Recreating Intimacy With Connected Consumers

Why do Consumers Contribute to Connected Goods?

Consumers contribute content available to their peers to social networks, which is important to ensure continued activity, and we term these contributions connected goods. Based on the properties of connected goods, we posit that consumers contribute to obtain either warm-glow altruistic benefits, compete for positional status or benefit from the experience of their peers’ contributions. We dev...

Making Sense of the Connected Consumers : the Business Perspective

We have entered the digital economy, in which consumers are increasingly connected to the vast digital resources and services on the Internet, to businesses and government agencies, and to each other. The ubiquitous Internet and related technologies have made it possible for pervasive connectivity at affordable prices via multiple channels and a growing range of devices. This is happening not o...

Recreating ancestral proteins.

Tracing the history of molecular changes using phylogenetic methods can provide powerful insights into how and why molecules work the way they do. It is now possible to recreate inferred ancestral proteins in the laboratory and study the function of these molecules. This provides a unique opportunity to study the paths and the mechanisms of functional change during molecular evolution. What ins...

Recreating Secure Spaces

Retrieving and Recreating Musical Form

This paper discusses musical form from a cognitive and a computational viewpoint. While several time-windows exist in the brain, we here put emphasis on the superchunks of up to more than 30 seconds lengths. We compare a strategy for auditive analysis based on human cognition with a strategy for automatic analysis based on feature extraction. The feature extraction is based on the musical featu...