• 제목/요약/키워드: Mobile Information Behavior

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운전중 텔레매틱스 장치 사용이 운전행동에 미치는 영향 (The effect of operating telematics device in vehicle on driver behaviors)

  • 신용균;류준범
    • 대한교통학회지
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    • 제26권6호
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    • pp.39-47
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    • 2008
  • 최근 IT 기술의 비약적인 발전으로 위성 및 지상파 DMB 서비스가 본격적으로 시작되면서 운전 중 DMB를 시청하거나 문자나 동영상으로 제공되는 교통정보를 시청하기 위해 차량 내 DMB를 설치하는 사례가 급속하게 증가하고 있다. 그러나 운전중 DMB 시청은 운전중 음식섭취, 라디오 조작, 휴대폰 사용 등과 유사하게 운전자의 시지 각 및 인지적 주의를 분산시켜 안전운전에 방해를 초래할 것이다. 하지만 이와 관련한 국내외의 실증적인 연구가 부족할 뿐만 아니라 운전행동에 있어서 구체적으로 어떻게 영향을 주는지도 밝혀지지 않았다. 따라서 본 연구에서는 국내 운전자들을 대상으로 운전 중 DMB 시청이 운전행동에 미치는 영향을 살펴보기 위하여 차량시뮬레이터를 이용한 실험연구를 실시하였다. 실험설계는 피험자내 실험설계를 하였으며 실험참여자들은 두 조건(즉, 운전 중 DMB를 시청하지 않는 조건과 DMB를 시청하는 조건) 모두에서 주행실험을 수행하였다. 연구결과, 운전 중 DMB를 시청하는 조건이 시청하지 않는 조건에 비해서 목적지에 도달하는 소요시간이 더 걸렸으며 가속 및 감속 페달을 급하게 조작하였을 뿐만 아니라 조향휠 편차가 크게 나타나 주행안전성을 떨어뜨리는 것으로 나타났다. 부가적으로, DMB 조작 조건(즉, 키패드 조건, 터치패드 조건, 리모컨 조건)에 따른 운전행동 차이도 살펴보았다. 마지막으로 본 연구의 제한점 및 함의에 대하여 논의하였다.

국민건강영양조사 구강검사 개요 (Data resource profile: oral examination of the Korea National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey)

  • 우경지;이혜린;김윤정;김혜진;박덕영;김진범;오경원;최연희
    • Journal of Korean Academy of Oral Health
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    • 제42권4호
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    • pp.101-108
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    • 2018
  • Objectives: The Korea National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (KNHANES) is a national surveillance system that has been assessing the health and nutritional status of Koreans since 1998. Based on the National Health Promotion Act, the surveys have been conducted by the Korea Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (KCDC). Methods: An oral examination as part of The National Health and Nutrition Examination was proposed to calculate the sample design and survey participation. The surveying system was presented by classifying the measurement environment, screening, and survey items by year, and the merits and limitations of using the data were suggested by examining the status of survey quality management and the process of disclosing raw data. Results: This nationally representative cross-sectional survey samples approximately 10,000 individuals each year and collects information on oral examinations and oral health interviews. Data for the oral health component of KNHANES was obtained to assess the oral health status of Koreans and determine the prevalence of dental caries and periodontitis. The oral health data quality control of KNHANES was composed of three parts: "Education Program" and "Field Training Program" for quality control of oral health examiners (dentists) by the professional academy, and "Data management" by the KCDC. After completion of the three-step data check, the indicators of dental caries, periodontal disease, and oral health behavior were published in the National Health Statistics. Conclusions: To achieve the goals of oral health indicators, we will continue to monitor so that we can use it as basic data for oral policies and carry out various linkage analyses related to oral diseases.

