• Asian Journal of Business Environment
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• 제4권3호
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• pp.5-12
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• 2014

Purpose - This study is aimed at examining Indian consumers' online shopping motivations, information search, and shopping intentions. The study intends to reveal the relationship between online shopping motivations, information search, and shopping intentions. Research design, data, and methodology - The study employs factor analysis to verify correct loading of items on corresponding factors, and to confirm the applicability of constructs in the Indian context. The model was verified using stepwise regression analysis. Results -The findings show that hedonic and utilitarian motivations significantly affect online information search and shopping intentions. The information search is a significant predictor of online purchase intention. Conclusions - Hedonic and utilitarian motivations are the salient factors affecting online information search and purchase intentions. Marketers are required to design websites that foster an enjoyable online experience. This will attract customers who will browse the website for a longer duration. More time devoted to information search will ensure brand building and loyalty.

• 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.

• 한국의류학회지
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• 제28권8호
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• pp.1065-1075
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• 2004

The purpose of this study is to examine consumers＇ internet clothing shopping motives and its relation with information search and impulse buying behavior. Also, this study examines how these variables affect internet shopping satisfaction. An on-line survey was made to collect data, and the replies from 940 people, who had an experience of apparel shopping on line, were used in the analysis. The research results are as follows: 1. As the results of factor, internet shopping motives comprised 4 factors: pleasure shopping motive, economy shopping motive, and information search shopping motive. 2. Consumers usually visited 3 different sites to shop clothing and they spent about 15-30 minutes at the malls. 3. Pleasure shopping motive and ongoing information search influenced on impulse buying behaviors. 4. Ongoing information search, economy shopping motive and impulse shopping behavior gave a strong influence on the internet shopping satisfaction. 5. Consumers were classified into 4 groups in terms of internet shopping motives: convenience group, economy pursuing group, and pleasure pursuing group.

• 한국생활과학회지
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• 제8권3호
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• pp.499-509
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• 1999

The purpose of this study is to make up an effective market strategy for distinguishing clothing shops through analysing the influences on store choice behaviors by demographical characteristics, clothing shopping orientations and information search activities as well as analysing the effects of information search activities according to clothing shopping orientations, together with clarifying the dimension of clothing shopping orientations and information search activities. Clothing shopping orientations were factor analyzed resulting five factors, such as Recreational Shopping, Store/Brand Loyalty, Economic Shopping, Fashion Synchronization, Careful shopping. Information search behavior were factor analyzed resulting five factors, such as mass media information, commercial media information, personal information, store information, past experience information. According to a result of looking into the influences of clothing shopping orientations on information search behaviors, as shopping orientation for pleasure, fashion synchronization orientation, brand store royal orientation & economical orientation go high, the search degree of store information & mass media information, commercial media information & personal information, past experience information and personal information raise up respectively more and more. The results of regression analysis at factors affecting the store choice behaviors are significantly different.

• 한국전자거래학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국전자거래학회 2001년도 International Conference CALS/EC KOREA
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• pp.625-629
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• 2001

A cyber shopping mall is a place where consumers acquire product information, and make purchase decisions in the cyber space. Even though it offers many advantages over traditional malls, there are still several limitations to do shopping in an existing cyber mall. One of these limitations is the absence of an efficient shopping aid to compare multiple items from multiple malls. Existing search systems usually support a keyword search with limited conditions. Consumers spend lots of their time to compare multiple alternatives from search results. In this paper, we propose an intelligent product search system. There are two main features in our system. The first one is a full support of comparison shopping with multiple perspectives based on commercial search engines. The second one is an enhancement to the shopping aid based on a new concept of Shopping AssistanT. Our system is implemented in Visual Basic and PERL, and experimental results show a satisfactory performance.

• 지능정보연구
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• 제20권2호
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• pp.123-136
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• 2014

