• International Journal of Contents
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• 제8권1호
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• pp.69-73
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• 2012

This paper aims to present colour theories and show how they can be used to explain consumer's preferences of some products over others. It will, furthermore, attempt to link these theories to the design industry and look at how colour associations determine product success. Due to associative learning and personal preference, the colours of objects can cause consumers to either favour or dislike products over those with identical functions and efficiency. Age and gender affect the preferred colour choices of the individual, making some products more popular to particular groups of potential consumers. Designers can utilise colour theories to ensure that they use the most appropriate colour schemes to maximise and appeal to their targeted market successfully. A survey was conducted with 100 participants. It demonstrates the associative links between colours, emotions and product categories. It can be shown that the colour of an object can contribute to its success or failure in the market based on a number of different criteria. The design must use colour confidently to evoke certain emotions or connotations and must be carried out appropriately. The designer also has to consider whom it is that be viewing it and making the decision of preference.

• 한국식생활문화학회지
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• 제21권5호
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• pp.456-462
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• 2006

The object of this research is to assess both the preference and the recognition on commercial cream soup by gender and age group to design reliable proposals for better product. Of 461 questionnaires handed out to residents at Daegu, Busan and Gyeongju in youngnam area. The data were analysed by chi-square test, t-test and one way ANOVA. The results are summarized as following: (1) the response rate of 78.6 percent liked soup because of it's taste, (2) respondents in ages 20${\sim}$30's showed higher preference than respondents in ages 40${\sim}$50's (3) main ingredient is the most important consideration as purchase, (4) vegetable cream soup and mushroom cream soup are shown as highest ranking on the recognition of soup, (5) mushroom cream soup and corn cream soup are shown as highest ranking on the preference of soup.

• 동아시아식생활학회지
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• 제16권3호
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• pp.242-250
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• 2006

The purpose of this study was to identify tourist product factor combinations which confer the highest utility to tourists and to establish the relative importance of factors in terms of their contribution to total utility across gender. Among 250 questionnaires, 230 questionnaires were utilized for the analysis. $X^2$ analysis, Conjoint model, Max. Utility model, BTL model, Logit model, K-means cluster analysis, and one-way anova analysis were used for this study. The findings from this study were as follows. First, the Pearson's R and Kendall's tau statistics showed that the model fitted the data well across gender. Second, it was found that total respondents and three clusters regarded taste price as the very important factor across gender. Third, it was found that the male and female tourists most preferred product with light red color, shaped package, and highly pungent taste sold at a cheap price in factory. Fourth, it was found that the male tourists most preferred simulation product with light red color, shaped package, and highly pungent taste sold at a cheap price in factory. The female tourists most preferred simulation product with light red color, shaped package, and mild taste sold at a cheap price in factory. Finally, the results of the study provide some insights into the types of effective product designs that can be successfully developed by marketers.

• 한국의상디자인학회지
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• 제16권1호
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• pp.1-13
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• 2014

The purposes of the study were to explore differences in preference for clothing images according to wearing situations and clothing product involvement. A questionnaire was developed by the researcher and was collected by 101 men and 100 women aged between 40 and 59. Data were analyzed by factor analysis, repeated measure ANOVA, t-test adjusted by Bonferroni, paired sample t-test, and independent sample t-test. The results of the study showed that clothing images were classified into five factors including hard cold image, modern urban image, bold unique image, and heavy luxurious image. There were significant differences in preference among clothing images according to wearing situations and clothing product involvement. While modern urbane image was most preferred, hard cold image was least preferred in both formal and informal wearing situations, and for either high or low involvement clothing products. Also, there were significant differences in clothing image preference according to wearing situations and product involvement. In formal situations, stronger preference for modern urban image and heavy luxurious image showed than in informal situations, and bold unique image and heavy luxurious image were more preferred for high involvement clothing product than for low involvement clothing product. In addition, there were significant differences in preferences for clothing images between groups according to gender and age. In both formal and informal situations, men showed stronger preferences than women for hard cold image, but women for bold unique image. For either high or low involvement clothing products, men preferred hard cold image, modern urban image and heavy luxurious image more than women, but women preferred bold unique image more than men. Lastly, for high involvement clothing product, subjects aged fifties showed stronger preferences than forties for modern urban image and heavy luxurious image, but for low involvement clothing product, modern urban image was more preferred.

