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Assessing user experience of context-aware interfaces in a retail store [PDF]

, 2017
Context-awareness is becoming an essential functionality of mobile applications. However, it remains challenging to capture the contextual experience in innovation research, since early-stage technologies have not reached maturity to be implemented in a ...
De Marez, Lieven, Herregodts, Aron-Levi, Schuurman, Dimitri, Van Hove, Stephanie   +3 more
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Similarity and substitution: Using pile sorting methods to explore economic behavior

Journal of the Agricultural and Applied Economics Association, EarlyView.
Abstract Despite the common intuition that similar products are stronger demand substitutes, this study shows a more nuanced relationship between perceived similarity and utility substitution. Using pile sorting, a method where items are sorted into groups according to their similarity, we conduct large‐scale consumer surveys on purchasing 21 foods for
Jayson L. Lusk, Vincenzina Caputo, Amelia Ahles   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Opinions Regarding Farmed Animals [PDF]

, 2008
Over 10 billion land-based animals are killed for food each year in the U.S. However, there is significant and growing public awareness and support for improved farmed animal welfare conditions.

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‘Pre‐Technologies’ and the Lifeworld: Assistive Technologies as ‘Pre‐Technologies’ for Self‐Formation as Freedom

Journal of Applied Philosophy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article identifies assistive technologies (ATs) as ‘pre‐technologies’ mediating access to other technologies for disabled subjects (DSs). The motivation is to show that without ATs, DSs cannot be said to have the same level of access to freedom and self‐forming activities as able‐bodied subjects.
Sarel Marais
wiley   +1 more source

TENDENCIES OF CHANGES IN MARKET BEHAVIOURSOF PHYSICALLY DISABLED CONSUMERS

Polityki Europejskie, Finanse i Marketing, 2015
The article is a literature review and concerns the issue of tendencies of changes noticed in market behaviours of both healthy and physically disabled consumers. It is essential to notice that the way of making decisions and making choices is possibly a
Magdalena Maciaszczyk
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The We‐Relationship as a Key to Addressing Dementia‐Related Ambiguous Loss

Journal of Applied Philosophy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Pauline Boss describes the challenges faced by people caring for family members with dementia in terms of ambiguous loss – a condition in which the physical presence of the person with dementia coexists with their psychological absence. This article proposes the concept of we‐relationship as a key to addressing dementia‐related ambiguous loss.
Takuya Niikawa, Xue Li
wiley   +1 more source

Sleep disturbance as a transdiagnostic marker of children's mental health difficulties: A network analysis of item‐level associations between different types of sleep problems and different behavioural and emotional symptoms

JCPP Advances, EarlyView.
Abstract Background Sleep disturbances are widely considered to be a transdiagnostic feature of common behavioural and emotional difficulties in childhood, yet most studies treat sleep as a single construct. Where studies have explored specific sleep problems to psychopathology in children, these tend to only include behavioural or emotional ...
Alina A. Marinca, Julia E. Michalek, Alice M. Gregory, Afia Ali, Jennifer Y. F. Lau   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Has our long-term trip-making behavior changed due to COVID-19?

Archives of Transport
This study investigates the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on travel risk perceptions and shopping habits among individuals in the United Arab Emirates (UAE).
Khaled Hamad, Yahya El Traboulsi, Abdallah Shanableh, Rami Al-Ruzouq, Saleh Abu Dabous, Waleed Zeiada, Lubna Obaid   +6 more
doaj   +1 more source

Influential Factors Contributing to College Student Spending Habits and Credit Card Debt [PDF]

, 2012
This paper explores how access to credit, familiarity with debt and financial education, socialization agents and social identities, academic performance, and financial aid and family income influence college student spending habits and credit card debt.
Leclerc, Kristi
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Targeting online sales through last‐mile delivery platform integration

Journal of Operations Management, Volume 71, Issue 2, Page 195-219, March 2025.
Abstract We analyze channel integration between a last‐mile delivery platform and a general merchandise retailer in two distinct stages: (1) platform delivery access (PDA), where the retailer continues to offer standard delivery through its own website but directs customers to the platform's website for new same‐day delivery; and (2) integrated ...
Kevin H. Park, Xiaodan Pan, Martin E. Dresner   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source