• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.19 no.11
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• pp.558-566
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• 2019

Artificial intelligent (AI) smart speaker sales have increased rapidly, and AI technology has become more pervasive in our daily lives. This study explored motivations for smart speaker use and examined how motivation and relationship type with AI speakers affect enjoyment. Smart speaker use is primarily motivated by conversational, trend-leading, efficient, and entertaining factors. Among these four, trend-leading, efficient, and entertaining factors positively influenced users' enjoyment. However, among the three types of relationship with AI speakers, only the assistant/helper type affected enjoyment. The results of the current study provide practical implications for future directions in AI speaker interaction design.

• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.19 no.3
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• pp.138-154
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• 2019

This study was conducted to identify the use motivations of AI speaker and examine the characteristics of AI speaker users. Based on the uses and gratifications theory, The study results show that the user motivations of AI speaker are four dimensional, namely escaping from daily problems and maintaining social relationships, information acquisition and learning, entertainment and relaxation and pursuit of practicability. The main AI speaker users are in their 30s, and they are innovative to actively use AI speakers for entertainment purposes such as listening to music. The four sub-dimensions differed as we compared them with user characteristics. Specifically, the motivation for escaping from daily problems and maintaining social relationships varied with gender and age. Moreover, age and informativeness were identified to have an influence on the motivations of information acquisition and learning and entertainment and relaxation. In sum, this research provides practical implications into how to strategically create contents and services for AI speakers.

• Proceedings of the Korea Contents Association Conference
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• 2019.05a
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• pp.23-24
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• 2019

본 연구는 AI스피커 대화 인터랙션분석을 통해 중년 고령자를 위한 AI 스피커의 연구 방향을 제시하고자 하였다. 그 과정에서 고령자의 일반적 노화 특성 및 의사소통 특성, 사회적 특성을 기준으로 현재 상용화 된 스피커의 대화 인터랙션 방식을 비교 분석 하였다. 앞으로 중년 고령자를 위한 AI스피커에서 대화 인터랙션의 방향에 대해 제시하였다.

• Journal of Creative Information Culture
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• v.7 no.1
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• pp.11-19
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• 2021

With the announcement of the AI national strategy, various policies for AI education are being proposed, and AI convergence education for teachers is actively being promoted. In addition, AI speakers are being sold and distributed to each home, and field studies of educational use of AI speakers have just started. This study examines the controversial problems that AI speakers may cause in AI ethics, and attempts to derive an ethical dilemma that may arise when AI speakers are used at home or at school. This dilemma can be used in the moral competence test (MCT), which measures the level of moral judgment for each group of artificial intelligence speakers.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Computer Information Conference
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• 2022.01a
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• pp.289-290
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• 2022

본 논문에서는 약을 제 시간에 복용할 수 있도록 도와주는 스마트 약통 서비스를 개발한 결과를 보인다. 라즈베리파이, 자석감지센서, LED, AI스피커와 외부서버를 결합한 구조로 개발하였으며, 사용자는 약을 복용하였는지에 따라 AI스피커를 통해서 약 복용 여부를 물어볼 수 있고 LED를 통해서 아침, 점심, 저녁의 시간에 따라 복용해야 하는 약을 표시해 줄 수 있도록 하였다.

• Journal of Digital Convergence
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• v.18 no.7
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• pp.101-110
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• 2020

Devices that add emotion-specific services or various functions are appearing in AI speakers and related devices. To this end, this study performed topic modeling analysis on the topics of post-purchase texts written by AI speaker users, and compared them with the data collected via survey questionnaires. Furthermore, data on the emotional intelligence of AI speakers and relationship quality were collected from 600 users and analyzed using structural equation modeling. The findings of the study are as follows: First, the analysis results of topic modeling showed that most of the articles mainly mention the functional aspects of AI speakers. Second, emotional intelligence of AI speaker perceived by consumer affected relationship quality, and relationship quality had a positive effect on customer satisfaction. Therefore, this study expands the area of AI research by integrating the concept of emotional intelligence and relationship quality to provide new theoretical and practical implications.

• Journal of the Korea Convergence Society
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• v.9 no.8
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• pp.127-133
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• 2018

The purpose of this study is to analyze the technology trend of artificial intelligent speaker(AI speaker) and to suggest direction of domestic AI speaker through the case study of AI speaker. As a research method, technical background was studied through literature, and then, case of AI speaker was investigated. As a result, It attempts to extend it to the visual interface. One of these attempts is attention to the built-in screen AI speaker. AI speakers should be a platform for humans and computers to interact with, not just convenience facilities. Based on the implications presented in this study, we hope to be able to use it as a reference for predicting the service development direction of domestic artificial intelligent speakers in the future.

• The Journal of the Korea institute of electronic communication sciences
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• v.15 no.6
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• pp.1223-1230
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• 2020

Due to the aging of the population, the number of the elderly is increasing, and the nuclear family is rapidly progressing. Today's AI speakers respond to user's commands rather than conversations that occur on a daily basis. If the elderly living alone do not talk first, the usability of the AI speaker will decrease. In this paper, it describes the development of AI speakers for active interaction tailored to the aged. This speaker can identify the movements of the elderly who live alone and their surroundings, actively speak to them, and display emotional expressions appropriate to the content of the conversation. Through this, users will be able to anthropomorphize AI speakers, so they can feel familiarity and emotional conversation is expected to play a positive role in easing their loneliness.

• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.20 no.11
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• pp.644-655
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• 2020

The study examined differences between perceptions of AI speakers and intention to continuous use of AI speakers according to usage function. We divided usage patterns into single- and multi-function orientations based on the usage by different functions of audio content (music, news, and search), and analyzed the differences between perceptions of using AI speakers and the intention to continuous use. 335 men and women who had experience using AI speakers participated in an online survey. Results are as follows. First, men used AI speakers mainly for acquiring news, and the extent to which 20s and 40s acquire news was different. Second, perceptions of usefulness and ease of use were found to be higher in the multi-functional group(music-news-search). Last, regarding the intention to continuous use of AI speakers, the multi-functional group was highest, and users focusing on music listening were relatively higher than users for other functions. The findings of the study are expected to be used as foundational data for expanding the use of AI speakers and developing strategies for service provision in each AI speaker brand.

• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.20 no.7
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• pp.19-29
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• 2020

As the AI speaker market is growing rapidly in recent years, the competition for the preoccupation of children who are the main users and the future prospective customers of the related companies is very intense. However, there is a lack of empirical research on how children interact with AI speakers. Therefore, this research examines the interactions between children and AI speakers, primarily through field studies, to extract what functions they use and what features they have. For this purpose, 799 conversations were collected and analyzed using the log data of the AI speaker recorded in real time. As a result, children were more likely to use children's songs, fairy tales, emotional conversations, and personification compared to adults. In addition, content analysis by specific types resulted in success/failure cases of interaction between children and AI speakers and proposed improvements by failure type. This study is meaningful in that it identifies children's AI speaker preferences, content, and major conversation patterns, and provides guidelines for developing services that meet children's eye level.