Through the development of the media, boundaries between different media have become more fluid than before. Among such media, webtoon got credited from other global societies by it’s own literary value to be made as not only as drama or movie, but as the mobile game also. This research aimed to study cases of mobile game which utilized webtoon as the source to find out how the original webtoon influenced the awareness of game. Secondly, this study focused on find out the webtoon’s narrative adapted range under the type of the mobile game. Last of all, this study aimed to discuss about the development direction under specific RPG mobile game "With God" which based it’s contents under the webtoon.

This paper suggests a visual debugging plaftorm based on the game engine, Unity3D for massive parallel processing routines implemented in CUDA. In general, it is tiresome to debug or check the accuracy of numerical geometry information results calculated in a parallel way by GPU; usually, developers would pick and check each numerical value by rummaging overwhelming lines of seemingly meaningless numbers. This manual process is less productive and time-consuming. Also, it is not easy to produce some continuous movements of geometry information to check the validity of implemented CUDA codes for realtime geometry processing applications. To solve those problems, this paper presents a way to use Unity3D game engine to visually and interactively debug CUDA implementations. Also, some practical test results are presented with discussions on limitations of Unity3D as a CUDA debugging platform.

Mobile games’ proportion in domestic game industry has been rising steadily every year and in next couple of years, it is likely to surpass online games. Considering that mobile games’ lifespan is very short compared to online games, recognizing the user’s needs at the beginning is important. However, there is a lack of research in such game field. This research is about mobile games’ initial experience importance in temporal viewpoint. Furthermore, it has verified whether this depends on user’s characteristic. I have conducted observation experiment on users of ‘Lineage M’, mobile MMORPG game, for one week starting from the game launch and deducted the importance of initial experience using AHP analysis. Moreover, by analyzing the differences in users’ proficiency, the research provides understanding of diverse users. In conclusion, this research provides basic data for improving satisfaction of initial game users and extending them to long-term game use.

Literacy skill is an essential element in promoting the educational outcomes and social participation of students with disabilities. A variety of apps that are effective in teaching students with disabilities have been launched and are being used effectively. This study investigates literacy instruction apps for children with disabilities to enhance the possibility of future app development and educational application. 7 iOS-based apps, 7 android-based apps, 14 apps in total were analyzed, and assessed by program category, learning objectives, and evaluation criteria. In addition to analysis results, implications of research and implications for app selection were suggested.

The purpose of this study was to identify the moderating effects of internet shopping experience on appearance management in elder people, psychological adaptation and social connectedness. Data were collected from 257 elder people who living in Seoul or Gyeonggi-do. Collected data were analyzed by frequency, descriptive statistic analysis, moderated stepwise regression. The results of the study were as follows: First, appearance management of elder people was significantly related to psychological adaptation and social connectedness. Second, internet shopping experience moderated between appearance management and social connectedness. Third, internet shopping experience is not a moderator variable on between appearance management and psychological adaptation, it just was a influential factor on psychological adaptation. Based on these results, it suggests that there are strong needs of approaching of practical and political interventions to development internet shopping system for social connectedness and psychological adaptation of the elderly in future aging society.

This paper will verify the improvement in Life-logging application usage rate with the gamification factor as an element. We classified the gamification factor into three groups, such as, “Acting”, “Achievement”, and “Social”, and a total of four analysis were done consisting of each gamification factor separately and one all together. Usability evaluation questionnaires were conducted to verify functionality and satisfaction. It is expected that effective use of the gamification factor for the Life-logging application will serve as a basis for providing a more enjoyable behavior and application usage rate.

In this paper, we propose English word display interfaces to improve short-term memory: a basic display, a rotation change display, a size change display, and a color change display. Using these display interfaces, we apply the word recall memory test to users. Experimental results show that the users recall more English words in the rotation change display and the color change display, as compared with the basic display and the size change display. Also, the users think that the rotation change display and the color change display are more helpful for short-term memory than the basic display and the size change display. It describes that the word display interface can have an influence on short term memory.

Medical services, converged with information technology, are going beyond simple health diagnosis to embrace health improvement. Applications installed in various personal devices such as mobile phones are quantifying and accumulating abundant data, ushering in the age of personalized medical service. Motivation for such IT-based unconstrained health enhancement service, however, has long been a challenge for both service providers and users. As such, the present study suggests gamification of health promotion service as one of solutions to the problem, and analyzes the principle and elements of gamification to derive effective results. In addition, it examines seven strategies from exercise studies that adopted game aesthetics and gamification, or components of the Mechanics-Dynamics-Aesthetics (MDA) framework, and applies them to user interface and avatar design.

