• Journal of Internet of Things and Convergence
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• v.8 no.3
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• pp.41-46
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• 2022

Smart home in the Internet of Things (IoT) environment aims to provide an optimal living environment for users by connecting all devices in the home. In such a smart home environment, artificial intelligence speakers are being used as a way to manage and control all devices. The existing speaker function is changing from simple music playback to the role of an interface that controls and manages all devices in the smart home space. This study dealt with the market status and usability analysis in the US and Korea, the leader in artificial intelligence speakers. The main target companies were Amazon, Google, and Apple in the US, as well as Kakao, SKT, and KT in Korea. In addition, based on the reaction results of domestic users to artificial intelligence speakers, the derivation of major problems and directions for improvement were described.

• The Journal of the Convergence on Culture Technology
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• v.5 no.3
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• pp.9-23
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• 2019

The artificial intelligence speaker market is in a new age of mounting displays. This study aimed to analyze the difference of experience using artificial intelligent speakers in terms of usage context, according to the presence or absence of displays. This was achieved by using semantic network analysis to determine how the online review texts of Amazon Echo Show and Echo Plus consisted of different UX issues with structural differences. Based on the physical context and the social context of the user experience, the ego network was constructed to draw out major issues. Results of the analysis show that users' expectation gap is generated according to the display presence, which can lead to negative experiences. Also, it was confirmed that the Multimodal interface is more utilized in the kitchen than in the bedroom, and can contribute to the activation of communication among family members. Based on these findings, we propose a user experience strategy to be considered in display type speakers to be launched in Korea in the future.

• Journal of Digital Convergence
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• v.16 no.10
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• pp.409-414
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• 2018

In China, the usage of smart speaker is continuously increasing. In this study, it is aimed to research on the user experience of the Chinese smart speaker. Therefore, we did literature research followed with theoretical background of smart speaker, and did case study of worldwide popular smart speaker brands. On this basis, we conducted in-depth interview with 8 users who have experienced with the top-selling Chinese smart speaker product "Tmall Genie" and "Mi AI speaker". The interview is based on 7 principles named Honeycomb model, which created by Peter Morville. As a result, users' discomfort was found in the functional part and the usability part of the smart speaker. Furthermore, the users were highly unsatisfied with the smart speaker in the credibility part. Accordingly, Chinese smart speaker should consider the user experience aspects to complement functional and usability parts for user.

• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.19 no.3
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• pp.138-154
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• 2019

This study was conducted to identify the use motivations of AI speaker and examine the characteristics of AI speaker users. Based on the uses and gratifications theory, The study results show that the user motivations of AI speaker are four dimensional, namely escaping from daily problems and maintaining social relationships, information acquisition and learning, entertainment and relaxation and pursuit of practicability. The main AI speaker users are in their 30s, and they are innovative to actively use AI speakers for entertainment purposes such as listening to music. The four sub-dimensions differed as we compared them with user characteristics. Specifically, the motivation for escaping from daily problems and maintaining social relationships varied with gender and age. Moreover, age and informativeness were identified to have an influence on the motivations of information acquisition and learning and entertainment and relaxation. In sum, this research provides practical implications into how to strategically create contents and services for AI speakers.

• Proceedings of the Korea Technology Innovation Society Conference
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• 2017.11a
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• pp.1297-1297
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• 2017

본 연구는 대화형 인공지능 스피커의 수요 증진을 위한 새로운 비즈니스 전략 제시를 위해 수행되었다. 이를 위해 해당 IoT기기 소비자의 사용의도에 영향을 미치는 요인들을 선정하여 집중적으로 고찰하고 각 요인 사이에 어떤 상관관계가 존재하는지 실증적으로 분석하고자 하였다. 사용 의도에 영향을 미치는 요인으로는 기기 사용에 대한 안전성이 확보 되었음을 의미하는 안전에 대한 신뢰도와 기술적 흐름에 따른 시대적 압박, 기기 사용으로부터 발생하는 쾌락적 동기와 실용적 동기, 기기의 혁신성으로부터 오는 차별적 동기를 고려하였다. 본 연구의 수행을 통해 모든 요인은 각각 소비자의 사용 의도에 긍정적인 영향을 미치며 특히 차별화 욕구와 쾌락적 동기, 실용적 동기 간에는 유의한 양의 상관관계가 있을 것으로 나타낼 것으로 기대된다. 더불어, 본 연구의 핵심 연구 요인인 시대적 압박 요인의 경우 안전에 대한 신뢰도와 사용 의도에 있어 정의 영향을 주지만 차별화 욕구와 실용적 동기와는 음의 상관관계를 보일 것으로 예상된다. 본 연구는 일반적인 연구 모델에서 취급되는 주요 요인들과 더불어 시대적 압박이라는 새로운 요인을 제시하고 그 영향력을 논증하여 융합형 기술에 기반한 새로운 비즈니스 전략을 제시할 수 있다는 점에서 가치를 갖는다

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Computer Information Conference
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• 2022.01a
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• pp.289-290
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• 2022

본 논문에서는 약을 제 시간에 복용할 수 있도록 도와주는 스마트 약통 서비스를 개발한 결과를 보인다. 라즈베리파이, 자석감지센서, LED, AI스피커와 외부서버를 결합한 구조로 개발하였으며, 사용자는 약을 복용하였는지에 따라 AI스피커를 통해서 약 복용 여부를 물어볼 수 있고 LED를 통해서 아침, 점심, 저녁의 시간에 따라 복용해야 하는 약을 표시해 줄 수 있도록 하였다.

