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An Analysis of Consumer Emotion for Product Planning of Smart Clothing

스마트 의류 상품 기획을 위한 감성 효과 분석

  • Cho, Hyun-Seung (Institute of Symbiotic Life-TECH) ;
  • Kim, Jung-Ho (Biomedical Engineering Institute, Korea Institute of Science and Technology) ;
  • Koo, Hye-Ran (Department of Clothing & Textiles, College of Human Ecology, Yonsei University)
  • 조현승 (연세대학교 심바이오틱라이프텍연구원) ;
  • 김정호 (한국과학기술연구원 의공학연구소) ;
  • 구혜란 (연세대학교 생활과학대학 의류환경학과)
  • Received : 2014.06.16
  • Accepted : 2014.08.13
  • Published : 2014.09.30

Abstract

This study aims at providing basic data for product planning to design smart clothing and to develop applications, focusing on consumers by satisfying their emotions through analyzing emotional factors on smart clothing, comparing emotional differences between conventional clothing and it, reviewing changes of consumers' emotion by integrating the product and clothing and researching differences of preference and purchase intention between smart clothing and traditional one. As the results of the study, emotional factors for smart clothing were analyzed with total 6 including 'technical', 'comfort', 'aesthetic', 'modern', 'fun' and 'multiple' factors. Among them, except for 'comport', five emotional factors showed emotional factors between conventional sport-casual clothing and smart clothing. That is, emotional factors of 'technical', 'aesthetic', 'modern', 'fun' and 'multiple' were emphasized more in smart clothing than conventional ones, indicating that they should be considered in planning products of smart clothing. Though there was no significant difference of preference between smart clothing and conventional clothing, in case of comparison of averages, that of smart clothing was a little higher. For purchase intention, smart clothing was lower than the conventional clothing. So preference seems to be not directly related to consumers' immediate purchase. To make consumers' interests and preference to result in purchase, it is necessary to develop smart clothing with more various applications and to prepare commercializing strategies. As the results of the analysis on free-descriptive questionnaire survey, consumers were interested in development of smart clothing to help diet with functions including energy harvesting from body motion, calorification and perspiration, measurement of motion and calory consumption as well as health-care type smart clothing to measure heartbeat and ECG. Reflecting these requirements from the consumers, they should be utilized as guidance to develop smart clothing in the future.

기본 연구의 목적은 스마트 의류에 대한 감성 요인을 분석하여 종래 의류와의 감성 차이를 비교하고 제품과 의류 간의 융합으로 인한 소비자 감성의 변화를 고찰하는 한편 스마트 의류와 종래의 의류 간의 선호도 및 구매의사 차이에 대해 조사함으로써 소비자 감성을 만족시키는 소비자 중심의 스마트 의류 디자인 및 애플리케이션 개발을 위한 상품기획 방안의 기초 자료를 제공하는데 있다. 연구 결과 스마트 의류에 대한 감성 요인은 총 6개의 요인으로, '테크니컬한', '컴포트한', '심미적인', '모던한', '펀', '복합적인' 감성 요인으로 분석되었는데, 이 중 '컴포트한'을 제외한 5개의 감성 요인에서 종래의 스포츠, 캐쥬얼 의류와 스마트 의류 간에 유의미한 감성 차이를 보였다. 또한 스마트 의류와 종래 의류 간에 선호도는 스마트 의류가 약간 높았던 반면, 구매의사는 종래의 의류보다 스마트 의류가 더 낮은 것으로 나타나 선호도가 소비자의 즉각적인 구매로 연결되는 것은 아니며 좀 더 다양화된 애플리케이션의 스마트 의류 개발과 상품화 전략이 요구되는 것으로 분석되었다. 또한 스마트 의류 개발 및 상품화에 관한 자유 응답식 설문 분석 결과 소비자들은 심박, 심전도 등을 측정할 수 있는 헬스케어용 스마트 의류 뿐 아니라 신체 동작으로부터의 에너지 수확 기능, 발열과 발한 기능, 운동량 측정 및 칼로리 소모등 다이어트에 도움을 주는 스마트 의류 개발에도 관심이 많은 것으로 나타났으므로 이러한 소비자의 요구를 반영하여 향후 스마트 의류의 개발 지침으로 활용해야 할 것이다.

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