식품의약품안전처는 효율적인 식중독 예방 교육·홍보를 위하여 모바일 증강현실 게임인 ‘식중독잡GO’를 개발 하고 식품안전의 날 등 11개 행사에서 시범운영을 하였다. 행사장에서 ‘식중독잡GO’를 체험한 사람을 대상으로 식중독에 대한 인지정도를 설문조사를 통해 살펴보았다. 설문조사 결과 ‘식중독잡GO’ 게임 전후대비 식중독예방 3대 요령 인지도는 게임 전 51.8%에서 게임 후 78.8%로 향상되었고, 개별 식중독균 인지도는 평균 2.1배 향상되었 다. 설문조사자의 95%가 식중독 이해에 도움이 되었다고 응답하였으며, 90%가 게임이 재미있었다고 응답하였다. 따라서, ‘식중독잡GO’를 유·초·중·고등 교육에 적용을 하면 식중독균의 주요증상, 원인식품 등 식중독 예방 요령의 다양한 교육적 효과를 기대할 수 있을 것으로 사료된다.

2015∼2017년까지 국내 해운 및 조선해양플랜트산업은 관련 기업들간의 치킨게임에서 시작된 경쟁 심화와 국제 유가 하락에 기인한 한계기업의 법정관리 및 파산의 많은 어려움을 겪고 있다. 따라서 국내 조선해양플랜트 기업들은 매출액 확대의 관점에서 비롯된 대량생산만으로 지속적인 성장을 할 수 없다는 한계를 절감하고, 이를 타개하기 위한 다양한 방편 중의 하나로 해양플랜트서비스산업으로 진출하고자 노력하고 있다. 그러나 몇몇 관련 기업들이 동 분야에 선제적으로 진출하고자 하는 강한 의지를 갖고 해외 프로젝트에 대한 해양플랜트 운영관리계약을 공격적으로 체결하고 있음에도 불구하고, 계약 중 발생할 수 있는 다양한 위험을 보험이라는 제도를 통하여 어떻게 위험을 관리할지에 대한 인식이 부족한 실정이다. 따라서 이 연구는 국내 조선해양플랜트 기업들이 건조 중심의 2차 산업에서 탈피하여 서비스 중심의 3차 산업인 해양플랜트 운영관리산업으로 적극적으로 진출하는데 필요한 위험관리의 선행적인 연구를 위하여 해양에너지 종합보험의 개요, 약관의 개발 배경 및 동향, 약관의 주요 내용을 중심으로 법적 검토를 진행하였다.

In Amanda Lewis v. Activision Blizzard, Inc., the U.S. Court of Appeals in San Francisco held that Recordings used by defendants of a former employee’s voice for a character in a video game constituted a “work made for hire” under the Copyright Act. The court found evidence that the voice recordings were within the employee's job description, the recordings took place during office hours in Blizzard's studios and were part of her job reviews. Also the federal court found Lewis's state law claims for commercial misappropriation of voice pursuant to California Civil Code Section 3344 to be preempted by the Copyright Act. The purpose of this study is to analyze legal solutions of this case and to study on considerations to construe an employee’s job responsibilities in applying the “work made for hire” doctrines. To achieve the purpose, the study analyzed the Federal Court's decision by examining the legal points in the case. On the basis of the results of the analysis, the study found desirable principles to be applied to game developers and publishers effectively from copyright disputes.

This paper is to show how electronic game components can galvanize into the outdated regions. The purpose of this study is to research on game mechanics and PX(player experience) for the interactive urban regeneration design with gamification. Urban regeneration involves the old public, private and community sectors to improve the quality of urban life and to reach a sustainable development of urban economic. The gamification is the idea of using game-thinking and game mechanics to solve problem and engage players, so theoretical background of gamification is based on game design studies such as game components and MDA framework which consists of mechanics, dynamics, and aesthetics. Most of researchers regard game mechanics as game components and converse, but game mechanics is representative of these two terms. So this paper treats game mechanics as the first effective factor for successful urban renewal. Such games which have huge fans bring the powerful and manipulated user experience, a well-gamified applications can provide players (stand for users, audiences, customers, clients, buyers, learners, patients, soldiers, etc) with the supreme user experience, aka PX(player experience) causing playful behavior and a positive mindset. The main goal of gamification of urban regeneration is to encourage greater engagement in renewed town people(player) and aiding in creating richer experiences in everyday life events through game mechanics and PX. Also this paper shows tens of gamification ideas for interactive urban revitalization.

With rapid advances in science and technology, there is a greater demand and need to revolutionize higher education with strong emphasis on creative convergence. Lately STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts and Mathematics) has been deemed as a possible solution to stimulate creative convergent education. Aligning with STEAM pedagogical philosophy, this paper presents a case of game jam as an alternative educational platform that helps to encourage creativity and collaboration across diverse cultures and disciplinary boundaries at the global level. Game jam is a social event at which programmers, graphic designers, producers, and game mangers work together to make a playable game within given time constraints. Based on empirical experimentation with and observation on global applied game jam over the past few years, this paper suggests that global applied game can serve as a creative convergent educational platform within and beyond traditional classroom settings.

