• 대한안전경영과학회지
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• 제13권4호
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• pp.237-245
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• 2011

The number of smartphone users in Korea is reaching around 20 million. We perform a research on the actual conditions, complaints and the types of losses, damages or injuries from smartphone users in Korea. Apart form that, we conduct an investigation on the current problems in promoting the use of smartphones. We would like to suggest some points for promoting global uses of smartphones through the analysis of and the comparison with the abroad cases, which precursed the wide-spread of smartphones in Korea.

• 한국의류산업학회지
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• 제14권6호
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• pp.941-951
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• 2012

As smartphones permeate the consumer lifestyle, branded application and mobile shopping have also received increased attention as an important marketing channel. This study identifies the general information about the use of smartphones, attitudes toward fashion applications, and mobile shopping intentions for smartphone users. Focus group interviews were conducted and 22 interviewees participated. The age of the participants ranged from 21 to 45 years old (55% were females). When examining the motivation to adopt a smartphone, respondents presented the comparable characteristics of early adopters and late adopters according to the time of adoption. Most respondents over the age of 30 showed some troubles to use a smartphone; however, participants in their 20s tended to enjoy exploring the new technology. More than half of respondents were aware of fashion applications, but were dissatisfied with fashion apps and used them infrequently. Respondents pointed out that fashion related apps were not too practical because they were not updated regularly, provided only limited information, and focused on brand promotions. In order to increase the intention to adopt mobile shopping, the price and payment security system needs to be considered. This was an exploratory study to identify the possibility of fashion branded apps as a major distribution channel. The findings of this study provide fundamental information to formulate marketing strategies for fashion businesses that have developed fashion apps.

• 한국IT서비스학회지
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• 제16권4호
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• pp.33-46
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• 2017

Increasing popularity of smartphone is creating many changes in payment market sector also. The new fin-tech and simple mobile payment service have provided convenience as well as various benefits and value-added services to create new payment culture. However, the infrastructure of offline shops is too poor for users to use the simple mobile payment services in Korea. There are several reasons why the support of simple mobile payment services by offline shops has reached the limit in Korea. They include the reluctance of shop owners due to highly priced devices, the failure of NFC of the leading offline payment infrastructure to support iOS, the services that are biased to the specific manufacturers and smartphones (Samsung Pay and LG Pay), prefer large shops (SSG Pay and L PAY), and focus on online transactions. This study used the Bluetooth technology that is the standard feature built in all smartphone to expand the offline shops that accept the simple mobile payment services ensuring universality and scalability from the convenience of customer's and service provider's aspects. Applying the same payment scene as the existing NFC payment method from the user's aspect and the Bluetooth technology from the service provider's aspect enables support of all smartphones and offering value-added services such as electronic receipt and promotions through the large-capacity bidirectional data transfer. This study is intended to review the simple mobile payment services in Korea and other countries, propose the simple mobile payment service model for Korea by analyzing the Bluetooth technology and preceding studies of payment services using BLE technology, and develop the pilot system using the BLE technology to verify the proposed system with actual shops.

• 지능정보연구
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• 제22권3호
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• pp.165-183
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• 2016

스마트폰을 넘어 차세대 IT 비즈니스의 주목할 만한 후보군으로 가상현실이 이슈가 되고 있다. 가상현실은 컴퓨터와 VR헤드셋을 통해 구현한 입체적인 가상공간을 제공함으로써 사용자의 시각을 완전히 장악하고, 청각, 촉각 등 오감과의 상호작용 및 음성, 동작인식 등을 통해 가상공간을 마치 현실처럼 느끼게 한다는 점에서 향후 주목할 만한 산업 분야로 떠오르고 있다. 많은 글로벌 대기업들이 가상현실과 관련한 사업에 투자를 하고 있으나 소비자의 관점에서 가상현실 관련 제품군은 아직 쉽게 접하거나 구매하기 어려운 제품군으로 인식된다. 그렇기 때문에 소비자의 태도 변화가 큰 변화가 발생되고 있지 않으며 Acception & Diffusion 모델의 초기단계에 지나지 않아 구매로 연결되지 않는 실정이다. 본 연구는 기존 선행연구의 관점을 바탕으로 가상현실 헤드기어 제품들의 판매 촉진을 위한 사용자 관점에서의 사용자 저항을 매개 변수로 저항을 감소시키고 사용 및 구매의도에 영향을 주는 선행요인들을 도출하고자 하였으며 사용자가 가지고 있는 태도에 대한 자신감에 영향을 주어 행동 의도까지 변화시키는 현상에 대한 분석을 하고자 하였다. 본 연구의 결과는 태도 자신감에 대한 사용 용이성과 사용 혁신성의 영향력을 확인할 수 있었다. 마찬가지로 사용자 혁신저항에 영향력을 주는 변수로는 가격, 심미적 외관, 즐거움, 콘텐츠 및 화질 관련 변수들을 도출하였다. 결과적으로 본 연구는 태도 자신감의 가상현실 혁신 수용에 대한 영향력을 제시하고 가격 이외 변수인 콘텐츠의 양과 저항감의 관계성을 바탕으로 관련 변수들을 제시하였다. 특히 초기 시장인 가상현실 제품의 특성에 따라 브랜드에 대한 선점효과의 필요성과 콘텐츠의 부족함 등이 실무적으로 해결해야 할 과제로서 확인되었다.