초기 청소년의 자아존중감과 우울감이 삶의 만족도에 미치는 영향 : 행동적 공격성의 매개효과 (The Effect of Results of Early Youth's Self-Esteem and Depression is Life Satisfaction : Aggression Behavior Media Effect)

  • 서인선;조옥선;엄순옥
    • 융합정보논문지
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    • 제9권6호
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    • pp.153-163
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    • 2019
  • 본 연구의 목적은 초기 청소년의 삶의 만족도에 미치는 영향과 그 과정에서 행동적 공격성의 매개효과를 검증하는데 있다. 이를 위해 서울지역의 강남과 강북 및 경기도 성남시에 소재한 초등학교 일부를 선택했으며, 그 중에 초등학교 4-6학년 재학생 중인 초기 청소년 290명을 표본으로 추출하여 구조방정식을 실행하였다. 연구결과를 살펴보면 첫째, 초기 청소년의 개인요인인 자아존중감은 삶의 만족도에 정(+)적인 영향을 미치며, 행동적 공격성에는 부(-)적인 영향을 미치는 것으로 나타났다. 둘째, 우울감은 삶의 만족도에 부(-)적인 영향을 미치며, 행동적 공격성에는 영향을 미치지 않는 것으로 나타났다. 셋째, 초기 청소년의 행동적 공격성에는 삶의 만족도에 부(-)적인 영향을 미치며, 자아존중감과 삶의 만족도 사이에 부분매개효과가 있는 것으로 나타났다. 하지만 우울감과 삶의 만족도 사이에서는 매개효과가 없는 것으로 나타났다. 이상의 연구결과를 바탕으로 초기 청소년의 삶의 만족도를 높여주고, 행동적 공격성을 낮추기 위한 프로그램의 개발과 적용을 제시하였다.

V2N 네트워크 지연 환경에서 저속 이동 로봇 원격주행 모의실험을 통한 성능 분석 (Analysis of Remote Driving Simulation Performance for Low-speed Mobile Robot under V2N Network Delay Environment)

  • 송유승;민경욱;최정단
    • 한국ITS학회 논문지
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    • 제21권3호
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    • pp.18-29
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    • 2022
  • 국내외적으로 V2X 통신기술을 접목한 C-ITS 사업 및 자율주행 고도화 실증연구가 활발히 진행되고 있다. 실증 초기 1단계에서는 경고메시지, 차량주행정보, 교통정보 등의 방송서비스에서 점차 실시간성을 요구하는 군집주행, 원격주행, 인식정보공유 등의 고도화된 서비스로 발전하고 있다. 또한, 네트워크 서비스 고도화를 위해 전송속도와 지연시간 등을 개선하기 위한 기술개발이 여러모로 진행되고 있다. 본 논문에서는 3GPP 표준 기반 C-V2X 기술을 바탕으로 안정적인 드로이드 형태의 저속 로봇의 원격주행 서비스 제공을 위해 네트워크 지연시간 측면에서 요구사항을 분석하였다. 원격주행 성능평가를 위해 오퍼레이터를 포함한 시스템 모델링을 통한 시뮬레이션을 수행하였고, 해당 실험 조건에서 90% 이상의 성능 만족을 위해 30ms 이내의 코어 및 액세스 네트워크 지연시간이 요구된다는 것을 알 수 있었다.

인기도 기반의 온라인 추천 뉴스 기사와 전문 편집인 기반의 지면 뉴스 기사의 유사성과 중요도 비교 (Comparisons of Popularity- and Expert-Based News Recommendations: Similarities and Importance)