We present a flow-based watercolor rendering scheme for game background images. Our scheme is composed of two stages: a flow-based abstraction stage, which is followed by a noise-based watercoloring stage. In the abstrction stage, we apply a 3D Sobel filter to accelerate the abstraction process. The abstracted image is then applied a Perlin noise-based watercoloring process to produce watercolor effects. Finally, we apply paper texture to improve the realism of the results. Among various categories of photographs, our scheme shows good results on portraits, which is a common background of game scene. We apply our scheme for several game backgrounds and produce visually pleasing watercolor effects from them.

This study designs an interactive serious game for children with ADHD to sustain attention concentration and improve their reading comprehension skill. This serious game enables to read fairy tale interactively. The fairy tale consists of 6 sequences and the game assigns tasks for concentration training to 2, 4, 5, and 6 sequences. Executing concentration task, MindWave BCI is used to measure brain waves and to judge success of failure of the task with that measurement. Game play data and concentration data were stored in a sever real time. As the experiment progressed, the concentration levels of the participants are sustained stable. The results of paired t-test on pre- and post- reading ability, short reading comprehension, and story understanding are significant. It is expected that this study will help game design for children with ADHD as well as reading disability.

This paper introduces the implementation of runtime synchronization method when mobile network is broken during the game play. In case of network failure, the game is restored using the saved play record. Before the network failure, the previous game play is recorded in the server. The runtime synchronization is performed using the recorded game play in 2-times, 4-times, 8-times and 12-times according to the paused time and the game is played continuously. Using the proposed method, the user can play the mobile game uninterrupted. The project mobile game is implemented, and shows the effectiveness of the proposed method.

In this paper, the performance of 3D game rendering with and without application of frustum culling and PVS (Potentially Visible Set) culling is evaluated in FPS(frame per second).　Both frustum culling and PVS culling are two representative methods to efficiently remove invisible contents before a rendering stage in a large 3D game scene. As a result of the performance evaluation, frustum culling and PVS culling have a large effect on rendering performance. In case of not applying any culling, the average performance is decreased by 15.8% compared to the case where all culling is applied. Also, in this paper, the number of portals for indoor static contents in the 3D game contents used in the experiment is larger, so that the application of PVS culling has more influence on the performance than frustum culling.

본 연구는 청소년 온라인 게임문화가 어떻게 청소년의 일상문화로 자리 잡았으며 여가의 주요 수단으로 부상하였는지에 대한 시기적 구분과 아울러 확장 배경에 대한 사회구조적 접근을 시도해 보았다. 한국의 온라인 게임은 ‘상호작용성’을 기반으로 1998년 1차 파동과 2005년 2차 파동을 통해 청소년 일상 문화 전반의 변형을 가져왔다. 분명한 것은 온라인 게임 공간 내에는 청소년들의 지속적인 사회적 관계가 이어지고 있다는 것이다. 본 연구의 결과는 청소년 온라인게임 문화 및 청소년 일상문화 연구에 있어 균형적인 연구의 촉매제 역할을 함과 동시에 다양한 하위문화별 연구의 기초 자료로 활용될 수 있을 것이 다. 또한 본 연구에서 제시한 상호작용성을 기준으로 한 1,2차 파동에 대한 여러 비판적 후속 연구의 가 능성은 온라인 게임으로 인해 변화한 청소년 일상문화 연구의 학술적 공백들을 매우는 발전적 과정이 될 것이다.

The purpose of this study is to investigate the effect of the level of realism of the game character provided in the smoking simulation game on user experience, such as psychological stress, psychological resistance, immersion, and awakening of the smoking behavior. The results showed that psychological stress, psychological resistance, arousal/awakening, and immersion were higher with higher levels of self-existence, and that psychological effects were associated with the levels of self-existence. It is expected that it will change the perception of smoking.

This study was conducted to analyze the effect of message frame on Exercise Interest and User Experience including Fitness App Fun, Fitness App Satisfaction, and Fitness App Use Intention in the mobile fitness app game. ‘Enjoy Your Fitness’, a fitness app game developed by Healthcare Media Research Institute, was used for this study and Repeated Measure Design and Playtest methodologies were used for the experiment. The results showed that the persuasive effect of gain messages were higher than loss messages in all factors. This results implies that exercise, as a preventive health behavior, can be promoted more effectively when messages are presented in the frame of gain message rather than loss message. Therefore, messages in the fitness app game need to be presented by emphasizing the positive outcome and benefit of exercise.