• 한국식생활문화학회지
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• 제22권4호
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• pp.511-519
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• 2007

The purpose of this study was to evaluate satisfaction degree on menu served and identify food preference of the meal served to 271 business and industry foodservice workers from 4 institutions by gender difference. The demographics indicated that male(54.6%) and female(45.4%) were about an half each, mean age was ranged from 20 to 39 years old. The workers were not contented with most of menu quality attributes served from past foodservice operation. Primary complaint was improper temperature of the meal. Most workers liked meat and fish(52.1%) the most. Sensory quality evaluation from all workers was 3.37 points out of 5 points. However, female workers rated higher on the most of menu(3.72 points) compared with that of male workers(3.35 points), indicating that satisfaction was higher in the female workers(p<0.05). Mean preference of all the menu according to food type also have shown higher in female(3.52 point) than in male(3.45 point). Best food preference according to food type considering cooking method of male was given to barley rice, boiled rice with assorted mixtures, marine product stew, and Kimchi stew. On the other hand, females cared for curried rice, hash rice, and spaghetti but males have shown low preferences to those foods females liked. Also, females liked more of fried, grilled and broiled food. However, both males and females showed indifferent taste about the food cooked with steamed and stewed. From the findings, the business and industry foodservice workers were not well satisfied with menu quality considerably and differed in food preferences by gender clearly. Therefore, the manager of foodservice institution require to consider composition of gender ratio in menu preparation along with sensory quality evaluation to lead the successful foodservice management.

• 디자인학연구
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• 제20권1호
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• pp.79-88
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• 2007

기업이 다른 어떤 방법으로 이미지를 쇄신한다고 하더라도 실질적인 제품의 정책과 조화를 이루는 제품의 색채 계획이 이루어지지 않는다면 그 상품은 신뢰를 얻을 수 없다. 즉, 제품의 색채는 제품의 기능과 용도, 형태, 재질 등의 제품의 특성에 종합적으로 관련되는 것으로서 제품의 중요한 품질로 여겨지기 때문이다. 많은 기업에서는 유행하는 색채나 미래의 소비 심리를 예측하기 위한 노력을 기울이고 있다. 그들의 노력을 따라가기 위해서는 기업들이 색채의 인프라를 구축하고 사회의 현상을 읽어낼 수 있는 능력을 키우며, 연령별, 소득별 등에 따른 소비자의 생활양식을 이해해야 한다. 본 연구에서는 젊은 세대들의 제품의 색채 선호 경향을 성별로 알아보고, 제품의 색채가 제품이미지와 제품태도에 미치는 영향에 대해서 실증적으로 분석하였다. 실험을 통하여 얻은 연구 자료는 SPSS/Win 12.0을 이용하여 빈도분석, 교차분석, T-test, One-Way ANOVA분석을 실시하였다. 본 연구에서 나타난 결과를 살펴보면, 제품의 색채에 따라 색채선호도, 제품이미지, 제품태도가 달라진다는 결론을 얻게 되었으며, 이러한 결과는 제품의 기능가치에 부가적인 감성가치를 형성하는 중요한 요소가 제품의 색채라는 점과, 특히 색채가 차지하는 비중이 큰 제품인 경우 소비자에게 미치는 영향을 사전에 조사하여, 소비자의 반응이 어떻게 달라지는지를 미리 점검하고 제품의 색채를 결정하는 것도 매우 중요하다는 시사점을 제시한다.

• 한국조리학회지
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• 제13권3호
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• pp.252-262
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• 2007

The object of this research is to assess the preference for commercial cream soup by gender and age group in order to develop reliable proposals for a better product. A total of 488 questionnaires were handed out to residents in the Seoul area. The data were analysed using chi-square test, t-test and one-way ANOVA. The results are summarized as follows: (1) 80.3% liked soup because of its flavor, taste, and ingredients, (2) respondents in their $20{\sim}30's$ exhibited higher preference than respondents in their $40{\sim}50's$, (3) the main ingredient is the most important consideration for purchase, (4) mush-room cream soup and broccoli cream soup earned the highest ranking in terms of soup brand recognition, (5) mushroom cream soup and broccoli cream soup earned the highest ranking in terms of soup preference.

