This essay captures the reflections of several students who studied with Professor F. W. Lancaster during his tenure at the University of Illinois Graduate School of Library and Information Science (GSLIS) from 1970 to 1992 and beyond. It is organized around the emerging themes as expressed by a diverse group of students in the United States and from around the globe. These students have given ...

This article studies the influence of product lifetime labelling on purchase decisions. Based consumer theory Lancaster, experimental survey data are collected from a population representative sample 499 German consumers, using choice-based conjoint analysis. Hierarchical Bayes utility modelling suggests substantial positive effect However, is not linear but decreasing with higher levels lifeti...

The present report documents the research activities undertaken in Task 3.3 of the COMIC project. The objective of the three years of research of Strand 3 is to develop a conceptual foundation for designing computational mechanisms of interaction for CSCW applications that can support the complex task of articulating distributed cooperative activities. The present deliverable presents various p...