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A Study on Improvement Plans for National Archives of Korea Website's Search Service through Its Usability Evaluation (국가기록원 웹사이트 검색서비스의 사용성 평가를 통한 개선방안 연구)

  • Lee, Hyojin;Kim, Jihyun
    • Journal of Korean Society of Archives and Records Management
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    • v.21 no.3
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    • pp.187-215
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    • 2021
  • Archives should provide a web-based archival information service with good usability based on the understanding of users' needs. Thus, this study analyzed the usability of the National Archives of Korea (NAK) website's search service through expert and usability evaluations for various users and suggested improvement plans. A literature review, heuristic evaluation, one of the usability expert evaluation methods, and usability evaluation for users were performed. As a result of expert evaluation, the severity rating for the usability problem was highest regarding a match between the system and real world and the lowest in error prevention. In the usability evaluation, it was assumed that the user's background and whether the website's help was provided is associated with usability. Usability evaluation was conducted for 22 participants, including those majoring in records management, web/application developers, and people without such backgrounds. Furthermore, a presurvey, a five-second test, and search tasks were conducted in a row. The analysis based on usability components in ISO 9241-11: 2018, i.e., effectiveness, efficiency, and satisfaction, showed that web/application developers had the highest search effectiveness, and those majoring in records management showed high effectiveness only in the search for archival content services. Background factors did not affect efficiency, and the more familiar with the finding aids, the better the efficiency. Moreover, providing the website's help was found to be positively associated with effectiveness and satisfaction. This study suggests that the NAK website will offer a user-friendly interface and search function, expand help support, and display a consistent web interface.

The Effect of Users' Personality on Emotional and Cognitive Evaluation in UCC Web Site Usage (UCC(user-created-contents) 웹 사이트에서 사용자의 인성이 감정적, 인지적 평가와 UCC 활용에 미치는 영향)

  • Moon, Yun-Ji;Kang, So-Ra;Kim, Woo-Gon
    • Asia pacific journal of information systems
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    • v.20 no.3
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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.

A Study on Security Factors on Online Shopping - focus on internet bookshops -

  • Hua, Deng;Kim, Chang-Eun
    • Proceedings of the Safety Management and Science Conference
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    • 2005.11a
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    • pp.418-422
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    • 2005
  • Electronic commerce has provided another access for consumers to purchase products, but some researches have pointed out that there are difficulties for companies to do business on web. For lack of trust, many people not prefer purchasing through virtual channels. Based on the literature review, this study aims at empirically testing the impact of website design on individual trust in internet firms. From statistic analysis, we will conclude that security, interaction, and navigation functionality will affect on-line trust.

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A Study on the Menu Navigation of Website for Web Designer and Director. (웹디자이너와 개발자를 위한 웹사이트 메뉴 네비게이션 연구)

  • 신창현;홍석기
    • Proceedings of the Korea Society of Design Studies Conference
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    • 2000.11a
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    • pp.26-27
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    • 2000
  • 우리들은 흔히 레이아웃에서의 그래픽적인 아름다움이나 플래시 무비, 쇽웨이브 무비 등과 같이 동영상적 재미요소가 적절히 적용된 웹사이트를 잘 만들어진 웹사이트라 여기고, 이와 같은 기준을 웹사이트를 평가하는 중요한 기준으로 여기고 있다. 물론, 위와 같은 기준이 웹사이트를 평가하는 중요한 요소임에는 틀림없지만, 여기서 우리는 또 다른 기준의 하나인 "메뉴 네비게이션(Menu Navigation)"이라는 아주 중요한 요소에 대하여 대뤄보고자 한다.(중략)

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A Comparative Analysis of Korean and Overseas Art Museum Homepage(GUI) in Internet Marketing (인터넷마케팅차원에 있어서 한국과 해외의 Artmuseum의 홈페이지(GUI) 비교 분석)

  • Lee, Woo-Chae
    • International Commerce and Information Review
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    • v.10 no.1
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    • pp.73-95
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    • 2008
  • The most important instrument to declare oneself publicly in cyberspace is to use a homepage or website. Nowadays most of Korean as well as overseas art museums have their own websites, through which they provide consumers with essential information and strive to declare themselves publicly in cyberspace. A homepage is composed of various components and the most crucial component is the interface. The objective of this paper is to present a proposal to help get a program for efficient website management and consumer satisfaction.

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A Study on Comparison Analysis of the Design Factors between Korea and China Shopping mall Websites (한·중 쇼핑몰 웹 사이트의 디자인 요인에 대한 비교분석)

  • Kwon, Young-Jik
    • Journal of Korea Society of Industrial Information Systems
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    • v.19 no.4
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    • pp.133-146
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    • 2014
  • This paper mainly focuses on the design factors of a website targeted at shopping mall websites in China and Korea. We formulated 15 different hypotheses regarding how those design factors are different. The targeted websites are "Gmarket" in Korea and "Taobao" in China. The selected design factors of a shopping mall website are (1) color and design, (2) photo, graphic, and font size, (3) the clarity of information delivery, (4) website structure, (5) screen balance, (6) product display, (7) product harmony, (8) a form of font and icon, (9) visual atmosphere, (10) differentiated color, (11) interesting words, (12) technical skills, (13) entire visual design and atmosphere, (14) navigation, (15) search function for products or information. As a result of analyzing the result using the SAS 9.2 package tool, we figured out that there was a difference between design factors. Additionally, we analyzed this difference and suggested a strategy to design the effective shopping mall web sites.

