• 한국지능시스템학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국지능시스템학회 2008년도 춘계학술대회 학술발표회 논문집
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• pp.385-391
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• 2008

Robotics has emerged as an important field for the future. It is our vision that robots in future will be able to transcend these precincts and work side by side humans for the greater good of mankind. We developed a face robot for this purpose. However, Life like robots demands a certain level of intelligence. Some scientists have proposed an event based learning approach, in which the robot can be taken as a small child and through learning from surrounding entities develops its own personality. In fact some scientists have proposed an entire new personality of the robot itself in which robot can have its own internal states, intentions, beliefs, desires and feelings. Our approach should not only be to develop a robot personality model but also to understand human behavior and incorporate it into the robot model. Human's personality is very complex and rests on many factors like its physical surrounding, its social surrounding, and internal states and beliefs etc. This paper discusses the development of this platform to evaluate this and develop a standard by a society based approach including the cultural paradigm. For this purpose the fuzzy control theory is used. Since the fuzzy theory is very near human analytical thinking it provides a very good platform to develop such a model.

• 제어로봇시스템학회:학술대회논문집
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• 제어로봇시스템학회 2003년도 ICCAS
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• pp.651-656
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• 2003

This paper describes research on mental commit robot that seeks a different direction from industrial robot, and that is not so rigidly dependent on objective measures such as accuracy and speed. The main goal of this research is to explore a new area in robotics, with an emphasis on human-robot interaction. Mental commit robots provide psychological, physiological, and social effects to human beings through physical interaction. In the previous research, we categorized robots into four categories in terms of appearance. Then, we introduced a cat robot and a seal robot, and evaluated them by interviewing many people. The results showed that physical interaction improved subjective evaluation. Moreover, a priori knowledge of a subject has much influence into subjective interpretation and evaluation of mental commit robot. In this paper, 95 subjects evaluated the seal robot, Paro by questionnaires in an exhibition at the Japan cultural institute in Rome, Italy for 4 days from June 25th to 28th, 2003. This paper reports the results of statistical analysis of evaluation data.

• 대한산업공학회지
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• 제38권2호
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• pp.133-143
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• 2012

The study on social robots has been actively conducted in the robot research community. In the area of robot design, however, there are few studies regarding robot motions that are one of the methods for interaction between humans and robots. This is a preliminary study to find preferred human motions that can be applied to social robots. We conducted a two-phased empirical study about preferred human motions. In the first phase, four representative human motions, such as 'greeting', 'I don't know', 'positive answer', and 'giving', were captured through 28 body makers and video recording. 10 young and 6 elderly Singaporeans participated in the motion capture process. In the second phase, the communication efficiency, emotion, and satisfaction of the human motions recorded in the first phase were measured by a questionnaire and 31 young Koreans, 35 young Singaporeans participated to investigate cultural differences. We drew the conclusion that motions used in the same culture are efficient in communication and also give friendliness and satisfaction. In addition, regardless of user's culture, young people's motions and female motions were preferred in terms of communication efficiency, emotional aspect, satisfaction.

• 한국정밀공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국정밀공학회 2013년도 춘계학술대회 논문집
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• pp.377-378
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• 2013

• 한국디자인학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국디자인학회 2003년도 봄 학술발표대회논문집
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• pp.84-85
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• 2003

• 로봇학회논문지
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• 제18권2호
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• pp.203-215
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• 2023

Social robots, which are mainly used by individuals, emphasize the importance of human-robot relationships (HRR) more compared to other types of robots. Emotional expression in robots is one of the key factors that imbue HRR with value; emotions are mainly expressed through the face. However, because of cultural and preference differences, the desired robot facial expressions differ subtly depending on the user. It was expected that a robot facial expression customization tool may mitigate such difficulties and consequently improve HRR. To prove this, we created a robot facial expression customization tool and a prototype robot. We implemented a suitable emotion engine for generating robot facial expressions in a dynamic human-robot interaction setting. We conducted experiments and the users agreed that the availability of a customized version of the robot has a more positive effect on HRR than a predefined version of the robot. Moreover, we suggest recommendations for future improvements of the customization process of robot facial expression.

• 로봇학회논문지
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• 제2권4호
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• pp.346-352
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• 2007

As the new industry of this 21centuries, theme park is the important position to the front leader countries as a new growth engine due to its industrial-economical and cultural-social effect. While domestic theme park industries show lower competitive position with global theme park in aspect of management and qualities and have weak brand power. The global situation of present service robot industry of the world is the beginning stage and the time for strengthening competitive position and the best opportunity becoming global leader of world markets by prior occupation through provision of factitious market creating big demand. Robot theme park is possibile to provide such big demand of various robot and this paper present of ideas for robot theme park.

