• 한국HCI학회:학술대회논문집
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• 2009.02a
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• pp.769-774
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• 2009

디지털 기술의 발달과 급진적인 IT 산업의 발전은 환경적 인프라의 통합 및 구축을 촉진시켰으며, 이를 기반으로 한 모바일 기기들의 기술적 통합 (Technology Convergence)을 통하여 테크노매드 (Technomad)와 같은 이동성향을 가진 사용자들이 등장하기 시작하였다. 모바일 컨버전스 디바이스에 대한 사용자들의 니즈 (Needs)는 점차 증가추세를 보이고 있으나, 모바일 컨버전스 디바이스의 수요는 캐즘을 넘지 못하여 시장에서 성공적으로 진입하지 못하고 있는 실정이다. 모바일 컨버전스 디바이스를 통해서 얻을 수 있는 디지털 서비스의 구축이 미비한 부분도 있기는 하지만, 만족스럽지 못한 사용성이나, 기기의 도메인적 특성의 불명확함은 기술이나 성능의 수용 민감도가 높은 선각수용자 (Early Adopter)들의 사용에서만 그치게 하는 등의 한계점을 가지고 있다. 이에 본 연구는 모바일 컨버전스 디바이스의 개념과 도메인적 특성을 조사하고, 이를 통하여 사용 임계값 (Threshold)이 매스유저 (Mass User)가 모바일 컨버전스 디바이스를 사용하는데 진입장벽의 원인으로 작용하는 것을 발견하였다. 이러한 사용 임계값 (Threshold)이 실제 태스크 (Task)수행 시 미치는 영향을 파악하기 위하여 휴리스틱과 선각수용자 (Early Adopter)의 웹 기반 조사를 실시하였고, 사용 임계값 (Threshold)의 영향으로 제대로 사용이 이루어지지 않는 태스크 타입 (Task Type)에 따라 시간적, 물리적 사용 임계값 관리 (Threshold Management)가 필요함을 발견하였다. 이를 개선하기 위해 실제 사용자들의 사용을 FGI (Focused Group Interview) 및 Contextual Inquiry 등의 정성적인 사용자 조사방법을 실시하여, 사용자에게 모바일 컨버전스 디바이스를 통하여 만족스런 사용성 및 경험을 제공하기 위해서는 시간적, 물리적, 시야적 사용 임계값 관리 (Threshold Management)를 개선 해야 함을 밝혀내고 결론적으로 이에 대한 가이드라인을 도출하였다.

• Journal of the Korean Society of Costume
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• v.58 no.1
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• pp.151-160
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• 2008

`Early adopters,` a term first used by Everett Rogers in 1957, refers to people who are among the first to try a new product and like to evaluate the product for others. Early adopters in the digital age of the 21st century, greatly influence others by exchanging information on products and writing product reviews on Internet boards. Technological products have recently been released in the fashion world to become important fashion items, and early adopters are active buyers of these products. The purpose of this study is to examine the values and characteristics of early adopters as consumers of technological fashion products, and present a standard for designing fashion products in the future. This study was based on documentary research, Internet research and in-depth interviews. Documentary research was carried out to examine the lifestyles, characteristics and consumption habits of early adopters. Internet research was done to understand the tendencies of Korean early adopters, and a total of 18 websites were studied in 7 product categories. The subjects of in-depth interviews were 6 people who were either webmasters or members of early adopter-related websites. IT field early adopters tended to pursue new technologies, and fashion early adopters placed importance on how well a person could express their own style. New, unique, useful and pretty were the key words to describe the tendencies of early adopters, and fashion early adopters preferred the latest contemporary styles. Interviewees placed most importance on price, design and function of products. Since IT related products are continuously being added on to clothes and becoming fashion products themselves, further research on technology-related fashion design would be significant.

