• 한국의류산업학회지
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• 제24권2호
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• pp.183-194
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• 2022

This study aims to understand the consumers' negative responses to communication failure of chatbots caused by their imperfections. Specifically, this study examines 1) the relationship among chatbot's communication failure, dissatisfaction, negative behavior (complaint, negative word-of-mouth (nWOM), and inertia); 2) the moderating effect of technostress on the relationship between chatbot's communication failure and dissatisfaction; 3) the differences in the negative responses between the generation MZ and the previous generations. Data were collected via an online survey. First, the participants interacted with the chatbot developed for this survey, to experience the chatbot's communication failure. Thereafter, they responded to a questionnaire. PLS-SEM was conducted using the R software environment to test the hypotheses. This study empirically identified that chatbot's communication failure positively affected dissatisfaction. In addition, the customers who were more dissatisfied with the chatbot's communication failures were more likely to complain than engage in nWOM. Compared to the generation MZ, chatbot's communication failure caused a higher level of dissatisfaction in previous generations. The results suggest that online shopping malls should carefully introduce an improved chatbot service after minimizing its communication failure rate. The chatbot developers of online shopping malls targeting middle-aged and elderly consumers should strive to develop and implement strategies to further alleviate consumers' dissatisfaction in the situation of chatbot's communication failure.

• 한국의류산업학회지
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• 제24권2호
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• pp.229-240
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• 2022

This study explores the effect of anthropomorphism on fashion chatbot reliability, mediated by perceived intelligence and cognitive evaluation. The moderating effects of individuals' need for human interaction between chatbot anthropomorphism and perceived intelligence, cognitive evaluation, and chatbot reliability are also explored. Participants, who were recruited through the online research firm, responded to questions after watching a video clip showing a conversation with a fashion chatbot on a mobile screen. The data were collected through Mturk, a crowdsourcing platform with an online research panel. All responses (N = 212) were analyzed using SPSS 26.0 for the descriptive statistics, frequency analysis, reliability analysis, exploratory factor analysis, and PROCESS procedure. The results demonstrate that chatbot anthropomorphism increases chatbot reliability, and this is mediated by chatbot intelligence. Although chatbot anthropomorphism increases cognitive evaluation, the effect of cognitive evaluation on chatbot reliability is not significant; thereby, the effect of chatbot anthropomorphism on chatbot reliability is not mediated by the cognitive evaluation. The direct effect of anthropomorphism on chatbot reliability is also moderated by individuals' need for human interaction. For participants with a high need for human interaction, chatbot anthropomorphism increases chatbot reliability; however, anthropomorphism does not significantly affect chatbot reliability for participants with a low need for human interaction. The study's findings contribute to expanding the literature on consumers' new technology acceptance by testing the antecedents affecting service reliability.

• Journal of Multimedia Information System
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• 제5권3호
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• pp.209-214
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• 2018

Today is the era of artificial intelligence. With the development of artificial intelligence, machines have begun to impersonate various human characteristics today. Chatbot is one instance of this interactive artificial intelligence. Chatbot is a computer program that enables to conduct natural conversations with people. As mentioned above, Chatbot conducted conversations in text, but Chatbot, in this study evolves to perform commands based on speech-recognition. In order for Chatbot to perfectly emulate a human dialogue, it is necessary to analyze the sentence correctly and extract appropriate response. To accomplish this, the sentence is classified into three types: objects, actions, and preferences. This study shows how objects is analyzed and processed, and also demonstrates the possibility of evolving from an elementary model to an advanced intelligent system. By this study, it will be evaluated that speech-recognition based Chatbot have improved order-processing time efficiency compared to text based Chatbot. Once this study is done, speech-recognition based Chatbot have the potential to automate customer service and reduce human effort.

• 한국IT서비스학회지
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• 제19권4호
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• pp.31-47
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• 2020

Recently, as the COVID-19 has spread and prolonged worldwide, the 'Untact' society is becoming routinized, and various smart technologies are leading to the spread of the 'Ontact' culture. This is because the desire of consumers to purchase a product and use the service has increased while minimizing the direct contact. In order to quickly respond to this circumstance, the percentage of the companies which are adopting Chatbot in various fields such as orders, delivery, and inquiries is increasing and they are getting a positive result. However as the demand for building Chatbot increases dramatically, there are many confusions among the companies which want to introduce Chatbot to their system, due to the lack of professional technicians and difficulties in understanding AI technologies and how to build them effectively. I believe that in the post COVID-19 era, much more companies will adopt Chatbot, and this will intensify the problem. The purpose of this study was to derive the needs for a guide on the method of buiilding a Chatbot through considering the prior research on Chatbot and analysis of the recent surge in the use of Chatbot services related to COVID-19. There are implications to presenting 5 phases of universal Chatbot implementation methodology using the platform to the stakeholders who want to introduce Chatbot to their customer so that they can understand and build Chatbot more easily and use AI Chatbot actively in response to the POST COVID-19 era.

