• Asia-Pacific Journal of Business Venturing and Entrepreneurship
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• v.19 no.4
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• pp.103-113
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• 2024

This study applies the UTAUT theory to examine the intention to use online shopping mall chatbot services and to elucidate the mediating effect of anthropomorphism in their relationship. For this purpose, a sample of students from A University in Gyeongnam was surveyed online using Google Docs from the first to the second week of May 2024, and after excluding 5 insincere respondents, 245 were used for the final analysis. The key findings are as follows. First, among the UTAUT factors for online shopping mall chatbot services, performance expectancy, effort expectancy, facilitating conditions, and social influence were found to have a significant positive impact on anthropomorphism. The relative impact appeared in the order of performance expectancy, social influence, facilitating conditions, and effort expectancy. Second, anthropomorphism in online shopping mall chatbot services had a significant positive impact on usage intention. Third, the UTAUT factors of performance expectancy, effort expectancy, facilitating conditions, and social influence had a significant positive impact on usage intention, with the relative impact appearing in the order of facilitating conditions, social influence, performance expectancy, and effort expectancy. Fourth, the mediating effect of anthropomorphism was confirmed in the relationship between UTAUT factors and usage intention for online shopping mall chatbot services. This study is limited to students from A University in Gyeongnam, which may restrict the generalizability of the results. Future research should select a broader sample considering regional and demographic diversity and use diverse data collection methods to enhance the reliability and validity of the data.

• Annual Conference of KIPS
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• 2019.10a
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• pp.527-529
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• 2019

현대 사회에 1인 가구 수가 증가함에 따라 소비 패턴에도 변화가 생기고 있다. 1인 가구의 빈곤율은 2인 이상 가구에 비해 상대적으로 높아 자산관리 서비스의 필요성이 높아지는데 좀 더 접근성이 좋고 편리하게 소비 습관에 대한 조언을 해 줄 수 있는 서비스가 도움이 될 것으로 분석되었다. 또한, 최근 금융 회사들의 챗봇 도입률이 증가하는 중인 것을 참고 해 본 논문에서는 챗봇을 활용한 소비 패턴 분석을 위한 클라우드 기반의 챗봇 가계부 시스템을 제안한다.

• Journal of Digital Convergence
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• v.19 no.11
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• pp.181-199
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• 2021

Recently, financial companies are promoting chatbot services in line with the reduction of branches and the expansion of non-face-to-face services. However, it is difficult to expand the chatbot services at once in the presence of technical limitations and constraints of internal and external environment. Therefore, it is necessary to analyze the various situations of chatbot service to preemptively identify problems that can occur in stages and seek solutions. This study conducted interviews with 12 field practitioners and researchers to examine the intentions and behaviors of financial chatbot service users and interpreted them using TPB. The study revealed the characteristics of 'feelings and attitudes' such as convenience or inconvenience from the chatbot experience, 'subjective norms' such as herd behavior or the yearning for empathy of others, and 'behavioral control' according to the recognition of difficulty or convenience of chatbot use process. This study shows that this characteristic can affect the intention and actual behavior of users to use chatbot service continuously. In the future research, it is necessary to empirically study specific intentions and influence factors for actual users.

• The Journal of Bigdata
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• v.3 no.2
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• pp.79-85
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• 2018

As the utilization of chatbots grows and the AI market grows, many companies are interested. And everybody is spurring growth by offering chatbot build services so that they can create chatbots. This makes chatbots easier to service on the messenger platform, which is changing the existing application market. In this paper, we present a methodology for designing and implementing existing DB-based applications as instant messenger platform-based applications, and summarize what to consider in actual implementation to provide an optimal system structure. According to this methodology, we design and implement a chatbot that serves as an teaching advisor who provides information to the students in the curriculum. The implemented application objectively visualizes the user's desired information from the user's point of view and delivers it through the interactive interface quickly and intuitively. By implementing these services and real service, it is predicted that DB-based information providing applications will be implemented as chatbots and will be changed to bi-directional communication through an interactive interface. it is predicted that DB-based information providing applications will be implemented as chatbots and will be changed to bi-directional communication through an interactive interface. Enterprise legacy application will take chatbot technology as one of important digital transformation initiative.

• Proceedings of the Korea Technology Innovation Society Conference
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• 2017.05a
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• pp.623-643
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• 2017

최근 인공지능 기술이 발달하면서 챗봇이 글로벌 IT기업들에게 새로운 IoT플랫폼으로 주목받고 있다. 챗봇이란 대화형 인터페이스 상에서 규칙 또는 인공지능(AI)을 이용해 사용자와 상호작용(interaction)을 하는 서비스를 지칭한다. 챗봇은 현재 간단한 정보검색 및 가상비서 서비스를 제공하는 수준이지만, 향후 IoT와 O2O 영역의 핵심적인 인공지능 플랫폼으로 부상할 전망이다. 챗봇은 스마트폰 디바이스와 어플리케이션을 기반으로 빠르게 확산되어 핵심 플랫폼의 지위를 차지할 것으로 예상된다. 그러나 챗봇 사용자의 수용행태에 관한 학술적 연구는 미비한 상황이다. 이에 본 연구는 기존의 기술수용이론(TAM)보다 수용의도에 대한 설명력이 높다고 검증된 통합기술수용이론(UTAUT)을 적용하여 챗봇의 사용자 수용행동에 관한 모델을 구축하였다. 구체적으로, 수용의도의 결정요인인 성과기대, 예상노력, 사회적영향, 촉진조건이 수용의도에 긍정적인 영향을 미칠 것으로 예상하였다. 이 과정에서 수용의도 결정요인과 수용의도 간의 관계를 성별, 연령, 개인혁신성이 조절할 것으로 보았다. 본 연구는 챗봇의 수용에 영향을 미치는 결정요인과 조절변인의 효과를 검증하여 실무적 시사점을 제공하고자 한다.

