• 한국조경학회지
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• 제49권2호
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• pp.51-60
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• 2021

현대사회는 인간, 사물, 네트워크가 관계를 형성하는 디지털기술의 발전으로 정보화, 지능화되고 있다. 이와 같은 시대적 변화에 따라 식물 재배 시 온도, 습도, 일광량, 수분공급 등 식물관리를 용이하게 할 수 있는 정원 관련 시스템이 등장하기 시작하였다. 이에 본 연구에서는 최근 이슈가 되고 있는 스마트가든의 개념 및 인식경향에 대하여 파악하고자 하였다. 본 연구의 목적을 달성하기 위하여 선행연구와 텍스트마이닝을 활용하였으며, 결과는 다음과 같다. 첫째, 스마트가든의 특성은 기술의 발전 및 사람들의 라이프스타일의 변화로 실내·외 공간에서 IoT기술과 정원이 융합한 새로운 정원형태 혹은 여가의 유형 중 하나이다. 기술의 발전과 환경의 중요성이 높아지면서 인간과 자연이 융합되는 생활공간의 요구로 스마트가든이 현실화되고 보편화되고 있다. 스마트가든의 등장으로 정원 관련 산업의 변화, 사람들의 라이프스타일 변화 등 정원의 활성화에 기여할 수 있을 것이다. 둘째, 현재 스마트가든과 관련된 연구 및 이용자의 경험에서 공통적으로 스마트가든의 기술적인 측면에 관심이 가장 높다. 사람들은 스마트가든이 일상생활 속에서 안전하고 쾌적하며 편리한 생활을 할 수 있는 기능 및 기술적인 측면을 중요시하며, 개인의 취향 및 디지털 기기의 이용능력에 따라 주체적인 이용이 나타나고 있다. 셋째, 스마트가든의 이용행태를 살펴보면 주로 가정 및 실내공간에서 이용하고 있으며, 먹을 수 있는 식물을 재배하고 있는 추세이다. 환경의 중요성이 높아지고 기후변화, 식량위기 등에 대한 우려로 먹거리와 관련된 식물 재배를 선호하고 있지만, 화훼류 등을 키울 수 있는 다양한 기술 및 매뉴얼로 이용자의 욕구를 만족시켜주어 정원기능의 확대에 이바지할 수 있을 것이다. 또한, 스마트가든의 형태를 새롭고 세련된 형태라고 느끼고 있어 스마트가든의 디자인이 이용자의 가치를 만족시키는 중요한 요소임을 알 수 있다. 현재 스마트가든은 기술적인 차원에서 발전하고 있다. 그러나 스마트가든의 주요 구성 요인은 인간과 자연 그리고 기술일 것이다. 단순하게 화분과 스마트기기를 연결하여 식물을 편하게 기르는데 집중하는 것이 아니라, 스마트시티, 스마트홈 등 다양한 도시서비스와 연계성을 강화하고, 스마트가든이 과학기술에 의해서만 자연이 재현되는 것이 아니라, 조경가와 상호작용하여 정원의 기능 및 이용자의 니즈를 포함한 디자인이어야 할 필요가 있다. 또한, 실내뿐만이 아니라, 도시공원 및 공공시설에서 시민에게 제공하여 연령 및 디지털 기기·정보의 격차로 인하여 '스마트'한 서비스를 향유하지 못하는 계층을 대상으로 하여 세대 간 커뮤니케이션, 정원의 기능을 공유할 수 있는 새로운 조경공간으로 잠재성을 갖고 있다.

• Asia pacific journal of information systems
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• 제20권3호
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• pp.167-190
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• 2010

