In this paper, we propose a scheme to push personalized recommendation and advertisement services for the shopping people based on behavior patterns, inferring by significant shopping stores in the shopping mall from mobile phone data. The store-level localization in the shopping mall is obtained by sparse calibration orientated semi-supervised machine learning method, called Semi-supervised Ex...

While mobile shopping (m-shopping) is convenient in the age of mobile commerce, many people still discontinue their shopping using mobile devices even though they have the experience. Therefore, it is important for the m-shopping providers to understand the determinants of m-shopping continuance. This study extended Expectation-Confirmation Model (ECM) to examine the determinants of m-shopping ...

Nomura Miki (Last Name) (First) Souvenir purchase patterns of domestic tourists: Case study of Takayama City, Japan (Title) Hospitality and Tourism Dr.Jafar Jafari April 2002 154 (Graduate Major) (Research Advisor) (Month/Year) (No.of Pages) Annals of Tourism Research (Name of Style Manual Used in This Study) The purpose of this study is to identify souvenir purchase patterns of domestic Japane...

Shopping is a social activity that people enjoy doing with friends and close ones. In this paper we name such joint shopping activity performed by two or more people together as “collaborative shopping”, and investigate the possible means of carrying it out online. We start with identifying the objectives of collaborative shopping (i.e., socializing and purchasing) and propose website features ...

Consumption is the soul and the purpose of all production. A consumer is one who does some physical activities and deliberates to take decisions concerning purchase and to dispose off on to evaluate products and services. Consumer is “an individual who purchases products or services for his own or his family’s personal use”. Consumer purchasing behavior covers “all activities and decisions whic...

T paper analyzes the competitive role of retail shopping experience in markets with consumer search costs. We examine how a retailer’s advantage in providing consumer shopping experience affects its equilibrium pricing and price advertising strategies. We find that if the consumer valuation of a shopping experience is sufficiently low, its effect on retailer strategy is similar to that of quali...

The purpose of this study is to investigate hedonic online shopping motivations. A qualitative analysis was conducted to explore the factors influencing online hedonic shopping motivations. The results of the study indicate that traditional hedonic values, consisting of social, role, self-gratification, learning trends, pleasure of bargaining, stimulation, diversion, status, and adventure, and ...

Independent grocery shopping is one of the most functionally challenging tasks for visually impaired and blind individuals. Many assistive shopping systems have been developed to address the problem of blind grocery shopping. In this article, we identify several design requirements for assistive shopping systems and analyze existing approaches to see how well they meet them. Our objective is to...