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An Empirical Analysis on the Persistent Usage Intention of Chinese Personal Cloud Service

개인용 클라우드 서비스에 대한 중국 사용자의 지속적 사용의도에 관한 실증 연구

  • Received : 2015.02.02
  • Accepted : 2015.05.02
  • Published : 2015.06.30
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Abstract

With the rapid development of information technology, the ways of usage have changed drastically. The ways and efficiency of traditional service application to data processing already could not satisfy the requirements of modern users. Nowadays, users have already understood the importance of data. Therefore, the processing and saving of big data have become the main research of the Internet service company. In China, with the rise and explosion of 115 Cloud leads to other technology companies have began to join the battle of cloud services market. Although currently Chinese cloud services are still mainly dominated by cloud storage service, the series of service contents based on cloud storage service have been affirmed by users, and users willing to try these new ways of services. Thus, how to let users to keep using cloud services has become a topic that worth for exploring and researching. The academia often uses the TAM model with statistical analysis to analyze and check the attitude of users in using the system. However, the basic TAM model obviously already could not satisfy the increasing scale of system. Therefore, the appropriate expansion and adjustment to the TAM model (i. e. TAM2 or TAM3) are very necessary. This study has used the status of Chinese internet users and the related researches in other areas in order to expand and improve the TAM model by adding the brand influence, hardware environment and external environments to fulfill the purpose of this study. Based on the research model, the questionnaires were developed and online survey was conducted targeting the cloud services users of four Chinese main cities. Data were obtained from 210 respondents were used for analysis to validate the research model. The analysis results show that the external factors which are service contents, and brand influence have a positive influence to perceived usefulness and perceived ease of use. However, the external factor hardware environment only has a positive influence to the factor of perceived ease of use. Furthermore, the perceived security factor that is influenced by brand influence has a positive influence persistent intention to use. Persistent intention to use also was influenced by the perceived usefulness and persistent intention to use was influenced by the perceived ease of use. Finally, this research analyzed external variables' attributes using other perspective and tried to explain the attributes. It presents Chinese cloud service users are more interested in fundamental cloud services than extended services. In private cloud services, both of increased user size and cooperation among companies are important in the study. This study presents useful opinions for the purpose of strengthening attitude for private cloud service users can use this service persistently. Overall, it can be summarized by considering the all three external factors could make Chinese users keep using the personal could services. In addition, the results of this study can provide strong references to technology companies including cloud service provider, internet service provider, and smart phone service provider which are main clients are Chinese users.

IT기술의 고속 발전에 따라 사용자들이 기술을 사용하는 방식에 큰 변화가 생기고 있다. 전통적인 서비스 응용과 저효율의 데이터를 처리하는 방식은 사용자의 요구를 만족할 수 없다. 사용자들이 데이터의 중요성을 알게 되었고, 빅 데이터에 관한 처리와 저장기술은 오늘날의 인터넷 회사의 주요 연구방향이 되고 있다. 115 네트워크 디스크는 중국에서 폭넓게 사용되기 시작하였고 각 인터넷 회사들은 클라우드 서비스 시장을 쟁탈하는 싸움에 참여하기 시작하였다. 중국의 클라우드 서비스는 아직도 스토리지 서비스 위주이지만, 이 기능을 바탕으로 확장하는 서비스 내용도 사용자의 인정을 받고 있으며, 사용자들이 이러한 새로운 서비스 방식을 사용하는 것을 시도하고 있다. 그래서 어떻게 하면 사용자들이 지속적으로 클라우드 서비스를 사용 할 것인지에 관한 연구방향이 더욱 필요해 졌다. 하나의 전통적인 정보 시스템에 대해, 학자들은 대개 TAM(Technology acceptance model)모형과 통계학을 결합하여 이 시스템에 대한 사용자들의 태도를 분석하고 검증한다. 하지만 기본적인 TAM모형은 날이 갈수록 방대해지는 시스템의 규모를 만족 할 수 없게 되었다. 따라서 TAM모형에 대한 적당한 확장과 조절이 필요하게 되었다. 본 연구는 중국의 개인용 클라우드 서비스 사용자의 지속적인 사용의도에 영향을 미치는 요인에 관한 실증분석을 목표로 브랜드 영향력, 하드웨어 환경 등 외부 변수를 추가하고, 중국 클라우드 사용자를 대상으로 설문 조사를 진행했으며, 본 논문에서 분석을 통해 수정된 모형에 관한 가설을 검증하였다. 본 연구는 주로 중국의 4개 주요 도시의 210명의 클라우드 서비스 사용자를 대상으로 인터넷 설문 조사를 실행하였다. 설문 데이터를 통해 3개의 외부 변수에 대한 분석을 진행하였고, 이 3개의 외부 변수를 세분화하고 외부요소에 영향을 주는 주요 원인을 찾아냈다. 이를 바탕으로 개인 클라우드 서비스 사용자들이 서비스를 지속적으로 사용 할 수 있는 태도를 강화 할 수 있는 것에 유용한 의견을 제시하였다. 이러한 의견들은 중국사용자들을 대상으로 하는 주요 서비스를 제공 하는 회사에게 향후 서비스 방향을 참고할 수 있는 정보를 제공한다.

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