  • 서길수;이성원;서응교;강혜빈;이승원;이은곤
    • Asia pacific journal of information systems
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    • 제24권2호
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    • pp.191-210
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    • 2014
  • As mobile devices that can be connected to the Internet have spread and networking has become possible whenever/wherever, the Internet has become central in the dissemination and consumption of news. Accordingly, the ways news is gathered, disseminated, and consumed have changed greatly. In the traditional news media such as magazines and newspapers, expert editors determined what events were worthy of deploying their staffs or freelancers to cover and what stories from newswires or other sources would be printed. Furthermore, they determined how these stories would be displayed in their publications in terms of page placement, space allocation, type sizes, photographs, and other graphic elements. In turn, readers-news consumers-judged the importance of news not only by its subject and content, but also through subsidiary information such as its location and how it was displayed. Their judgments reflected their acceptance of an assumption that these expert editors had the knowledge and ability not only to serve as gatekeepers in determining what news was valuable and important but also how to rank its value and importance. As such, news assembled, dispensed, and consumed in this manner can be said to be expert-based recommended news. However, in the era of Internet news, the role of expert editors as gatekeepers has been greatly diminished. Many Internet news sites offer a huge volume of news on diverse topics from many media companies, thereby eliminating in many cases the gatekeeper role of expert editors. One result has been to turn news users from passive receptacles into activists who search for news that reflects their interests or tastes. To solve the problem of an overload of information and enhance the efficiency of news users' searches, Internet news sites have introduced numerous recommendation techniques. Recommendations based on popularity constitute one of the most frequently used of these techniques. This popularity-based approach shows a list of those news items that have been read and shared by many people, based on users' behavior such as clicks, evaluations, and sharing. "most-viewed list," "most-replied list," and "real-time issue" found on news sites belong to this system. Given that collective intelligence serves as the premise of these popularity-based recommendations, popularity-based news recommendations would be considered highly important because stories that have been read and shared by many people are presumably more likely to be better than those preferred by only a few people. However, these recommendations may reflect a popularity bias because stories judged likely to be more popular have been placed where they will be most noticeable. As a result, such stories are more likely to be continuously exposed and included in popularity-based recommended news lists. Popular news stories cannot be said to be necessarily those that are most important to readers. Given that many people use popularity-based recommended news and that the popularity-based recommendation approach greatly affects patterns of news use, a review of whether popularity-based news recommendations actually reflect important news can be said to be an indispensable procedure. Therefore, in this study, popularity-based news recommendations of an Internet news portal was compared with top placements of news in printed newspapers, and news users' judgments of which stories were personally and socially important were analyzed. The study was conducted in two stages. In the first stage, content analyses were used to compare the content of the popularity-based news recommendations of an Internet news site with those of the expert-based news recommendations of printed newspapers. Five days of news stories were collected. "most-viewed list" of the Naver portal site were used as the popularity-based recommendations; the expert-based recommendations were represented by the top pieces of news from five major daily newspapers-the Chosun Ilbo, the JoongAng Ilbo, the Dong-A Daily News, the Hankyoreh Shinmun, and the Kyunghyang Shinmun. In the second stage, along with the news stories collected in the first stage, some Internet news stories and some news stories from printed newspapers that the Internet and the newspapers did not have in common were randomly extracted and used in online questionnaire surveys that asked the importance of these selected news stories. According to our analysis, only 10.81% of the popularity-based news recommendations were similar in content with the expert-based news judgments. Therefore, the content of popularity-based news recommendations appears to be quite different from the content of expert-based recommendations. The differences in importance between these two groups of news stories were analyzed, and the results indicated that whereas the two groups did not differ significantly in their recommendations of stories of personal importance, the expert-based recommendations ranked higher in social importance. This study has importance for theory in its examination of popularity-based news recommendations from the two theoretical viewpoints of collective intelligence and popularity bias and by its use of both qualitative (content analysis) and quantitative methods (questionnaires). It also sheds light on the differences in the role of media channels that fulfill an agenda-setting function and Internet news sites that treat news from the viewpoint of markets.

네트워크 관점에서 바라본 브랜드 이미지 측정에 대한 탐색적 연구 (An Exploratory Study on Measuring Brand Image from a Network Perspective)

