• 복식문화연구
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• 제21권2호
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• pp.272-286
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• 2013

Mass customization is a marketing strategy to meet consumer needs for variation and uniqueness of products. Although there are quite a few studies quantitatively investigated the options provided by mass customization process, scholarly work related to mass customization has provided mixed results on consumer perception of complexity and their responses. The purpose of the study is to derive the factors that influence consumer complexity perception in online apparel mass customization process and consumers' needs to enhance mass customization services. Data were collected by conducting focus group interviews of which 29 participations in 4 groups. The results of the study suggested that consumers perceived complexity through mass customization process due to too many choice options. However, the effect of number of options on respondents' complexity perception was different depending on consumer characteristics such as consumer expertise and fashion involvement, and the characteristics of consumer preference development. Shopping context such as shopping purpose is another moderating factor. This study also suggests that a variety of marketing strategies which can enhance mass customization services affect the relationship between the number of options and consumers' complexity perception. The findings of the study provide academic and managerial implications.

• Journal of Korea Artificial Intelligence Association
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• 제2권1호
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• pp.1-6
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• 2024

In this paper, we develop an AI-based recommendation system that matches the specifications of smartphones from company 'S'. The system aims to simplify the complex decision-making process of consumers and guide them to choose the smartphone that best suits their daily needs. The recommendation system analyzes five specifications of smartphones (price, battery capacity, weight, camera quality, capacity) to help users make informed decisions without searching for extensive information. This approach not only saves time but also improves user satisfaction by ensuring that the selected smartphone closely matches the user's lifestyle and needs. The system utilizes unsupervised learning, i.e. clustering (K-MEANS, DBSCAN, Hierarchical Clustering), and provides personalized recommendations by evaluating them with silhouette scores, ensuring accurate and reliable grouping of similar smartphone models. By leveraging advanced data analysis techniques, the system can identify subtle patterns and preferences that might not be immediately apparent to consumers, enhancing the overall user experience. The ultimate goal of this AI recommendation system is to simplify the smartphone selection process, making it more accessible and user-friendly for all consumers. This paper discusses the data collection, preprocessing, development, implementation, and potential impact of the system using Pandas, crawling, scikit-learn, etc., and highlights the benefits of helping consumers explore the various options available and confidently choose the smartphone that best suits their daily lives.

• 경영과정보연구
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• 제37권2호
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• pp.283-297
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• 2018

본 연구는 공정무역 제품에 대한 태도와 행위의 갭에 대한 보다 근원적이고 설명적인 대안으로 작용할 수 있는 소비자의 지각된 시장영향력(PMI: Perceived Market Influence: 개인의 행동이 시장 내 다른 소비자들의 행동에게 미칠 영향을 인지하고 결과적으로 스스로 공정무역 관련 소비 행동을 하게 만드는 동기가 되는 신념)에 주목하고 이를 공정무역 관련 소비자의 인식 구조에 탐색적으로 적용하여 논의하고자 한다. 구체적으로 소비자의 지각된 자기결정성 심리적 욕구(자율성, 유능성, 관련성)와 해당 소비자가 지각하는 영향력(개인영향력, 시장영향력)의 관계검증을 통하여 공정무역제품의 자산에 어떻게 영향을 미치는지를 탐색적으로 살펴보고자 한다. 실증분석의 결과, 자기결정성과 관련된 주요 심리적 욕구 중 유능성을 제외한 나머지 변수들과 소비자의 지각된 영향력 관계가 직접적으로 형성될 수 있음이 밝혀졌으며, 지각된 영향력 간에도 긍정적인 인과관계가 있는 것으로 나타났다. 또한 소비자의 지각된 영향력과 공정무역제품에 대한 소비자의 지각된 자산에도 영향관계가 있음이 밝혀졌다. 이러한 연구결과는 향후 윤리적 소비의 일환인 공정무역제품에 대한 소비자 태도와 행동 사이의 갭을 이론적으로 설명할 수 있는 계기가 될 것이며, 아울러 공정무역제품에 대한 마케팅 전략의 수립에 있어 중요한 시사점을 제공해 줄 것으로 기대된다.

