• 한국전자통신학회논문지
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• 제14권1호
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• pp.97-110
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• 2019

제 4차 산업혁명이 각광받고 있는 가운데 통신 장애를 대비한 다양한 기술이 개발되어 상용화되고 있다. 그러나 IDC의 백업망은 많은 개발이 진행되고 있으나 소규모 저전력의 개인 또는 센서에 대한 통신 장애 대비는 다소 부족한 것이 현실이다. 이에 시중에서 쉽게 구할 수 있는 라즈베리 파이 재단의 라즈베리 파이 제품군에 OpenWRT 펌웨어를 사용하여 저전력 개인 로드 밸런서를 구축하고, USB기반 LTE 안테나를 통해 유선통신에 장애 발생 시 LTE를 통하여 장애 알림과 중요 데이터를 송신할 수 있는 시스템을 개발하였다. 시중에서 쉽게 구할 수 있는 제품들인 점과 USB를 사용함으로 다른 초소형 개발보드에서도 응용할 수 있기 때문에 개인의 센서 네트워크 망 구축에 많은 도움이 될 것이라 기대된다.

• 한국콘텐츠학회논문지
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• 제21권6호
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• pp.138-154
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• 2021

온라인 생방송을 통해 실시간으로 판매 및 구매 활동이 이루어지는 '라이브커머스'라는 새로운 형태의 전자상거래 시장이 폭발적인 성장세를 보이고 있다. 본 연구는 기술 수용 이론에 기초하여 중국 최대의 라이브커머스 플랫폼인 <타오바오 라이브>의 의사사회적 상호작용성, 방송 앵커의 특성(신뢰성, 매력성, 전문성), 지각된 사용용이성과 유용성, 타오바오 라이브를 통한 지속적 쇼핑 의도 간의 관계를 탐구하였다. 총 536명의 타오바오 라이브 시청자를 대상으로 설문조사를 실시한 결과, 의사사회적 상호작용성은 타오바오 라이브에 대한 지각된 사용용이성과 유용성에 긍정적인 영향을 미쳤으나, 앵커의 특성(신뢰성, 매력성, 전문성)은 지각된 유용성에 유의한 영향을 미치지 않는 것으로 나타났다. 나아가 지각된 사용용이성이 높을수록 지각된 유용성 또한 증가하였으며, 사용용이성과 유용성은 모두 타오바오를 통한 지속적 쇼핑 의도에 긍정적인 영향을 끼쳤다. 본 연구는 중국의 라이브커머스 플랫폼의 지속적 발전을 위한 이론적 자원을 제공하고, 전자상거래 기업의 운영방식에 새로운 가능성과 전략을 제시한다는 점에서 의미가 있다.

• 한국의류산업학회지
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• 제24권4호
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• pp.418-430
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• 2022

This study aims to analyze consumers' purchase decision-making process of buying avatar fashion items on the Metaverse platform. Drawing on the connection between the self-expression tendency of the MZ generation and that of avatars in the Metaverse, this study uses a qualitative research method to analyze how consumers express their self-image through the appearance of their avatars. Unlike previous studies on the clothing purchase decision-making process, this study shows that purchasing and consumption behavior involve the following six stages: recognizing desire, collecting information, evaluating alternatives, making purchases, evaluating the consumption, and post-purchase action-taking. In the first stage of the purchase decision-making process, consumers' desire arises with self-image expression and confirmation. In the second stage, consumers have a high tendency to shop in the best item category. In the alternative evaluation stage, consumers tend to seek items that match their highest standard while considering their personal preferences. In the fourth stage, when making actual purchases, unplanned purchase behavior often occurs along with an active practice of alternative evaluation. In the fifth stage, the evaluation of the consumption shows that consumers achieve satisfaction by applying a style to their avatars that they are unable to try in the real world. In the last stage, consumers often use their purchases to communicate their various styles with other online consumers. Therefore, we conclude that the online purchase decision-making process differs from the offline process as it is divided into six stages.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제16권3호
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• pp.830-860
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• 2022

