• Asia-Pacific Journal of Business Venturing and Entrepreneurship
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• v.18 no.5
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• pp.217-240
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• 2023

For a while, Functional cosmetics, Cosmeceutical cosmetics, and Derma cosmetics have gained trust and become popular due to the consumers' strong interest in ingredients & efficacy. It's remarkable that Clean or Vegan brands are growing fast because they are emphasizing on different values from the other cosmetic brands. It's needed to attempt to analyze the influence relationship between consumer lifestyle and social value in these changes, and to find out whether the consumption of vegan cosmetics is related to satisfying the need for self-expression in a social atmosphere where ESG is emphasized on. This study analyzed the effect of lifestyle types and self-expression needs on the purchase intention of vegan cosmetics by mediating social values for cosmetics consumers. Lifestyle types were classified into appearance-oriented, health-oriented, and fashion-oriented. For empirical analysis, 321 questionnaires collected from cosmetics consumers living across the country were used. SPSS v26.0 and PROCESS macro v4.2 were used to analyze based on a single mediating model as a single mediator. As a result of the analysis, first, lifestyle types and self-expression needs, excluding appearance-oriented types, were found to have a positive (+) effect on social values. Second, it was found that social value had a positive (+) significant effect on the purchase intention of vegan cosmetics. Third, appearance-oriented, health-oriented, trend-seeking lifestyle types and self-expression needs were all found to have a positive (+) effect on the purchase intention of vegan cosmetics. Fourth, social values were found to mediate lifestyle types, self-expression needs, and purchase intentions, except for appearance-oriented types. Appearance-oriented consumers do not directly affect social values but affect purchase intentions, suggesting that appearance-oriented consumers may not be significantly affected by product-related social values. In a comparison of the relative influence size using standardization coefficients, self-expression needs had the greatest impact on the purchase intention of vegan cosmetics when mediating social values, and health-oriented ones had the least impact. The academic implications of this study include contributing to consumer behavior research by providing insights, mediation mechanisms, and consideration of the niche consumer sector, and directing further research into the cosmetics industry beyond forming marketing strategies and sustainable business practices.

• The Journal of the Convergence on Culture Technology
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• v.6 no.1
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• pp.289-299
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• 2020

The wearables market has fast grown, demanding a more consumer-centric academic attention. The current research explores the moderations of consumer individual characteristics (i.e., age, need for cognition, involvement) in the dynamics of perceived psychological benefits of wearables adoption (i.e., perceived usefulness, perceived ease of use) towards perceived product quality. the results indicate a strong positive influence of both the perceived usefulness and ease of use on perceived quality. however, the predicted moderations of age, need for congitiion, and involvement were partially supported.

• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.17 no.12
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• pp.339-356
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• 2017

So far, there have been studies to verify the effectiveness of creative advertising contents, but there have been few studies explaining why creative advertisement contents are effective in consumer cognitive processes. The purpose of this study is to examine the effect of creativity of ad contents on desire to postpone cognitive closure and ad attitude. Furthermore, the cause of the advertising effect of the creative advertisement contents was set as disfluency and the relationship between the related variables was verified. Research has shown that creative advertising does not directly produce positive advertising attitudes, but it also forms ad attitudes through mediating effects of disfluency. In addition, it was found that disfluency mediated the desire to postpone cognitive closure in creative advertising. In summary, this study finds that the disfluency of advertising is an important variable for enhancing the advertising effect of creative advertisement. This study verified the advertising effect of creative advertisement by connecting it with consumers' cognitive variables.

• Archives of design research
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• v.20 no.3 s.71
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• pp.163-178
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• 2007

The importance of brands as well as the consumers' emotional & cultural desire have increased. In the meantime, the companies have made efforts to create their positive brand images through the support of Mecenat using culture or social return. In addition, they made ceaseless efforts to provide consumers with a cultural space by building up brand service areas as part of their purpose. However, the rapidly increasing brand service spaces have not really appealed to consumers. In order to become a competitive and powerful brand in the severe brand market, it is necessary to enhance the brand image and to let the brand be considered as a culture and the lifestyle of consumers. In order to do so, the companies have to establish their market-driving strategies by creating new products or new market. To do so, it is important for them to figure out consumers' inner desire through the touch point with consumers. This study attempted to suggest a method of using a corporate museum as a space that could meet all of the said elements at a time. Through the route of a corporate museum, the companies would be able to study their future directions by looking back their history and they could be reborn as culture brands. Therefore, this study suggested that the corporate museum could be a space for culture and education as well as a brand space and could play a positive role in the companies; in this process, the study could grope for consumers' inner desire with its touch point where companies and consumers would meet and its utilization of brand market-driving strategy as a test marketing strategy observing consumers' responses.