• 한국조리학회지
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• 제13권2호
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• pp.98-109
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• 2007

Consumers purchase bakery products and evaluate them with various wants and needs when they need them. It shows that there are changes and improvements in quality factors like nutritional consideration rather than simply eating for survival. The purpose of this study was to research how well the consumers perceive necessary nutritional information, how nutritional information on bakery products affects the consumers' perceived risk and evaluation, and how consumers' perceived risk on bakery products affects their evaluation on them. The research was done through surveys for the people in the Busan Metropolitan area. 200 out of 250 answers were used in analyzing frequency, factor, and simple regression through SPSS Win 10. The findings were as follows; first, the more nutritional information consumers have, the less perceived risk they feel, i.e., positive nutritional information affects reducing the consumers' perceived risk. Second, as perceived risk gets reduced, consumers' evaluation on bakery products has meaningful influence on their perceived risk level. Third, these consumers' perceived risk affects their evaluation on bakery products meaningfully. The results of this study can be the meaningful base of information sources in establishing marketing strategies in bakery industry.

• International Journal of Costume and Fashion
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• 제11권2호
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• pp.13-24
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• 2011

This study explores the opportunities for new market of traditional Korean costumes, Hanbok, following not only the consumer's needs and wants, but marketing trends of fashion industry. This paper is the exploratory consumer research of fusion Hanbok, it aims at examining how consumers wear fusion Hanbok. Study participants were limited to mothers who wore Korean-fusion Hanbok to their baby's first birthday party once or more. A total of 221 respondents completed online questionnaires. The results of this study are as follows. First, regarding the reasons of wearing fusion Hanbok is a beautiful and traditional dress although traditional Hanbok is uncomfortable and inconvenient. Second, the most satisfactory aspect of fusion Hanbok was found to be its design. Satisfaction with the color, size and length was also high. Third, most female consumers in their 20s and 30s have stronger preferences for and intentions of purchasing fusion Hanbok. Some people criticize that as fusion Hanbok is westernized in its designs and materials, it has lost the classical beauty and impression of traditional Hanbok. However, if no one routinely wears Hanbok, Hanbok will never be popularized or globalized. This study suggest that traditional Hanbok should be improved by developing effective merchandising strategies based on consumer needs for traditional Hanbok such as various product assortment and promotion strategies using traditional Korean beauty. So, traditional Hanbok could be retained and succeeded in the future by improving consumers' dissatisfactions of traditional Hanbok and creating the new market of traditional Hanbok in which fusion Hanbok are produced focused on consumers' needs and market environments.

• 한국콘텐츠학회논문지
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• 제12권4호
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• pp.164-173
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• 2012

최근 소비자의 의식 변화와 함께 빠른 정보 전달을 통해 개개인의 다양한 가치관을 공유하면서 과거 기업이 주도하던 트렌드에서 이제는 소비자의 Needs에 의해 트렌드가 변화하고 있다. 국내 주얼리 산업에서도 또한 주얼리가 패션 소비재로 변화하면서 소비자가 요구하는 다양한 칼라와 시각적 감성이 적용된 제품 개발이 필요한 시점이다. 이에 주얼리 산업에서는 천연 유색 보석에 대한 많은 관심과 그 소비시장이 확대되어지고 있는 실정이다. 이에 본 연구에서는 Semiprecious Stone을 이용한 제품 개발의 필요성과 현황분석, 소비자 선호도 분석을 진행하고, 제품 개발을 위해서 소비자동향 조사 및 이미지 분석 조사를 통해 소비자의 스타일과 Needs에 의한 표적시장을 추출하였다. 그리고 연령별 디자인 선호 이미지 적용 형용사를 추출하여 제품 개발의 방향성을 설정하였다. 본 연구를 통해 현 주얼리의 시장분석을 통한 Semiprecious Stone 제품 개발의 필요성과 가능성을 찾아 볼 수 있었다.

