The purpose of this study is to identify factors that influence consumers’ acceptance intentions towards Direct-to-Consumer (DTC) Genetic Testing service. DTC genetic testing service can be considered in two aspects: the application of new technology in genetic testing customers can directly purchase and the services for receiving the test results customer can’t directly analyze. Existing technology-based acceptance models have difficulty fully explaining consumers’ acceptance intentions towards DTC genetic testing services. Therefore, this study aims to propose a new acceptance model considering these two characteristics. A survey was conducted with 377 potential consumers for this research. The analysis revealed that health interest, prior knowledge, subjective norms, innovativeness, perceived usefulness, and perceived value affect consumers’ acceptance intentions. The results obtained through this study can help establish strategies and marketing plans necessary for the diffusion of services, such as DTC genetic testing services, that combine a new technology and a service. In the long term, the accumulated DTC genetic testing results data can contribute to the development of national genetic information infrastructure and preventive medical applications, as well as improve individuals’ quality of life.

목적 : 본 연구는 소셜네트워크서비스(Social Network Service; SNS) 이용 여부에 따른 장애인의 장애수용, 우울, 자아 존중감과 삶의 만족도를 비교하고 SNS를 이용하는 장애인의 삶의 만족도에 장애수용, 자아존중감, 우울, SNS 활용도가 어떠한 영향을 미치고 있는지 알아보고자 한다. 연구방법 : 본 연구는 한국장애인개발원의 장애인삶 3차 패널조사(2020년)를 활용하였다. SNS 이용 여부에 따른 장애인 의 장애수용, 우울, 자아존중감, 삶의 만족도를 비교하기 위해서 독립표본 t-검정을 실시하였다. SNS를 이용하는 장애 인의 삶의 만족도와 장애수용, 우울, 자아존중감, SNS 활용도의 상관관계를 분석하기 위해서 피어슨 상관분석을 실시하 였다. SNS를 이용하는 장애인의 삶의 만족도에 영향을 주는 요인을 분석하기 위해서 다중회귀분석을 실시하였다. 결과 : SNS를 이용하는 장애인이 이용하지 않은 장애인보다 장애수용, 자아존중감, 삶의 만족도는 높고 우울은 낮은 것 으로 나타났으며, SNS를 이용하는 장애인의 삶의 만족도는 장애수용, 우울, 자아존중감, SNS 활용도, 삶의 만족도와 상 관관계를 보였다. 또한, SNS를 이용하는 장애인의 삶의 만족도에 영향을 주는 요인으로는 성별, 우울, 자아존중감, SNS 활용도로 나타났다. 결론 : SNS는 장애인의 삶의 만족도에 긍정적인 영향을 미치는 것을 확인하였다. 따라서, 장애인의 삶의 만족도를 높이 기 위해 SNS의 접근성과 활용성을 높일 수 있는 중재 전략과 보조기기의 개발이 필요할 것으로 보인다.

Automation of frontline service encounters, or the replacement of frontline employees by technologies, is increasingly more common. This new service style, often called self- service, has attracted the attention of service providers who are looking to cut costs (Lin & Hsieh, 2007; Walker et al., 2002) and increase efficiency (Bitner et al., 2002; Curran et al., 2003; Dabholkar, 1996). On the other hand, a major disadvantage of self-service is that it puts the burden of service delivery on consumers (Lu et al., 2019). In other words, the introduction of self-service means a shift from consumers being served by frontline employees to their serving themselves by interacting with technologies. This means that consumers’ acceptance is key for self-service to be implemented successfully.

Building on Technology Readiness and Acceptance Model(TRAM), the study aimed to examine how technology readiness affects consumers’ perceptions of ease of use, usefulness, and risk, which in turn predict their intention to use retail service robots. Specifically, the study proposed that technology readiness motivators (optimism and innovativeness) would influence perceived ease of use and usefulness, while technology readiness inhibitors (discomfort and insecurity) would affect perceived risk. The study further examined if the perception factors (ease of use, usefulness, and risk) contribute to intention to use retail service robots. A survey method was used with data collected from Korean consumers. The final sample size was 418. The data was analyzed using structural equation modeling. Findings of the study revealed that technology readiness motivators positively affected perceived ease of use and usefulness while innovativeness had no impact on usefulness. All the inhibitors increased perceived risk. Lastly, as hypothesized, perceptions of ease of use, usefulness, and risk predicted intention to use retail service robots. This study extended the retail technology literature by applying and validating TRAM to the context of consumer acceptance of retail service robots. The study further helped marketers and retailers by highlighting the importance of technology readiness in improving consumer perceptions and responses towards retail service robots.