• Journal of the HCI Society of Korea
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• v.14 no.1
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• pp.15-22
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• 2019

The purpose of this study is to investigate the users' expectation and expectation gap about the attributes of smart speaker as an intelligent agent, ie autonomy, sociality, responsiveness, activeness, time continuity, goal orientation. To this end, semi-structured interviews were conducted for smart speaker users and analyzed based on ground theory. Result has shown that people have huge expectation gap about the sociality and human-likeness of smart speakers, due to limitations in technology. The responsiveness of smart speakers was found to have positive expectation gap. For the memory of time-sequential information, there was an ambivalent expectation gap depending on the degree of information sensitivity and presentation method. We also found that there was a low expectation level for autonomous aspects of smart speakers. In addition, proactive aspects were preferred only when appropriate for the context. This study presents implications for designing a way to interact with smart speakers and managing expectations.

• The Journal of the Korea institute of electronic communication sciences
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• v.14 no.6
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• pp.1181-1186
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• 2019

Recently, we have been able to quickly order and pay with kiosks even at fast food restaurants, small private restaurants and cafes. However, people with disabilities who are uncomfortable with their arms and who are sitting in wheelchairs are difficult to use by pressing graphical buttons to use kiosks. Older people also feel uncomfortable to use kiosks because of their cognitive abilities to accept new information as they get older. In this paper, to solve this problem, we design and implement a order-payment system to add the voice command element of the AI speaker to the visual command element when the user interacts with the kiosk.

• Journal of the Korea Convergence Society
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• v.12 no.7
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• pp.193-205
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• 2021

The AI speaker market is growing steadily. However, the satisfaction of actual users is only 42%. Therefore, in this paper, we collected reviews on Amazon Echo Dot 3rd and 4th generation models to analyze what hinders the user experience through the topic changes and emotional changes of each generation of AI speakers. By using topic modeling analysis techniques, we found changes in topics and topics that make up reviews for each generation, and examined how user sentiment on topics changed according to generation through deep learning-based sentiment analysis. As a result of topic modeling, five topics were derived for each generation. In the case of the 3rd generation, the topic representing general features of the speaker acted as a positive factor for the product, while user convenience features acted as negative factor. Conversely, in the 4^th generation, general features were negatively, and convenience features were positively derived. This analysis is significant in that it can present analysis results that take into account not only lexical features but also contextual features of the entire sentence in terms of methodology.

• Journal of Internet Computing and Services
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• v.22 no.1
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• pp.109-135
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• 2021

his study classified the development process of artificial intelligence (AI) speakers through analysis of the news text of artificial intelligence (AI) speakers shown in traditional news reports, and identified the characteristics of each product by period. The theoretical background used in the analysis are news frames and topic frames. As analysis methods, topic modeling and semantic network analysis using the LDA method were used. The research method was a content analysis method. From 2014 to 2019, 2710 news related to AI speakers were first collected, and secondly, topic frames were analyzed using Nodexl algorithm. The result of this study is that, first, the trend of topic frames by AI speaker provider type was different according to the characteristics of the four operators (communication service provider, online platform, OS provider, and IT device manufacturer). Specifically, online platform operators (Google, Naver, Amazon, Kakao) appeared as a frame that uses AI speakers as'search or input devices'. On the other hand, telecommunications operators (SKT, KT) showed prominent frames for IPTV, which is the parent company's flagship business, and 'auxiliary device' of the telecommunication business. Furthermore, the frame of "personalization of products and voice service" was remarkable for OS operators (MS, Apple), and the frame for IT device manufacturers (Samsung) was "Internet of Things (IoT) Integrated Intelligence System". The econd, result id that the trend of the topic frame by AI speaker development period (by year) showed a tendency to develop around AI technology in the first phase (2014-2016), and in the second phase (2017-2018), the social relationship between AI technology and users It was related to interaction, and in the third phase (2019), there was a trend of shifting from AI technology-centered to user-centered. As a result of QAP analysis, it was found that news frames by business operator and development period in AI speaker development are socially constituted by determinants of media discourse. The implication of this study was that the evolution of AI speakers was found by the characteristics of the parent company and the process of co-evolution due to interactions between users by business operator and development period. The implications of this study are that the results of this study are important indicators for predicting the future prospects of AI speakers and presenting directions accordingly.