The stage is being set for a communications revolution . . . there can come into homes and business places audio, video and [other] transmissions that will provide newspapers, mail service, banking and shopping facilities, data from libraries, . . . school curricula and other forms of information too numerous to specify. In short, every home and office will contain a communications center of a ...

1. The work of Erich Rütsche was funded by the Swiss National Fund Abstract We describe an architecture that supports networked multimedia applications. The architecture is based on a separation of multimedia stream processing and application processing. Applications reside in application pools whereas media stream processing is performed in multimedia terminals. An application controls a set o...

The purpose of this article is to show how to design persuasive and successful web shops. An approach to commercial site design that draws on theories of visual persuasion is proposed. In this paper, we will focus on the role of emotion. lmages in an ad are typically meant to create some emotional disposition toward the product, or social cause. The importance of emotions in the on-line shoppin...

Whenever we think of cyber applications, we visualize the model that gives the idea that we are sitting in front of computer at home or workplace connected to internet and performing all the work that generally we have to go and do on a specific place for example e-shopping, ebanking, e-education etc. In case of e-shopping, we view all the products on the computer screen with all details by a s...

Mobile shopping assistants have been subject to research in the field of ubiquitous and pervasive computing for many years. Now the wide adoption of mobile shopping applications for smartphones allows evaluation on a large scale. To study how consumers actually use these applications, we analyze server logs of a mobile bargain finder application for the iPhone used by 33,000 users over a period...

Shopping on the Internet spares customers the discomfort of carrying around heavy and bulky baskets of goods, since the service usually includes home delivery. This makes e-commerce a technology well suited to helping consumers to buy in bulk or to stockpile items on discount. I use grocery scanner data provided by a supermarket chain selling both online and through traditional stores to show t...

PURPOSE Measuring vendors' compliance and possible change in compliance with the legal age limits on alcohol sales in 2011 and 2013. METHODS In 2011 and 2013, representative mystery shopping studies were conducted. In total, 2,737 underage mystery shopping alcohol purchase attempts were conducted both in off-premise (supermarkets, liquor stores, and take away restaurants) and on-premise (bars...

ABSTRACT Analysis of asso iation is an important Web mining te hnique be ause it an provide useful insight into the navigational behavior of Web users. E-tailers an use this information to develop strategi marketing plans and to re-stru ture their Web site in order to enhan e the browsing experien e of their ustomers . Previous work on mining Web asso iations has fo used primarily on nding freq...

In this paper, given a product database and a set of customer preferences, we address the problem of discovering a bounded set of r diverse products that attract the interests of di↵erent customers. This problem finds numerous applications in electronic marketplaces, e.g., for selecting the products that are placed in the home page of an online shop. Existing approaches to tackle this problem f...

Shopping is a common activity in daily life. Not only do people typically visit multiple locations to purchase their goods, but the realization of a need to purchase a particular item may come at inopportune times. Most people carry scraps of paper for these moments to jot down reminders for themselves to purchase particular items. Furthermore, the typical household common area may have a publi...