• 한국콘텐츠학회논문지
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• 제19권11호
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• pp.558-566
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• 2019

AI 스피커의 판매량이 빠른 속도로 증가하는 가운데, AI 기술은 우리 일상에 더욱 깊숙이 스며들어 보편화되고 있다. 본 연구에서는 AI 스피커 이용의 이면에 존재하는 이용동기가 무엇인지를 탐색하고, 이러한 동기를 비롯하여, AI 스피커에 대한 관계 유형에 대한 인식이 AI 스피커 이용에 따른 즐거움에 어떠한 영향을 미치는지를 알아보고자 하였다. 연구 결과, 대화동기, 유행선도동기, 효율성동기, 오락동기의 네 가지 동기가 존재하는 것으로 나타났고, 네 가지 동기 중에서 유행선도동기, 효율성동기, 오락동기의 세 가지 유형이 모두 즐거움에 영향을 미치는 것으로 나타났다. 한편, AI 스피커에 대한 관계 유형중에서는 비서·보조자 유형에 대한 인식만이 즐거움에 영향을 미치는 것으로 확인되었다. 본 연구 결과들은 향후 AI 스피커의 인터랙션 디자인이 추구해야 할 방향에 관한 실무적 시사점을 제공한다.

• 한국IT서비스학회지
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• 제17권2호
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• pp.191-205
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• 2018

With the advancement of artificial intelligence (AI) techniques, many consumer products have adopted AI features for providing proactive and personalized services to customers. One of the most prominent products featuring AI techniques is a smart speaker. The fundamental of smart speaker is a portable wireless Internet connecting speaker which already have existed in a consumer market. By applying AI techniques, smart speakers can recognize human voices and communicate with them. In addition, they can control other connecting devices and provide offline services. The goal of this study is to identify the impact of AI techniques for customer rating to the products. We compared customer reviews of other portable speakers without AI features and those of a smart speaker. Amazon echo is used for a smart speaker and JBL Flip 4 Bluetooth Speaker and Ultimate Ears BOOM 2 Panther Limited Edition are used for the comparison. These products are in the same price range ($50~100) and selected as featured products in Amazon.com. All reviews for the products were collected and common words for all products and unique words of the smart speaker were identified. Information gain values were calculated to identify the influences of words to be rated as positive or negative. Positive and negative words in all the products or in Amazon echo were identified, too. Topic modeling was applied to the customer reviews on Amazon echo and the importance of each topic were measured by summating information gain values of each topic. This study provides a way of identifying customer responses on the AI feature and measuring the importance of the feature among diverse features of the products.

• 디지털융복합연구
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• 제16권10호
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• pp.409-414
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• 2018

최근 중국의 스마트 스피커 사용량이 지속해서 증가하고 있다. 본 연구는 중국 스마트 스피커 사용자의 사용자 경험을 조사하는 것에 목적이 있다. 따라서 본 연구는 스마트 스피커의 이론적 배경에 관한 문헌 연구와 세계적으로 인기있는 스마트 스피커 브랜드에 대한 사례 연구를 하였다. 이에 따라 중국에서 가장 많이 팔린 스마트 스피커 제품인 티몰지니와 샤오미 스마트 스피커 사용자 8명을 심층 인터뷰하였다. 인터뷰는 피터 모빌의 허니콤 모델의 7가지 원칙에 바탕으로 문제를 설정했다. 그 결과, 스마트 스피커의 유용성과 사용성에서 사용자들의 불편함을 알 수 있었다. 또한, 신뢰성에서는 사용자들이 스마트 스피커를 이용하면서 큰 불만을 느끼는 것을 확인할 수 있었다. 따라서 향후 스마트 스피커 사용자들에게 기능성과 사용성을 보완하기 위해 사용자 경험 측면을 고려해야 할 것이다.