The research conducted here focuses on the effect of factors that affect the behavior of UCC (User Created Content) website users, other than user's rational recognition of how useful a UCC website can be. Most discussions in the existing literature on information systems have focused on users' evaluation how a UCC website can help to attain the users' own goals. However, there are other factors and this research pays attention to an individual's 'personality,' which is stable and biological in nature. Specifically, I have noted here that 'extroversion' and 'neuroticism,' the two common personality factors presented in Eysenck's most representative 'EPQ Model' and 'Big Five Model,' are the two personality factors that affect a site's 'usefulness,' by this I mean how useful does the user consider the website and its content. How useful a site is considered by the user is the other factor that has been regarded as the antecedent factor that influences the adoption of information systems in the existing MIS (Management Information System) research. Secondly, as using or creating a UCC website does not guarantee the user's or the creator's extrinsic motivation, unlike when using the information system within an organization, there is a greater likelihood that the increase in user's activities in relation to a UCC website is motivated by emotional factors rather than rational factors. Thus, I have decided to include the relationship between an individual's personality and what they find pleasurable in the research model. Thirdly, when based on the S-O-R Paradigm of Mehrabian and Russell, the two cognitive factors and emotional factors are finally affected by stimulus, and thus these factors ultimately have an effect on an individual's respondent behavior. Therefore, this research has presented an assumption that the recognition of how useful the site and content is and what emotional pleasure it provides will finally affect the behavior of the UCC website users. Finally, the relationship between the recognition of how useful a site is and how pleasurable it is to useand UCC usage may differ depending on certain situational conditions. In other words, the relationship between the three factors may vary according to how much users are involved in the creation of the website content. Creation thus emerges as the keyword of UCC. I analyzed the above relationships through the moderating variable of the user's involvement in the creation of the site. The research result shows the following: When it comes to the relationship between an individual's personality and what they find pleasurable it is extroverted users who have a greater likelihood to feel pleasure when using a UCC website, as was expected in this research. This in turn leads to a more active usage of the UCC web site because a person who is an extrovert likes to spend time on activities with other people, is sensitive to new experiences and stimuli and thus actively responds to these. An extroverted person accepts new UCC activities as part of his/her social life, rather than getting away from this new UCC environment. This is represented by the term 'Foxonomy' where the users meet a variety of users from all over the world and contact new types of content created by these users. However, neuroticism creates the opposite situation to that created by extroversion. The representative symptoms of neuroticism are instability, stress, and tension. These dispositions are more closely related to stress caused by a new environment rather than this creatingcuriosity or pleasure. Thus, neurotic persons have an uneasy feeling and will eventually avoid the situation where their own or others' daily lives are frequently exposed to the open web environment, this eventually makes them have a negative attitude towards the web environment. When it comes to an individual's personality and how useful site is, the two personality factors of extroversion and neuroticism both have a positive relationship with the recognition of how useful the site and its content is. The positive, curious, and social dispositions of extroverted persons tend to make them consider the future usefulness and possibilities of a new type of information system, or website, based on their positive attitude, which has a significant influence on the recognition of how useful these UCC sites are. Neuroticism also favorably affects how useful a UCC website can be through a different mechanism from that of extroversion. As the neurotic persons tend to feel uneasy and have much doubt about a new type of information system, they actively explore its usefulness in order to relieve their uncomfortable feelings. In other words, neurotic persons seek out how useful a site can be in order to secure their own stable feelings. Meanwhile, extroverted persons explore how useful a site can be because of their positive attitude and curiosity. As a lot of MIS research has revealed that the recognition of how useful a site can be and how pleasurable it can be to use have been proven to have a significant effect on UCC activity. However, the relationship between these factors reveals different aspects based on the user's involvement in creation. This factor of creationgauges the interest of users in the creation of UCC contents. Involvement is a variable that shows the level of an individual's mental effort in creating UCC contents. When a user is highly involved in the creation process and makes an enormous effort to create UCC content (classed a part of a high-involvement group), their own pleasure and recognition of how useful the site is have a significantly higher effect on the future usage of the UCC contents, more significantly than the users who sit back and just retrieve the UCC content created by others. The cognitive and emotional response of those in the low-involvement group is unlikely to last long,even if they recognize the contents of a UCC website is pleasurable and useful to them. However, the high-involvement group tends to participate in the creation and the usage of UCC more favorably, connecting the experience with their own goals. In this respect, this research presents an answer to the question; why so many people are participating in the usage of UCC, the representative form of the Web 2.0 that has drastically involved more and more people in the creation of UCC, even if they cannot gain any monetary or social compensation. Neither information system nor a website can succeed unless it secures a certain level of user base. Moreover, it cannot be further developed when the reasons, or problems, for people's participation are not suitably explored, even if it has a certain user base. Thus, what is significant in this research is that it has studied users' respondent behavior based on an individual's innate personality, emotion, and cognitive interaction, unlike the existing research that has focused on 'compensation' to explain users' participation with the UCC website. There are also limitations in this research. Firstly, I divided an individual's personality into extroversion and neuroticism; however, there are many other personal factors such as neuro-psychiatricism, which also needs to be analyzed for its influence on UCC activities. Secondly, as a UCC website comes in many types such as multimedia, Wikis, and podcasting, these types need to be included as a sub-category of the UCC websites and their relationship with personality, emotion, cognition, and behavior also needs to be analyzed.