  • 정상윤;장정아;노상규
    • 한국전자거래학회지
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    • 제25권4호
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    • pp.33-60
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    • 2020
  • 스마트폰의 등장으로 우리는 언제 어디서나 쇼핑이 가능하고, 소셜미디어로 연결된 광범위한 인적 네트워크와 웹사이트를 통해 손쉽게 다양한 정보와 전문가들의 의견을 살펴볼 수 있게 되었다. 제한된 정보 창구로 인해 브랜드 인지도에 의존하였던 과거와는 다르게, 다양한 창구를 통해 제품과 서비스에 대한 정보를 손쉽게 얻을 수 있는 시대가 도래한 것이다. 그 결과, 디지털 시대의 소비자들은 과거와는 다르게 기업의 일방적인 의도대로 브랜드 이미지를 수용하는 것에서 벗어나, 소비자들 간의 소통을 통해 브랜드 이미지의 형성에 영향을 미칠 정도로 그 영향력이 증대되었다. 소비자들은 더 이상은 그 브랜드를 안다고 해서 혹은 그 브랜드가 유명하다고 해서 바로 구매를 하지 않는다. 따라서, 이렇게 변화한 시대에 전통적인 브랜드 측정 방법의 유효성에 대해 의문을 제시하게 되었다. 그러나 아직까지 변화한 사회환경을 반영한 측정 방법은 논의된 바가 없으며, 실무자들은 현재까지 전통적인 측정 방법을 이용해 오고 있는 것이 현실이다. 따라서 본 연구에서는 기존 브랜드의 정의와 측정방법에 대해 한번 살펴보고, 디지털 시대에 보다 적합하면서 직접적인 측정 방법을 제안하고자 한다. 본 연구에서 제안하는 측정 방법은 "친구를 보면 그 사람을 알 수 있다"는 속담처럼, 함께 구매되는 상품의 브랜드를 통해 해당 브랜드의 진정한 위치와 이미지를 파악하는 방법이다. 이를 위해 온라인 커머스 사이트인 아마존에서 함께 구매되는 화장품 데이터를 브랜드 단위의 네트워크로 구축하고, 이를 토대로 브랜드 이미지를 평가하는 방법을 제시하였다. 기존에는 소비자의 인식 혹은 인지적인 측면을 설문조사로 파악하거나 기업의 재무상태를 통해 브랜드를 측정했던 과거와는 달리, 본 연구에서 제시하는 방법은 실질적인 구매 데이터를 통해 구축된 제품의 네트워크를 분석함으로써 관련 브랜드 지표와 실질적인 구매 행동 간의 간극을 좁히고자 한 데에 의의가 있다. 또한 연결된 세상의 네트워크 관점을 바탕으로 전통적인 브랜드 개념을 보다 확장하였으며, 이를 통해 보다 현실에 적합한 측정도구를 제시하였다는 것에 의의가 있다.

소셜 미디어에서 정보공유를 위한 애착의 매개역할: 사회적 자본이론 관점 (Mediating Roles of Attachment for Information Sharing in Social Media: Social Capital Theory Perspective)

