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Attitude Confidence and User Resistance for Purchasing Wearable Devices on Virtual Reality: Based on Virtual Reality Headgears

가상현실 웨어러블 기기의 구매 촉진을 위한 태도 자신감과 사용자 저항 태도: 가상현실 헤드기어를 중심으로

  • Sohn, Bong-Jin (Department of Tourism Management, Global Business School, Soonchunhyang University) ;
  • Park, Da-Sul (Department of International Cultural Studies, College of Humanities, Soonchunhyang University) ;
  • Choi, Jaewon (Department of Business Administration, Soonchunhyang University)
  • 손봉진 (순천향대학교 관광경영학과) ;
  • 박다슬 (순천향대학교 국제문화학과) ;
  • 최재원 (순천향대학교 경영학과)
  • Received : 2016.08.17
  • Accepted : 2016.09.24
  • Published : 2016.09.30
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Abstract

Over the past decade, there has been a rapid diffusion of technological devices and a rising number of various devices, resulting in an escalation of virtual reality technology. Technological market has rapidly been changed from smartphone to wearable devices based on virtual reality. Virtual reality can make users feel real situation through sensing interaction, voice, motion capture and so on. Facebook.com, Google, Samsung, LG, Sony and so on have investigated developing platform of virtual reality. the pricing of virtual reality devices also had decreased into 30% from their launched period. Thus market infrastructure in virtual reality have rapidly been developed to crease marketplace. However, most consumers recognize that virtual reality is not ease to purchase or use. That could not lead consumers to positive attitude for devices and purchase the related devices in the early market. Through previous studies related to virtual reality, there are few studies focusing on why the devices for virtual reality stayed in early stage in adoption & diffusion context in the market. Almost previous studies considered the reasons of hard adoption for innovative products in the viewpoints of Typology of Innovation Resistance, MIR(Management of Innovation Resistant), UTAUT & UTAUT2. However, product-based antecedents also important to increase user intention to purchase and use products in the technological market. In this study, we focus on user acceptance and resistance for increasing purchase and usage promotions of wearable devices related to virtual reality based on headgear products like Galaxy Gear. Especially, we added a variables like attitude confidence as a dimension for user resistance. The research questions of this study are follows. First, how attitude confidence and innovativeness resistance affect user intention to use? Second, What factors related to content and brand contexts can affect user intention to use? This research collected data from the participants who have experiences using virtual rality headgears aged between 20s to 50s located in South Korea. In order to collect data, this study used a pilot test and through making face-to-face interviews on three specialists, face validity and content validity were evaluated for the questionnaire validity. Cleansing the data, we dropped some outliers and data of irrelevant papers. Totally, 156 responses were used for testing the suggested hypotheses. Through collecting data, demographics and the relationships among variables were analyzed through conducting structural equation modeling by PLS. The data showed that the sex of respondents who have experience using social commerce sites (male=86(55.1%), female=70(44.9%). The ages of respondents are mostly from 20s (74.4%) to 30s (16.7%). 126 respondents (80.8%) have used virtual reality devices. The results of our model estimation are as follows. With the exception of Hypothesis 1 and 7, which deals with the two relationships between brand awareness to attitude confidence, and quality of content to perceived enjoyment, all of our hypotheses were supported. In compliance with our hypotheses, perceived ease of use (H2) and use innovativeness (H3) were supported with its positively influence for the attitude confidence. This finding indicates that the more ease of use and innovativeness for devices increased, the more users' attitude confidence increased. Perceived price (H4), enjoyment (H5), Quantity of contents (H6) significantly increase user resistance. However, perceived price positively affect user innovativeness resistance meanwhile perceived enjoyment and quantity of contents negatively affect user innovativeness resistance. In addition, aesthetic exterior (H6) was also positively associated with perceived price (p<0.01). Also projection quality (H8) can increase perceived enjoyment (p<0.05). Finally, attitude confidence (H10) increased user intention to use virtual reality devices. however user resistance (H11) negatively affect user intention to use virtual reality devices. The findings of this study show that attitude confidence and user innovativeness resistance differently influence customer intention for using virtual reality devices. There are two distinct characteristic of attitude confidence: perceived ease of use and user innovativeness. This study identified the antecedents of different roles of perceived price (aesthetic exterior) and perceived enjoyment (quality of contents & projection quality). The findings indicated that brand awareness and quality of contents for virtual reality is not formed within virtual reality market yet. Therefore, firms should developed brand awareness for their product in the virtual market to increase market share.

스마트폰을 넘어 차세대 IT 비즈니스의 주목할 만한 후보군으로 가상현실이 이슈가 되고 있다. 가상현실은 컴퓨터와 VR헤드셋을 통해 구현한 입체적인 가상공간을 제공함으로써 사용자의 시각을 완전히 장악하고, 청각, 촉각 등 오감과의 상호작용 및 음성, 동작인식 등을 통해 가상공간을 마치 현실처럼 느끼게 한다는 점에서 향후 주목할 만한 산업 분야로 떠오르고 있다. 많은 글로벌 대기업들이 가상현실과 관련한 사업에 투자를 하고 있으나 소비자의 관점에서 가상현실 관련 제품군은 아직 쉽게 접하거나 구매하기 어려운 제품군으로 인식된다. 그렇기 때문에 소비자의 태도 변화가 큰 변화가 발생되고 있지 않으며 Acception & Diffusion 모델의 초기단계에 지나지 않아 구매로 연결되지 않는 실정이다. 본 연구는 기존 선행연구의 관점을 바탕으로 가상현실 헤드기어 제품들의 판매 촉진을 위한 사용자 관점에서의 사용자 저항을 매개 변수로 저항을 감소시키고 사용 및 구매의도에 영향을 주는 선행요인들을 도출하고자 하였으며 사용자가 가지고 있는 태도에 대한 자신감에 영향을 주어 행동 의도까지 변화시키는 현상에 대한 분석을 하고자 하였다. 본 연구의 결과는 태도 자신감에 대한 사용 용이성과 사용 혁신성의 영향력을 확인할 수 있었다. 마찬가지로 사용자 혁신저항에 영향력을 주는 변수로는 가격, 심미적 외관, 즐거움, 콘텐츠 및 화질 관련 변수들을 도출하였다. 결과적으로 본 연구는 태도 자신감의 가상현실 혁신 수용에 대한 영향력을 제시하고 가격 이외 변수인 콘텐츠의 양과 저항감의 관계성을 바탕으로 관련 변수들을 제시하였다. 특히 초기 시장인 가상현실 제품의 특성에 따라 브랜드에 대한 선점효과의 필요성과 콘텐츠의 부족함 등이 실무적으로 해결해야 할 과제로서 확인되었다.

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