ScholarWorks@숙명여자대학교

초록

Recently, virtual reality(VR) has been widely studied in various academic fields as one of the main driving forces leading the Fourth Industrial Revolution. However, VR that has featured with overall social interest, widespread usage, and technology orientation, can be better explained through interdisciplinary researches than a single academic discipline. In this context, this study aimed to provide the baseline data for interdisciplinary research of VR among domestic researchers with diverse academic fields. For this purpose, the domestic VR research trends and differences of major keywords between academic fields were analyzed, focusing on the keywords of VR researches published in KCI (Korea Citation Index) journals. In detail, researchers searched and collected 5,791 keywords from 2,729 papers, which were published in academic journals and conferences related to VR from 1998 to May 2019, and conducted frequency analysis, association rule analysis, and networks visualization through text mining techniques using R software package and NetMiner program. The results showed that VR research was being conducted in all domestic academic fields of engineering, arts, and kinesiology, interdisciplinary studies, social science, medicine and pharmacy, humanities, natural science and marine agriculture, fishery, implying that VR had been studied in widespread academic disciplines. The major keywords of domestic VR research were categorized based on the type, system, user, utilization field and etc., and most of the major keywords were linked with either VR or AR. In particular, the differences of major keywords between academic areas showed that there are high interests in educational utilization of VR in various academic fields. Based on these results, researchers reidentified the importance of educational usage and interdisciplinary research in VR researches and discussed the implications for educational utilization and research of VR focusing on pedagogy.

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