  • 정남호;한희정;구철모
    • Asia pacific journal of information systems
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    • 제22권4호
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    • pp.101-123
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    • 2012
  • Currently, Social Media, it has widely a renown keyword and its related social trends and businesses have been fastly applied into various contexts. Social media has become an important research area for scholars interested in online technologies and cyber space and their social impacts. Social media is not only including web-based services but also mobile-based application services that allow people to share various style information and knowledge through online connection. Social media users have tendency to common identity- and bond-attachment through interactions such as 'thumbs up', 'reply note', 'forwarding', which may have driven from various factors and may result in delivering information, sharing knowledge, and specific experiences et al. Even further, almost of all social media sites provide and connect unknown strangers depending on shared interests, political views, or enjoyable activities, and other stuffs incorporating the creation of contents, which provides benefits to users. As fast developing digital devices including smartphone, tablet PC, internet based blogging, and photo and video clips, scholars desperately have began to study regarding diverse issues connecting human beings' motivations and the behavioral results which may be articulated by the format of antecedents as well as consequences related to contents that people create via social media. Social media such as Facebook, Twitter, or Cyworld users are more and more getting close each other and build up their relationships by a different style. In this sense, people use social media as tools for maintain pre-existing network, creating new people socially, and at the same time, explicitly find some business opportunities using personal and unlimited public networks. In terms of theory in explaining this phenomenon, social capital is a concept that describes the benefits one receives from one's relationship with others. Thereby, social media use is closely related to the form and connected of people, which is a bridge that can be able to achieve informational benefits of a heterogeneous network of people and common identity- and bonding-attachment which emphasizes emotional benefits from community members or friend group. Social capital would be resources accumulated through the relationships among people, which can be considered as an investment in social relations with expected returns and may achieve benefits from the greater access to and use of resources embedded in social networks. Social media using for their social capital has vastly been adopted in a cyber world, however, there has been little explaining the phenomenon theoretically how people may take advantages or opportunities through interaction among people, why people may interactively give willingness to help or their answers. The individual consciously express themselves in an online space, so called, common identity- or bonding-attachments. Common-identity attachment is the focus of the weak ties, which are loose connections between individuals who may provide useful information or new perspectives for one another but typically not emotional support, whereas common-bonding attachment is explained that between individuals in tightly-knit, emotionally close relationship such as family and close friends. The common identify- and bonding-attachment are mainly studying on-offline setting, which individual convey an impression to others that are expressed to own interest to others. Thus, individuals expect to meet other people and are trying to behave self-presentation engaging in opposite partners accordingly. As developing social media, individuals are motivated to disclose self-disclosures of open and honest using diverse cues such as verbal and nonverbal and pictorial and video files to their friends as well as passing strangers. Social media context, common identity- and bond-attachment for self-presentation seems different compared with face-to-face context. In the realm of social media, social users look for self-impression by posting text messages, pictures, video files. Under the digital environments, people interact to work, shop, learn, entertain, and be played. Social media provides increasingly the kinds of intention and behavior in online. Typically, identity and bond social capital through self-presentation is the intentional and tangible component of identity. At social media, people try to engage in others via a desired impression, which can maintain through performing coherent and complementary communications including displaying signs, symbols, brands made of digital stuffs(information, interest, pictures, etc,). In marketing area, consumers traditionally show common-identity as they select clothes, hairstyles, automobiles, logos, and so on, to impress others in any given context in a shopping mall or opera. To examine these social capital and attachment, we combined a social capital theory with an attachment theory into our research model. Our research model focuses on the common identity- and bond-attachment how they are formulated through social capitals: cognitive capital, structural capital, relational capital, and individual characteristics. Thus, we examined that individual online kindness, self-rated expertise, and social relation influence to build common identity- and bond-attachment, and the attachment effects make an impact on both the willingness to help, however, common bond seems not to show directly impact on information sharing. As a result, we discover that the social capital and attachment theories are mainly applicable to the context of social media and usage in the individual networks. We collected sample data of 256 who are using social media such as Facebook, Twitter, and Cyworld and analyzed the suggested hypotheses through the Structural Equation Model by AMOS. This study analyzes the direct and indirect relationship between the social network service usage and outcomes. Antecedents of kindness, confidence of knowledge, social relations are significantly affected to the mediators common identity-and bond attachments, however, interestingly, network externality does not impact, which we assumed that a size of network was a negative because group members would not significantly contribute if the members do not intend to actively interact with each other. The mediating variables had a positive effect on toward willingness to help. Further, common identity attachment has stronger significant on shared information.

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온라인 쇼핑에서 웹루밍으로의 쇼핑전환 의도에 영향을 미치는 요인에 대한 연구 (An Empirical Study on Influencing Factors of Switching Intention from Online Shopping to Webrooming)

