• Asia pacific journal of information systems
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• 제19권4호
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• pp.101-124
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• 2009

According to Wikipedia, virtual reality (VR) is defined as a technology that allows a user to interact with a computer-simulated environment. Due to a rapid growth in information technology (IT), the cost of virtual reality has been decreasing while the utility of virtual reality advertisements has dramatically increased. Nevertheless, only a few studies have investigated the effects of virtual reality advertisement on consumer behaviors. Therefore, the objective of this study is to empirically examine the effects of virtual reality advertisement. Compared to traditional online advertisements, virtual reality advertisement enables consumers to experience products realistically over the Internet by providing high media richness, interactivity, and telepresence (Suh and Lee, 2005). Advertisements with high media richness facilitate consumers' understanding of advertised products by providing them with a large amount and a high variety of information on the products. Interactivity also provides consumers with a high level of control over the computer-simulated environment in terms of their abilities to adjust the information according to their individual interests and concerns and to be active rather than passive in their engagement with the information (Pimentel and Teixera, 1994). Through high media richness and interactivity, virtual reality advertisements can generate compelling feelings of "telepresence" (Suh and Lee, 2005). Telepresence is a sense of being there in an environment by means of a communication medium (Steuer, 1992). Virtual reality advertisements enable consumers to create a perceptual illusion of being present and highly engaged in a simulated environment, while they are in reality physically present in another place (Biocca, 1997). Based on the characteristics of virtual reality advertisements, a research model has been proposed to explain consumer responses to the virtual reality advertisements. The proposed model includes two dimensions of consumer responses. One dimension is consumers' rational response, which is based on the Information Processing Theory. Based on the Information Processing Theory, product knowledge and perceived risk are selected as antecedents of intention to purchase. The other dimension is emotional response of consumers, which is based on the Attitude-Structure Theory. Based on the Attitude-Structure Theory, arousal, flow, and positive affect are selected as antecedents of intention to purchase. Because it has been criticized to have investigated only one of the two dimensions of consumer response in prior studies, our research model has been built so as to incorporate both dimensions. Based on the Attitude-Structure Theory, we hypothesized the path of consumers' emotional responses to a virtual reality advertisement: (H1) Arousal by the virtual reality advertisement increases flow; (H2) Flow increases positive affect; and (H3) Positive affect increases intension to purchase. In addition, we hypothesized the path of consumers' rational responses to the virtual reality advertisement based on the Information Processing Theory: (H4) Increased product knowledge through the virtual reality advertisement decreases perceived risk; and (H5) Perceived risk decreases intension to purchase. Based on literature of flow, we additionally hypothesized the relationship between flow and product knowledge: (H6) Flow increases product knowledge. To test the hypotheses, we conducted a free simulation experiment [Fromkin and Streufert, 1976] with 300 people. Subjects were asked to use the virtual reality advertisement of a cellular phone on the Internet and then answer questions about the variables. To check whether subjects fully experienced the virtual reality advertisement, they were asked to answer a quiz about the virtual reality advertisement itself. Responses of 26 subjects were dropped because of their incomplete answers. Responses of 274 subjects were used to test the hypotheses. It was found that all of six hypotheses are accepted. In addition, we found that consumers' emotional response has stronger impact on their intention to purchase than their rational response does. This study sheds much light into practical implications for both IS researchers and managers. First of all, while most of previous research has analyzed only one of the customers' rational and emotional responses, we theoretically incorporated and empirically examined both of the two sides. Second, we empirically showed that mediators such as arousal, flow, positive affect, product knowledge, and perceived risk play an important role between virtual reality advertisement and customer's intention to purchase. In addition, the findings of this study can provide a basis of practical strategies for managers. It was found that consumers' emotional response is stronger than their rational response. This result indicates that advertisements using virtual reality should focus on the emotional side, and that virtual reality can be served as an appropriate advertisement tool for fancy products that require their online advertisements to give an impetus to customers' emotion. Finally, even if this study examined the effects of virtual reality advertisement of cellular phone, its findings could be applied to other products that are suited for virtual experience. However, this research has some limitations. We were unable to control different kinds of consumers and different attributes of products on consumers' intention to purchase. It is, therefore, deemed important for future research to control the consumer and product types for more reliable results. In addition to the consumer and product attributes, other variables could affect consumers' intention to purchase. Thus, the future research needs to find ways t control other variables.

