• Journal of Internet Computing and Services
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• v.25 no.3
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• pp.93-100
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• 2024

This study empirically examined the influence of motivation for using the metaverse virtual community Ifland on satisfaction and intention to continue usage, as well as the moderating effect of innovativeness. Specifically, the study identified the motivations for using Ifland among its users and analyzed their relationships with satisfaction and intention to continue usage. For this purpose, a survey was conducted targeting 303 university students who had experience using Ifland.The results of the study are as follows: Firstly, the motivations for using Ifland were identified as entertainment and relaxation, information-seeking, social interaction, and self-expression motives. All of these motivations were found to have a significant impact on user satisfaction. Secondly, satisfaction with Ifland was found to influence intention to continue usage. Thirdly, innovativeness was found to moderate the relationship between entertainment and relaxation motives and satisfaction, and it was confirmed to play a moderating role between satisfaction and intention to continue usage.

• Journal of the Korea Convergence Society
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• v.11 no.7
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• pp.145-150
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• 2020

It needs to explain the relationship between influencers and consequences to use continuity of social media. To address this question, we have developed an framework and made hypotheses to explicate and analyze influencers(social presence, perceived privacy risk, perceived enjoyment, commitment, and community identification) to the attitude and continuity of social media. To test empirically, data collected from on and line survey and resolved by structural equation model. We found that social presence, perceived enjoyment and commitment influence to the attitude and continuity of social media. Finally, the theoretical and practical implications of theses results are discussed also research limitation and future research directions.

• 한국경영정보학회:학술대회논문집
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• 2008.06a
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• pp.305-311
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• 2008

급속히 성장하고 있는 Web Analytics 서비스는 기본적으로 인터넷 상에서 기업간의 거래를 전제로 하며 서비스를 이용하는 고객사의 입장에서는 웹분석 분야 정보시스템 아웃소싱의 한 형태이다. 본 연구는 이러한 거래적 특징들을 바탕으로 경쟁이 치열해지고 있는 Web analytics 서비스 산업에서 고객사의 지속적 이용의도와 이에 영향을 주는 요인들 간의 관계를 실증연구를 통하여 살펴보았다. 연구결과 첫째, 서비스를 이용하는 고객회사들의 지속적 이용의 도는 동기적 요인인 만족도와 이탈억제 요인인 의존도가 동시에 고려됨을 알 수 있었다. 둘째, Web Analytics 서비스 산업에서 고객사의 만족도에 영향을 주는 품질 요인으로는 정보품질만이 통계적으로 유의하였다. 셋째, 거래상대방과의 관계에서 이탈이 고려될 때 이탈을 억제하는 역할을 수행하는 의존도 에 영향을 주는 요인으로는 관계가치, 전환비용, 서비스 이용기간이 의미 있는 것으로 나타났다. 넷째, 동기적 측면에서는 전환경험의 유무에 따라 시스템 품질과 공감성이 만족도에 미치는 영향관계가 다르게 나타났고, 이탈억제 측면에서는 전환경험의 유무에 따라 전환비용이 의존도에 미치는 영향관계에서 차이가 있었다.

• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.9 no.7
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• pp.294-303
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• 2009

The primary purpose of this study is to examine the effects of contents quality characteristics on user's satisfaction and continuous usage intention in UCC services. Based on relevant literature reviews, this study posits five contents quality characteristics, that is, accuracy, completeness, variety, playfulness, and timeliness as key determinants of user's satisfaction and continuous usage intention. And then we structured a research model and hypotheses about relationship between these variables. A total 315 usable survey responses of UCC service users have been employed in the analysis. The major findings from the data analyses are as follows. Firstly, four contents quality characteristics of completeness, variety, playfulness, and timeliness had a positive influence upon user's satisfaction. Secondly, four contents quality characteristics of accuracy, completeness, playfulness, and timeliness had a positive influence upon continuous usage intention. Lastly, user's satisfaction had very significantly related to continuous usage intention in UCC services. From this study, we expect to suggest practical and managerial implications to UCC service providers.

• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.15 no.10
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• pp.481-494
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• 2015

The objective of this study is to verify the correlations among design quality of domestic internet fashion shopping mall and relations to specific shopping malls, and shopping mall users' intention to continue the relations. The main results were withdrawn as follows. First, it was found that some factors of internet fashion shopping mall design quality had significant positive influences on the qualities of relationship to users such as reliability, satisfaction and devotion. Second, it was found that all components of quality of customer relationship to internet fashion shopping mall such as reliability, satisfaction and devotion had significant positive influence on their intention to continue relations to the internet shopping mall. Third, graphic and multimedia quality of internet fashion shopping mall design components had significant positive influences on internet fashion shopping mall users' intention to continue relationship to the shopping mall. Empirical study of qualities on the relationship between internet fashion shopping mall design quality and its users, their intention to repurchase or recommend goods from the mall would be very valuable in a management point of view of small internet fashion shopping mall.

• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.17 no.11
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• pp.609-620
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• 2017

This study set out to examine the effects of usage characteristics of web novels, which have recently gained popularity in the Internet and mobile platforms, on the satisfaction and continued usage intention of users. For that purpose, the investigator conducted a survey with 333 web novel users. The survey results show that web novel users recorded a high level of flow when they had a challenging spirit and proficiency in the process of using the content. Their high level of flow in web novels had positive impacts on their satisfaction and continued usage intention for web novels. When they were highly satisfied with web novels, they intended to use the content continuously. Those findings indicate that web novel users should be encouraged to have a challenging spirit and proficiency in the content consumption process so that they can develop flow in the content. In addition, it is suggested that there should be efforts to increase their flow and satisfaction to promote their continued usage of web novels.

• Journal of the Korea Society of Computer and Information
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• v.18 no.3
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• pp.127-139
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• 2013

Social commerce has not been studied in depth as it is a more common recent phenomenon. Especially, social commerce has not been examined academically in terms of information quality despite its importance. The purpose of this paper is to investigate the effects of information quality on customer satisfaction and continuous intention to buy in social commerce market. This study addresses two research questions as following. First, this study aims to examine the effects of information quality on customer satisfaction and then investigate the relationship between customer satisfaction and continuous intention to use in social commerce market. According to the result of analysis, all aspects of information quality except price information quality were found to be significantly related to the customer satisfaction. Finally, customer satisfaction was shown to be significantly related to the continuous intention to use. This study has academic and practical significance in that it analyses the customer satisfaction in terns of information quality and then provides strategic guide for enhancing customer satisfaction in rapidly developing social commerce market.

• Journal of Digital Convergence
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• v.15 no.9
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• pp.415-425
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• 2017

The purpose of this study is to examine the effect of perceived enjoyment and user's characteristics on the intention of continuous use when users play social network games on a mobile device. In addition, the study empirically investigated the mediating effect of flow experience in this process. To fulfill the purpose, this study conducted a survey on 244 college students and collected data. When the collected data was analyzed, the followings were known. First, perceived enjoyment, and both self-efficacy and innovation propensity of user's characteristics turned out to have a positive (+) effect on the intention of continuous use in mobile social network game. Second, in the process, it was known that flow experience played a mediating role. These findings are expected to be useful data in developing game contents of high quality or making a marketing strategy for continuous improvement of online social network game industry. In addition, future studies are expected to generalize the research to various age groups.

• Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society
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• v.12 no.11
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• pp.4812-4818
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• 2011

This study aimed to reveal the relationship between the rural tourism social media use motivation and satisfaction, trust, continued usage intention. In order to carry out the empirical study 310 survey questionnaires were collected in rural tourism social media users, PASW18 and Lisrel 8.54 Statistics package were utilized for analysis of SEM. The study results were as follows: First, social media use motivation had a positive influence upon satisfaction, Secondly, satisfaction had a positive influence on trust, continued usage intention. Thirdly, trust had a positive influence upon continued usage intention. The study findings can provide the rural tourism with social media as well as practitional foundational upon which to establish effective marketing strategy.

• Asia-pacific Journal of Multimedia Services Convergent with Art, Humanities, and Sociology
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• v.6 no.12
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• pp.605-619
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• 2016

This study aims to figure out effects of the rewards applications receiving a lot of attention recently as mobile advertising using the smartphones. Therefore, this study examines differences of user satisfaction and continued use intention according to a user characteristic, demographic characteristic and rewards application characteristic. The research results are as follow. First, in terms of user satisfaction of the rewards applications, there is a significant difference according to the user gender and existence of the reserved value experience. Second, there is a significant difference in the continued use intention of the applications according to the user type and gender. Third, it is also found that there is an interaction effect between the user gender and existence of the reserved value use experience on the continued use intention. This study is significant in that the results may provide future researchers with practical foundations for marketing strategies to activate the rewards applications.