has become an increasingly important share in the overall industry and many countries have been adapted an early SW education as their mandatory curriculum in school for children. Most of the prior SW education curriculums had been focused on how to learn a programming language to make a SW in a computer, but current SW education goal has been moved onto training the computational thinking to solve various problems with the computer, effectively. The paper exploits a game design activity as a good and fun tool to training such computational thinking for children. The proposed game design activity consists of a series of systematic curriculums to design a creative game in offline for the children who do not have any prior-knowledge of game. Participants first understand game elements such game title, synopsis, rules, game-play, which are indispensable to make a game. Then they try to understand what the fun is in the game and discuss with how to make such fun in the game. Finally, they have proposed a creative game design which is motivated by playing board-style games and iPad-games. With our assessment of the proposed activity, our game activity derives let the participants to computational thinking while creating the synopsis and game rules to define the game. It also revealed increased interest and understanding of computer software. We expect that the proposed game design activity could be an alternative to train computational thinking and a more holistic program to have increased interest and understanding of computer software for children.

The N-Screen contents is a kind of emerging technologies to make a new user-experience by integrating multiple devices like smart TVs, personal computers, and smartphones. In the paper, we characterize game design issues of N-Screen based game with smart TV and smartphone and describe the game design issues of 「Beaver Rising」as its case study.「Beaver Rising」is the N-Screen game which developed by our team ans its' game play is similar with a classic game, called「Snake」but it can be played on a smart TV screen while players can control their own beaver characters with their smartphones. We first give a survey of N-Screen games to characterize their properties in the paper. Then, we describe the game play, game design architecture, and user experience of the game,「Beaver Rising」as its case study. Finally, we propose three new properties to make an effective N-screen game with a smart TV and smartphons. The paper will contribute to provide am effective game design guideline when we make a N-screen based game with a smart TV and smartphones.

The aim of this study is to verify the effects of user experiences such as present, flow and arousal between game play under 3D virtual environment(VE) and general video game play. For this purpose, Oculus Rift play test experimental treatment methodology was adapted for analysis. As a result, for the present hypothesis between the VE game and general video game, cognitive and present hypotheses were all adopted except for emotional presence, and there was no difference in arousal effect. And, VE game had significant differences in emotional presence, flow concentration effect, flow merging action & awareness and arousal effect compared with general video game. As the study verified that VE game had higher effect in presence effect, sense of realism and user experience of players than general video games through experimental studies, it contributes to elaborate 3D virtual environment game interface design and user experience study.

For increase the game speed, game systems apply a multi-threading. The popularization of multi-core system accelerates multi-threading also. Multi-threading brings high performance, but this is not ease to apply the game logic. Because many multi-core system share the memory, if two or more threads access the same memory region, they can be conflicted. Multi-threading uses Lock method to prevent the conflict, but Lock method reduces the performance. For increase the performance, programmer can use Lock-Free method. In this case, we found strange phenomenon that Lock-Free queue operates incorrectly, and this phenomenon has been accelerated by number of threads. In this study, we analyzed the input output of the Lock-Free Queue in multi-core system.

The game intended for treatment directly is not yet much in domestic and even though it is used for child psychotherapy, the direct game therapy has not been used yet. But the possibility of the game therapy is likely to increase in the future due to emerging the field of virtual reality therapy, recreational therapy. In this study it is proposed the rhythm game using the balance ball connected the wired/wireless PC, it is the reason why the functional game may help the upper limb rehabilitation if you are using it continuously without a place, time, and cost constraints.

Recently, the game industry is rapidly growing with the distribution of high-speed internet network. With the growth of game business, the game developers and distributors are making efforts to find more various game materials that lead to success. Therefore, the game developers began to apply successful novels or movies for games and, as a result, they were able to get high added values with the minimum investment costs. In this study, the Game contents is reviewed based on Suzanne Collins's trilogy 'The Hunger Games' published in 2008. If 'The Hunger Games', the novel of thrilling adventures and suspense harmonized with philosophy, is reprocessed as game contents considering media environment, the values of the novel will be more diversified and newly enjoyed by people. As the research method, the actantial model of Greimas and the five conflict types of Linda Seger were used for a case study and the Game contents of the novel. The study using the novels as source materials was conducted to be helpful for game development and its possibility was suggested through the study result.