• Proceedings of the KAIS Fall Conference
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• 2003.11a
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• pp.163-167
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• 2003

This paper investigates the lifestyles in Korean market. We will classify the groups using cluster analysis, and exploit the characteristics of innovators. These groups can be verified by multiple comparisons. This research is accomplished by sample survey between June 92003 and June 27 2003. Korean market for innovation can be classified into four groups such as innovators, early adopters, late majority, and laggards, which are similar to Rodger's classification. The ratios of four groups are 11%, 24.4%, 48.9%, 15.7% respectively. innovators, and late majority are heavy groups in that early adopter group is omitted on the contrary. Whereas innovators have a tendency to adopt the innovation quickly, rest groups have resistance for innovations and adopt slowly. The brief demographic characteristics of innovators are that the ratio of students is 44.44%, the ratio of single is 69.44%, the age between 15 and 25 is 56.95%, and the salary is relatively low compared with other cluster. The summary of lifestyle of innovators is that they are active, want to do worldwide business, want to have good relationship with high society, want to know the information of innovations, etc.

• 한국디지털정책학회:학술대회논문집
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• 2005.06a
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• pp.287-308
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• 2005

The purpose of this paper is to review the trend and roadmap of standardization for e-Trade. As a survival strategy in this rapidly changing global competition environment, domestic and global e-Trade network should be harmonized and interconnected, which requires multilateral or regional cooperation to set relevant inter-operable infrastructure. For this, standardization for e-Trade message and communication is critical success factor. Korea has been an early adopter of international e-Trade standards like UN/EDIFACT and ebXML. Based on the overall knowledge and experiences of e-Trade projects, Korea can take initiatives in the creation of global e-Trade through the harmonization and interconnection of other countries.

• Journal of the Korean Society of Clothing and Textiles
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• v.36 no.5
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• pp.562-572
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• 2012

Market mavens are known as powerful consumers for the diffusion of market information in general fields. This study investigates the market mavens in fashion consumers. Data were gathered by surveying university students in Seoul, using convenience sampling; 312 questionnaires were used in the statistical analysis. This study proved that consumers recognized the existence of market mavens and the importance of market mavens' information and their evaluations. In regards to the demographic factors, the more clothing expenditures and family income then the higher the tendencies of the market maven. Market mavens were consumers who were aware of marketer's persuasion but showed no differences in marketplace interfaces. Market mavens were particularly interested in dressing styles and were highly convinced in their abilities to make fashion decisions.

• Journal of Aerospace System Engineering
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• v.15 no.6
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• pp.33-41
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• 2021

As interest in drones controlled by remote technology rapidly increases worldwide, drones are used in many fields such as military, rescue, and transportation as future innovations in many countries. In particular, as the drone has been spotlighted as a new future strategic industry, it is also used for public purposes such as disaster relief and crime investigation. However, security concerns such as the penetration of major national facilities, collisions with aircraft, and the possibility of privacy infringement due to aerial photography are also being raised. Unlike the increased interest in drones, there have been few studies on drone use, drone safety, and public attitudes toward drone use. This paper analyzed the perceptions of drone attitudes, drone stability and policy support for drones for Korean and United Kingdom.

• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.16 no.10
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• pp.503-513
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• 2016

Innovator and Early Adopter are main clients of smart phone until now, but the silver generation enjoying price stability and the Internet emerges, so a strategy of the importance, systematic classification, and focus of a neglected class is needed. It is necessary to analyze UI that can departmentalize not a neglected class limited to the silver generation but potential users who can be voluntarily users and can secure them. To secure them, the researcher analyzes how Windows, Icons, Mouse Pull-Down-Menus(WIMP) of UI has been applied in the process that skeuomorphism UI of iPhone, Metro UI of MS, and Material UI of Google change. As a result of an analysis, skeuomorphism is not entirely new and has secured potential users slowly with a method to compensate and improve a part that users disregard. As a concept of touch UI, Metro UI considered potential users from the beginning but did not secure them with new and epoch-making UI. However, Material UI of Google compensates the weaknesses of skeuomorphism UI and Metro UI and emphasizes cost-effectiveness, so has developed into UI that can secure final consumers of potential users. Therefore, to secure potential users, it should make users themselves understand why they should use smart phone, and it should approach with more organized studies on UI through feedback of observation and direct talks.