• 한국IT서비스학회지
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• 제20권5호
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• pp.43-54
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• 2021

Currently, citizens' expectations and concerns on utilizing artificial intelligence (AI) technologies in the public sector are widening with the rapid digital transformation. Furthermore the level of global acceptance on the AI and other intelligent digital technologies is augmenting with the needs of non-face-to-face types of public services more than ever due to the unforeseen and unpredictable pandemic, COVID-19. Thus, this study intended to empirically examine what policy directions for the public should be considered to provide well-designed services as well as to promote the evidence-based public policies in terms of Al speaker technology as a non-contact smart city service. Based on the survey of senior citizens' perceptions on AI (AI Speaker technology), this study conducted structure equation modeling analyses to identify whether technology acceptance models on to the varied dependent variables such as actual use, perception, attitude, and brand royalty. The Results of the empirical analyses showed that AI increased the positive level of citizens' perception, attitude and brand royalty on non-contact public services (smart city services) which are becoming more crucial for developing AI oriented government and providing intelligent public services effectively. In addition, theoretical and practical implications are discussed for understanding the changes of public service in the post-corona.

• 지식경영연구
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• 제20권2호
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• pp.25-42
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• 2019

AI speakers which are wireless speakers with smart features have released from many manufacturers and adopted by many customers. Though smart features including voice recognition, controlling connected devices and providing information are embedded in many mobile phones, AI speakers are sitting in home and has a role of the central en-tertainment and information provider. Many surveys have investigated the important factors to adopt AI speakers and influ-encing factors on satisfaction. Though most surveys on AI speakers are cross sectional, we can track customer attitude toward AI speakers longitudinally by analyzing customer reviews on AI speakers. However, there is not much research on the change of customer attitude toward AI speaker. Therefore, in this study, we try to grasp how the attitude of AI speaker changes with time by applying text mining-based analysis. We collected the customer reviews on Amazon Echo which has the highest share of AI speakers in the global market from Amazon.com. Since Amazon Echo already have two generations, we can analyze the characteristics of reviews and compare the attitude ac-cording to the adoption time. We identified all sub topics of customer reviews and specified the topics for smart features. And we analyzed how the share of topics varied with time and analyzed diverse meta data for comparisons. The proportions of the topics for general satisfaction and satisfaction on music were increasing while the proportions of the topics for music quality, speakers and wireless speakers were decreasing over time. Though the proportions of topics for smart fea-tures were similar according to time, the share of the topics in positive reviews and importance metrics were reduced in the 2nd generation of Amazon Echo. Even though smart features were mentioned similarly in the reviews, the influential effect on satisfac-tion were reduced over time and especially in the 2nd generation of Amazon Echo.

• 한국융합학회논문지
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• 제10권11호
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• pp.33-39
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• 2019

교육업계에 교육과 정보기술(IT)을 융합한 '에듀테크' 바람이 불고 있다. 4차 산업혁명 핵심 기술이 최근 교육 분야에 적극 활용되고 있는데 학습자들은 인공지능 기반 학습 플랫폼을 이용해 자신이 부족한 부분을 스스로 진단하고, 클라우드 학습 플랫폼으로 온라인상에서 개인 맞춤형 교육을 받는다. 최근 인공지능 기술과 음성인식 기술을 접목한 스마트 스피커와 같은 새로운 교육 매체가 등장하게 되어 다양한 교육서비스가 시도되고 있다. 본 연구에서는 기존 교육의 한계를 극복하기 위해 스마트 스피커를 교육적으로 활용하는 방안을 제시하고자 하였다. 이를 위해 스마트 스피커의 개념 및 특성을 알아보고 스마트 스피커에서 제공하는 콘텐츠를 분석하여 시사점을 도출하였다. 또한 스마트 스피커이용의 문제점에 대해서도 고찰하였다.

