• Journal of Digital Convergence
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• v.16 no.5
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• pp.407-417
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• 2018

The purpose of this study was to investigate the motives for using emoticons on mobile messengers and determine whether an individual's character (extrovert/introvert) played a moderating role in the relationship between the motives and purchase intention. To achieve that, this study had 198 users in their 10s to 60s fill in a questionnaire and analysed the answers. The analysis first showed that the motives of using emoticons on mobile messengers were enjoyment, utility, simplicity, and general utility. It was also found that only enjoyment among all the motives had a significant effect on purchase intention. Finally, the analysis showed that the extrovert character of the individual using emoticons on mobile messengers played a moderating role in the effect on purchasing intention.

• Journal of Digital Convergence
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• v.16 no.8
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• pp.89-98
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• 2018

The emergence of the mobile commerce market as a new megatrend, mobile shopping is becoming an important distribution channel in the domestic online shopping market. The purpose of this study is to classify shopping values perceived by mobile social commerce users into a utilitarian value and a hedonic value explained and to empirically examine the effects of social commerce characteristics on the purchase intention and shopping values in mobile social commerce. conclusion, this implies that site providers and sellers need to try to supply cheaper and more economical products than those offline and provide the most effective and optimum information and service so sellers and consumers can exchange messages with each other and create meanings.

• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.12 no.8
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• pp.471-483
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• 2012

The demand of using educational applications for 'smart' devices has recently increased. Accordingly, this study analyzed the satisfaction of educational applications and the factors which affect to purchase intention suggesting optimal development and use for the future. Based on searching for the theoretical background, the research model for the study was set: Appropriateness, interactivity, amusement and ubiquity were designated as independent variables, consumer satisfaction as parameter variable, and purchase intention as dependent variable. Through conducting structural equation modeling with the variables, the results showed that appropriateness, amusement and ubiquity had significant impacts on consumer satisfaction and purchase intention of educational applications. The results were expected to give suggestions as presenting guideline for educational application, improving mobile learning and vitalizing mobile contents.

• Journal of the Korea Society of Computer and Information
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• v.19 no.11
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• pp.183-192
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• 2014

With the rapid mobile phones and global diffusion of mobile marketing it is very important to understand cross-national consumer attitude and behavioral intentions toward mobile marketing as a promotional channel. Some areas of mobile advertising still need more investigation. Especially, the topic about consumer attitude toward mobile advertising has been received a considerable amount of attention. Based on the Technology Acceptance Model (TAM), this study investigates the relationship between characteristic of mobile advertising and purchase intention toward mobile advertising, and analyzes moderating effect of country type. The result of this study could help researchers and practitioners to understand which factors should be managed to increase the effectiveness of mobile advertising.

• Management & Information Systems Review
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• v.34 no.3
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• pp.79-100
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• 2015

This study is to examine the factors that influence purchasing behavior and decision-making when consumers buy goods through mobile shopping, define purchasing decision-making with the steps of problem recognition, information search, alternative assessment, and purchasing behavior to understand mobile consumer behavior, and investigate how the factors of each step play roles and influence consumers' purchasing decision-making through positive analysis to figure out consumer purchasing behavior in mobile shopping. The study results, First, the user characteristics of information search influence flow. Second, in the relations between the user characteristics in the step of information search and perceived risk in alternative assessment, if recognition on gains is higher, perceived risk for time loss gets lower, and when the level of skills is higher, perceived risk gets higher, and it has been partly adopted that innovativeness does not influence risk perception. Third, in the relations between flow experience and purchasing intention, it has been found to be partially significant that remote presence and challenge do not influence purchasing intention but do influence excitement, attention concentration, and control and also do influence perceived risk and purchasing intention. Fourth, according to the results of analyzing the difference of consumer purchasing behavior by the types of involvement, practical involvement and sensual involvement, user characteristics and flow, and perceived risk differ by the types of products in terms of the search process, thereby changing purchasing intention. Lastly, the significance and limitations of this study was discussed.

• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.20 no.9
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• pp.332-343
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• 2020

As a study on the purchase intention of digital music, the research applied the Extended Model of Goal-directed Behavior(EMGB) with the perceived value and empirically evaluated the impact of variables such as attitude, subjective norms, positive and negative anticipated emotions, perceived behavioral control and desire on the purchase intention. The study was conducted using a survey data collected from valid questionnaires of 342 copies aimed at Chinese mobile music application users and employed the structure equation model. The findings indicate that attitude, negative anticipated emotions, perceived behavioral control towards digital music purchasing and the frequency of past behavior positively influenced users' desire for digital music purchasing. Another result has been confirmed that perceived value, which was an added variable, showed a significant impact on attitude. Along with the frequency of past behavior and desire, perceived value also exerted positive influence on purchase intention.

• Information Systems Review
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• v.18 no.2
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• pp.151-171
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• 2016

With the widespread adoption of mobile devices, such as smart phones and smart pads, as well as the rapid growth of mobile technologies, consumer shopping patterns are changing. This study investigates key factors of consumer purchasing intention in a mobile shopping mall context by incorporating trust belief into the theory of planned behavior. We posit perceived usefulness, perceived enjoyment, perceived ease of use, and trust belief as antecedents of behavioral attitude toward mobile shopping malls. Moreover, social influence and security are identified as key enablers of trust belief on mobile shopping malls. Data collected from 154 consumers with purchasing experience in mobile shopping malls are empirically tested against a research model using partial least squares. Analysis results show that behavioral attitude and perceived behavioral control significantly influence purchasing intention. Moreover, this study reveals the significant effects of perceived usefulness and perceived enjoyment on behavioral attitude. Trust belief indirectly influences purchasing intention through behavioral attitude and is significantly affected by social influence. Understanding consumer purchasing decision-making processes in mobile shopping malls can help service providers to develop effective marketing and operation strategies and campaigns.

• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.16 no.10
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• pp.311-325
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• 2016

The communication via MIM(Mobile Instant Messenger) has unique characteristics; one of them is use of emoticons. Although using emoticons in MIM is getting a lot of attention from business fields and emoticons markets in MIM is growing rapidly, there are little researches focused on emoticons in MIM in consumer behaviors and marketing area. So, the purpose of this study is to fill this theoretical and practical gap. For this purpose, we explore the effect of and trust in MIM system and attitude toward use of emoticons on purchase intention to emotions in MIM. Our study used structural equation modeling analysis; the results showed that perceived benefits and perceived risk to MIM affected trust in MIM system significantly, more specifically, while perceived benefits affected trust in MIM system positively, perceived risk affected trust in MIM system negatively. We also found that perceived usefulness of emoticon in MIM and flow experience influenced attitude toward use of emoticons positively. Lastly, trust in MIM system and attitude toward use of emoticons had positive effect on purchase intention to emoticons in MIM. The implication and limitations of this study are also discussed.

• Journal of Digital Convergence
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• v.10 no.9
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• pp.263-270
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• 2012

Modern society, the era of convergence can be And mobile convergence era as the sudden transformation of a mobile communication terminal industry. Smartphone users increasingly rapidly and the new role and value of smart phones is increasing in all walks of life, the impact of knowledge and information society, to accelerate the more recent case of Korea, determined to become more. In this study, look to the Chinese and the characteristics of smartphone customer satisfaction, repurchase intentions affect the relationship between the foundation of marketing strategy in the future to become. The results of this study can be summarized smart phone's aesthetic characteristics, functional characteristics, and purchase characteristics that affect customer satisfaction was For smart phones as well as customer satisfaction has a positive effect on repurchase.

• Journal of Internet Computing and Services
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• v.15 no.5
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• pp.53-61
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• 2014

This research analyzed the relationship between CFIP and Intention to purchase under M-Commerce circumstances. First of all, CFIP had a negative influence on intention to purchase similar to E-Commerce. Secondly, we found privacy fundamentalist groups to react most sensitive to the degree of CFIP. Finally, Mobile experience did not have influence on the relationship between CFIP and Intention to purchase. This result is different from that of the E-Commerce Study. As such, it requires a more comprehensive research.