• 서비스연구
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• 제13권3호
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• pp.82-104
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• 2023

본 연구는 AI챗봇 서비스를 이용한 사용자의 경험이 관계품질과 행동의도에 미치는 영향에 대해서 살펴보고자 하였다. 연구를 위하여 AI챗봇 서비스를 경험한 사용자를 대상으로 설문조사를 실시하였고, 최종 299부의 유효한 데이터를 분석하여 연구가설을 검증하였다. 분석결과 AI챗봇 서비스의 인지적 경험, 감성적 경험 및 관계적 경험을 통하여 사용자에게 AI챗봇 서비스에 대한 관계품질 차원인 만족과 신뢰가 형성됨을 확인하였으며, 특히 인지적 경험에서 AI챗봇 만족과 신뢰로의 경로계수가 감성적 경험 및 관계적 경험의 경로계수보다 크게 높았다. 또 만족과 신뢰는 각각 AI챗봇 서비스에 대해 소비자의 행동의도 차원에 해당하는 지속사용의도와 추천의도에 긍정적인 영향을 미침을 확인하였다. 또 관계품질에서 행동의도로의 모든 경로에서 유의함을 보였지만, 만족에서 AI챗봇 지속사용의도와 추천의도로의 경로계수가 신뢰에서의 경로계수보다 크게 높았다. 본 연구를 통하여 행동의도에 영향을 미치는 관계품질과의 영향 관계가 온라인 환경의 AI챗봇 서비스에서도 영향을 미친다는 이론적 토대를 마련할 수 있었으며, 관계품질이 AI챗봇 서비스 제공자 즉, 기업과 AI챗봇 서비스 사용자의 지속사용의도와 추천의도 등 소비자와의 장기적인 관계를 맺어가는데 있어서 중요한 매개요인임을 시사한다는 점에서 연구의 의의가 있다.

• 한국정보통신학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국정보통신학회 2018년도 춘계학술대회
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• pp.275-278
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• 2018

사회적으로 인구의 고령화가 급속하게 진행되고 사람들의 식생활의 양식이 서구화되면서 불규칙적인 생활습관에 의해서 만성질환의 발병률dl 높아지고 있다. 만성질환은 올바르고 규칙적인 생활습관 및 식사요법만으로도 예방 및 개선이 가능하다. 최근 출시되고 있는 대부분의 식단관리 모바일 애플리케이션은 비만관리나 다이어트가 목적이며, 만성질환 예방이나 개선을 위한 목적을 가진 어플리케이션은 찾아보기 힘들다. 이 논문에서는 만성질환 중에서 가장 흔히 접하는 당뇨병을 특정화한 웹 서비스를 개발하며, Chatscript 활용하여 당뇨병 식단관리를 도와주는 챗봇(Chatbot)을 구현한다.

• 디지털산업정보학회논문지
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• 제19권1호
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• pp.57-76
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• 2023

This study analyzes the factors and effects on the users' intention to switch from contact center-oriented to AI chatbot-oriented customer services by combining Push-Pull-Mooring Model and provides insights for companies considering the adoption of AI chatbots. To test the model, we surveyed users with experience using chatbots at least once across different age groups. Finally, we analyzed 176 cases for the analysis using IBM SPSS Statistics and SmartPLS 4.0. The results of hypotheses testing rejected the hypotheses for variables of inconsistent quality and low availability of push factors and low switching cost of mooring factor while accepting the hypotheses for the tardy response of push factors and all pull factors. Therefore, these findings provide important implications for researchers and practitioners who wish to conduct research or adopt AI chatbots. In conclusion, users do not feel inconvenienced by the contact center-oriented service but also perceive high trust and convenience with AI chatbot-oriented service. However, despite low switching costs, users consider chatbots a complementary tool rather than an alternative. So, companies adopting AI chatbots should consider what features the users expect from AI chatbots and facilitate these features when implementing AI chatbots.

