Online community can be regarded as connection line between those who have relationship in general. the number of website bases on online community is increasing internationally as attention towards the communities is on the rise. This research is to...
Online community can be regarded as connection line between those who have relationship in general. the number of website bases on online community is increasing internationally as attention towards the communities is on the rise. This research is to refine online community concept systematically and to identify peculiarity of the community sites in order to analyze influence that immersion into and satisfactory upon sites have towards continuous utilization. Having set research model and hypothesis based on previous research, and then they were verified empirically. Current actual user group of a certain online community site was designated as subject and range of user age was from 18 to 40. the range occupied most of users in total. A questionaire survey was conducted for the user in the range. Summary of the result is following.
First, stabilization in terms of system quality did not affect immersion and satisfactory upon sites. However, a higer content with security had a positive influence towards the continuous utilization of sites.
Second, information providing-ability and its timeliness appeared to have no influence to the utilization, but content and reliability had. The wanted information highly depends on amount rather than its quality that user does not pay attention over information providing, therefore information providing-ability did not have a regardful influence.
Third, emotional bond did not have a regardful influence since the emotional bond is not being stressed at online community sites where variety is important. For many cases, interaction influences the continuous utilization of the community sites according to preexistence documentary researches. However, it was verified that suitable interaction for users was not being achieved since this research focuses on information-centered communities and social relationship-oriented communities. Pleasure had a regardful influence over immersion and satisfactory upon sites.
To generalize research, it is required to conduct research in consideration of different those surveyed in coming times. Regarding online community sites as a main flow, systematic and multidirectional approach towards researches is needed.