• 한국정보시스템학회지:정보시스템연구
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• 제23권1호
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• pp.225-246
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• 2014

With the recent establishment of a ubiquitous environment and the paradigm shift to a smart society, the use of mobile devices, such as smart phones and tablet PCs, has become widespread. Thus, the trend is gradually shifting from using Web-based Instant Messenger to using Mobile-based Instant Messenger. Mobile Instant Messenger refers to a service that allows instant messaging as well as data sending and receiving between individuals with exclusive application programs(mobile Apps), which can be used in portable devices-such as smart phones-with wireless Internet access. Korea's portal sites, telecommunication companies, and even big companies have all rushed into the MIM market to join the competition. The reason so many companies are showing interest in the MIM business is because it is rising as a core platform to substitute portal sites in the mobile society, and MIM is perceived as the best means to attract and secure users. The intention to reuse or use continually was considered an important factor in maintaining a dominant position amidst such fierce competition, and consequently, most research thus far has reflected such thought. However, the frequent or long-term use of a system alone cannot indicate the definite success of the system, nor guarantee its dominant position in the market. On the contrary, MIM dependence, which goes beyond simple repetitive use and indicates a state where users actually or emotionally depend on a specific system, can better explain the user action. However, not much research has been conducted on dependence. The research results showed that lively message, concise message, message responsiveness, and social belonging significantly affected perceived usefulness. Message responsiveness, Link, and social belonging significantly affected flow. Flow significantly affected MIM dependence, and perceived usefulness did not affect MIM dependence. This study has proven that lively message, concise message, message responsiveness, Link, social belonging and perceived usefulness are important antecedents and mediating factors of MIM dependence. Moreover, this study is significant in that it explains the overall process of MIM dependence, and expands on the variety and scope of research that can be applied to MIM-related studies.

• 디지털융복합연구
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• 제12권11호
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• pp.541-548
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• 2014

본 연구에서는 20~30대 스마트폰 이용자들 가운데 모바일 인스턴트 메신저(Mobile Instant Messenger, MIM) 이용자들을 대상으로 이들의 MIM 이용행태와 MIM 이용강도가 사회자본에 어떠한 영향을 미치는지를 살펴보았다. 총 253명의 MIM 이용자들을 대상으로 온라인 서베이를 실시한 결과, MIM 이용 빈도와 네트워크 사이즈(친구의 수) 및 MIM 이용강도의 경우 결속형 사회자본에 영향을 미치는 것으로 나타났다. 한편, 교량형 사회자본에는 MIM 이용 강도만이 영향을 주는 변수인 것으로 드러났다. 결론적으로 친밀한 관계 속에서의 모바일 미디어 사용이 가져오는 긍정적인 효과를 재확인할 수 있었다. 또한 단순한 양적 투자(이용행태)를 넘어서 이용자가 해당 서비스에 대해 가지는 일상화에 따른 애착의 정도와 같은 질적 투자(이용 강도)가 모바일 미디어를 통한 사회자본 증대를 측정할 수 있는 보다 중요한 변수가 될 수 있음을 확인하였다.

• 한국정보시스템학회지:정보시스템연구
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• 제25권2호
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• pp.131-152
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• 2016

Purpose Mobile phones increase the frequency and speed of communication. The most popular mobile application in Korea is KakaoTalk, one of the mobile instant messenger(MIM) services. Although studying mobile services such as SMS, SNS and SNG suggests drawing upon theories in marketing, consumer behavior, psychology to investigate their personal use, research on MIM is scarce. We designed this paper to fill this gap. More specifically, this study is focused on the relationships among consumers psychological variables related to purchase intention to emoticons in context of MIM. Design/methodology/approach Data was obtained from 310 KakaoTalk users in Korea via questionnaire. The data was analyzed by structural equation modeling in order to verify the relationship between variables in the model. Specifically, this study is designed to examine the structural relationships among perceived benefits, perceived risks, trust in messenger service, system quality, trust in platform, and emoticons purchase intention. Findings The findings of this study are as follow. First, perceived benefits and perceived risks had a significant impact on trust in MIM service(e.g. KakaoTalk). Specifically, while perceived benefits had a positive effect on trust in MIM service, perceived risks had a negative effect on trust in MIM service. Second, trust in messenger service also had a positive impact on system quality. Third, trust in messenger service and system quality had a positive effect on trust in platform(e.g. Kakao platform) directly. Lastly, trust in platform had a positive influence on emoticons purchase intention in KakaoTalk messenger.

• 한국IT서비스학회지
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• 제13권4호
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• pp.289-308
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• 2014

Mobile instant messaging (MIM) has been widely used in modern society due to its portability, speed and ease of use. In addition to simple text-based messaging, mobile instant message has now expanded to include graphics, images, and video. Many instant message service providers attempt to differentiate their service by providing an unique emoticon. Therefore, understanding the factors that affecting the continuous usage of emoticon is essential to capture users' interest. There is relatively little study on emoticon in information systems field. Hence, this study attempts to explore the continuous usage of emoticon through exploring the property of emoticon and usage motivation of emoticon. Based on the results, this study attempts to demonstrate practical implication of marketing on understanding user interest to mobile instant messenger service provider.