• 문화기술의 융합
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• 제8권4호
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• pp.445-455
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• 2022

금융 서비스에서 적극적으로 활용되고 있는 챗봇은 대화 오류와 기계적인 답변으로 사용자 경험을 저해하고 있다. 이 연구는 의인화된 챗봇의 자기노출과 감정표현이 금융 서비스에서 대화 오류 시 사용자 경험에 미치는 효과를 살펴보았다. 일상적인 금융 서비스 문의 상황에서 자기노출 유형(긍정적 vs. 부정적)과 감정표현 수준(높은 수준의 자신감 vs. 낮은 수준의 자신감)별로 시나리오를 구성해 온라인 실험을 진행하였고, 신뢰, 곤혹도, 서비스 회복만족, 지속 사용의도를 측정하였다. 실험 결과, 의인화된 챗봇의 자기노출과 감정표현에서 신뢰, 곤혹도, 서비스 회복만족, 지속 사용의도에 대해 각각 주효과가 나타났고 신뢰와 곤혹도에서 상호작용 효과가 나타났다. 결론적으로 의인화된 챗봇이 긍정적 자기노출과 자신감 있는 감정표현을 할 때 상대적으로 신뢰가 높아지고 곤혹도가 낮아지는 것을 확인하였다.

• 패션비즈니스
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• 제27권3호
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• pp.50-62
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• 2023

The e-commerce fashion market has experienced a remarkable growth, leading to an overwhelming availability of shared information and numerous choices for users. In light of this, chatbots have emerged as a promising technological solution to enhance personalized services in this context. This study aimed to develop user-product attributes for a chatbot-based personalized fashion recommendation service using big data text mining techniques. To accomplish this, over one million consumer reviews from Coupang, an e-commerce platform, were collected and analyzed using frequency analyses to identify the upper-level attributes of users and products. Attribute terms were then assigned to each user-product attribute, including user body shape (body proportion, BMI), user needs (functional, expressive, aesthetic), user TPO (time, place, occasion), product design elements (fit, color, material, detail), product size (label, measurement), and product care (laundry, maintenance). The classification of user-product attributes was found to be applicable to the knowledge graph of the Conversational Path Reasoning model. A testing environment was established to evaluate the usefulness of attributes based on real e-commerce users and purchased product information. This study is significant in proposing a new research methodology in the field of Fashion Informatics for constructing the knowledge base of a chatbot based on text mining analysis. The proposed research methodology is expected to enhance fashion technology and improve personalized fashion recommendation service and user experience with a chatbot in the e-commerce market.

• 한국컴퓨터정보학회논문지
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• 제25권7호
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• pp.17-25
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• 2020

본 연구는 챗봇기술을 성공적으로 활용한 사례를 기반으로 각 기업들이 어떤 비즈니스적 가치를 창출하고 가지고 있는지 살펴보았다. 챗봇 서비스는 기업 내부 직원 또는 고객들의 질문에 빠르게 답변하거나 대응하게 도와줌으로써 기업의 업무 생산성 향상 향상에 기여하고 있으며, 교육분야에서는 수강생들의 질문 및 피드백을 인공지능 기술이 대신 함으로써 강사진의 업무를 줄여주는데 도움을 준다. 상거래 분야의 오프라인 매장에서는 제품 구매와 매장에서의 개인화 서비스 제공과 인공지능 스피커를 통한 구매 서비스를 제공함으로써 고객에게 편리하고 새로운 구매 경험을 제공하고 있다. 챗봇 서비스가 일부 기업사례에서 비즈니스 가치를 창출하고 있으나 여전히 특정 기업의 프로세스에 국한되고 있으며, 사용자가 기대했던 것보다 서비스 범위와 편리성 및 유용성이 크지 않아 확산속도가 늦어지고 있어 일부 챗봇 개발 서비스 업체는 사용성을 향상시키기 위해 통합 개발 플랫폼을 제공하고 있다, 챗봇은 인간 수준으로 질문에 대한 답변을 대신하여 편의성을 제공한다는 특징과 장점이 있다. 하지만, 다양한 인간의 주관적 견해를 축소시키고 객관화된 답변을 주로 주게되어 커뮤니케이션의 수준이 떨어질 수 있다는 단점이 있다. 본 연구를 통하여 챗봇 서비스들의 특징과 장점, 단점 등을 비교하며 논의를 해보도록 한다.