인터렉티브 캐릭터의 확장과 디자인에 관한 연구

All human being has a desire for a role-play. The desire has been expressed through certain characters in people’s life over the centuries. The types of the character in a role play have been developed together with various forms: from incantatory body sculptures in the early stage of human life to modern characters which can change their clothes or move their articulations. Since new media has appeared and created new space as image-based Virtual Space, the character has been even developed as an interactive character which can replace ‘self’ (media-users themselves) in the Virtual Space. Together with improvement of Digital Technologies, the virtual reality has been dramatically developed, as being similar to the real world. On the basis of this, it is expected that the character is possible to interact with human in the nearer future. This study aims to investigate the changes and the trend of the design in the interactive character, and any possibilities to develop it in the digital technology. In order to achieve this aim, the literature review has been undertaken in three categories: the concept of the interactive character, the history, and its expansion in the application in the new media world. Through these theoretical considerations, this study proposes a new definition of the interactive character and the way of development. Interactive character Design trend can more easily concentrate and change for the real virtual reality space. The growth of technology will make rapid progress until it could not distinguish the difference between the virtual world and the real world. Advancing media environment make communication with interactive character in the virtual reality.