• Journal of Venture Innovation
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• v.7 no.3
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• pp.101-121
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• 2024

The application of chatbots on e-commerce platforms is becoming increasingly widespread. With the rapid development of artificial intelligence technology, previous research has predominantly focused on service failures occurring with the chatbots themselves. There is limited research on scenarios where chatbots handle service failures that are controllable by the sellers. This paper conducted online surveys through two experiments involving a total of 546 participants. The results indicate that, in the event of a service failure, customers are more likely to spread negative word-of-mouth about the store and have lower repurchase intentions when served by chatbots compared to human customer service representatives. This is because customers experience higher levels of anger with the chatbots. However, when customers perceive the service failure as uncontrollable by the seller, the impact of the type of customer service provider on negative word-of-mouth via customer anger is weakened while when customers perceive it as controllable the impact is strengthened. This study provides theoretical contributions for online retail enterprises to apply intelligent customer service while preventing further deterioration of service failures.

• Journal of Internet Computing and Services
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• v.20 no.2
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• pp.93-100
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• 2019

Recently, in various business fields, companies are concentrating on providing chatbot services to various environments by adding artificial intelligence to existing messenger platforms. Organizations in the field of job placement also require chatbot services to improve the quality of employment counseling services and to solve the problem of agent management. A text-based general chatbot classifies input user sentences into learned sentences and provides appropriate answers to users. Recently, user sentences inputted to chatbots are inputted as short texts due to the activation of social network services. Therefore, performance improvement of short text classification can contribute to improvement of chatbot service performance. In this paper, we propose T-EBOW (Translation-Extended Bag Of Words), which is a method to add translation information as well as concept information of existing researches in order to strengthen the short text classification for employment chatbot. The performance evaluation results of the T-EBOW applied to the machine learning classification model are superior to those of the conventional method.

• The Journal of the Convergence on Culture Technology
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• v.8 no.4
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• pp.445-455
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• 2022

Financial service chatbots are hindering user experience with conversational errors and machine-like responses. This study aims to examine the effect of self-disclosure and emotional expression of an anthropomorphic chatbot on user experience before conversation errors occur in financial services. In financial inquiries, scenarios were designed based on self-disclosure type (positive vs. negative) and emotional expression level(high confident vs. low confident), and online experiments were conducted. The result revealed that when anthropomorphic chatbot provided self-disclosure and emotional expression, the main effect has been shown on trust, annoyance, service recovery, and intention to continuous use. In addition, interaction effects were significant in trust and annoyance. In conclusion, this paper demonstrated that anthropomorphic chatbot's positive self-disclosure and confident emotional expression influenced trust and annoyance.

• Annual Conference of KIPS
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• 2018.10a
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• pp.696-698
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• 2018

본 연구에서는 메신저 플랫폼 상에서 위치정보 서비스를 제공하는 대화형 인공지능 챗봇(Chatbot)을 제안한다.별도의 애플리케이션에 들어가서 위치정보 서비스를 제공받던 기존 방식과는 달리 본 연구에서 제안하는 챗봇은 메시지 앱 내에서 대화형 방식으로 사용자에게 위치정보 서비스를 제공한다. 제안 챗봇은 Amazon Web Services 서버, Dialogflow API, ODSay API, 공공데이터 포탈 API 등을 통하여 구현되었다.

• Journal of Korea Entertainment Industry Association
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• v.15 no.4
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• pp.369-381
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• 2021

Artificial Intelligence(AI) technology can be used in arts exhibitions ranging from planning exhibitions, filed progress, and evaluation. AI has been expanded its scope from planning exhibition and guidance services to tools for creating arts. This paper focuses on chatbots that utilize exhibition and AI technology convergence to provide information and services. To study more specifically, I developed a chatbot for exhibition services using the Naver Clova chatbot tool and information from the National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art(MMCA), Korea. In this study, information was limited to viewing and exhibition rather than all information of the MMCA, and the chatbot was developed which provides a scenario type to get an answering user want to gain through a button and a text question and answer(Q&A) type to directly input a question. As a result of evaluating the chatbot with six items according to ELIZA's chatbot evaluation scale, a score of 4.2 out of 5 was derived by completing the development of a chatbot to be used to deliver viewing and exhibition information. The future research task is to create a perfect chatbot model that can be used in an actual arts exhibition space by connecting the developed chatbot with continuous scenario answers, resolving text Q&A-type answer failures and errors, and expanding additional services.