• Journal of Information Technology Applications and Management
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• v.19 no.4
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• pp.41-59
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• 2012

This study examines the roles of user resistance and social influences on the acceptance and continuous usage of smartphones at different stages of adoption. The respondents were classified into three groups according to their innovation adoption stage : non-user group, the potential user group and the trial user group. Theories relevant to user resistance, social influences including normative social influences and informational social influences, as well as user adoption and continuance behavior were reviewed and integrated into our research model. In order to verify the proposed structured equation model, we conducted an online survey by targeting mobile phone users and collected data to be analyzed through a partial least squares (PLS) test. This study tested whether there exists differences in the effects of user resistance and different types of social influence on user's adoption or continuance intetion among these three groups. The results showed that user resistance exists in all adopter groups and that it has significant negative influences on intention to use a smartphone. The findings also revealed that user resistance can be enhanced or resolved by two types of social influence; informational social influence resolves user resistance regardless of the adopter category, while normative social influence enhances the user resistance of potential users. Furthermore, the findings show that social influence regardless of the type positively affects user intention. Several theoretic and practical implications pertaining to the results are discussed.

• Management & Information Systems Review
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• v.33 no.2
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• pp.63-79
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• 2014

This study is based on the previous studies on m-commerce features, found factors that affects reliability and user's intention. After that, it examined how these factors influence the relationship between reliability and user's intention. In addition, this study showed that some factors have different influence on Korean and Chinese users in terms of reliability and user's intention. The main results of this study are as follows: (1) Personal innovation attributed to reliability in both Korea and China. Personal innovation also attributed to user's intention in Korea. (2) Localization, reach ability, security, and convenience had different influence on use and reliability in the two countries. (3) And the influences between reliability and user's intention are all positive both in Korea and China. Based on the result of this empirical study, this study reveal some implications for the firms that running with mobile business in both Korea and China.

• Journal of Technology Innovation
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• v.17 no.1
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• pp.49-67
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• 2009

As technological capabilities have enhanced, the patterns of innovation activities of latecomer firms changed to post catch-up mode. The purpose of this research is to analyze the post catch-up innovation patterns of technology-intensive small and medium firms of Korea. The innovation patterns can be divided into three types: the technology deepening innovation type, the new technology based innovation type and the architectural innovation type. The characteristics of the technology deepening innovation type are cumulative technological learning and the integration of new generic technology and existing technologies. The characteristics of new technology based type are the acquisition and revelations of new basic knowledges from former incubating organizations such as large firms and universities. The characteristics of the architectural innovation type are the learning of system architecture knowledge from former organization and interactive learning with user firms. These post catch up innovations also have some general characteristics. They effectively exploited the windows of opportunities which are opened in the middle of technological paradigm change.

• Journal of Korea Technology Innovation Society
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• v.8 no.3
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• pp.911-931
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• 2005

This paper analyzes the demand characteristics of DMB services using survey data. According to a Logit analysis, the willingness to adopt the services is higher if the would-be user is male, is better informed with the service, is watching TV longer, and is spending more for the telecommunications services. And the survey results tell us that for the stimulation of the service, efforts should be made to increase the level of public awareness of the services. The survey response from the would-be DMB users shows that the respondents who value the nationwide coverage and the numbers of channel are more inclined to use the satellite DMB service. On the other hand, the service charge and the availability of the terrestrial broadcasting channel for the time being does not seem to influence the intention of using the terrestrial DMB service. It could be interpreted that the potential user are deciding whether to use the service more by the quality and contents of the service rather than by the cost of the service.

• Journal of Korean Society for Quality Management
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• v.30 no.3
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• pp.94-110
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• 2002

This research focuses on internet advertisement success factors derived from the relevant researches and clarified the concept of user and information characteristics. The corresponding determinants are suggested such as organizational characteristics, user characteristics, and information characteristics. Success factor of internet advertisement is used by user attitude. We then examine the impact of corresponding determinants on the success factors. Hypotheses on their characteristics were tested for 174 persons. The results indicated that organizational characteristic, user characteristic and information characteristic was partly found as a positive impact on the internet advertisement success while quality of innovation and purchase promotion traits were not significant.

