• Culinary science and hospitality research
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• v.17 no.5
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• pp.108-121
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• 2011

The purpose of this study is to carry out the exploratory study on the easiness of using smart phone applications for searching food service information based on consumer characteristics. Examining the attributes of the easiness of using smart phone applications for searching food service information, this study checks the order of priority in the attributes and analyzes the correlation among the constructs of easiness of use, along with the difference in easiness of use based on demographic characteristics. The survey was conducted to the users of smart phones who live in 3 areas such as Seoul/Kyongki, Daegu/Kyongbuk, and Busan/Kyongnam from Jan. 3-Feb. 3, 2011, and total 264 copies of questionnaire were used for the final analysis. The result showed that the respondents considered the functions of searching restaurants, recommended restaurants, and the popularity list more important among the measurement items of easiness of use, and there was highly positive correlation between easiness to select restaurants and communication functions among all the factors drawn. It was found that there was significant difference in the function of searching restaurants, practicality, the easiness to select restaurants, communication, and the easiness to select menu on areas.

• Asian Journal of Business Environment
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• v.7 no.2
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• pp.21-29
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• 2017

Purpose - Because of the development of smartphone and communication technology, Smart TV programs are filled with various contents and applications. This study included additional individual variables like innovativeness and self-efficacy, and characteristics of smart TV are both user-interface and function as exogenous factors based on TAM model. So, this study focuses on identifying the influencing factors of continuous use intention of smart TV traits and user ones and analyzing how they make influences on them in China market. Research design, data, and methodology - Totally 182 samples were adopted as appropriate ones for analysis in this study. They were collected from 20 February 2016 to 10 March 2016. Results - The results are as follows. First, function has positive influence on perceived usefulness. Second, innovation and user-interface make affirmative influences on perceived easiness. Third, perceived easiness has affirmative influence on perceived usefulness. Fourth, the perceived easiness and perceived usefulness make positive ones on continuous use intention. Fifth, perceived ease of use affects significantly on perceived usefulness. Conclusions - According to the findings, they (smart TV traits and user traits), influencing on continuous use intention, are possible to give significant implications on persistent development in China smart TV market.

• Journal of the Korea Convergence Society
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• v.6 no.5
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• pp.275-285
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• 2015

The purpose of this study is to investigate the relationship among app's and user's characteristics, perceived use easiness, use intention, and actual use in mobile app of integrated electronic tax bill. Appropriate measures were developed and this study used structural equation modeling to analyze the relationships among the constructs. The results of 215 taxpayers showed that informativeness, security of app's characteristics, and innovativeness of user's characteristics have positive impacts on perceived use easiness but convenience and familiarity have negative impacts on it. Perceived use easiness, convenience, and security have positive impacts on use intention but familiarity has a negative impact on it. Use intention has a positive impact on actual use but perceived use easiness has a negative impact on it. Thus, managers should focus on the app's and user's characteristics for effectiveness and efficiency of integrated electronic tax bill.

• Journal of the Korean Society of Industry Convergence
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• v.25 no.6_3
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• pp.1315-1324
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• 2022

The need for remanufacturing ships and various mechanical components continues to increase along with environmental problems. Research on remanufacturing is being carried out in various fields, but research on cleaning is quite insufficient. In particular, there is no research on the cleaning-ability of diverse mechanical components. In order to increase the life cycle of mechanical components, remanufacturing must be considered from the step of design. Particularly, it is also very important to evaluate the degree of easiness in cleaning to remove various pollutants generated by long-term use quickly as well as easily. In this study, the degree of easiness in cleaning is defined as cleaning-ability. In fact, remanufacturing components can be easily done only when cleaning-ability is set high from the step of design. The purpose of this study is to evaluate the cleaning-ability of ships and various mechanical components. The details of easiness in cleaning are cleaning and drying identification, accessibility to cleaning tools, convenience in cleaning, and convenience in drying. This study presents a quantitative procedure to evaluate cleaning-ability, derived various factors influencing each of the details of easiness and their ranges, and gave scores to the factors according to their ranges. The weight was also calculated for the details of easiness in cleaning and the factors. Lastly, this researcher suggests a scoring procedure to evaluate cleaning-ability quantitatively and the total weight of cleaning-ability.

• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.19 no.9
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• pp.1-10
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• 2019

The purpose of this study is to investigate the influence of exogenous variables on the intention to use AI speaker. An online survey was administrated to 305 AI speaker users in order to examine the effect of the personal characteristics (self-efficacy, innovativeness, suitability, and enjoyment) and social impact (social conformity and social image) on perceived usefulness and easiness. The results indicate that (1) self-efficacy and social conformity have positively effect on perceived easiness; (2) suitability and social image have positively effect on perceived usefulness whereas innovativeness has negatively effect on perceived usefulness; (3) perceived usefulness and perceived easiness have significant effect on the intention to use AI speaker.

