• 복식
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• 제58권1호
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• pp.151-160
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• 2008

`Early adopters,` a term first used by Everett Rogers in 1957, refers to people who are among the first to try a new product and like to evaluate the product for others. Early adopters in the digital age of the 21st century, greatly influence others by exchanging information on products and writing product reviews on Internet boards. Technological products have recently been released in the fashion world to become important fashion items, and early adopters are active buyers of these products. The purpose of this study is to examine the values and characteristics of early adopters as consumers of technological fashion products, and present a standard for designing fashion products in the future. This study was based on documentary research, Internet research and in-depth interviews. Documentary research was carried out to examine the lifestyles, characteristics and consumption habits of early adopters. Internet research was done to understand the tendencies of Korean early adopters, and a total of 18 websites were studied in 7 product categories. The subjects of in-depth interviews were 6 people who were either webmasters or members of early adopter-related websites. IT field early adopters tended to pursue new technologies, and fashion early adopters placed importance on how well a person could express their own style. New, unique, useful and pretty were the key words to describe the tendencies of early adopters, and fashion early adopters preferred the latest contemporary styles. Interviewees placed most importance on price, design and function of products. Since IT related products are continuously being added on to clothes and becoming fashion products themselves, further research on technology-related fashion design would be significant.

• 경영정보학연구
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• 제9권1호
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• pp.67-84
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• 2007

한 정보시스템을 소개 및 전파 시에, 만약 정보시스템의 공급자가 조기 수용성향을 가진 사용자 집단을 식별해낼 수 있다면, 그 집단에 대한 집중적인 권장 및 홍보를 통하여 더욱 효율적으로 시스템을 전파할 수 있을 것이다. 또한, 도입 이후 그 조기수용자들은 타 수용대상 집단들에 대한 시스템의 자발적 홍보와 수용 시의 도움들을 통해 시스템 도입을 더욱 용이하게 하는 효과를 가져오게 할 수 있다. 이와 같은 조기 수용자군 식별 목적을 위하여, 본 논문은 기존 주로 사용되어 온 이산선택기법 대신, 의사결정나무를 이용한 식별기법을 제안한다. 기존의 이산선택기법에 비하여 이 기법은 집단 예측에 있어서 더욱 정확하며, 비선형적으로 세분화된 그룹을 식별할 수 있는 장점도 가지고 있다. 이와 같은 효과의 검증을 위하여, 본 논문은 농업분야의 한 정보시스템 도입시의 실증데이터를 이용하여 목표집단 식별상의 의사결정나무기법의 우수성을 입증하였다. 본 기법은 앞으로 조기 수용자 집단 식별목적에 실질적으로 시스템 개발 공급자에게 이용될 수 있을 기법으로 기대된다.

• 한국게임학회 논문지
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• 제18권1호
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• pp.83-94
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• 2018

본 연구는 인터넷 개인방송의 이용동기와 수용자특성(초기수용자, 후기수용자)에 따른 만족도의 차이를 분석하였다. 이를 위해 아프리카TV(AfreecaTV)를 이용하는 10~30대 283명을 대상으로 설문을 실시하였으며, 다음과 같은 결과를 도출하였다. 분석결과 사용자의 하루 평균 사용시간은 이용 동기에 긍정적인 영향을 미쳤으며, 수용자특성에 따른 인구통계학적 특성차이에서는 학력에서만 차이가 있는 것으로 나타났다. 또한 만족도는 초기수용자의 경우 여가습관, 커뮤니케이션, 오락성, 접근성이 후기수용자는 접근성, 신뢰성, 여가습관, 최신성이 유의미한 요인으로 나타났다.

• 한국주거학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국주거학회 2008년 추계학술발표대회 논문집
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• pp.332-337
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• 2008

The supply of digital homes has been increasing but digital home services which meet consumer needs under the various conditions have not identified. The purpose of the study was to investigate the residents' characteristics living in digital apartments with comparison of their innovativeness toward technology. Residents who lived in two apartment complexes equipped with fundamental digital home services(Level 1 service) were selected to conduct the survey. A total of 500 responses were used for data analyses. Responses were classified into three groups based on their innovativeness toward technology for data analyses. The results of the study showed that residents' socio-demographic and housing related characteristics differed according to their acceptance trait of new technology. Early adopters and early majority were younger, higher income, and more educated than late adopters. Also, they were more likely to be renters and consider installation of digital home services before they moved in. Respondents who had higher innovativeness tended to experience more positive life changes after using digital home services and possessed more and many digital appliances. Remote control and remote meter reading service were the most preferable features among digital home services without no differences in three groups.

• 한국주거학회논문집
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• 제20권2호
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• pp.1-10
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• 2009

The supply of digital homes has been increasing but digital home services which meet consumer needs under the various conditions have not identified. The purpose of the study was to investigate the residents' personal characteristics living in digital apartments with comparison of their trait of innovativeness toward technology. Residents who lived in two apartment complexes equipped with fundamental digital home services (Level 1 service) were selected to conduct the survey. A total of 500 responses were used for data analyses. Responses were classified into three groups based on their innovativeness toward technology for data analyses. The results of the study showed that residents' sociodemographic and housing related characteristics differed according to their acceptance trait of new technology. Early adopters and early majority were younger, higher income, and more educated than late adopters. Also, they were more likely to be renters and consider installation of digital home services before they moved in. Respondents who had higher innovativeness tended to experience more positive life changes after using digital home services and possessed more and many digital appliances. Remote control and remote meter reading service were the most preferable features among digital home services without no differences in three groups.