• 한국간호교육학회지
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• 제25권2호
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• pp.186-196
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• 2019

Purpose: This study was conducted to identify types of peer feedback in nursing skills performance training and to investigate emotional response, perceived quality of feedback and self-efficacy for learning from peer feedback. Methods: A total of 110 second-year nursing students attending fundamentals of nursing classes at a university participated in 2017. Participants received peer feedback from one selected colleague who observed their skills performance, and completed a questionnaire. Contents of peer feedback video recordings were transcribed and classified into seven types of feedback. Data were analyzed using an independent t-test, ANOVA and Pearson correlation. Results: Participants mostly received feedback of 'correcting' and 'providing information.' Positive emotional responses from peer feedback were above medium, and negative emotional responses were low. The perceived quality of peer feedback was moderate and self-efficacy for learning was high. Quality of feedback correlated with negative emotional response (r=-.24, p=.014), and self-efficacy for learning (r=.35, p<.001). Self-efficacy for learning correlated with intimacy with peers (r=.24, p=.011) and positive emotional response (r=.21, p=.028). Conclusion: The results suggest that peer feedback in skill training could be used in terms of emotional response and self-efficacy for learning.

• International Journal of Advanced Culture Technology
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• 제9권1호
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• pp.79-88
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• 2021

This study was a cross-sectional descriptive investigative study to analyze the effects of sub-factors of cognitive emotional control on life goals. The subjects of the study were 184 people in their 20s, and they were collected online from December 2020 to January 5, 2021 using structured cognitive control capabilities and life goal questionnaires. The collected data were performed using SPSS 18.0 for Frequency, Independent Sample t-test, Pearson correction analysis, Simple regression analysis, and Multiple regression analysis. According to the study, men had both life-oriented and achievement-oriented life goals higher than women. Among the sub-factors of cognitive emotional control (positive focus change, positive reassessment, expansion of view, re-accept plan, acceptance, rumination, self-criticism, others criticism, and destruction) were male and female were higher in self-criticism. Factors affecting life-oriented life goals have been shown to be expanding views, re-accepting plans, and criticizing others, while positive re-evaluation negatively affects achievement-oriented life goals. Based on these results, life-oriented life-goals tend to exhibit adaptive responses to expand views and revise plans and maladaptive responses to blame others, while achievement-oriented life-goals have the ability to positively reassess situations, modify plans and accept negative reactions.

• 디지털산업정보학회논문지
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• 제5권4호
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• pp.169-177
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• 2009

In come cases, people differently respond on the same joke or thoughtless behavior - sometimes like it and laugh, another time feel annoyed or angry. This fact is explained that experiences which we had in the past are remembered by emotional memory, so they cause different responses. When people face similar situation or feel similar emotion, they evoke the emotion experienced in the past and the emotional memory affects current emotion. This paper suggested the mechanism of the emotional memory using SOM through the similarity between the emotional memory and SOM learning algorithm. It was assumed that the mechanism of the emotional memory has also the characteristics of association memory, long-term memory and short-term memory in its process of remembering emotional experience, which are known as the characteristics of the process of remembering factual experience. And then these characteristics were applied. The mechanism of the emotional memory designed like this was applied to toy hammer game and I measured the change in the power of toy hammer caused by differently responding on the same stimulus. The mechanism of the emotional memory suggest in above is expected to apply to the fields of game, robot engineering, because the mechanism can express various emotions on the same stimulus.

• 감성과학
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• 제20권4호
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• pp.31-40
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• 2017

본 연구는 한류 콘텐츠 소비 시 나타나는 한국, 일본, 미국의 감정 반응을 통해 국가별 소비 성향을 규명하는 데 목적이 있다. 방대해진 텍스트 리뷰를 이용한 감정 분석 연구가 주목받고 있고, 콘텐츠 수요에 환경적 특성이 주요한 영향을 주고 있음에도, 국가별 감정 반응 차이에 대한 연구는 거의 이루어지지 않고 있다. 따라서 본 연구에서는, Russell(1980)이 제시한 감정 원형 모델을 사용하여 한국형 판타지 멜로드라마 <도깨비>에 대한 국가별 감정 단어의 변수 중요도 및 단어 간 연관을 비교하였다. 우선, 2017년 1월 26일부터 3월 26일까지 2달간의 텍스트 리뷰를 수집하였다. 둘째, 수집한 데이터로부터 Russell의 감정 모델에 해당하는 감정 단어를 선별하였다. 셋째, 선별한 데이터에 랜덤 포레스트를 적용하여 변수 중요도를 평가하였다. 넷째, Russell 축에 따른 주요 감정 단어 간 연관성을 비교하였다. 마지막으로 테스트 데이터를 이용하여 학습된 모델의 정확성을 측정하였다. 실험 결과, 국가별 감정 단어의 변수 중요도에서 한국과 미국은 Happy, 일본은 Pleased가 가장 중요한 변수로 나타남을 확인하였다. 단어 간 연관성에서 한국은 수동적 불쾌감, 미국과 일본은 수동적 쾌감이 강하게 나타나는 경향이 있음을 확인하였다. 본 연구를 통해, 한류 콘텐츠에 대한 국가별 감정 반응 차이를 확인할 수 있을 것으로 기대한다.

