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A vast majority of Korean students study secondary languages for various purposes: for certificates, college admission, or personal interest. Accordingly, immense amounts of paper vocabulary workbooks are consumed to fulfill these needs; however, it is recommended that students transition their learning experience to the mobile environment as the consumption of paper vocabulary workbooks may contribute to environmental deterioration. This study aims to research the user experience of Amkigorae(암기고래), which is a mobile secondary language acquisition app, developed by Beluga Edu(벨루가에듀), in the context of college students. This is due to the fact that college students have higher autonomy over cell-phone usage compared to teenagers, and because they have higher digital literacy and required needs for language acquisition compared to other age groups. This project primarily aims to research, evaluate, and determine the means of creating an effective user interface that may serve as a reference point for vocabulary acquisition apps to increase user retention and secondary language acquisition. In order to gain insight on the further development direction, our team conducted multiple quantitative and qualitative research to comprehensively evaluate Amkigorae. We were able to highlight the positive and negative feedback regarding users’ experience on memorization, usability, and aesthetics. Analysis on the limitations and future work that should be conducted related to this topic is provided to further invite stakeholders to expand research on this topic.
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Lee, C., Kim, D., Chin, E., Kim, J. (2021). How to Enhance the User Experience of Language Acquisition in the Mobile Environment: A Case Study of Amkigorae(암기고래), a Vocabulary Acquisition Mobile Application. In: Singh, M., Kang, DK., Lee, JH., Tiwary, U.S., Singh, D., Chung, WY. (eds) Intelligent Human Computer Interaction. IHCI 2020. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 12615. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-68449-5_20
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