• 아태비즈니스연구
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• 제13권3호
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• pp.449-461
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• 2022

Purpose - The purpose of this study to explore factors consumers prioritize when purchasing seafood online. The originality of the study lies on adopting AHP-based approach in analyzing prioritized purchasing factors of seafood online. Design/methodology/approach - A survey was conducted targeting Korean consumers who have purchased seafood online. AHP method was applied to rank factors consumers prioritize before making decision. Findings - First, product's factor ranked first among other high level factors including delivery service, seller, online platform. Second, sanitation, taste, country of origin ranked first, second, third respectively, within product's factors. Third, safe delivery, timeliness, information accuracy ranked first, second, third respectively, within delivery factors. Fourth, consumer reviews, consumer response ability, promotion ranked first, second, third within seller factors. Fifth, Personal information management system, credibility, user-friendliness ranked first, second, third, within online platform factors. Research implications or Originality - To activate seafood online market, it is crucial to assure consumers that the seafood is well managed in a sanitary way from the production site to table. Existing government programs such as seafood traceability system, HACCP, and cold-chain infrastructure needs improvement. Due to highly perishable characteristic of seafood, delivery factors matter when purchasing online. Online platforms needs to continue to improve delivery service. Seafood products are mostly not branded and without objective information about their properties. Creating quality classification and seafood brands are likely to help consumers chose seafood online.

• 가정과삶의질연구
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• 제27권3호
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• pp.115-127
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• 2009

The purpose of this study is, first, to identify consumption behavior regarding well-being foods of the present and the future; and second, to discover well-being food-related information consumers require and information sources they use most frequently during the purchase of well-being foods in order to enhance reasonable decision-making and satisfaction during the selection of well-being foods. This study conducted research on university students using questionnaires from March 10 to March 20, 2007, and a total of 323 copies are employed for the final analysis. The key findings include the following. 1. University students answered that they would commit to active well-being food-buying consumer behavior more in the future than the present. 2. They requested information about quality and price from the information concerning well-being foods the most. Also, consumers most wanted to obtain well-being-related information on the Internet. 3. Regarding the needs for well-being food-related information, the more highly they thought of well-being foods, the more they acquired existing well-being-related information. Furthermore, the more they would be active in well-being food consumption behavior in the future, the higher their needs for information were.

• 품질경영학회지
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• 제32권1호
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• pp.130-143
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• 2004

Although consumer needs for better products force manufactures to put emphasis on design, often development of a product has been done without the formal process to consider consumer needs. In order to identify the implicit needs of customers and the areas of potential demand on a product, several analysis scheme such as QFD (Quality Function Deployment) has been developed. QFD, also known as the House of Quality, is the efficient tool ever created to tie product and service design decisions directly to customer wants and needs, i.e. VoC (Voice of Customer) To utilize this tool on a product design, first of all, the consumers attributes and the engineering characteristics must be exactly investigated. However there were only few studies about them on shoe design. Hence in this paper we developed an innovative framework for shoes design based on QFD. As a result, we uncovered 29 dominant human satisfaction dimensions as the consumers attributes for customer-oriented quality evaluation of a comfortable shoes. Here, 29 human satisfaction dimensions for a shoe design were identified as the dimensions that represent the human sensitivity and psychological feeling on comfortable shoes. Also, we proposed 60 human interface elements as the engineering characteristics. The relationships between human satisfaction dimensions and human interface elements were investigated. This study will help the designers and manufacturers clarify the conceptual and abstract aspect of the design evaluation by proposing a more systematic and process-oriented method.

• 한국실내디자인학회논문집
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• 제28호
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• pp.3-10
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• 2001

The purpose of this study is to identify the cognition differences of home interior remodeling and preference of mass media among consumers and analyze relationship between remodeling perception and mass communication. The data are collected through questionnaire surveys, which included demographic information and preference of remodeling, mass communication from adult consumers who live in Seoul. 223 samples are collected, and are analyzed by using SPSS-WIN program. The major results are as follows: Most of the media are preferences above the average. TV media is a leading mass communication, which has an effect of most consumers. Internet business preference is found at young, male, white color business group and small family. Remodeling has been a strange word with consumers, but now on its needs are spread among the public that is provide to solve the problem which were found in their home on the influence of mass communication.