The authors investigate the moderating effects of ambient odors on shoppers’ emotions, perceptions of the retail environment, and perceptions of product quality under various levels of retail density. The context for the experiment is a real-life field location—in a community shopping mall. The pleasing ambient scents are hypothesized to positively moderate shoppers’ perceptions of their enviro...

The researcher designed a smartphone app to help college students to learn English (L2) vocabulary. The app contained 3,402 English words that were compiled into an alphabetic wordlist with each word displayed on three features; namely: spelling, pronunciation and Chinese definitions. To test the effectiveness of the app, an experimental group (with app) was compared with a control group (witho...

Based on a non-competitive input-output model capturing China’s processing exports, this paper establishes a goal programming model to optimize China’s export structure. In this model, China’s domestic production is divided into three parts: Production for domestic use, processing exports, and non-processing exports and production for other foreign invested enterprises. This division enables di...

We study a relationship between the Int construction of Joyal et al. and a weakening of biproducts called semibiproducts. We then provide an application of geometry of interaction interpretation for the multiplicative additive linear logic (MALL for short) of Girard. We consider not biproducts but semibiproducts because in general the Int construction does not preserve biproducts. We show that ...

Scholars understand shopping malls as central commercial and social settings. Some argue that malls’ designs attract and seduce consumers, while others contend that mall authorities exclude vulnerable groups and prohibit free expression. Ethnographic studies, by contrast, document how consumers interpret and shape malls as social settings. Drawing on qualitative research in two Santiago, Chile,...

This paper reports on extensions to a decision-theoretic location-aware shopping guide and on the results of user studies that have accompanied its development. On the basis of the results of an earlier user study in a mock-up of a shopping mall, we implemented an improved version of the shopping guide. A new user study with the improved system in a real shopping mall confirms in a much more re...

Location has emerged as the single-most important context whilst building pervasive mobile applications. Several mobile applications have appeared that use location to provide a host of services such as location-specific advertising as well as navigation. As a result, the key challenge of positioning techniques has been to provide the most precise location of the user (device) and much effort h...

The Semantic Web and Web Services provide many opportunities in various applications such as product search and comparison in electronic commerce. We implemented an intelligent meta-search and comparison system for products through multiple attributes by using ontology mapping and Web Services. Under the assumption that each shopping mall offers product ontology and product search service with ...

Yue Zhang, Martin L. Puterman Sauder School of Business, University of British Columbia, 2053 Main Mall, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, V6T 1Z2, [email protected], [email protected] Matthew Nelson Centre for Research in Healthcare Engineering, University of Toronto, 5 King’s College Road, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, M5S 3G8, [email protected] Derek Atkins Sauder Scho...

a Department of Psychology, University of British Columbia, 2136 West Mall, Vancouver, B.C. V6T 1Z4, Canada b Laboratory of Brain and Cognition, Department of Human Development, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA c Human Neuroscience Institute, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA d Institute of Cognitive Science, University of Colorado Boulder, UCB 594, Boulder, CO 80309-0594, USA e Brain Rese...