As the 21st century comes, the rapid progress in new media such as CATV and internet along with advertisement industry is getting outstanding. The digital environment, which is represented by computer along with development in high technology in the k...
As the 21st century comes, the rapid progress in new media such as CATV and internet along with advertisement industry is getting outstanding. The digital environment, which is represented by computer along with development in high technology in the knowledge information era, has great influence upon all the life, and is standing in the core of diverse social changes. According to new-information innovation and technical development with greeting 21C, the internet is possessing the large part of a human being's living domain enough to be unimaginable.
As the new advertising medium, the internet has been actively researched at home and abroad in the face of short history. Also, according to a change in the times, the internet comes to be gradually increased a social role such as being developed as a place of exchanging information and forming public opinion. In the middle of it, the banner advertisement reflects netizens' sensitive sensibility and consumption trend. And, the novel and unique method began to be thought in order to increase awareness level of product. In the meantime, the development came to be made on and on. In other words, the banner advertisement is another new advertising medium, which was produced by the development in internet environment factor and by a rise in social role, and can be said to stand for the era.
The internet banner advertisement is not existence that a user simply accepts message, which was shown in banner advertisement, but has characteristic as a positive and goal-oriented media user who tries to satisfy the demand by facing and clicking the banner advertisement with having the needs and diverse motives for the use. The banner advertisement is exposed to the unspecified majority rather than the target-oriented characteristic, thereby being high in its effect according to the main visual goal. Out of internet advertisement that comprised numerous elements, especially in case of banner advertisement, the eye tracking or visual behavior index will offer important information in relation to the advertising effect. The category in its application is very extensive. A tool, which can measure the advertising effect by elaborately tracking eye in this way, is just 'Eye tracker.' An example of using this in measuring the internet advertising effect is growing these days.
This study aims to utilize eye tracking available for tracking consumers' eye objectively in analyzing effects of online banner advertisement out of measurement in the internet advertising effects. It progressed the quantitatively eye-tracking experiment, which did set variables to layout, color, text, graphic image, and multimedia, as visual elements in banner advertisement centering on the banner advertisement in shopping-mall site, and the qualitative questionnaire, and questionnaire at the same time. Through this, it analyzed the eye tracking of consumers, who visit the shopping-mall site, thereby having examined about what the important visual element is in increasing effects of banner advertisement, and about usability of applying eye tracking in measuring these effects. In addition, it suggested alternative plans by considering harmony with the whole pages of shopping mall, which comprised numerous elements, without independently seeing banner advertisement in shopping-mall site.
In the introduction, it described on the background and objective in research, and a method and scope in research.
In the subject, it grasped the current point of online advertisement, and the theoretical concept on banner advertisement, understood principle of eye tracking, simultaneously progressed the quantitatively eye-tracking experiment and the qualitative questionnaire, which were carried out targeting 8 testees, and the questionnaire, and performed cross tabulation.
In the conclusion, it arranged the overall results in 3 experiments of the above, and proposed future direction of research task.
Through this study, the aim is to be important guideline for measuring visual effect of online banner advertisement in the future by escaping from banner advertisement, which contains only the quantity of reckless information without considering visual effect. It researches in order to enhance the appeal power available for inducing the mass consumers' eye, thereby aiming to research into and analyze visual effect of banner advertisement and to solidify foundation on usability of experiment on eye tracking for analyzing this.