The quality of service in ERP services is a key issue in innovating the ERP performance as an IT service for corporations. Currently, most of the research works for this area are based on the existing quality models such as SERVQUAL, which are said not to measure service quality properly. Also, it does not consider the factor of the system acceptance, which is thought to be closely related to the quality of service in this type of IT services. Therefore, a research model is required, which can address the issues related to the ERP service quality measurements. In this paper, new research models have been proposed, and empirical data obtained from SME’s ERP users have been applied to the proposed model to analyze the causal relationship between quality factors and to identify the most suitable quality measures. Also, the relationship between the service quality and the system acceptance was analyzed using a combined model. The results show that factors such as productivity and convenience affects the quality mostly and that the most appropriate measure for the service quality of ERP service is satisfaction. Also, for the system acceptance, the ease-of-use is the main factor. And, the service quality and system acceptance shows a strong correlation. This means that, in order to enhance the quality of ERP services, the service provider needs to provide customers with productivity-enhanced user-friendly IT services and active product support. The work of this research can help to improve the service quality and the user acceptance of ERP services and to lead further research works in this area.

This study is to find out the acceptance intention of international logistics platform which meet the needs of each other of shipper and international logistics company in the online. As you may know, the many korean traditional international logistics companies which have to compete with global logistics companies focused on economics of scale, have been in a big trouble. In this circumstances, though they should get used to the change to survive, they do not know what they try to overcome. So, I hope that this study would be helpful to them

In this study, we propose an efficient two-phase heuristic policy, called an acceptance tolerance control policy, for Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) cloud services that considers both the service provider and customer in terms of profit and satisfaction, respectively. Each time an IaaS cloud service is requested, this policy determines whether the service is accepted or rejected by calculating the potential for realizing the two performance objectives. Moreover, it uses acceptance tolerance to identify the possibility for error with the chosen decision while compensating for both future fluctuations in customer demand and error possibilities based on past decisions. We conducted a numerical experiment to verify the performance of the proposed policy using several actual IaaS cloud service specifications and comparing it with other heuristics.

전 세계적으로 IT분야에서 클라우드 컴퓨팅에 대한 관심이 높아지고 있으며, 많은 기업들이 조직의 경쟁력 향상을 위해 클라우드 서비스 도입을 고려하고 있다. 클라우드 서비스는 클라우드 컴퓨팅에 기반을 두고 있으며 서비스 유형에 따라 SaaS, PaaS, IaaS로 구분할 수 있다. 본 연구는 실증적 연구를 통해 기술수용모델(TAM: Technology Acceptance Model)을 적용하여 기업의 B2B 클라우드 서비스 이용의도에 미치는 영향을 분석하고자 하는데, 국내에서 클라우드 서비스 중 PaaS를 서비스 기업과 동시에 이를 이용하는 기업이 거의 없으므로, B2B 클라우드 서비스중에서 SaaS와 IaaS를 그 분석 대상으로 하였다. 이를 위해 클라우드 서비스에 대한 지식을 보유한 IT 기업의 의사결정자, IT 기술 지원 담당자 등을 대상으로 설문조사하고 통계적 분석을 실시한 결과, 지각된 유용성, 사회적 영향력, 마케팅 노력 순으로 기업의 클라우드 컴퓨팅 서비스 도입의도에 영향을 미치고 있음을 알 수 있었다. 그리고 분석된 결과를 토대로 클라우드 서비스 유형인 SaaS, IaaS에 따른 조절효과를 검증하였다. 본 연구는 기업 사용자들의 클라우드 서비스 이용의도 분석은 물론 기업 클라우드 서비스 제공자들이 그들의 새로운 서비스 모델 개발 및 마케팅 전략 수립에 있어 의미 있는 도움을 줄 것으로 기대한다.

