휴먼웨어 기반 스마트 미디어 콘텐츠의 사용자 플래져빌리티에 관한 연구

초록

As "smart" era arrived with the development of IT technology, it changed media environment. Because of it, the ideology of the 21st century was reinforced with popularity and pluralism and a culture that more acknowledge individualism was born. It means that the time has arrived that humans should be acknowledged as the center of all societies and cultures and that humanware should be applied to please a variety of people. In this respect, the present study is aimed to propose a direction to a right design that can improve user"s pleasurability with humanware-based smart media contents. As research methodology, this study reviews the paradigm of human-centered humanware and its association with user"s pleasurability. And this study carried out preference test on the impact of contextual understanding, application easiness, visual aesthetic, which are the elements of smart contents design, in an effort to improve the factors of user"s pleasurability (convenience and playfulness) in terms of application technology of humanware resources and human relationship. The results of the preference test on the designs of humanware-based smart media contents showed that all of the three design elements were preferred in general. Application easiness and visual aesthetic were most preferred for the convenience and playfulness of resources application technology; contextual understanding and application easiness were more preferred for the convenience of human relationship technology; and visual aesthetic was most preferred for the playfulness of human relationship technology. Besides, different preference by age and sex was observed in this study and it suggested a direction to the design of humanware-based smart contents in the future.

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