With the rapid development of artificial intelligence technology, personalized skincare recommendation systems have become a new way for consumers and brands to interact. However, consumers' trust in AI recommendation systems, concerns about privacy s...
With the rapid development of artificial intelligence technology, personalized skincare recommendation systems have become a new way for consumers and brands to interact. However, consumers' trust in AI recommendation systems, concerns about privacy security, and perceptions of self-efficacy remain important barriers to their acceptance and usage. Traditional technology acceptance models focus on rational cognitive variables, neglecting the emotional interactions and trust-building processes that users undergo while using personalized recommendation systems. To address this issue, this study aims to explore the impact of AI-based personalized skincare recommendations on brand perception and consumer satisfaction based on the SMIV and SOR models. A "Stimulus-Organism-Response" (SOR) path model is constructed, incorporating self-efficacy to systematically explore the psychological mechanisms and behavioral intentions of consumers in AI personalized skincare recommendation systems.
This study first describes the perceived characteristics of AI personalized skincare recommendation systems in terms of three dimensions of the SMIV model: "credibility," "information value," and "fit," which together constitute the stimulus (S) part. It then analyzes the process of trust building in consumers towards the recommendation system. Based on this, "self-efficacy" is introduced as an important mediating variable in the trust-to-satisfaction transmission process. Through a survey and sample data analysis, the theoretical model was empirically tested and path analyzed using the PLS-SEM method.
The results indicate that the perceived characteristics of the AI personalized recommendation system have a significant positive impact on consumer trust and self-efficacy, with the most significant effect being the degree of fit with personalized needs. Two subvariables in the trust structure have varying degrees of mediating effects on self-efficacy and satisfaction. Moreover, consumers' privacy sensitivity and perceived risk significantly moderate the path strength between trust and self-efficacy, further confirming the heterogeneity of trust paths in different user groups. Based on these findings, this study theoretically extends the technology acceptance research by addressing emotional behavior paths and fills the gap in the self-efficacy mechanism in AI personalized skincare recommendation systems. It also validates the applicability of social psychology theories in high-tech risk areas.
In practice, the study proposes optimization paths for enhancing consumer trust and self-efficacy perception in AI personalized skincare recommendation systems, including increasing system transparency, building controllable feedback mechanisms, and implementing personalized privacy protection strategies. In addition, the constructed trust path mechanism has strong extensibility and transferability, which can be applied to various fields such as smart healthcare and AI voice assistants in the future, providing theoretical support for user-centered product optimization and policy-making.
In conclusion, this paper constructs a complete behavioral model of "Stimulus-Organism-Response" around user behavior in AI personalized skincare recommendation systems, and through theoretical integration, structural innovation, and mechanism verification, it achieves a dual breakthrough in theory and practice. This provides important insights for the design and application of personalized recommendation systems.