• 산경연구논집
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• 제11권1호
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• pp.29-38
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• 2020

Purpose: Understanding which product types of overseas travel (free independent travel vs. package travel) consumers will choose is one of the key issues of marketing and consumer behavior in travel agency management. Prior studies on overseas travel type preferences mainly focused on comparing regional differences (e.g., Asian vs. Westerner, or Korean vs. Australian, or Korean vs. Japanese, or American, French, Italian vs. Japanese) influencing the choice of overseas travel type. Another researchers focused on comparing cultural differences (e.g., individualism vs. collectivism, or individualistic culture vs. collectivistic culture), subcultural difference (e.g., acculturation; Koreans living in Republic of Korea vs. Koreans living in Australia), travel lifestyle, and socio-demographics (e.g., age, gender, income level, education level, marital status, occupation etc.). However, there are few studies that identify individual psychological differences (i.e., individual psychological differences within the same culture) influencing the choice of overseas travel type. Self-construal is a psychological factors that greatly influences choice behavior. The purpose of this study was to examine the role of self-construal as an antecedent variable influencing choice of overseas travel product type. Research design, data and methodology: To achieve the purpose of this study, the questionnaire survey method was used. Self-construal items composed of independent self-construal items and interdependent self-construal items. Product types of overseas travel were free independent travel (FIT) type versus package travel type. In this study, the correlation coefficient between independent self-construal and interdependent self-construal was nonsignificant. It meant that the relationship between independent self-construal and interdependent self-construal was orthogonal. Therefore it was analyzed that independent self-construal and interdependent self-construal separately. Reliability analysis, factor analysis, and logistic regression analysis (controlling gender and age) was used as the data analysis method. Results: According to the results of this study, the stronger independent self-construal, the more preference for the free independent travel type rather than package travel, and the stronger interdependent self-construal, the more preference for the package travel type rather than free independent travel. Conclusions: Self-construal is an antecedent variable influencing the choice of travel type. Travel agencies must consider the consumer's self-construal (independent self-construal vs. interdependent self-construal) before planning and designing overseas travel products.

• 한국멀티미디어학회논문지
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• 제15권1호
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• pp.166-178
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• 2012

감성 세대로의 진입에 따라 소비자들의 선호 색을 반영한 자동차 선호 색상을 개발하려는 연구가 진행되고 있다. 본 연구에서는 제품 디자인과 소비 심리에 영향을 줄 수 있는 계층별 선호색과 감성 이미지에 의한 자동차 색에 대하여 조사 하였다. 조사 대상은 연령대 별, 성별에 따라 남, 여 20대, 30대, 40대, 50대 이상을 기준으로 8분류로 나누어 각각 30명씩 실시하였다. 선호 색상은 검은색, 흰색, 하늘색, 보라색, 분홍색, 주황색 순으로 나타났으며 검은색, 흰색, 회색을 제외한 색상은 파란색, 노란색, 보라색 순으로 나타났다. 감성적인 자동차 색상을 색상으로 보여주었을 때와 색상으로 보여주지 않았을 때 차이가 있음을 알 수 있었다. 이는 좋아하는 색상은 감성에 따르고 있으나 실제로 자동차 이미지가 보수적으로 인식되어 밝은 유채색 차의 선택을 주저하고 있음을 보여준다. 즉 아직은 감정표출에 있어 소극적임을 보여주고 있는 것이다.

• 한국식품조리과학회지
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• 제30권2호
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• pp.146-152
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• 2014

This study surveyed consumers' sensory liking ratings of 3 types of developed brown rice products (brown rice nut waffles, Kimchi and tuna rice ball, sweet red-bean paste rice ball) and analyzed the drivers for liking or disliking the brown rice products. Each brown rice product had a brown rice to brown rice powder ratio of either: 100:0; 80:20; or 50:50. Forty consumers evaluated the acceptance of brown rice products on a 9-point hedonic scale and gave comments regarding liking or disliking each product. The results of the preference investigation analysis showed subjectivity depending on the brown rice product and the respondents' genders and ages. For brown rice nut waffles was affected by gender, age, and brown rice powder mixing ratio (p < 0.05). The variables "liking the aroma"; "liking the delicate flavor"; "liking the chewiness"; "liking the moistness"; "liking the softness"; "liking the harmony"; "liking the aftertaste" and "overall acceptability" did not differ significantly with the Kimchi and tuna rice ball. For the sweet red-bean paste rice ball product, the rates of liking the chewiness, stickiness, moistness, and softness of the 0% brown rice powder mix were all higher (p < 0.05) than were the rates of liking those same qualities in the 50% brown rice powder mix. Among all brown rice products, there were high correlations between the overall acceptability, liking the saltiness, liking the aroma, and liking the harmony. A preference investigation analysis showed that the brown rice product fillings were key factors to the products' overall acceptability.