• International Journal of Advanced Culture Technology
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• 제10권4호
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• pp.389-395
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• 2022

This paper selected 'Line', the messenger application of Korea's leading software-based IT company 'Naver', and performed a case analysis specially in the early stages of the messenger industry. First, this study analyzed what the mobile messenger industry is and the external environment. Next, an internal analysis was carried out through the strengths and weaknesses through Naver Line's resources and capabilities. With this analysis, this study could evaluate the platform strategy, communication strategy, and the user basic strategy that Naver is carrying out. This study gave us more understanding of the mobile instant messenger (MIM) industry and understand Naver's growth strategy, which will provide great implications for the working staff of IT companies.

• 디지털산업정보학회논문지
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• 제10권3호
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• pp.11-21
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• 2014

In this paper, concerning the various advertising and policy advertising of the election with respect to whether to deliver a message to a large number of people, we design and implement an automative system what enables sending the text messages directly from the server to the client and also fast feedback is enabled by utilizing a number of operational programs to connect to the server. Therefore, we design and implement the automative communication system which enables delivering message to each user mobile terminal from a plurality of relay mobile terminals by utilizing the mobile instant messenger, not to deliver a message from the server to the mobile instant messenger user directly. In result of comparative analysis on the number of times of data transmission, this automative communication system utilizing mobile instant messenger shows the result that it enables transmitting five times per minute as it can copy and paste in the automation system regardless of the size of the data loading, otherwise in case of transmitting manually it show the result that the number of times of data transmission is reduced if the size of the data is larger.

• 디지털산업정보학회논문지
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• 제11권1호
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• pp.97-109
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• 2015

In this paper, we design and implement a two-way automatic communication system using a mobile instant messenger that can provide a customized service through a real-time two-way communication using a mobile instant messaging service. Two-way automatic communication system using a mobile instant messenger can improve the quality and quantity of information in real-time update of the information through the feedback. In addition, since it is communicated by using a mobile Instant Messanger in 1:1 there is no concerns that is recognized as spam, as well as it is possible to provide customized information for each user. Two-way automatic communication system using a mobile instant messanger shows the difference of the speed according to the data input time in typing by hands in result of comparing the time to input a date and the processing speed to search a data. Therefore in category treatment, command processing and natural language processing, Category treatment way is the most excellent in aspect of data processing speed, otherwise in aspect of the total speed to combine the data input time and the processing time, the command processing way is the best method.

• 디지털산업정보학회논문지
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• 제11권2호
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• pp.55-66
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• 2015

In this paper, we design and implement a two-way search algorithm that can provide a customized service through the user with real-time two-way communication using a mobile instant messaging service. Therefore, we design and implement the automative search system which enables delivering message to each user mobile terminal from a plurality of relay mobile terminals by utilizing the mobile instant messenger, not to deliver a message from the main server to the mobile instant messenger user directly. Two-way search system using the mobile instant messenger can be immediately collect the user's response is easy to identify the orientation of each user, and thus can be provided to establish a differentiated service plan. Also, It provides a number of services(text, photos, videos, etc) in real-time information to the user by utilizing the mobile instant messenger service without the need to install a separate application. Experiment results, data processing speed of the category processing way to search for the data of the DB server from a user mobile terminal is about 7.06sec, data processing number per minute is about 13 times. The data processing speed of the instruction processing way is about 3.10sec, data processing number per minute is about 10 times. The data processing speed of the natural language processing way is about 5.13sec, per data processing number per minute is about 7 times. Therefore in category processing way, command processing way and natural language processing way, instruction processing way is the most excellent in aspect of data processing speed, otherwise in aspect of per data processing number per minute, the category processing way is the best method.

• 디지털콘텐츠학회 논문지
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• 제13권3호
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• pp.401-412
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• 2012

스마트폰을 통한 사용자간 소통방법은 휴대성과 공간의 제약을 넘어선 새로운 모바일 커뮤니케이션의 패러다임을 만들고 있다. 스마트폰 모바일 인스턴트 메신저(Mobile Instant Messenger: MIM)는 기존의 데스크톱 환경에서 시작하여, 멀티미디어 콘텐츠, 텍스트, 음성 등 다양한 소통 기능을 제공하고 있다. 유치원, 어린이집에서는 학부모와 소통을 위해 홈페이지, 전화, SMS, 프린트된 유인물, 수기작성 알림장 등을 활용하고 있다. 아이즈플러스는 학부모와 교사, 원장과 사진, 동영상, 채팅 및 등/하원 관리를 포함한 스마트폰을 이용한 커뮤니케이션 활성화를 목적으로 개발되었으며 영유아교육기관 전용 모바일 메신저 초기 개발 사례라는데 그 의의가 있다. 본 연구는, 사용자 환경과 커뮤니케이션 유형분석, App의 기획과정과 스토리텔링을 활용한 인터페이스 디자인개발과 사례를 연구함으로써, 특정그룹을 대상으로 하는 모바일 메신저 개발의 접근법을 제시하였다.

• 품질경영학회지
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• 제43권4호
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• pp.545-558
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• 2015

Purpose: The Purposes of this study are (1) to examine why users are communicating through MIM (2) to understand what factors impact these users' satisfaction and loyalty. Methods: We use a questionnaire survey to collect 256 data on users' perceptions of Kakaotalk. We also use a structural equation modeling method by using AMOS 18.0. Results: Company trust, communication voice, connectedness, and perceived network size are found to be statistically significant factors affecting. Also, satisfaction influence on word of mouth and intention to switch. Conclusion: This study develops a research model from the MIM context. We suggest three points of view as company characteristics, device interactivity, and social factor. We examine the determinants of users' satisfaction and loyalty. The results can offer valuable insights for future mobile services research.