A study on longitudinal differences in website user's trust factors (시간차이에 따른 웹사이트 이용자의 웹사이트 신뢰도 요인 변화에 대한 연구)

  • Shin, Kil-Hwan;Jeong, Cheon-Su;Lee, Choon-Yeul
    • Journal of Internet Computing and Services
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    • v.13 no.2
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    • pp.127-136
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    • 2012
  • IT industry is rapidly changing technologies and trends are leading the field. Website also typical of these areas in the field of IT as a sector, technological advances faster, depending on the nature of the IT industry and the emergence of new services, changes in a variety of platforms, and is rapidly rising. In addition, a website containing information in accordance with the social situation changes and exposure of the agenda and vary greatly. Therefore, these changes in terms of B2C websites that can make a difference in the reliability factor looks. From this perspective, in this study to compare data before and after 10 years on the reliability factor by conducting longitudinal studies, most are not addressed in previous studies due to time differences website users to change the reliability of the analyzed factors.

Evaluating Usability of E-government Web Sites Using the AHP (AHP를 이용한 전자청부 웹사이트의 사용성 평가 방법론)

  • Byun, Dae-Ho
    • Journal of Digital Convergence
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    • v.8 no.3
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    • pp.19-37
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    • 2010
  • One of the core issues in the realization of e-government is the effective implementation of a website. The current trend of e-government is developing individual web sites and portals, covering such fields as education, tax, economics, real estate, travel, and health. Evaluating e-government web sites is essential for improving web sites. These principles can be included in usability in a broader concept. Website usability has attracted considerable research on website evaluation and has been regarded as one of the most important criteria for measuring and evaluating websites. Usable e-government web sites make citizens willing to search for helpful information or solve their civil applications. The objective of this paper is to suggest an Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) method for evaluating e-government web sites. The proposed AHP method has two special characteristics compared to general AHP approaches. First, all citizens who are e-government users can evaluate both the usability criteria and the web sites, but the weighting mechanism differs between criteria and web sites. Secondly, a pairwise comparison is time-consuming and not cost effective with many criteria. Therefore for evaluating a website with respect to a sub-criterion, we develop checklist items as measure scales with a seven-point rating. This method is efficient as it enable us to avoid the pairwise comparison mechanism between sub-criteria. A new computation procedure for the AHP is developed that combines and synthesizes priorities of portals in the case that two decision maker groups are involved.

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A Study on the Effect of Internet Advertising by Product Involvement Levels, Website Types and Banner Advertisement Types (제품관여도, 웹사이트 유형 및 배너광고 유형에 따른 인터넷 광고효과에 관한 연구)

  • Kim, Jong-Woo;Lee, Seung-Youp
    • Journal of Global Scholars of Marketing Science
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    • v.7
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    • pp.105-125
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    • 2001
  • A rapid in increase in population of Internet users made the Internet appeared to be an important advertising medium. Under this situation, one of important research issues will be one related to measurement of Internet advertising effect. This study was carried out with three following projects which set up on the basis of the Modified Elaboration Likelihood Model of Cho(1999). (1) Analysis of differences in banner click, advertising attitude and buying intention according to the product involvement levels. (2) Analysis of differences in banner click, advertising attitude and buying intention according to the product involvement levels and website types. (3) Analysis of differences in banner click, advertising attitude and buying intention according to the product involvement levels and banner advertisement types. The experiment was conducted in a manner that virtual websites and banner advertisements produced for the purpose of this study were classified into eight groups according to the product involvement levels, website types and banner advertisement, and then questionnaire sheets were filled out. The results of empirical analysis are summarized by the research projects as follows. (1) The banner click, advertising attitude and buying intention according to the product involvement levels were not significant. (2) There was no significant difference in the banner click according to the product involvement levels and website types. In the advertising attitude, there was a significant effect of interaction, whereas in the buying intention there was no significant effect of interaction. (3) There was a significant difference in the banner click by the product involvement levels and banner advertisement types. Concretely the click rate appeared to be high in literal banner advertisement for a product with high involvement and in pictorial banner advertisement for a product with low involvement. It is expected that this study can provide Internet advertising researchers and managers with theoretical and the practical informations.

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A Study on Relationship among Attitude toward the Website, Attitude toward the Advertising, Attention to the Commercial, Attitude toward the Brand, & Purchase Intention. (웹사이트에 대한 태도, 광고에 대한 태도, 광고에 대한 집중도, 상표에 대한 태도 및 구매의도와의 관계에 관한 연구)

  • Cho, Yoon-Shik
    • Journal of Global Scholars of Marketing Science
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    • v.7
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    • pp.127-146
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    • 2001
  • Attitude toward the advertising is widely used in studies of traditional mass media advertising. As internet marketing becomes more important, attitude toward the website will gain parallel status in evaluating effectiveness. And also, studies on relationship among attitude toward the website, attitude toward the advertising, attention to the commercial, attitude toward the brand, & purchase intention was needed. This study sets a hypothetical model about the relationship among attitude toward the website, attitude toward the advertising, attention to the commercial, attitude toward the brand, & purchase intention. And to testify this model, 10 hypotheses were set. The results of the analysis, all variables were related significantly.

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