The purpose of this study was to investigate the effects of vocabulary learning activity types via smart-phones on vocabulary learning and the attitude of Korean college students. The participants were 56 college students, who were divided into 4 groups: a competitive and self-paced group (Group 1), a competitive and controlled-paced group (Group 2), an individual and self-paced group (Group 3), and an individual and controlled-paced group (Group 4). Vocabulary tests were administered before and after the experiment. The analyses of the post-test results showed that Group 3 had improved most and Group 1 earned the second highest score, indicating that competition can make a positive effect on vocabulary learning via smart-phone applications. The results also revealed that there was no statistically significant difference in the post-test scores between self-paced and controlled-paced groups. In addition, vocabulary learning via smart-phone applications improved the participants’ attitudes toward vocabulary learning.

최근 동해 표기를 둘러싼 한-일간의 공방과 세계적인 움직임은 이 문제에 다양한 이해와 관점을 가진 주체들이 활동하고 있음을 확인해준다. 이 지명게임의 주요 행위자로서 양국의 정부는 여러 흐름의 주장과 반론으로 다른 행위자들을 설득하려는 노력을 지속한다. 서로 접점을 찾을 수 없는 이러한 평행선을 긋는 현실 하에서 양 극단을 이루는 한국과 일본의 입장 사이에서 합의에 이를 수 있는 몇 개의 대안이 제시되어 왔다. 두 이름을 보여주는 대안적인 방법을 찾는 것, 하나의 도면에 표로 모든 이름을 나열하는 것, 국제적 사용과 국내적 사용을 구분하여 국제적 사용을 위한 새로운 이름에 합의하는 것이 그것이다. 동해 표기 문제 해결을 위한 향후 방향으로서 보다 ‘인간’의 측면에 집중할 것이 제안된다. 가치, 정의, 인식, 문화유산의 문제가 모두 이와 연결된다. 이러한 ‘인간’ 중심의 방향은 교육적 가치와 사회정의, 바다와 그 이름에 대해 갖는 정서적 밀착과 인식, 그리고 문화유산으로서 지명이 갖는 점차 높아지는 가치부여 등으로 발전시켜 나갈 수 있다.

Mobile games are different from the PC online games, because of the circumstance of playing, payment, and the immediacy. the frequency of use is higher than the PC online games, but the connecting time is much less. The accessibility to games is much easier. Th purchase behaviour is made on the spot. The game industries are focused on this unique market, studies the success factors and are developing numerous titles. However, there is quite a few researches for academic purpose. The mobile game market is rapidly changed and followed by the late fashions. More than one year, there is an uprising genre which has good sales history. 40% of top 50's of mobile game market on the spot are this specific genre called collectible card game. The genre has an history from the offline collectible card games like baseball player collections to Japanese style cartoon illustrated mobile collectible game. The purpose of this study was to define the mobile collectible card game genre and to examine the influence factors of purchase intention of mobile collectible card games. Factors are adopted from precedent studies and a pilot interview. Subjects of 175 members who has been experienced mobile collectible card games responded the 15 questionnaires designed for satisfaction, perceived usefulness, graphic design of cards and purchase intention. Through the regression analysis, the results of the survey can be summarized as follow. Satisfaction, perceived usefulness and graphic design of cards are found to have a positive influence on purchase intention.

This study proposed the development of creatures for making game characters. A creature is a living being and it comprehends everything including the real world, the universe, and virtual worlds. Creatures are characterized by creation and transformation, and they complete game characters. Completed character creatures can be used in games, animations, movies, comics, smart phone games, etc. There are various materials of creatures including plants, birds, mammals, and humans, and these materials can be expressed as game creatures and used in making game characters. In this study, creatures were developed in the forms of bird, mammal, and human. Combined with game background, game characters generated from such creatures produce game contents that are usable in various areas. This study suggests developing more diverse creatures to be utilized in areas where game contents are required.