Figure 1. The pilot study setup ABSTRACT Digital wall-sized displays commonly support authoring and presentation in face to face meetings. Yet most meeting applications show not only meeting content (i.e., the material being developed) but authoring tools as well – the usual controls, palettes, and menus. Attendees are distracted when the author navigates the (usually complex) interface as part...

With the improvement of people’s living standard, mass customization production model has been the trend of the furniture industry. A model of furniture product design and assembly for customization is proposed. It can decompose customers’ needs and transform them into homologous modules set in the structure tree. This process will not only save manpower and resources, but also improve enterpri...

The idea of integrating users in the design and production process is a promising strategy for companies being forced to react to the growing individualization of demand. While there is a vast managerial literature on mass customization, empirical findings are scarce. Our literature review shows that specifically the core of a mass customization system, the toolkit and the users’ interaction wi...

The so-called `Open Compilers' is a technique to incorporate various self-descriptive modules for language customization and optimization based on computational re ection. We apply the open compiler technique to a Java Just-In-Time compiler to develop the OpenJIT compiler, which allows class-speci c customization and optimization, fostering research of new compilation techniques such as applica...

The mass customization can make customized products with the mass products efficiency, which will become mainstream manufacturing mode in the 21 century. The design for mass customization is the most important factor in the mass customization, on the base of extracting the excellences of the modulization design and the variant design, the article brings forward an idea of module-based variant d...

This research addresses the problem of website customization in online banking, particularly in the Australian context. Australia has the fourth highest online banking adoption rate among developed nations (behind Canada, US and UK) and Australian consumers prefer online banking over ATM, phone and branch. The existence of large number of users who use online banking services on a regular basis...

The so-called `Open Compilers' is a technique to incorporate various self-descriptive modules for language customization and optimization based on computational re ection. We apply the open compiler technique to a Java Just-In-Time compiler to develop the OpenJIT compiler, which allows class-speci c customization and optimization, fostering research of new compilation techniques such as applica...

Web 2.0 includes technological and behavioral trends that provide an enlarged added value potential for electronic commerce. This additional potential can be characterized by increased interactivity and multi-mediality, higher degree of standardization and better access to online content. These characteristics determine essentially the development of business models and economic concepts like e...

Rapid prototyping has become the primary means by which assembly engineers obtain prototype parts needed for systems design. Some predict that rapid prototyping will soon evolve into rapid manufacturing. Rather than having factories full of mass production equipment, factories will consist of hundreds of inexpensive layer-based fabrication machines that can economically produce custom parts. Ma...

Objectives: This article describes how to make a customized tracheostomy tube immediately in the operating room setting. This is particularly critical when a commercial customized tracheostomy tube cannot be readily obtained. Study Design: Case presentation. Methods/Results: A 73-year-old female was seen in our clinic for management of a recurrent invasive paraganglioma of the thyroid. She unde...