  • 최현승;양성병
    • 지능정보연구
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    • 제22권1호
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    • pp.19-41
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    • 2016
  • 정보통신기술의 발전과 모바일 기기 사용의 생활화로 인해 최근 많은 소비자들이 멀티채널 쇼핑(multi-channel shopping)이라는 새로운 쇼핑 행태를 보이고 있다. 온라인 쇼핑이 등장한 이후, 온라인 매장에서 상품을 구매하기 전 오프라인 매장에서 상품을 먼저 확인하는 쇼루밍(showrooming) 형태의 멀티채널 쇼핑이 한 때 대세를 이루었으나, 최근에는 스마트폰, 태블릿 PC, 스마트워치 등 스마트 기기 사용의 폭발적 증가와 옴니채널(omni-channel) 전략으로 대표되는 오프라인 채널의 대대적 반격으로 인해 오프라인 매장에서 상품을 구매하기 전 온라인(혹은 모바일)으로 정보를 먼저 확인하는 웹루밍(webrooming) 현상이 도드라지게 나타나 온라인 소매업자를 위협하고 있다. 이러한 상황에서 소비자의 온라인 쇼핑에서 웹루밍으로의 쇼핑전환 의도에 영향을 미치는 요인을 분석하는 것이 의미가 있음에도 불구하고, 기존 대부분의 선행연구는 싱글채널(single-channel) 혹은 멀티채널 쇼핑 자체에만 초점을 맞추고 있다. 이에, 본 연구에서는 밀고-당기기-이주이론(push-pull-mooring theory)을 바탕으로 소비자의 온라인 채널 쇼핑이 웹루밍 형태의 쇼핑으로 전환되는 과정을 상품정보 탐색과 구매행위로 각각 구분하여 그 영향을 실증하였다. 연구모형을 검증하기 위하여, 웹루밍 경험이 있는 수도권 소재 대학생을 대상으로 280개의 설문 표본을 수집하였다. 본 연구의 결과는 현업 마케팅 종사자에게 멀티채널 소비자들을 관리하는 데 있어 실무적인 시사점을 제공함과 동시에, 향후 다양한 형태의 멀티채널 쇼핑전환 연구로의 확장에 기여할 수 있을 것으로 기대한다.

소비가치와 소비자의 인지욕구가 온라인 쇼핑 웹사이트에 대한 신뢰성을 매개로 만족도에 미치는 영향 (The Effect of Consumption Value and Consumers' Need for Cognition on Satisfaction through the Mediating Role of Trust in Online Shopping Websites)

  • 이윤선
    • 벤처혁신연구
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    • 제6권4호
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    • pp.99-111
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    • 2023
  • 본 연구는 온라인 쇼핑 웹사이트에 대한 소비자의 만족도가 과거와는 다른 현상으로 변화됨을 확인하고자 한다. 즉, 팬데믹 이후 전 세계적으로 이커머스(e-commerce)의 이용이 확대되고, 모바일커머스, 소셜커머스 등 다양한 형태의 커머스가 형성화되는 상황에서, 소비자의 정보처리과정과 의사결정과정은 소비자가 지각하는 소비가치와 개인적 특성에 따라 새로운 환경에 의해 소비자의 지각된 동기수준에 기반하여 변화된 행동을 살펴보는데 연구의 의의가 있다. 즉, 소비가치와 소비자의 인지욕구가 웹사이트에 대한 신뢰성의 매개역할로 온라인 웹사이트의 만족도에 미치는 영향에 대해 조사하고자 한다. 가설 1을 검증한 결과 웹사이트에 대한 소비자의 감각적 가치뿐 아니라 실용적 가치는 웹사이트의 만족도에 긍정적인 영향력을 미치며, 특히 실용적 가치가 상대적으로 감각적 가치보다 더 큰 영향력을 나타냈다. 다만, 소비자의 인지욕구와 만족도 간에는 부(-)의 관계를 단측검증 하에 유의한 수준으로 나타났다. 가설 2에서는 2-1인 소비가치 중 실용적 가치 만이 웹사이트에 대한 신뢰성을 매개로 만족도에 긍정적인 영향을 나타냈다. 웹사이트의 만족도에 소비가치 중 실용적 가치가 중요한 요인임을 확인할 수 있었다. 이전 연구결과와는 다르게 소비가치가 감각, 감정에 기반하는 가치뿐 아니라 실용적 소비가치가 더 큰 영향력을 가졌다는 점이 본 연구의 의의라 하겠다. 따라서 소비자가 이용하는 웹사이트의 신뢰성을 기반으로 매개역할을 한다면 실용적 가치와 인지욕구가 만족도에 더욱 강하게 영향력을 주는 것이다. 이러한 연구결과는 온라인으로 소비를 하게 된 현 시장의 트렌드가 반영된 결과이며, 본 연구결과를 통해 소비자의 행동 이해와 주요 요인들을 기반으로 온라인 웹사이트의 관리 및 운영 전략에 도움이 되리라 본다.