• 국제학술발표논문집
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• The 9th International Conference on Construction Engineering and Project Management
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• pp.1245-1246
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• 2022

Walkability is an indicator of how much pedestrians are willing to walk and how well a walking environment is created. As walking can promote pedestrians' mental and physical health, there has been increasing focus on improving walkability in different ways. Thus, plenty of research has been undertaken to measure walkability. When measuring walkability, there are many objective and subjective variables. Subjective variables include a feeling of safety, pleasure, or comfort, which can significantly affect perceived walkability. However, these subjective factors are difficult to measure by making the walkability index more reliant on objective and physical factors. Because many subjective variables are associated with human emotional states, understanding pedestrians' emotional states provides an opportunity to measure the subjective walkability variables more quantitatively. Pedestrians' emotions can be examined through surveys, but there are social and economic difficulties involved when conducting surveys. Recently, an increasing number of studies have employed physiological data to measure pedestrians' stress responses when navigating unpleasant environmental barriers on their walking paths. However, studies investigating the emotional states of pedestrians in the walking environment, including assessing their positive emotions felt, such as pleasure, have rarely been conducted. Using wearable devices, this study examined the various emotional states of pedestrians affected by the walking environment. Specifically, this study aimed to demonstrate the feasibility of monitoring biometric data, such as electrodermal activity (EDA) and heart rate variability (HRV), using wearable devices as an indicator of pedestrians' emotional states-both pleasant-unpleasant and aroused-relaxed states. To this end, various walking environments with different characteristics were set up to collect and analyze the pedestrians' biometric data. Subsequently, the subjects wearing the wearable devices were allowed to walk on the experimental paths as usual. After the experiment, the valence (i.e., pleasant or unpleasant) and arousal (i.e., activated or relaxed) scale of the pedestrians was identified through a bipolar dimension survey. The survey results were compared with many potentially relevant EDA and HRV signal features. The research results revealed the potential for physiological responses to indicate the pedestrians' emotional states, but further investigation is warranted. The research results were expected to provide a method to measure the subjective factors of walkability by measuring emotions and monitoring pedestrians' positive or negative feelings when walking to improve the walking environment. However, due to the lack of samples and other internal and external factors influencing emotions (which need to be studied further), it cannot be comprehensively concluded that the pedestrians' emotional states were affected by the walking environment.

• Asia Marketing Journal
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• 제15권4호
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• pp.103-129
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• 2014

Differentiated positioning becomes increasingly difficult when brand salience weakens. Also, the daily increase in new media use and information load has led to a social climate that regards advertising stimuli as spamming. For these reasons, the focus of advertisement-related communication is shifting from persuading consumers through the direct delivery of information to an emphasis on appealing to their emotions using matching stimuli to enhance persuasion effects. Recently, both academia and industry have increasingly shown an interest in storytelling methods that can generate positive emotional responses and attitude changes by arousing consumers' narrative processing. The purpose of storytelling is to elicit consumers' emotional experience to meet the objectives of advertisement producers. Therefore, the most important requirement for storytelling in advertising is that it evokes consumers' sympathy for the main character in the advertisement. This does not involve advertisements directly persuading consumers, but rather, consumers themselves finding an answer through the advertisement's story. Thus, consumers have an indirect experience regarding the product features and usage through empathy with the advertisement's main character. In this study, we took the results of a precedent study as the starting point, according to which consumers' emotional response can be altered depending on the storytelling methods adopted for storytelling ads. Previous studies have reported that drama-type and vignette-type storytelling methods have a considerably different impact on the emotional responses of advertising audiences, due to their different structural characteristics. Thus, this study aims to verify that emotional response aroused by different types of advertisement storytelling (drama ads vs. vignette ads) can be controlled by the socio-psychological gender difference of advertising audiences and that the interaction effects between the socio-psychological gender differences of the audience and the gender stereotype of emotions to which advertisements appeal can exert an influence on emotional responses to types of storytelling in advertising. To achieve this, an experiment was conducted employing a between-group design consisting of 2 (storytelling type: drama ads vs. vignette ads) × 2 (socio-psychological gender of the audience: masculinity vs. femininity) × 2 (advertising appeal emotion type: male stereotype emotion vs. female stereotype emotion). The experiment revealed that the femininity group displayed a strong and consistent empathy for drama ads regardless of whether the ads appealed to masculine or feminine emotions, whereas the masculinity group displayed a stronger empathy for drama ads appealing to the emotional types matching its own gender as well as for vignette ads. The theoretical contribution of this study is significant in that it sheds light on the controllability of the audiences' emotional responses to advertisement storytelling depending on their socio-psychological gender and gender stereotype of emotions appealed to through advertising. Specifically, its considerable practical contribution consists in easing unnecessary creative constraints by comprehensively analyzing essential advertising strategic factors such as the target consumers' gender and the objective of the advertisement, in contrast to the oversimplified view of previous studies that considered emotional responses to storytelling ads were determined by the different types of production techniques used. This study revealed that emotional response to advertisement storytelling varies depending on the target gender of and emotion type appealed to by the advertisement. This suggests that an understanding of the targeted gender is necessary prior to producing an advertisement and that in deciding on an advertisement storytelling type, strategic attention should be directed to the advertisement's appeal concept or emotion type. Thus, it is safe to use drama-type storytelling that expresses masculine emotions (ex. fun, happy, encouraged) when the advertisement target, like Bacchus, includes both men and women. For brands and advertisements targeting only women (ex. female clothes), it is more effective to use a drama-type storytelling method that expresses feminine emotions (lovely, romantic, sad). The drama method can be still more effective than the vignette when women are the main target and a masculine concept-based creative is to be produced. However, when male consumers are targeted and the brand concept or advertisement concept is focused on feminine emotions (ex. romantic), vignette ads can more effectively induce empathy than drama ads.

