스스로 완벽하게 목적지까지 주행하는 완전 자율주행 자동차 시대가 가까운 미래에 도래할 것으로 예상되면서 자동차 산업은 1800년대 후반에 자동차가 탄생한 이래 큰 변화를 꾀해야 할 중대한 전환기를 맞이하고 있다. 완전 자율주행 자동차는 단순한 이동수단의 개념을 넘어 생활공간으로 정의되어지며, 앞으로 실내공간을 중심으로 큰 변화가 나타나게 될 것이라고 전망되고 있으나 완전 자율주행 자동차 실내공간 디자인에 대한 기존 연구는 미비한 실정이다. 이에 본 연구는 생활공간이라는 개념에 적합하도록 사용자의 감성적 경험을 충족시켜줄 수 있는 근본적인 디자인 요소인 실내행위에 대한 분석을 통해 실내공간 디자인 방안을 제안하고자 한다. 이를 위해 완전 자율주행 자동차의 실내행위에 대한 소비자 의식을 조사하였다. 분석 결과 국내 소비자들은 완전 자율주행 자동차 내에서 ‘수면 및 휴식’, ‘TV 및 영화 시청’, ‘음악감상’ 등 개인 중심 행위 중에서도 휴식 및 감상 활동과 관련된 실내행위에 대한 필요 성을 인지하고 있었으며, 본 연구 결과를 바탕으로 완전 자율주행 자동차 실내공간 디자인 방안을 제안하였다. 본 연구는 소비자 니즈(needs)를 정량적 방법으로 분석하여 실내공간 디자인 방안을 새로운 시각으로 제시한 선도적인 연구라는 점에서 중요한 의미를 지닌다.

This study aims at identifying a novel framework that further explains the relationship between brands and customers in the online context at different touchpoints (e.g. social media, website) of the customer journey. In pursuing this goal, authors expect online brand experience as the main trigger in determining specific customer brand engagement (CBE) behaviours.

Social media are increasingly becoming a strategic vehicle of modern companies’ way of communicating and interacting with consumers. Actually, social media marketing (SMM) has recently emerged as an effective two-way communication channel able to provide the sharing and exchange of information, ideas, and user-generated content in virtual environments. This is especially true for fashion brands, which are progressively creating interactive platforms such as online brand communities in order to enhance their consumer-based brand equity (CBE), interpreted as the consumers’ assessment of a company brand image, identity, and value. Scholars have widely analyzed the relationship between a company’s SMM and brand equity, thus finding a direct positive impact of the five main constructs depicting perceived SMM activities, namely entertainment, interaction, trendiness, customization, and word of mouth, on CBE. Despite this relevant scholarly interest, the consumer behavioral responses linking a company perceived SMM activities and CBE have been largely neglected. Actually, consumers’ benefits from virtual environments and online brand experience may represent significant elements marketing strategists should focus on in order to enhance a company’s brand equity. Building on the uses and gratifications theory and experiential marketing, we develop a conceptual model that unpacks such linkages, by relating SMM activities, perceived benefits of using social media, online brand experience, and CBE. Specifically, we interpret SMM activities as significant brand-related stimuli able to influence consumers’ cognitive, social interactive, personal interactive, and hedonic benefits, which in turn influence consumers’ sensory, affective, behavioral, and intellectual online experience. Moreover, we investigate the experiential responses of consumers that mostly affect a company’s brand equity, which finally impacts on consumers’ purchase intention of the fashion brand. The model is validated using structural equation modeling (SEM) on a sample of real users of online brand communities operating in the fashion industry. Our sample is composed of Millennials, which currently represent the most influential grown-digital generation of consumers. Overall, our findings shed light on consumers’ online behavioral and experiential responses to a company’s perceived SMM activities, thus proposing strategic implications for the management of brand online communities and suggesting interesting possibilities of future research on social media and fashion consumers.