특정 대상에 대한 개인 수준의 문화적 성향이 사용자 경험에 미치는 조절효과에 대한 실증적 연구: 미국, 독일, 러시아의 4개 디지털 기기 사용자를 대상으로 (An Empirical Study on How the Moderating Effects of Individual Cultural Characteristics towards a Specific Target Affects User Experience: Based on the Survey Results of Four Types of Digital Device Users in the US, Germany, and Russia)

  • 이인성;최지웅;김소령;이기호;김진우
    • Asia pacific journal of information systems
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    • 제19권1호
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    • pp.113-145
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    • 2009
  • Recently, due to the globalization of the IT(Information Technology) market, devices and systems designed in one country are used in other countries as well. This phenomenon is becoming the key factor for increased interest on cross-cultural, or cross-national, research within the IT area. However, as the IT market is becoming bigger and more globalized, a great number of IT practitioners are having difficulty in designing and developing devices or systems which can provide optimal experience. This is because not only tangible factors such as language and a country's economic or industrial power affect the user experience of a certain device or system but also invisible and intangible factors as well. Among such invisible and intangible factors, the cultural characteristics of users from different countries may affect the user experience of certain devices or systems because cultural characteristics affect how they understand and interpret the devices or systems. In other words, when users evaluate the quality of overall user experience, the cultural characteristics of each user act as a perceptual lens that leads the user to focus on a certain elements of experience. Therefore, there is a need within the IT field to consider cultural characteristics when designing or developing certain devices or systems and plan a strategy for localization. In such an environment, existing IS studies identify the culture with the country, emphasize the importance of culture in a national level perspective, and hypothesize that users within the same country have same cultural characteristics. Under such assumptions, these studies focus on the moderating effects of cultural characteristics on a national level within a certain theoretical framework. This has already been suggested by cross-cultural studies conducted by scholars such as Hofstede(1980) in providing numerical research results and measurement items for cultural characteristics and using such results or items as they increase the efficiency of studies. However, such national level culture has its limitations in forecasting and explaining individual-level behaviors such as voluntary device or system usage. This is because individual cultural characteristics are the outcome of not only the national culture but also the culture of a race, company, local area, family, and other groups that are formulated through interaction within the group. Therefore, national or nationally dominant cultural characteristics may have its limitations in forecasting and explaining the cultural characteristics of an individual. Moreover, past studies in psychology suggest a possibility that there exist different cultural characteristics within a single individual depending on the subject being measured or its context. For example, in relation to individual vs. collective characteristics, which is one of the major cultural characteristics, an individual may show collectivistic characteristics when he or she is with family or friends but show individualistic characteristics in his or her workplace. Therefore, this study acknowledged such limitations of past studies and conducted a research within the framework of 'theoretically integrated model of user satisfaction and emotional attachment', which was developed through a former study, on how the effects of different experience elements on emotional attachment or user satisfaction are differentiated depending on the individual cultural characteristics related to a system or device usage. In order to do this, this study hypothesized the moderating effects of four cultural dimensions (uncertainty avoidance, individualism vs, collectivism, masculinity vs. femininity, and power distance) as suggested by Hofstede(1980) within the theoretically integrated model of emotional attachment and user satisfaction. Statistical tests were then implemented on these moderating effects through conducting surveys with users of four digital devices (mobile phone, MP3 player, LCD TV, and refrigerator) in three countries (US, Germany, and Russia). In order to explain and forecast the behavior of personal device or system users, individual cultural characteristics must be measured, and depending on the target device or system, measurements must be measured independently. Through this suggestion, this study hopes to provide new and useful perspectives for future IS research.