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User Experience Analysis of Smart bands

스마트 밴드에 대한 사용자경험 분석

  • 김건아 (인제대학교 디자인연구소) ;
  • 김석태 (인제대학교 실내디자인학과)
  • Received : 2017.05.30
  • Accepted : 2017.08.17
  • Published : 2017.08.31

Abstract

With the advancement of Information and Communication Technology (ICT), the wearable-device industry is growing at a rapid pace in line with the hyper-connected society of people-to-things and things-to-things network connections. International Data Corporation (IDC), a market research institute, estimates that the wearable-device industry will grow rapidly by 2020, despite not yet attracting a popular response. This study investigates the trend of the wearable-device industry and draws implications for product and service development through user experience analysis. The subject of analysis was smart bands and the data generated from product review were collected and analyzed. As a result, user experience could extract utility, usability, aesthetics, value, and reliability, and polarity was analysed and visualized in the extracted data. The study results reveal that current wearable-devices are expensive, that users cannot receive useful information from the long-term viewpoint since the analysis of accumulated data remains focused on functional development, and that they are recognized as a fashion item or an accessory. These factors hinder the continuous usage, motivation and market spread of the product. In a future follow-up study, we will conduct a comparative study on bands and watches by analyzing the second smart watch.

ICT(Information and Communications Technologies)의 발전으로 사람과 사물 사물과 사물이 네트워크로 연결되는 초연결사회로 진입하면서 웨어러블 디바이스 산업이 빠른 속도로 성장하고 있다. 시장조사기관인 IDC(International Data Corporation)에서는 웨어러블 디바이스 산업이 2020년까지 급성장할 것이라는 전망을 내놓고 있지만 아직 대중적인 호응은 얻지 못하고 있다. 이에 본 연구에서는 웨어러블 디바이스 산업동향에 대해 살펴보고, 사용자경험에 대한 분석을 통해 제품과 서비스 개발을 위한 시사점을 도출하고자 한다. 분석 대상은 스마트밴드로하여 상품리뷰를 수집 분석하였다. 분석결과 웨어러블 디바이스에 대한 사용자경험은 유용성, 사용성, 심미성, 가치성, 신뢰성으로 추출할 수 있었고 이렇게 추출된 자료에서 극성을 분석하여 시각화 하였다. 본 연구를 통해 현재 웨어러블 디바이스는 가격이 고가이고, 기능 개발에 집중되어 있어 축적된 정보를 분석해 사용자에게 장기적인 관점에서 유용한 정보를 제공하지 못하고 있으며 패션아이템이나 악세서리로 인식되고 있는 것을 알 수 있었다. 이러한 점은 제품의 지속적인 사용과 동기부여, 제품의 시장 확산을 저해하는 요인으로 작용하고 있다. 후속 연구에서는 2차로 스마트워치를 대상으로 분석하여 밴드와 워치에 대한 비교연구를 진행하고자 한다.

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