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http://dx.doi.org/10.12940/jfb.2014.18.2.29

Effect of Sensibility Responses on Backgrounds of Product Photos on Consumer Attitude of Online Shopping Malls  

Jeon, Minjung (Dept. of Textiles & Clothing, Graduate School, keimyung University)
Yoh, Eunah (Dept. of Fashion Marketing, Keimyung University)
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Journal of Fashion Business / v.18, no.2, 2014 , pp. 29-41 More about this Journal
Abstract
As the online shopping mall market faces severe competition, marketers have focused on visual factors that generate positive consumer responses in order to induce more consumers. Although product photos are crucial in the communication of product information as well as in the development of positive images of online shopping mall, there was little intention the effect of diverse types of product photo. In this study, three types of backgrounds (i.e., no background, indoor background, street background) are compared in order to explore whether consumer sensibility factors are different according to photo backgrounds. Moreover, it investigates the effect of sensibility toward photo backgrounds on consumer attitude. A total of 222 consumers participated in the experiments. As a result, six sensibility factors were generated from online model photos, including structure, upscale, uniqueness, interest, simpleness, and easiness factors. Among these factors, simpleness and structure showed the highest means; simpleness was the factor indicating the differences according to photo backgrounds. Sensibility factors affecting attitude toward online shopping malls were uniqueness in the case of no background, interest in the case of indoor background, and upscale in the case of street background photo.
Keywords
online shopping mall; photo background; product photo; sensibility response; visual factor;
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