These are both evolving and challenging times for food distribution and retailing. Never before have the same consumers behaved in so many different ways. Consider Sally, a hypothetical shopper, who may begin her food shopping experience by visiting the neighborhood supercenter, searching for items she perceives to be undifferentiated, seeking larger sizes and the best prices for given products...

The dynamical and uncertain environments of domestic service robots, which include humans, require rethinking of the benchmarking principles for testing these robots. Since 2006 RoboCup@Home has used statistical procedures to track and steer the progress of domestic service robots. This paper explains the procedures and shows outcomes of these international benchmarking efforts. Although aspect...

Qualitative interviews with nursing home administrators reveal innovative and cost-conscious ways to physically modify facilities that help institute culture change practices. Telephone interviews were conducted following a national survey of nursing home nursing directors and administrators. In this cross-sectional snapshot of administrator experiences, motivations for making facilities more h...

although many scholars had proposed lots research results about online shopping, they are quite vague and hard for enterprisers to practice it. hence, this research observes the online store policies, services, functions, and activities among 17 online shopping platforms in taiwan, china, and hong kong. and, this research (1) finds online stores assessment items by literature review; (2) establ...

Independent grocery shopping is a major challenge for many visually impaired (VI) individuals [1]. In 2006, we began our work on ShopTalk, a wearable system for independent blind supermarket shopping [2]. ShopTalk consisted of a small OQO computer, a wireless barcode reader, and ...

Elderly people living alone at home need support for daily activities. For this reason, the AAL initiative promotes technological adaptabilities but bearing in mind that it is crucial serving users in terms of usability. In this paper, we present a position paper for supporting elderly needs by simple touches of services’ catalogs. Further, we propose a generalization of these services based on...

considering rapid growth and migration, higher accumulation of communities along with the high number of shopping trips in mega cities such as tehran brings environmental consequences like excessive amounts of energy use, air pollution and massive urban congestions in all urban trips ending to shopping areas. the present study has been performed in tehran, capital of iran in 2009-2010. with the...

In a B2C e-commerce environment, home delivery service refers to delivering goods from an e-retailer’s storage point to a customer’s home. High rate of failed delivery due to the customer’s absence causes significant loss of logistics efficiency. This paper aims to study innovative solutions to the problem, such as data-related techniques. This paper proposes a methodological approach to use cu...