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A Study on the Required Features of Social Network Service

  • Journal of The Korea Society of Computer and Information
  • Abbr : JKSCI
  • 2015, 20(7), pp.77-84
  • Publisher : The Korean Society Of Computer And Information
  • Research Area : Engineering > Computer Science

Jong-Soo Yoon 1

1강남대학교

Accredited

ABSTRACT

The study is to investigate which features are perceived by Social Network Service(SNS) users as the most required one to further boost the usage of service, and to examine the perception of these features of SNS sites varies according to their demographic and service usage characteristics. The study also is to suggest a few of research propositions on the relationships between required features of SNS sites and characteristics of SNS users, based on statistical analyses. To accomplish these research purposes, the study defined characteristics of SNS users including demographic(gender, age) and service usage one(start time of service usage, service usage place), and required features of SNS sites(system, service, information, emotion) based on the literature review of SNS. The results show, based on the statistical analyses using survey questionnaire on Korean and Chinese SNS users, that there are differences in perception of required features of SNS sites among the respondents grouped by age, start time of service usage, service usage place. Finally, the study proposed three research propositions, based on the analysis result, that could be used in SNS related researches in the future.

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