[Introduction] Nowadays, many companies are shifting their businesses online due to the growing trend among customers to buy and shop online, as people prefer online purchasing products. [Problem] Users share a vast amount of information about products, making it difficult and challenging for the end-users to make certain decisions. [Motivation] Therefore, we need a mechanism to automatically analyze end-user opinions, thoughts, or feelings in the social media platform about the products that might be useful for the customers to make or change their decisions about buying or purchasing specific products. [Proposed Solution] For this purpose, we proposed an automated SentiDecpective approach, which classifies end-user reviews into negative, positive, and neutral sentiments and identifies deceptive crowd-users rating information in the social media platform to help the user in decision-making. [Methodology] For this purpose, we first collected 11781 end-users comments from the Amazon store and Flipkart web application covering distant products, such as watches, mobile, shoes, clothes, and perfumes. Next, we develop a coding guideline used as a base for the comments annotation process. We then applied the content analysis approach and existing VADER library to annotate the end-user comments in the data set with the identified codes, which results in a labelled data set used as an input to the machine learning classifiers. Finally, we applied the sentiment analysis approach to identify the end-users opinions and overcome the deceptive rating information in the social media platforms by first preprocessing the input data to remove the irrelevant (stop words, special characters, etc.) data from the dataset, employing two standard resampling approaches to balance the data set, i-e, oversampling, and under-sampling, extract different features (TF-IDF and BOW) from the textual data in the data set and then train & test the machine learning algorithms by applying a standard cross-validation approach (KFold and Shuffle Split). [Results/Outcomes] Furthermore, to support our research study, we developed an automated tool that automatically analyzes each customer feedback and displays the collective sentiments of customers about a specific product with the help of a graph, which helps customers to make certain decisions. In a nutshell, our proposed sentiments approach produces good results when identifying the customer sentiments from the online user feedbacks, i-e, obtained an average 94.01% precision, 93.69% recall, and 93.81% F-measure value for classifying positive sentiments.

• International Journal of Human Ecology
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• 제4권2호
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• pp.39-53
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• 2003

This study was designed to provide a better understanding of Korean female Internet users' intention to search for information regarding apparel goods and to shop for these goods. Shopping orientation, familiarity, and prior purchase experience were seen as influencing the intention to use the Internet for information search. An important aspect in the search habits that a consumer adopts in gathering information for their buying decisions was Internet shopping attitude. The objective was to predict apparel shopping in terms of prior Internet shopping experience, familiarity, intention to search information via the Internet, and shopping orientation. Internet shopping attitude, familiarity, prior purchase experience, and intention to use to search information were significant in predicting Internet apparel shopping. The most important determinants which influenced Internet shopping were attitude toward Internet shopping and intention to search. In considering the results of the present study, one should recognize the inherent limitations associated with generalizing these findings beyond the sample and the consumer products examined which in this study were apparel goods. Also this study focused on female computer users only. Therefore, future research should utilize more broadly based samples and refine the instrument to distinguish among different apparel products. This study does provide some information that should be helpful to retailers targeting the women's online apparel market.

• International Journal of Human Ecology
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• 제14권1호
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• pp.13-27
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• 2013

Consumer perception of the meaning of 'green' and 'green products' as well as how they use green claims (including terms, certifications, and marks) should be examined to help consumers pursue green behavior in everyday life. This study investigates what type of green claims prevail in the Korean consumer market and how consumers perceive the meaning of 'green' and green claims. For these purposes, media analysis, in-context research (shop visit) and a survey were conducted to collect green claims (including green terms and certified/noncertified green marks). Green claims in the consumer market were first summarized and analyzed; subsequently, the most frequently used 7 green marks and 15 green terms were selected to construct a consumer survey questionnaire on consumer perceptions of green claims. An online survey was performed via Embrain and the survey respondents consisted of 500 adult consumers over the age of 20. The field research results showed frequent green claims in the Korean consumer market. However, certified (and hence trustworthy green product information labels) were uncommon in the market. The only green claim widely known and used by consumers was the energy consumption efficiency label. Consumers were interested in the green information label not because it affected their utility cost nor because it was important for environment protection.