IP Telephony service was restricted to an outgoing call and low quality since the trust domestic IP Telephony service launch of Saerome co. Ltd, in Jan. 2000. However, Interest of IP Telephony service, which is substituted for PSTN, has been highly elated because of the developed equipment softswitch and new technology. This kind of importance and marketing of VoIP are recognized to telecommunication providers. With this trend, they try to administrate customer satisfaction and invest R&D to survive in this hard competition and unexpected change. To achieve this objective, they should try to realize the searching process of the quality decision attribution (QDA). However, there is little research on the aspect of service quality of Internet telephony so far. For this, the investigator established the tangibles, the reliability, the responsibility, the assurance, the empathy, the charge with information sources as core elements. In order to examine the influence of IP Telephony service upon the attitudes toward a brand and the purchase intention.

IPTV services, as the convergence service of communication and broadcasting, are regarded as the essential information communication media in the New Economy era by providing the consumers with various services through the collaboration among communications, broadcasting and many of other media service providers. The research starts with recognition that, in the new media era, where communication and broadcasting are converging, there are endless demands for new services and various contents, which are driving forces behind the business model of IPTV. In other words, the research expected that customer satisfaction and purchase intention would be different according to the service quality(contents). It was expected that the difference of the perceived service quality(contents) could cause the difference of the process of adopting new technologies. The study on how consumers are satisfied with services provided, and which factors of the service quality have a more significant effect on consumer satisfaction will provide very valuable information for forecasting future trends in the IPTV market. The research tried to investigate factors which influence on consumer satisfaction and loyalty through an empirical survey with real users of IPTV services. Based on the results, the research suggested effective ways of diffusing IPTV.

Mobile technologies and services have become one of the inevitable parts of people's lives and mobile businesses have also been widespread. Nevertheless, there have been no such studies of mobile services in the industry and most of the studies have been concentrated on mobile Internet services. therefore, the goals of this study is to find out corporate key parts for popularizing mobile banking services by clarifying the activate method of mobile banking services and to get some tips for service providers and users. The results are following; First, Service Quality, Personal Innovativeness, Social Influence, don't influence users' Perceived Usefulness, which means that when people use mobile banking services, whether people around them use the services doesn't have a significant effect on them. Considerably, that's because mobile banking services are different from games and entertainment contents provided through cell phones that many can easily use and be affected by people around them and reference groups. Second, people use mobile banking services; when they experience the convenience and familiarity; when the service would help them work efficiently. Much of the preceding researches have dealt with service provider only and have focused on mobile Internet. In this regard, when it comes to a viewpoint that regards the mobile banking sector as a new sector of mobile businesses, this study is significant.

The paper examines critical factors affecting consumer behavioral intentions in accepting online health communication through social networking sites. Unlike recent research under this topic, the paper assimilates some components of service quality dimensions and consumer behavior theories. The paper employs factor analysis and structural equation modelling analysis with latent variables to identify critical factors from the survey data collected from Korean consumers. The results of the study identifies three major constructs: consumer needs for health information, the perceived value of tangible attributes of health information providers, and the perceived value of intangible attributes of health information providers. The results show that consumer needs for health information and the tangible and intangible attributes of health information providers should be considered as important antecedents of accepting online health communication through social networking sites. The findings suggest that the success of online health communication via social networking sites largely depends on the tangible and intangible attributes of health information providers.

온･오프라인 유통 채널이 서로의 단점을 보완, 유기적으로 통합된 새로운 유통 패러다임으로 옴니채널쇼핑(omni-channel shopping)이 전 세계적으로 주목 받고 있는 상황이다. 소비자들은 자신들이 모르는 새 온･오프라인을 넘나들며 서비스를 이용하고(EC연구회 외, 2015), 이러한 서비스의 이용은 가속화 될 것이라는 전망이다. 그러나 소비자는 혁신적인 제품･기술을 바로 수용하는 것은 아니며 일정정도 저항을 거친 후에 수용하는 성향을 보이고 있다. 이에 본 연구에서는 식음료판매 옴니채널쇼핑의 대표적인 서비스인 스타벅스 사이렌오더를 혁신의 개념으로 이해하고 이에 대한 잠재 이용자의 저항에 영향을 미치는 요인을 도출, 혁신저항이 소비자 만족도에 영향을 미치는지 확인해 보았다. 연구결과, 지각된 유용성, 소비자 혁신성, 복잡성, 복귀성이 혁신저항에 영향을 미치고 혁신저항은 소비자 만족도에 영향을 미치는 것을 확인할 수 있었다. 본 연구 결과를 통해 옴니채널쇼핑의 후속연구와 관련 종사자들을 위한 실무적 정보를 제공 하는데 도움을 줄 수 있을 것이라고 생각한다.