• 한국산학기술학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국산학기술학회 2003년도 Proceeding
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• pp.163-167
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• 2003

This paper investigates the lifestyles in Korean market. We will classify the groups using cluster analysis, and exploit the characteristics of innovators. These groups can be verified by multiple comparisons. This research is accomplished by sample survey between June 92003 and June 27 2003. Korean market for innovation can be classified into four groups such as innovators, early adopters, late majority, and laggards, which are similar to Rodger's classification. The ratios of four groups are 11%, 24.4%, 48.9%, 15.7% respectively. innovators, and late majority are heavy groups in that early adopter group is omitted on the contrary. Whereas innovators have a tendency to adopt the innovation quickly, rest groups have resistance for innovations and adopt slowly. The brief demographic characteristics of innovators are that the ratio of students is 44.44%, the ratio of single is 69.44%, the age between 15 and 25 is 56.95%, and the salary is relatively low compared with other cluster. The summary of lifestyle of innovators is that they are active, want to do worldwide business, want to have good relationship with high society, want to know the information of innovations, etc.

• 한국언론정보학보
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• 제29권
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• pp.111-145
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• 2005

본 연구에서는 HDTV방송 4년째를 맞고 있는 국내 지상파TV 3사의 HDTV프로그램 편성관계자와 제작PD와의 심층인터뷰, HDTV 편성 특성에 관한 분석을 통해서 HDTV 편성상의 문제점을 비판적으로 고찰하고, 활성화 방안을 모색해 보았다. 먼저 편성상의 특징을 살펴본 결과 방송위원회가 규정한 주당 13시간 이상의 시간량을 훨씬 초과해서 편성하고 있는 것으로 나타났다. 그러나, 주시청시간대의 HDTV 편성비율이 낮아 수용자들이 HDTV를 경험할 수 있는 기회가 제한되고, 고화질, 광폭화면 등 HDTV의 특성을 구현할 수 있고, 조기 수용자(early adopter)들이 선호하는 다큐멘터리, 스포츠, 영화 등의 편성비율이 낮다는 점에서 HDTV 확산에 도움을 주지 못하고 있는 것으로 보인다. 이를 개선하기 위해서는 방송사들이 초기 제작비 부담이 있더라도 HDTV 제작에 관한 경쟁력 강화와 향후 수용자 확보를 위해서 다큐멘터리나 스포츠, 드라마에 대한 적극적인 편성전략을 모색해야 하며, 지상파TV 디지털전환의 또 다른 주체인 정책당국과 가전업체의 HD콘텐츠 제작 활성화를 위한 적극적 지원이 요구된다.

• 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.

• Asia pacific journal of information systems
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• 제13권4호
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• pp.257-277
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• 2003

Recently, organizations intend to adopt new information technology for acquiring relative advantages in competitive business environment. Especially, many companies have paid attention to web-based electronic commerce. But research in this area has largely been performed to the operational and technical aspects of web site. Also the World Wide Web(web) has become one of the most widely used information technologies, but research indicates that there are many firm that are still considering whether to establish a web presence. This study examines factors influencing adoption of corporate web site over time. To examine why companies adopt web site, this study regards web site as an innovation and finds out these reason through Innovation Diffusion Theory. Independent variables of this research are composed of innovation characteristics, organizational characteristics and environmental characteristics. By the result of logistic regression analysis, we find that there are significant differences between early adopters and late adopters of web site for three adoption factors : top management support, organization size, environmental uncertainty. These findings confirm the theoretical frame for adoption of corporate web site. Also this study will provide good guidelines to the companies and the vendors in shaping the strategies of IT adoption and IT diffusion respectively.

• 한국IT서비스학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국IT서비스학회 2003년도 춘계학술대회
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• pp.387-394
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• 2003

웹 서비스는 기업 간 통합의 문제를 저렴하게 해결해 줄 있는 획기적인 대안으로 소프트웨어 분야에서 크게 주목받고 있다. 웹 서비스는 아직까지 시장의 선각수용자(early adopters) 단계에 위치하고 있기 때문에, 그동안의 선행 연구들은 웹 서비스 아키텍처의 특정한 프로토콜 기술들에 초점을 맞추었을 뿐, 비즈니스 관점에서 전체적인 활용방안을 제시하지 못하였다. 본 논문에서는 그 구체적인 활용방안으로 음료수 자판기의 판매 데이터 제공 웹 서비스인 VMWS(Vending Machine Web Services)를 구현하였다. 그 결과, 기업은 VMWS처럼, 기존의 비즈니스 모델을 웹 서비스로 전환하는 접근방법으로부터 출발해야 하며, 그러한 비즈니스 모델들 중 가장 크게 네트워크 효과(network effect)를 발휘할 수 있는 허브(hub)적인 성격을 갖는 데이터들이나 비즈니스 기능들을 발굴하여 판매전략을 수립하되, 반드시 명심할 점으로, 기존의 IT 아키텍처와 조화를 이룰 수 있도록 단순하게 시작하여 점진적으로 웹 서비스의 도입전략을 추진해야 한다는 시사점을 얻을 수 있었다.