How the events of service experiences stimulus consumers’ emotional elicitation and post-experience has become an important issue in marketing. Appraisal theory is the one that has been discussed from many scholars about this significant phenomenon since a long time; nevertheless, existing studies of appraisal theory have neglected expectedness and novelty appraisals on consumers, emotional elicitation and post-experience behavior in service experiences. This research aims to examine the influences of three appraisals-goal congruence, expectedness and novelty on consumers’ emotional elicitation and their satisfaction, WOM intentions and likelihood of generating WOM under service experience scenarios. This study contains two studies: study one examines main effects of goal congruence and expectedness on emotions and post-experience; study two tests the main effects of goal congruence and novelty on emotions. Experimental design is adopted in examining appraisals on emotions. Circumplex Model of Affect is adopted as the examination of emotions. The research hypotheses are tested using MANOVA as well as Regression analyses with experimental data from 320 university students in Taiwan. The research is the first in the literature on Appraisal Theory of emotional elicitation that both expectedness and novelty has main effects on emotional elicitation as well as consumer post-experience behavior. The higher expectedness one event is, the more positive emotions will be; vice versa. Also, the more novelty one event is, the more positive emotions will be; vice versa. Positive emotions have positive impact on consumer post-experience behavior; vice versa. Main effect of goal congruence on emotions shows significant in study one whereas in study two it shows no significant influence. The research is one of the few which investigate expectedness and novelty appraisals in appraisal theory that will cause emotional elicitation as well as consumer post-experience behavior.

This study explores the relationship among brand experience, consumer satisfaction and brand loyalty with virtual experience and the virtual community as the intervening variables. We intend to discuss how the new concept of ‘brand experience’ impacted by the internet environment. We integrate the following new research subjects together: brand experience, virtual experience and virtual community. As the research purpose is to understand the effects of virtual environments on brand experience on consumer satisfaction and on brand loyalty, it takes virtual experience as the intervening variable to discuss whether it positively or negatively influences the relationship between brand experience and consumer satisfaction, and takes the virtual commodity variable as the intervening variable to discuss whether it positively or negatively influences the relationship between consumer satisfaction and brand loyalty. This study takes the virtual community members of apple brand in taiwan as the research subjects and 516 questionnaires were completed and returned. The results show that the brand experience had a positive effect on the consumers’ satisfaction and brand loyalty. In addition, the virtual experience has a positive moderating effect on the relationship of brand experience and consumer satisfaction. Finally, this study also discovered that the virtual community also has a positive moderating effect on the relationship between consumers’ satisfaction and brand loyalty.

유전자를 통해 개인의 질병 · 신체적 특징 정보를 분석하는 "유전자 혁명" 시대가 열리고 있다. 최근 유전자 분석 기술의 발전으로 가격과 분석 기간이 급속도로 줄고 있기 때문이다. 인간은 DNA 내 30억 쌍의 염기서열에 유전자를 담고 있는데, 염기서열을 분석하는 컴퓨터 성능이 크게 발전한 덕분이다. 이러한 시대에 맞춰 정부에서도 유전자 검사에 관한 새로운 상품 및 서비스에 맞는 인증, 허가 기준을 위한 산업융합 규제 샌드박스 제도를 실시하게 되었다. 규제 샌드박스는 신산업・ 신기술 분야에서 새로운 제품이나 서비스를 출시할 때 일정 기간 동안 기존 규제를 면제하거나 유예시켜주는 제도이다. 우리나라에서도 이러한 비용 절감이 우리생활에서 쉽게 할 수 있는 유전자검사로 이어졌고 지난 2016년 6월 ‘생명윤리 및 안전에 관한 법률’이 개정되면서 민간 기업이 일반인을 대상으로 한 유전자 분석 서비스, DTC(Direct to Consumer, 소비자 직접 의뢰) 상품시장이 열렸다. 이에 의료 · 제약업체들이 유전자 검사 서비스를 속속 출시, 다양한 유통채널을 통해 판매하고 있는 모습이다. 이에 국내에 제공되고 있는 개인 유전자 DTC 검사 키트 상품을 경험디자인적 관점에서 분석하여 검사 신청에서 실질적인 검체 채취와 반송에 이르기 까지 가장 적합한 유전자검사 키트 상품 제안은 의미가 크다고 하겠다. 사용자의 경험을 기반으로 한 유전자검사 키트 상품 개발은 앞으로 효율적이고 대중적인 개인 유전자 검사보급에 기초 적 자료 활용이 가능할 것이며 새로운 의료 문화형성과 국민보건의료 향상에 도움을 줄 것으로 기대한다.

This study is aimed to examine the mediated effects of consumer recognition in relationship of local food tour experience and intention of action in the revitalization of local food. Questionnaire survey target was women in 30s and 40s. The local food tour experience is independent variable, intention of action is dependent variable, and consumer recognition is analyzed as mediated variable. As a result, consumer recognition which is mediating variable has two subordinated variables. One is direct affect and the other is indirect affect. Between local food tour experience and intention of action, there was partial mediating effect. Thus, through tour experience, consumer can have positive recognition of freshness, safety, health, taste, price, job creation and relationship. That affects to the intention of action. Based on the results of the study, it is necessary to learn success case for marketing revitalization, and develop and operate experiencing tour education program to manage customer continuously.