• Proceedings of the Korea Multimedia Society Conference
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• 2001.06a
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• pp.437-443
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• 2001

On-line 상의 사용이 급증함에 따라 사용자의 욕구가 다양화되면서 사용자의 감성적인 욕구를 충족시켜 줄 수 있는 인터페이스의 개발과, 이를 위한 소비자의 감성구조 파악에 대한 요구가 높아지고 있다. 이와 관련하여, 감성판단의 이미지를 분석하고 이를 디자인에 응용하고자 하는 연구는 아직 미비한 상태로 사용자 집단의 특성 파악과 심리를 바탕으로 한 감성 구조의 파악에 있어 이지와 감성욕구에 관한 양자의 연구가 요구되는 실정이다. 사용자 개개인의 독특한 감성과 지시 체계의 유기적인 결합으로 이루어지며, 이는 장기간에 걸쳐 이루어지는 주위 환경의 학습을 통해 분화되고 누적된다. 미래에 대한 불확실성과 이로 인한 불안은 모험이라는 요소만으로 극복되지 않으며, 긴장의 항상성을 유지하고 나아가 발전을 위한 심리적 에너지를 제공해줄 수 있는 요인, 즉 새로운 환경에 대한 욕구의 실현이 요구되어진다.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society for Emotion and Sensibility Conference
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• 1998.04a
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• pp.183-188
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• 1998

미래를 예측하는 가장 정확한 방법은 미래를 창조하는 것이다. 본 논문은 멀지않은 미래를 창조하는 것이다. 본 논문은 멀지않은 미래에 우리 앞에 놓일 기술과 제품에 대한 예측과 창조를 위하여 연구된 결과이다. 인간의 생활을 풍요롭게 할 수 있는 기술롸 제품을 인간 중심으로, 인간에게 만족스럽게 개발하기 위해서 인간의 생활 특성과 함께 기계화 인간 사이의 관계를 새롭게 정리하였다. 또 인간의 COMMUNICATION생활에서 그 비중을 급속히 증가시켜 가고 있는 Haman-Machine(Computer) Interaction에 대한 정밀한 고찰을 통하여 인간 중심의 Human-Machine Interaction 을 가능하게 할 Interface로서의 MultiMedia개념을 도출하였다. 개인의 감성은 감정과 구분되는 심리 변화로, 감정에 비하여 강도는 약하나 일상 생활에서 개인의 생각과 행동에 중요한 영향을 미친다. 감성은 외부의 감각자극에 대하여 직관적이고 반사적으로 발생되며, 개인의 생활경험과 상황에 따라 다양하게 변화된다. 제품에 대한 소비자의 욕구는 단순한 보유욕구에서 비교우위욕구, 사용성 욕구를 거쳐 감성욕구로 변환된다. 미래의 인간 생활에 필요한 기술과 제품은 인간의 COMMUNICATION생활과 감성 특성을 반영하여 감성적 MultiMedia 와 감성인터페이스의 개념으로 창조되었다.

• The monthly packaging world
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• s.135
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• pp.122-123
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• 2004

• The monthly packaging world
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• s.99
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• pp.108-110
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• 2001

• The monthly packaging world
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• s.28
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• pp.92-93
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• 1995

• Journal of Korea Society of Industrial Information Systems
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• v.13 no.2
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• pp.56-68
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• 2008

Technology adoption has been an important issue for researchers and practitioners. In this paper, we identified the relationships between intention of technology adoption and technological affinity and other psychometric characteristics. We believe that technology affinity may be one of the general psychometric traits of individuals, and thus people have a different affinity levels which may influence the technology adoption intention. As a result it was found that need for cognition and self efficacy had positive influence on technology affinity, and the affinity also positively affected adoption intention. In addition, it was also found that technology affinity displayed a mediating role for the consumers adoption intention with need for cognition and self efficacy.