• 한국의류학회지
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• 제33권6호
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• pp.880-892
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• 2009

본 연구는 온라인 쇼핑동기, 정보원의 사용, 의사결정 유형의 관계 분석을 통해, 소비자들에게 적합한 정보를 제공할 수 있는 전략을 제공하고자 하는 목적을 가지고 수행되었다. 실증적 연구결과 소비자의 쇼핑동기는 편의적 동기, 제품특성적 동기, 쾌락적 동기, 경제적 동기로 구분되었다. 본 연구에서 정보원은 이전 연구들과는 달리 쇼핑몰에 관한 정보원과 상품에 관한 정보원, 두 가지 종류로 구분하였다. 온라인 쇼핑몰에 관한 정보원은 중립적 정보원, 인적 정보원, 마케터 주도적 정보원으로 구분된 반면, 상품에 관한 정보원은 온라인 정보원, 오프라인 정보원으로 구분되었다. 이처럼 쇼핑몰에 관한 정보원과 상품에 관한 정보원은 차이를 보였으며, 정보원의 사용, 쇼핑동기, 의사결정 유형 각각의 관계도 알아 보았다. 결론을 바탕으로 온라인상의 의류 판매자가 소비자들을 그들의 쇼핑몰로 이끌고, 구매를 유도하도록 마케팅 전략을 제안하였다.

• 통상정보연구
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• 제17권3호
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• pp.3-27
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• 2015

제품이나 서비스에 대한 사용후기 중에는 과격한 표현이 포함되거나 사업자에게 불리한 내용이 포함된 것들이 많아서, 후기 작성자와 사업자 간에 마찰이 빚어지거나 심지어 법률적 분쟁으로까지 이어지는 경우가 많다. 본 연구는 부정적이고 과격한 표현이 담긴 사용후기관련 사례를 분석한 후, 사례에 나타난 사용후기에 대한 소비자들의 윤리적, 법률적 인식을 비교하기 위해 설문 조사를 실시하였다. 사례연구에 따르면, 대법원 판례는 행위자의 주요한 동기나 목적이 공공의 이익을 위한 것이라면 부수적으로 다른 사익적 목적이나 동기가 내포되어 있더라도, 후기 작성이 상대를 비방할 목적이 있다고 보기 어렵다고 판시한 바 있다. 사례 요지를 바탕으로 소비자들의 인식을 조사한 결과, 사업자에게 불리한 내용의 사용후기일지라도, 응답자들은 대체로 작성자의 법률적 책임수준보다는 이러한 행위에 대한 지지수준이 더 높은 것으로 나타났다. 구체적으로, 이러한 사용후기는 공공의 이익을 위한 정보제공에 더 큰 의미가 있으며, 특히 소비자에게 정확한 정보를 제공하기 위해서 허용되어야 한다는 의견이 우세해서, 연구대상 사례에 대한 대법원 판결과 맥락을 같이 하고 있다. 결론적으로, 사용후기에 대한 윤리의식과 함께 법률적 책임의식을 향상시키기 위한 정책적 노력이 병행될 필요가 있으나, 표현의 자유가 과도하게 침해되지 않도록 균형을 이루는 것이 중요하다.

• 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.

• Asia pacific journal of information systems
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• 제23권3호
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• pp.131-154
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• 2013