• Journal of Information Technology Services
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• v.9 no.3
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• pp.145-161
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• 2010

Recently, identifying user locations is becoming important as the society evolves into an ubiquitous society with the innovation of information technology. Particularly, many researches on identifying user locations are headed in direction to identify locations of users in the indoors, because a GPS that is widely used to identify the locations of users in the outdoors is inapplicable in the indoors. However, those researches are mostly not useful to general indoor environment because they are performed in a specific environment with specialized or customized devices such as UWB, RFID. Therefore, in this paper we propose a effective method to identify user locations in general indoor environments with wireless local network access points. Our approach enables to identify user location efficiently by measuring signal power of access points around the user and using the FRIIS formula which is used to calculate the distance among the things.

• Journal of Korean Society for Quality Management
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• v.49 no.3
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• pp.359-374
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• 2021

Purpose: This study attempted to verify which factor affects the intention to use of the connected car that has recently emerged. Methods: Based on prior researches, this study derives the characteristics of connected car that affects user intention and designs research model for empirical analysis. A structured questionnaire was conducted for those who drive cars, and a total of 292 usable responses were collected and empirically analyzed using SPSS and PLS. Results: The results of this study are as follows; service quality, hedonic motivation, and social influence have a significant effect on perceived value, but system quality, information quality, user innovation, experience and facilitating condition did not. In addition, it was found that system quality, information quality, service quality, user innovation, facilitating conditions and social influence have a significant effect on satisfaction, but hedonic motivation and experience did not affect satisfaction. Conclusion: The findings of this empirical analysis have implications for effectively recognizing the value of connected cars based on the technology of information systems to users and establishing sustainable growth strategies for connected car producers and suppliers.

• Journal of Korea Technology Innovation Society
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• v.6 no.1
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• pp.92-109
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• 2003

To launch effective mobile Internet marketing strategies, firms need to understand mobile Internet user behavior. Thus in this study we investigated factors that affect on the repurchase intention of mobile Internet users. A random sample of 501 users was surveyed. Overall satisfaction (mediating factor), flow and interactivity factors (initial factor) were found to have the most significant impact on the reuse intention and discrepancy factor is not significant to the reuse intention.

• The Journal of Information Technology
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• v.10 no.4
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• pp.11-26
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• 2007

EDS is a typical convergence service performing convergence between functions owned by multiple SPs. EDS provides users with the relevant information and the communication by the various personal conditional environment. An alternative terminology for events for net- work related applications is 'triggers'-these are assumed to be included in the present description. Events could be defined as any activities which occur within a service avail ability, signals. Events can be managed, for example, as part of a context-aware application. EDS carry out a procedure for processing user's requested information about mobil network-based entities, such as the combination with various applications, such as a LBS (Location Based Service) and area information. In AS (Application Service) network environments, the user has his customized EDS in the network, the EDS automatically connects the appropriate Terminals consistent with a user profile. EDS can also send the collected information to other requesting users by way of event information and using the procedures of combination with other services. The user can record/retrieve the user-related information to from the information base through EDS.

• Journal of the Korea Convergence Society
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• v.12 no.5
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• pp.157-166
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• 2021

With the rising of the middle-class in China, the garage reserve has become an important element considered by the high-end community in improving user's experience. Taking Oak Bay, China as an example, this study aims to present a new system of storage service that can help companies achieve sustainable development of storage services. In order to achieve this goal, a customized service process is made by investigating user's need with sample visits and in-depth interviews, and finding user's key points with journey maps. The final analysis shows that this storage service system helps to expand the space and improve user's satisfaction. Therefore, this paper provides theoretical support and practical basis of garage services for other construction companies, and greatly improves the service system of community.