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.* Integrating Environmental Value into Mobility-as-a-Service: Behavioral Insights for Sustainable Mobility Strategy. Business Strategy and the Environment.(Minor Revision)
Park, Y., Kim, S., Hwang, Y., Shin, J., & Maeng, K.* Pay to Stay or Leave? A Contingent Valuation Approach to Consumer Lock-in and Churn in Digital Platforms. Telecommunications Policy. (Major Revision)
Joo, S., Jung, Y., Yeon, J., Shin, J., Lee, D., Maeng, K., & Lee, H.* Designing Effective Financial Information Delivery in the Era of Information Overload: Consumer Preferences for Messaging-Based Service Attributes. Information Processing & Management. (Under Review)
Oh, Y., Maeng, K., Cho, Y.* Do Familiar Cues Increase Consumers’ Willingness to Pay for Cultured Meat? A Choice Experiment among Korean Consumers. Food Quality and Preference. (Under Review)
Kim, M., Cho, Y., & Maeng, K.* Consumer Preferences and Adoption Barriers for Companion Robots: A Discrete Choice Experiment and Market Simulation. International Journal of Consumer Studies. (Under Review)
Maeng, K.†, Jin, H.†, Kim, M.* Mapping the Knowledge Structure of Physical AI: A Data-Driven Systematic Review. Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence.(Under Review)
[Working & Ongoing]
Jung, M., & Maeng, K.*. Technology Gap and Operational Efficiency: A Meta-Frontier Analysis of AI Adopters vs. Non-Adopters in Korean SMEs. (Working)
Maeng, K., Ko, S., & Lee, J.*. Estimating the Social Inconvenience Costs of Fake and Low-Quality Information Generated by Generative AI. (Working)
Kim, W., Lee, J., & Maeng, K.*. Predicting Market Share for Medical Subscription Services: A Discrete Choice Experiment and Simulation Study. (Working)
Jung, S., Kim, Y. W., Maeng, K., Lee, J., Tran, T. M. T., & Lee, S. C.*. How Should Sidewalk for Autonomous Robots Be Introduced? (Ongoing)