• 한국콘텐츠학회논문지
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• 제19권3호
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• pp.138-154
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• 2019

본 연구에서는 미디어의 이용과 충족 이론을 토대로 소비자의 AI 스피커의 사용 행태를 탐색하였다. 이를 위해 AI 스피커 사용 경험이 있는 국내 소비자 330명을 대상으로 AI 스피커의 속성 인식과 이용의 동기적 요인을 도출하였다. 연구의 결과, 사용자의 AI 스피커 이용 동기 요인은 사회성 유지 및 현실 일탈, 정보습득 및 학습, 유희와 휴식, 유용성 추구의 4개 하위 차원으로 구성되는 것으로 나타났다. 또한, AI 스피커 사용자의 연령대는 주로 30대이며, 혁신적 성향이 높은 사용자로 확인되었다. 아울러, AI 스피커 사용 동기요인 중 사회성 유지 및 현실 일탈 요인은 성별과 연령에 따라서, 그리고 정보 습득 및 학습, 유희와 휴식, 유용성 추구 요인은 연령과 혁신성 수준에 따라 유의한 차이가 있었다. 본 연구는 AI 스피커의 특성을 반영한 사용자 이용 동기를 도출함으로써 향후 AI 스피커를 활용한 전략적 콘텐츠 운용 및 서비스 제공에 도움이 될 수 있다는 실무적 시사점을 갖는다.

• 한국컴퓨터정보학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국컴퓨터정보학회 2022년도 제65차 동계학술대회논문집 30권1호
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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.

• 산경연구논집
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• 제11권2호
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• pp.41-48
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• 2020

Purpose: This study is to examine the intention of the elderly who live alone in the customized AI speaker for the elderly living alone to improve the quality of life service for the elderly living alone in the smart city environment. Based on the quality of life model of the elderly, this study is applied to the technology acceptance model to investigate the relationship between perceived usefulness and ease of use on the sustained use intention. Research design, data and methodology: Residents in Suwon, Gyeonggi-do, selected as candidate local governments for the Smart City Challenge Project of the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport in June 2019 to measure the perceived technology acceptance of potential users for the AI technology for the elderly living alone as part of the smart city technology. In order to evaluate the intention of using AI speaker, which is the target system of this study, a video of a chatbot using experience of elderly people living alone was produced. Results: First of all, in order for the elderly living alone to have an attitude to use AI-based speakers, there should be a perceived usefulness of the quality of life of the elderly. However, ease of use did not show any significant causal relationship to attitude toward use. In addition, the attitude toward use weakly influenced the intention to use. In other words, elderly people living alone were not likely to have a significant effect on their attitude toward use. However, feeling that AI speakers are easy to use will help to improve the quality of life, which in turn led to the attitude toward using AI speakers, which could lead to indirect effects. Finally, the perceived usefulness of quality of life was found to have a weak effect on direct use intentions. Conclusions: This study conducted a study on the technology acceptance of service environment to improve the quality of life for the specific user group who live alone in the smart seat environment. In this study, we examined the effects of AI speaker on the elderly living alone to improve the quality of life for the elderly living alone.

• 지식경영연구
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• 제21권1호
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• pp.197-210
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• 2020

The smart speaker includes an AI assistant function in the existing portable speaker, which enables a person to give various commands using a voice and provides various offline services associated with control of a connected device. The speed of domestic distribution is also increasing, and the functions and linked services available through smart speakers are expanding to shopping and food orders. Through text mining-based customer review analysis, there have been many proposals for identifying the impact on customer attitudes, sentiment analysis, and product evaluation of product functions and attributes. Emotional investigation has been performed by extracting words corresponding to characteristics or features from product reviews and analyzing the impact on assessment. After obtaining the topic from the review, the effect on the evaluation was analyzed. And the market competition of similar products was visualized. Also, a study was conducted to analyze the reviews of smart speaker users through text mining and to identify the main attributes, emotional sensitivity analysis, and the effects of artificial intelligence attributes on product satisfaction. The purpose of this study is to collect blog posts about the user's experiences of smart speakers released in Korea and to analyze the attitudes of customers according to their attributes. Through this, customers' attitudes can be identified and visualized by each smart speaker product, and the positioning map of the product was derived based on customer recognition of smart speaker products by collecting the information identified by each property.