• Design Convergence Study
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• v.15 no.2
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• pp.37-52
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• 2016

The purpose of this study is to suggest functional priority to increase probability to be adopted by single-person household by designating single-person household as potential early adopter of smart home service. Smart home service is spread slowly for its value. This study applied diffusion of innovations theory to solve this problem. Single-person household who has no other family member who can take care of household is chosen as potential early adopter. This study tried to find grounds of functional priorities through an online survey. The survey questionnaires were composed as following. First, representative attributes of single- person household were reviewed, then measuring questions according to the attributes were recomposed based upon preceding study. After that, concept and status of smart home service were reviewed. and smart home service functions to be measured in this study were selected through analysis based upon representative cases, then Measuring questionnaire were made were three factors which chosen by referring to preceding study about perceived attributes of innovations applied to selected functions. As a result of analyzed 62 responses, except excluded functions which has perceived any special value, set priorites with 9 functions. These functional priorities obtained from these studies will play a role as fundamental data to provide valuable service to single-person household and have a meaning as a starting point to increase rate of adoption for smart home service.

• 한국HCI학회:학술대회논문집
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• 2007.02b
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• pp.728-736
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• 2007

P2P 파일공유는 1999년 처음 등장한 이래 저작권 침해로 디지털 콘텐츠 시장을 파괴하는 '해적'으로 간주 되어왔다. 하지만 최근 들어 P2P 시장의 산업적 가능성을 새롭게 주목하는 움직임이 나타나고 있다. 아울러 학계에서는 P2P의 경제적 영향력을 공급자 편향의 시각이 아닌 소비자 측면을 포함한 균형적 관점으로 바라보기 시작했다. 본 연구 역시 균형적 관점에서 P2P를 바라보려는 접근법의 일환으로, P2P 영화파일 공유 이용자들의 영화소비패턴을 실증적으로 살펴보고자 하였다. 실제 P2P 영화파일 공유 이용자들에 대한 설문결과, 이용자들은 단일한 영화소비성향을 가지고 있지 않았으며 다운로드와 극장 관람빈도가 모두 높은 이른바 '얼리어답터'형과 다운로드를 극장관람의 대체재로 여기는 소위 '해적'형이 공존하고 있었다. 이 중 그간 산업계에서 우려하던 해적형의 비율은 10% 정도로 낮았고, 대부분의 P2P 이용자들은 오히려 일반 극장 관람객보다 더 적극적으로 극장소비를 하는 사람들로 영화산업에 긍정적인 기여를 하는 것으로 밝혀졌다. 이러한 소비자 분석결과는 향후 본격화되고 있는 P2P 다운로드 유료화 시장에 대한 전망을 밝게 하는 것으로, 현재 유료화에 있어 가장 중시해야 할 것은 불법 무료 다운로드에 대한 경계가 아니라, 소비자 편의적인 시스템의 개발임을 시사한다.

• Agribusiness and Information Management
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• v.5 no.2
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• pp.27-37
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• 2013

Referral marketing plays an important role in promoting new products. When it comes to innovative agricultural products, early adopter's review or recommendation has a more critical impact on follower's purchase decision making. Hence, understanding of consumer's characteristics and needs play more important role in success of innovation. More particularly, other researchers pay attention to the role of consumer innovativeness. This study attempts to fill this gap in knowledge between innovative propensity of consumer and her/his intention to generate positive word of mouth about new agricultural products. Furthermore, in this paper, we adopt Vandecasteele and Geunes' motivated consumer innovativeness model to investigate consumer innovativeness in extrinsic motive and intrinsic motive level, and examine the moderating role of referral efficacy. For empirical verification, survey method is used for data collection. Partial least square (PLS) is adopted to analyze the data. Finally, several theoretical contributions and practical implications are discussed.