• Journal of Information Processing Systems
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• 제4권3호
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• pp.97-102
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• 2008

Europeans are much more rigid in their thinking on robots and especially have a negative view on robots as peers since they regard robots as labor machines. Recently, Korea invented several educational robots as peer tutors. Therefore, study was needed to determine the difference in cultural acceptability for educational robots between Korea and Europe (Spain). We found that Europe seems to be much more rigid in its thinking on robots and especially has a negative view on educational robots. Korean parents have a strong tendency to see robots as 'the friend of children,' while on the other hand, European parents tend to see educational robots as 'machines or electronics'. Meanwhile, the expectation of children on educational robots showing identification content was higher in Europe than in Korea since European children are familiar with costume parties. This result implied that we may find a Korean market for educational robots earlier than a European market, but European children will be eager to play with educational robots even though their parents have a negative view of them.

• 공연문화연구
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• 제22호
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• pp.371-411
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• 2011

빠르게 변화하는 21세기의 문화 흐름에 있어 공연예술은 그 고유의 정체성을 확립하는 동시에 상상력과 창의력을 바탕으로 한 새로운 표현양식을 필요로 하고 있다. 현대의 변화된 테크놀로지 환경은 최첨단 기술력을 뒷받침으로, 새로운 경험에 의한 사유의 확장을 가져오고 있는 것이다. 특히 예술표현에 대한 디지털 매체의 직접적인 개입은 공연 예술 주체인 인간의 신체성을 확장시키고 있다. 디지털에 의해 가상화된 신체는 물리적 한계를 벗어나 시공간의 경계를 넘나들며, 관객으로 하여금 새로운 상호 작용의 가능성을 제시하는 것이다. 본 논문에서는 세계 최초의 전문 로봇 배우인 '에버'를 중심으로 탈신체화 된 공연예술의 표현주체와 디지털화된 움직임에 대해 살펴보려 한다. 디지털 신체라는 새로운 표현 매체의 변화에 따라 등장한 로봇 배우는 테크놀로지적 가치 뿐 만 아니라, 문화 예술적 활용 가능성에 대한 연구가 필요하기 때문이다. 이를 위하여 이론적 배경으로 '에버'의 개발과정과 기능을 조사하고, 세계 최초라는 타이틀이 지니는 역사적 중요성과 함께 인간을 대신한 배우로서의 역할을 어떠한 방식으로 수행하는지 살펴볼 것이다. 그리고 구체적 사례연구로 공연예술 분야의 판소리 극 "에버가 기가 막혀(2009)"와 어린이 연극 "로봇공주와 일곱 난쟁이(2009)"를 조사하고, 그 외 다양한 활동분야에서의 활약을 통해 배우로서의 가능성을 살펴본다. 이를 통하여 로봇 배우의 발전적인 진화 방향 탐구와 공연예술에 미칠 영향력을 예상하고, 적극적인 문화 콘텐츠화 방안 추진으로 나아가 로봇 배우의 대중화와 활성화를 통한 고부가가치를 창출할 수 있는 방안 모색을 그 목적으로 한다. 로봇 테크놀로지가 융합된 공연은 예술적 실험의 한 형태로, 인간신체와 기계인간이 어우러져 기술적 상상력을 현실화시키며 미래형 공연예술의 변화를 초래할 것이다. 본 연구를 통해 공연예술과 로봇 테크놀로지와의 만남이 현 시대가 추구하는 하나의 총체적 문화 현상으로 공연예술 활성화에 긍정적인 영향을 미치며, 나아가 다양한 영역으로의 확장을 향한 계기가 되기를 기대한다.

• 게임&엔터테인먼트 논문지
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• 제2권1호
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• pp.1-7
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• 2006

연간 수없이 많은 온 오프라인 및 모바일 게임이 출시되고 있는 국내 게임시장에서 메카닉 게임의 출시는 아주 극소수에 불과하다. 본 논문에서는 국내 게임시장 중에서 로봇형 메카닉 게임의 시장성은 계속적으로 넓어지지 않고 있는 실정이다. 본 논문은 국내 게임에서의 로봇형 메카닉 게임이 저변 확대가 되지않는 이유와 유독 국내에서만 로봇형 메카닉 게임의 제작 및 수요가 없는 것인가에 대하여 분석한다. 본 논문은 국내 외에 출시된 로봇형 메카닉 게임의 현황 및 판매 인기 순위를 통하여 로봇형 메카닉 게임이 게임사용자들에게 외면되는 이유에 대하여 기획력 부재, 로봇에 대한 문화적 배타감, 조작상의 어려움이라는 3가지 큰 요인을 분석하고 마지막으로 국내 로봇형 메카닉 게임의 활성화 필요성 및 중요성에 대하여 알아보고자 한다.