New internet technologies have created a revolutionary new platform which allows consumers to make decision about product price and quality quickly and provides information about themselves through the transcript of online reviews. By expressing their feelings toward products or services on virtual opinion platforms, users extend their influence into cyberspace as electronic word-of-mouth (e-WOM). Existing research indicates that an impact of eWOM on the consumer decision process is influential. For both academic researchers and practitioners, investigating this phenomenon of information sharing in online website is essential given the increasing number of consumers using them as sources of purchase decisions. It is worthwhile to examine the extent to which opinion seekers are willing to accept and adopt online reviews and which factors encourage adoption. Discerning the most motivating aspects of information adoption in particular, could help electronic marketers better promote their brand and presence on the internet. The objectives of this study are to investigate how online WOM influences a persons' purchase decision by discovering which factors encourage information adoption. Especially focused on the self-efficacy, this research investigates how self-efficacy affects on information usefulness and adoption of online information. Although people are exposed to same review or comment about product or service, some accept the reviews while others do not. We notice that accepting online reviews mainly depends on the person's preference or personal characteristics. This study empirically examines this issue by using cognitive dissonance theory. Specifically, in the movie industry, we address few questions-is always positive WOM generating positive effect? What if the movie isn't the person's favorite genre? What if the person who is very self-assertive so doesn't take other's opinion easily? In these cases of cognitive dissonance, is always WOM generating same result? While many studies have focused on one direct of WOM which indicates positive (or negative) informative reviews or comments generate positive (or negative) results and more (or less) profits, this study investigates not only directional properties of WOM but also how people change their opinion towards product or service positive to negative, negative to positive through the online WOM. An experiment was conducted quantitatively by using a sample of 168 users who have experience within the online movie review site, 'Naver Movie'. Users were required to complete a survey regarding reviews and comments taken from the real movie page. The data reflected user's perceptions of online WOM information that determined users' adoption level. Analysis results provide empirical support for the proposed theoretical perspective. When user can't agree with the opinion of online WOM information, in other words, when cognitive dissonance between online WOM information and users' preference occurs, perceived self-efficacy significantly decreases customers' perception of usefulness. And this perception of usefulness plays an important role in determining users' intention to adopt online WOM information. Most of researches have been concentrated on characteristics of online WOM itself such as quality or vividness of information, credibility of source and direction of online WOM, etc. for describing effect of online WOM, but our results suggest that users' personal character (e.g., self-efficacy) plays decisive role for acceptance of online WOM information. Higher self-efficacy means lower possibility to accept the information that represents counter opinion because of cognitive dissonance, whereas the people that have lower self-efficacy are willing to accept the online WOM information as true and refer to purchase decision. This study suggests a model for understanding role of direction of online WOM information. Also, our result implicates the importance of online review supervision and personalized information service by confirming switching opinion negative to positive is more difficult than positive to negative through the online WOM information. This implication would help marketers to manage online reviews of their products or services.

• Asia Marketing Journal
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• 제24권1호
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• pp.13-28
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• 2022

Despite the benefits of online shopping, we easily observe consumer behaviour when making purchases through offline channels. Why do they choose to go offline by taking the effort to go there? As a factor influencing decision-making, this study assumes that distrust of online shopping increases webrooming intentions that online consumers move to offline channels. Consumers check online reviews as well as seller information to increase their purchasing confidence. There are few studies on the effect of negative online reviews on consumers' purchasing decisions. Contrary to the pessimistic results of previous studies, the results of this study explain the mechanism by which consumers who saw negative online reviews feel distrust of online shopping and go to offline stores. It provides implications for understanding the migration phenomenon of online shoppers to offline channels and what strategies should be prepared to retain and attract customers to each channel.

• 한국컴퓨터정보학회논문지
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• 제29권7호
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• pp.139-148
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• 2024

팬데믹 이후 온라인 교육 플랫폼에 대한 수요가 급증하면서 소비자들이 의사 결정을 위해 온라인 리뷰에 더욱 의존하게 되었습니다. 본 연구는 중국 온라인 고객 리뷰가 온라인 교육에서 소비자 구매 행동에 미치는 영향을 조사합니다. 신뢰, 리뷰 감정, 리뷰의 양과 시의성을 분석하여 이러한 요인들이 소비자 결정에 어떻게 영향을 미치는지 이해하고자 합니다. 회귀 모델을 사용한 결과, 부정적인 리뷰, 시기적절한 피드백, 많은 양의 리뷰가 소비자 구매 결정에 긍정적인 영향을 미치며, 코스 가격은 반비례 관계를 나타냅니다. 또한, 인지적 신뢰와 감정적 신뢰는 리뷰와 구매행동 간의 관계를 매개하며, 소비자 결정 성향에 역 U자형 효과를 나타냅니다. 이러한 통찰은 온라인 교육 제공자에게 온라인 리뷰를 관리하고 활용하여 소비자 신뢰를 증진시키고 판매 성과를 향상시킬 필요성을 강조하는 유용한 시사점을 제공합니다.

