for their valuable guidance over the course of the last two years. I would also like to thank members of my thesis committee for their useful feedback. Thanks to Pavan Hanumolu and Gil-Cho Ahn for always being supportive and providing helpful insight into design issues. Thanks to everyone else in lab for being open to answering questions and putting up with me during soccer. Thanks to AFRL for ...

As innovation becomes more and more important companies increasingly turn to their customers, suppliers, and other external actors to collect ideas for new products and services. Following such an open innovation approach organizations have launched online innovation communities where users collaboratively generate and refine ideas. These communities can generate large amounts of ideas in relat...

Gathering and analyzing location data is an important part of many ubiquitous computing applications. The most common way to represent location information is to use numerical coordinates, e.g., latitudes and longitudes. A problem with this approach is that numerical coordinates are usually meaningless to a user and they contrast with the way humans refer to locations in daily communication. In...

Legal protection for well-known mark needs to be examined. Indonesia has tried conform its legal system with international law, most notably the Paris Convention and TRIPS Agreement. However, court’s decision indicates that remains unfavourable. This paper aimed analyse judges’ rationale when they rejected a lawsuit against trademark in which was dispute of “Starbucks” Pierre “Cardin”. study co...

Coffee Shop is not only a commodity in the process of economic development. It also part popular culture, particularly for those who adore looking leisure time and new consumptive dynamic identity. Starbucks coffee culture has been becoming parameter almost worldwide, including Indonesia. Tembalang one sub-districts Semarang that provides lot shops, both modern semi-modern have become manifesta...

Objective. To assess and improve student adherence to hand hygiene indications using radio frequency identification (RFID) enabled hand hygiene stations and performance report cards. Design. Students volunteered to wear RFID-enabled hospital employee nametags to monitor their adherence to hand-hygiene indications. After training in World Health Organization (WHO) hand hygiene methods and indica...

E-commerce is undergoing an evolution through the adoption of Web 2.0 capabilities to enhance customer participation and achieve greater economic value. This new phenomenon is commonly referred to as social commerce, however it has not yet been fully understood. In addition to the lack of a stable and agreed-upon definition, there is little research on social commerce and no significant researc...

The sociological literature on social movement organizations (SMOs) has come to recognize that under neoliberal globalization many SMOs have moved from an emphasis on the state as the locus of change toward a focus on corporations as targets. This shift has led some SMOs to turn to forms of market-based private regulatory action. The use of one such tactic—voluntary, third-party product certifi...