• The Journal of Industrial Distribution & Business
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• v.10 no.10
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• pp.53-65
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• 2019

Purpose - Current study aimed at investigating the effects of the choice easiness as a thought triggered at the time of making decision and the goal achievement emotion as a prediction of how consumers feel in the state of achieving consumption goal on brand purchase intention. And It also explored moderation role of incidental pride type such as ambient hubris pride and ambient authentic pride felt before the event in the effects of message type such as self-verifying message and self-enhancing message on the choice easiness and the goal achievement emotion. Research design, data, and methodology - Message type was divided into self-verifying message and self-enhancing message. Incidental pride type was divided into hubris and authentic pride. Smart mobile phone was selected for empirical study. And the experiment was performed with 2(pride type: hubristic versus authentic) × 2(message type: self-verifying message versus self-enhancing message) between-subjects design. Questionnaires from 215 undergraduate students were used to test hypotheses by Macro process model 7. The hypotheses were tested at each of self-verifying message group and self-enhancing message group. Results - First, both choice easiness and goal achievement emotion positively influenced on the purchase intention at both self-verifying message group and self-enhancing message group. Second, at self-verifying message group, the positive effects of self verification on both choice easiness and goal achievement emotion were higher to the customers under incidental hubris pride than to those under incidental authentic pride customers. Third, at self-enhancing message group, the positive effects of self enhancement on goal achievement emotion were higher to the customers under incidental authentic pride than to those under incidental hubris pride. However, at self-enhancing message group, the positive effects of self enhancement on choice easiness (goal achievement emotion) were not higher (higher) to the customers under incidental authentic pride than to those under incidental hubris pride. Conclusions - Focusing on the results of this study, to promote their brand purchase intention, brand managers should use self-enhancing message to induce goal achievement emotion from incidental authentic pride customers. And the brand managers should develop and use self-verifying message to induce choice easiness as well as goal achievement emotion from hubris pride customers, which in turn, promote their brand purchase intention.

• The Journal of Industrial Distribution & Business
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• v.9 no.5
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• pp.47-62
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• 2018

Purpose - Based on preceding studies, this thesis focuses on the finding of the definition and category of mobile tourism application and deriving out its characteristics. And after looking for how they make influences on continuous intention to use, we make empirical study with TAM model. Research design, data, and methodology - There are many Chinese tourist who visit Korea with user's constant intention to use of tourism application. This study is to find out the definition and category of mobile tourism application through research of preceding study and to fomulate the research model and hypothesis that how tourism application attributes (convenience, interaction, accessibility, local basis, security) affect constant intention to use of mobile tourism application. In order to verify a hypothesis, we conducted a survey for Chinese users of tourism application. In empirical study, we analyzed a structure model for frequency analysis, reliability analysis, exploratory factor analysis, validity analysis through IBM SPSS Statistics 21.0 and IBM SPSS AMOS 21.0 Results - Among tourism applications, convenience, interaction, accessibility and local basis have positive effects on both perceived usefulness and perceived easiness respectively. But security does not. Also perceived easiness has a positive effect on perceived usefulness. Finally, perceived usefulness and perceived easiness have positive effect on constant intent to use. Conclusions - Tourism application enterprises should put emphasis on design such as menu or function in order to simplify the operation of new services for new customers. Therefore, comfortable user interface and development of useful function can improve tourism application. Consequently, it leads to the promotion of tourism application. Also, when users perceive tourism application as a useful media which is easy, comfortable and useful content, the degree of constant intention to use becomes increased. It is important to provide plentiful and useful contents for customers and to develop user interface such as easy operation because these factors have positive effects on constant demand and use of tourism application.

• Journal of Digital Convergence
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• v.9 no.4
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• pp.51-67
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• 2011

This research looks at the innovative product characteristics, environmental properties, and personal attitudes as antecedents of consumer's perceived usefulness and easiness of product usage. And the attitudes toward digital convergence products and its acceptability as consequences. The results indicate that relative advantage, expectation for better product, the social influence, mass communications, and attitudes toward the new technology, significantly influence the perceived usefulness. The current research revealed that perceived usefulness is more influential over perceived easiness on the formation of positive attitude toward the product. The users of digital convergence products put more weight on the availability of the product functions rather than easiness of use.

• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.20 no.4
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• pp.169-180
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• 2020

In this study, we explored Technology Acceptance Model(TAM) to introduce Blockchain technology in the medical field. It extracted five external variables(Security, Availability, Reliability, Diversity, Economic feasibility) through previous studies. It set the study model for a path to acceptance intention through the information reliance of recognized easiness and recognized usefulness. As results of empirical analysis, H1-1(Security →Perceived Easiness) was rejected. H1-2(Availability→Perceived Easiness), H1-3(Reliabilit→Perceived Easiness), H1-4(Diversity →Perceived Easiness), H1-5(Economic →Perceived Easiness) were adopted. Hypothesis 2 was a relations between Blockchain's characteristics and Perceived usefulness, all the Hypothesis were adopted. Hypothesis 3 and Hypothesis 4 indicated that H3-1(Perceived Easiness →Perceived usefulness) was rejected but H3-2(Perceived Easiness → information reliability), H3-3(Perceived usefulness → information reliability), and H4(information reliability→acceptance intention) were all adopted. It was confirmed that it is important to emphasize the importance of stability to introduce block chain technology to medical centers, but it was necessary to use a design that can increase the easiness from the prospect of users.

• Journal of the Korean BIBLIA Society for library and Information Science
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• v.29 no.2
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• pp.127-148
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• 2018

This study defined the influence of the quality of job information websites and of user characteristic factors on the user satisfaction and on the intention of the use thereof based on the technical acceptance model to activate research on job information or job information websites in the category of Library and Information Science, amid studies on the Fourth Industrial Revolution in various disciplines emerging. 230 users experienced in job information websites were surveyed. The surveyed data were analyzed by applying the structural equation model. The results are as follows. Accuracy, security, self-efficacy, the perceived easiness of use had a positive effect on the perceived usefulness. Up-to-dateness, self-efficacy, individual innovation had a significant effect on the perceived easiness of use. The perceived usefulness and the perceived easiness of use had a positive effect on user satisfaction, and the user satisfaction had a significant effect on the intention of use.