최근 온라인 및 다양한 스마트 기기의 사용이 확산됨에 따라 온라인을 통한 쇼핑구매가 더욱 활성화 되었다. 때문에 인터넷 쇼핑몰들은 쇼핑에 관심이 있는 잠재 고객들에게 한 번이라도 더 자사의 링크를 노출시키기 위해 키워드에 비용을 지불할 용의가 있으며, 이러한 추세는 검색 광고 시장의 광고비를 증가시키는 원인을 제공하였다. 이 때 키워드의 가치는 대체로 검색어의 빈도수에 기반을 두어 산정된다. 하지만 포털 사이트에서 검색어로 자주 입력되는 모든 단어가 쇼핑과 관련이 있는 것은 아니며, 이들 키워드 중에는 빈도수는 높지만 쇼핑몰 관점에서는 별로 수익과 관련이 없는 키워드도 다수 존재한다. 그렇기 때문에 특정 키워드가 사용자들에게 많이 노출된다고 해서, 이를 통해 구매가 이루어질 것을 기대하여 해당 키워드에 많은 광고비를 지급하는 것은 매우 비효율적인 방식이다. 따라서 포털 사이트의 빈발 검색어 중 쇼핑몰 관점에서 중요한 키워드를 추출하는 작업이 별도로 요구되며, 이 과정을 빠르고 효과적으로 수행하기 위한 자동화 방법론에 대한 수요가 증가하고 있다. 본 연구에서는 이러한 수요에 부응하기 위해 포털 사이트에 입력된 키워드 중 쇼핑의도를 포함하고 있을 가능성이 높을 것으로 추정되는 키워드만을 자동으로 추출하는 방안을 제시하고, 구체적으로는 전체 검색어 중 검색결과 페이지에서 쇼핑과 관련 된 페이지로 이동한 검색어만을 추출하여 순위를 집계하고, 이 순위를 전체 검색 키워드의 순위와 비교하였다. 국내 최대의 검색 포털인 'N'사에서 이루어진 검색 약 390만 건에 대한 실험결과, 제안 방법론에 의해 추천된 쇼핑의도 포함 키워드가 단순 빈도수 기반의 키워드에 비해 정확도, 재현율, F-Score의 모든 측면에서 상대적으로 우수한 성능을 보이는 것으로 나타남을 확인할 수 있었다.

• 아태비즈니스연구
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• 제15권1호
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• pp.45-69
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• 2024

Purpose - To examine the influence of mobile visual search as a strategic technology service on consumer perceived economic value and customer commitments, which in turn affect consumer's usage intention of mobile visual search. This study also explores the moderating effect of different levels of consumer online shopping orientation. Design/methodology/approach - One-by-one open-ended in-depth interview was first undertaken to 15 Korean consumers to figure the features of mobile visual search. Then a conceptual model was built to verify the hypotheses that indicate the impact of mobile visual search on consumer perceived economic value and customer commitment, which further influence consumer's usage intention. Findings - The results show Convenience, Information quality, Personalization, Text-free search interface design and Visual communication of mobile visual search positively influence consumer perceived economic value and customer commitment and in turn positively affect consumer's usage intention. Moreover, the different levels of consumer online shopping orientation also found to have different effects on consumers' perception and behavior of using mobile visual search in online fashion shopping. Research implications or Originality - The present study verified that mobile visual search is a service tool that consumers want to use in the online fashion shopping journey since it provides economic benefits.

• 한국의류학회지
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• 제35권8호
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• pp.918-932
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• 2011

This research examines shopping motives, information search of e-fashion consumers and their behavioral intentions (word of mouth, repurchase and site switching intentions). The survey was conducted from December $17^{th}$ 2010 to January $5^{th}$ 2011 and all respondents had previous experiences with on-line purchase of fashion items. The study finds that an information search has three dimensions, recreational search, informative search, and rational search. The effects of both hedonic and utilitarian shopping motives on information search and behavioral intentions are significant. In addition, recreational and informative search have a positive impact on word of mouth and site switching intentions, while repurchase intention is influenced by an informative search. Rational search has a positive effect on switching intention only. Finally, there are significant differences by gender in shopping motives, information search and behavioral intentions.

• 한국전자거래학회지
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• 제4권3호
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• pp.179-196
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• 1999

A cyber shopping mall is a place where consumers acquire the product information and make purchase decision in the cyber space. Even though there are many advantages over traditional malls, there are still several limitations to do shopping in an existing cyber mall. One of them is the absence of efficient search tool to handle various products specifications. Existing search systems usually support the "keyword search only" with limited product information. Consumers spend lots of their time and efforts in searching products and comparing them. Recently, some web sites provide the shopping mall comparison service that supports the additional search conditions such as price and maker. These services improve the situation but it is not still acceptable. In this paper, we propose an intelligent product search system based on a mediator which supports various conditional search for each product. Our system provides consumers with search results that satisfy purchase specifications. Our system is implemented in Visual basic and pert and experimental results show satisfactory performance.

• 대한가정학회지
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• 제42권9호
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• pp.195-212
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• 2004

The purpose of this study was to analyze consumers' perceived risk and information search behaviors in internet shopping. For this purpose, survey was conducted on 302 consumers in their 20s and 30s who had internet shopping experience. This study found that consumers' perceived risk was significantly related to their gender, educational level, income, credit card use, period of internet un, number of internet shopping experiences, and purchased product. Consumers' search behaviors were also significantly affected by gender, age, educational level, income, period of internet use, and purchased product. In addition, a higher level of consumers' perceived risk was significantly related to the amount of information search on product attributes themselves rather than on general information search such as the number of sites or the number of brands.