• 한국정보통신학회논문지
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• 제22권6호
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• pp.881-887
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• 2018

스마트폰을 활용한 다양한 서비스들이 제공되면서 결제분야에서도 모바일을 이용한 다양한 서비스가 이루어지고 있다. 모바일 결제서비스는 금전적인 부분과 밀접한 관련이 있기 때문에 시스템의 여러 특성들이 사용 신뢰에 밀접한 영향을 끼치게 된다. 본 연구에서는 모바일 결제서비스의 시스템 중 중요 요인으로 접근성, 호환성, 보안성을 선정하였다. 이러한 시스템적 요인들이 사용자의 인지적 신뢰 및 긍정 감정 및 만족도와 같은 감성반응에 어떤 영향을 끼치는지 살펴보고자 한다. 이를 위해, 모바일 결제시스템 사용자를 대상으로 설문을 실시하였으며, 분석은 SPSS 23과 SmartPLS 2.0을 이용하였다. 분석 결과 모든 시스템 요인들이 인지적 신뢰 및 감성반응에 영향을 끼치는 것으로 나타났다. 하지만 감성 반응들 간의 관계를 살펴보면, 긍정감정은 만족도에 영향을 미치지 않는 것으로 나타났다.

• 한국조리학회지
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• 제16권1호
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• pp.165-179
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• 2010

본 연구의 목적은 지역 특산물 먹거리 타운 식당의 물리적 환경의 중요성을 연구하고, 물리적 환경이 고객의 감정과 고객 만족에 미치는 영향을 연구하여 물리적 환경의 개선점과 시사점을 제시하기 위함이다. 설문지는 2009년 6월 21일부터 7월 10일까지 20일에 걸쳐 이루어졌으며, 총 300부가 배포되었고, 수거된 설문지는 273부이었으며, 불성실하게 응답한 것을 제외한 후 258부(86.0%)의 설문지가 최종 분석에 사용되었다. 연구 결과, 첫째, 물리적 환경 요인인 편의성, 매력성, 청결성, 오락성 중 매력성을 제외한 오락성, 청결성, 편의성이 높을수록 고객의 감정 반응은 높아지는 것으로 나타났다. 둘째, 물리적 환경 요인인 편의성, 매력성, 청결성, 오락성 중 매력성을 제외한 오락성, 청결성, 편의성이 높을수록 고객 만족은 높아지는 것으로 나타났다. 셋째, 고객의 감정적 반응은 지역 특산물 먹거리 타운 식당에 대한 고객 만족에 영향을 미치는 것을 나타났다.

• 한국심리학회지 : 문화 및 사회문제
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• 제17권4호
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• pp.485-503
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• 2011

테러 위험에 대한 일반인의 행동반응에 영향을 주는 심리요인들을 밝히기 위하여 인지, 사회, 정서요인들을 포함하는 구조모형을 개발하고자 하였다. 본 연구의 모형에는 테러가 발생할 가능성, 테러 여파가 주는 심각성, 그리고 테러의 여파에 대해 개인이 대처할 수 있다는 지각(인지요인)과, 테러에 대응하는 정부기관에 대한 신뢰(사회요인), 그리고 테러에 대한 두려움과 걱정(정서요인), 개인적으로 준비하거나 정보를 검색 또는 분석하고 관계망을 점검하는 행동(행동반응)에 대한 측정이 포함되었다. 주된 결과는 인지와 사회요인이 정서요인에 영향을 주며 정서요인은 행동반응에 영향을 준다는 것이다. 특히 인지요인 중 지각된 대처는 행동반응에 직·간접 영향을 주는 요인으로서, 테러에 대한 개인적 대비를 향상시키기 위해서는 지각된 대처가 중요하다는 것을 논의하였다.