• International Journal of Contents
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• 제10권4호
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• pp.38-47
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• 2014

Recently, with the development of technology, social network service (SNS) has become a hot topic. Lots of companies are now making online marketing strategy to promote their products and brand identities using SNS. Through these strategies, companies can produce more profit as well as make better brand images by performing online public relations. Among the SNSs, Facebook has a lot of users, it has been regarded by companies as a suitable platform with respect to online marketing for latent customers. The companies of today typically have at least one account and a Facebook page, and constantly make relationships with customers. However, companies have been thoughtless in this process, and usually provide information to customers through one-way communication. Based on this phenomenon, a study was conducted herein on how to use Facebook pages for promoting products and brand identities, keeping good relationships between companies and customers. This study assumed that the types of interaction on Facebook pages and user involvement are the key factors affecting decision making of purchase. Four types of Facebook pages which were made virtually were used in analysis with 56 participants who were selected for the experiment. The results indicated partial verification of the hypothesis. Particularly, product involvement had an effect on decision making of purchase in all conditions. According to these results, it can be explained that there are close relationships between the psychological status of online behaviors and Facebook corporate pages. In addition, through linear tendency of this phenomenon, this can infer how to setup a positive relationship with latent customers and make improve brand images of products.

• 한국정보처리학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국정보처리학회 2012년도 추계학술발표대회
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• pp.450-451
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• 2012

The need of Clinical Decision Support System (CDSS) in healthcare setup is increasing day by day. EHR Meaningful Use advocates CDSS as an important component of EHR/EMR systems. CDSS can be ranged from a simple to a very sophisticated system. The more complex CDSS systems need more attention to develop because of many reasons including its Knowledge Base (KB) structure/maintenance/evolution, inference capabilities and usability. Above all the KB maintenance and evolution is very crucial and important from the perspective of useful decision capabilities. Also the richness of the KB is important to cover the decision gaps handling a particular situation in the course of patient care. It cannot be expected from the clinicians to remember everything in regard to patient diagnosis and treatment. Similarly, it is also crucial for clinicians to keep themselves updated with the new research in the area. That is the reason they frequently require accessing to the online knowledge resources. Literature proved that online knowledge resources are capable providing answers to questions that might not be answered rely only on clinician wisdom and experience. This paper provides the theme of meaningful utilization of online knowledge resources in the context of diagnosis and treatment process for cancer patients more specifically Head and Neck cancer.

• ETRI Journal
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• 제29권5호
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• pp.685-687
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• 2007

In this letter, we propose a new online buffer management algorithm to simultaneously provide diverse multimedia traffic services and enhance network performance. Our online approach exhibits dynamic adaptability and responsiveness to the current traffic conditions in multimedia networks. This approach can provide high buffer utilization and thereby improve packet loss performance at the time of congestion.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제13권5호
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• pp.2491-2508
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• 2019

This research investigates the media consumers' behavior with behavioral economics perspective, especially regarding TV content viewers' behavior; how do online communications influence TV viewers' decision when choosing a new TV content among options. We focus on quantity and attribute of comments or reactions on the online news articles. We analyze that online communications data, which were generated before the first broadcast, affect the TV content consumers' choice for a new TV series. Here we identify a predicted utility, experienced utility and distinction bias in TV media consumption to find the effectiveness of the first viewing choice on whole TV series' episodes. To avoid the crucial influence by exogenous factors, such as season and social issue, the test was done with specific conditions. This research found that the total number of reactions to the comments by itself positively affects the audiences' decision-making behavior for a new TV content choice. This influence was regardless of favor/ non-flavor reactions. This study contributes to the literature on media economics and management by exploring the media content users' consuming behavior and making a first step for finding an important influencer on the media content consumption.