Exploring how people adopt and interact with emerging technologies through behavioral analysis.
Assessing the value and adoption potential of emerging technologies by analyzing markets, user needs, and innovation dynamics.
Forecasting demand and supporting policy design for future mobility technologies such as autonomous vehicles, electric vehicles, shared mobility, and urban air mobility.
Industrial Policy Research
Evaluating economic feasibility and policy impact across diverse industries and technologies.
Enhancing service experience by analyzing customer feedback and unstructured text data.
Defense & Security Policy
Supporting defense acquisition and policy-making through rigorous cost-effectiveness and feasibility analysis.
(*corresponding author, † equal contribution)
[Under Review]
Park, C., Kim, S., Shin, J., & Maeng, K.* (Major Revision). Integrating Environmental Value into Mobility-as-a-Service: Behavioral Insights for Sustainable Mobility Strategy. Business Strategy and the Environment.
Kim, H., Kim, J., Shin, J., & Maeng, K.* (Major Revision). When Public Wi-Fi Becomes Junk: Estimating the Inconvenience Costs of Wi-Fi Interference in Urban Digital Infrastructure. Applied Economics.
Kim, W., Jin, H., & Maeng, K.* (Major Revision). Facilitating sustainable urban air mobility: The role of social influence and human oversight in consumer adoption. Transportation Research Part D: Transport and Environment.
Joo, S., Jung, Y., Yeon, J., Shin, J., Lee, D., Maeng, K., & Lee, H.,* (Under Review). Designing Effective Financial Information Delivery in the Era of Information Overload: Consumer Preferences for Messaging-Based Service Attributes. Information Processing & Management.
Kim, M., Cho, Y., & Maeng, K.* (Under Review). Why smarter robots do not always diffuse: Consumer preferences, autonomy paradox , and market scenarios for Companion robots. Technological Forecasting and Social Change.
Park, Y., Kim, S., Hwang, Y., Shin, J., & Maeng, K.* (Under Review). Pay to Stay or Leave? A Contingent Valuation Approach to Consumer Lock-in and Churn in Digital Platforms. Telecommunications Policy.
[Working & Ongoing]
Jin, H., Kim, M.*, Maeng, K.* (Working). Mapping the Knowledge Structure of Physical AI: A Data-Driven Systematic Review.
Oh, Y., Maeng, K., Cho, Y*(Working). How do familiar quality cues shape consumer evaluation of cultured meat?
Jung, M., & Maeng, K.* (Working). Technology Gap and Operational Efficiency: A Meta-Frontier Analysis of AI Adopters vs. Non-Adopters in Korean SMEs.
Lee, J., Lee, J., & Maeng, K.* (Working). Estimating the Social Inconvenience Costs of Fake and Low-Quality Information Generated by Generative AI.
Kim, W., Cho, H., Lee, J., & Maeng, K.* (Working). Predicting Market Share for Medical Subscription Services: A Discrete Choice Experiment and Simulation Study
Choi, I., & Maeng, K.* (Ongoing). Identifying Key Quality Factors in Music Streaming Recommendation Systems: A Text Mining and Sentiment Analysis Approach on User Reviews.
Kim, S., & Maeng, K.* (Ongoing). Consumer Preferences and Willingness-to-Pay for Subscription-Based AI Clone Services: A Conjoint Analysis Approach.