• 디지털산업정보학회논문지
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• 제13권1호
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• pp.147-158
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• 2017

Internet is changing the way consumers shop and buy goods and services, and has rapidly evolved into a global phenomenon. The primary purpose of this study is to investigate the influence of consumer's on-line shopping values on satisfaction and intention to re-use. Economic value, emotional value, convenience value, social value, product variety were identified as affecting factors of satisfaction and intention to re-use of on-line shopping purchasing based on prior studies of on-line shopping behavior. This study tested the hypothesized model using the data from 132 consumers who have purchased products in on-line shopping mall. According to the result, economic value, emotional value, product variety are significantly related to the consumer satisfaction but convenience value, social value are not. Consumer satisfaction of online purchasing was also shown to be related to the intention to re-use. It can provide practical guidelines on effective operation strategies for consumer loyalty.

• 한국의류학회지
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• 제27권7호
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• pp.789-799
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• 2003

The purpose of this study was to find out clothing evaluation criteria and purchase intention according to consumers' shopping orientation and demographic factors when they shop online. The subjects were 240 men and women living in the metropolitan area. For data analysis, factor analysis, cluster analysis, ANOVA, t-test, Duncan test and descriptive statistics were conducted. The results are as follows: 1. Important clothing evaluation criteria were considered in order of price, style, fit, size and product guarantee etc. Purchase intention was showed more highly when products are related to low involvement than high involvement. 2. Consumers with high hedonic and utilitarian shopping orientation considered clothing evaluation criteria more importantly but showed low level of purchase intention in cyber shopping. And consumers with low hedonic and utilitarian shopping orientation considered clothing evaluation criteria less importantly but showed high level of purchase intention in cyber shopping. 3. There were significant differences in evaluation criteria and purchase intention according to demographic variables. Especially women considered evaluation criteria more importantly and had higher level of purchase intention than men.

• 복식문화연구
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• 제17권2호
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• pp.343-351
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• 2009

As more and more consumers shop online, websites of fashion brands have become effective means for business activities. The Colors of web sites are the most effective visual elements for e-tailers to communicate with consumers. The purpose of this study is to compare websites created for local and global markets by men's apparel brands. The empirical study focused on differences of color application between the local and global websites. Fourteen brands were chosen for the study. The main color, sub color, and accent color were extracted according to the screen component ratios for each website. The colors were analyzed by Munsell's 10 Hues and 12 tone classifications of Practical Color Coordinate System. The Results indicated that all websites were using White as the main color. The local website used pale tones while global websites used dark tones. There was also differences in the use of sub colors and tones. Red was most used as the accent color in both local and global websites.

• 복식문화연구
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• 제29권6호
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• pp.865-880
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• 2021

The purpose of this study was to examine job competencies for sales training program development to maximize profits in fashion retailing. An empirical online survey was conducted from September to December 2019, and data was collected from 200 salespeople and store managers working in fashion stores. Results were analyzed using frequency analysis, factor analysis, variance analysis, and regression analysis with SPSS 25.0. The major findings of this study were as follows. First, the most important job competencies identified by fashion store managers were: sales sense know-how, customer service skills, and sales person's fashion style sense, product knowledge, fashion marketing and customer management. The job competency factors for sales training programs included empathy with the customer, product knowledge, communications and networking, basic job requirement, and sales skills. These five factors positively influenced the employment intentions and expectations of work performance of graduates. These factors also had a positive influence on the need of sales training program and intention to participate in retraining. Store managers in fashion retail thought the most appropriate period for on-the-job training was either 2-4 days or more than 1 week. The results of this study can be used as a base to develop training programs for job efficiency for salespeople in fashion retailing.