Natural and Sustainable? Consumers’ Textile Fiber Preferences

Natural Fiber Welded Electrode Yarns for Knittable Textile Supercapacitors

K. Jost, M. Langenstein, Prof. Y. Gogotsi A. J. Drexel Nanomaterials Institute and the Materials Science and Engineering Department Drexel University Philadelphia , PA , USA E-mail: [email protected] K. Jost, Prof. G. Dion Shima Seiki Haute Technology Laboratory at the ExCITe Center, and the Antoinette Westphal College of Media Arts and Design Drexel University Philadelphia , PA , USA E-mail: ...

Consumer Preferences for Apparel and Textile Products

The continued viability of the American textile industry hinges on the ability of manufacturers, advertisers, and retailers to predict, develop, and communicate styles of apparel and other textile products that resonate with the desires of the consuming public. We are constructing an on-line visual database to allow us to explore the role played by the perceived "fit" between a product and a va...

Housing Preferences of Older Consumers

Chinese Consumers’ Preferences for Livestock Products1

This research surveyed over 784 Chinese consumers in Shanghai and Nanjing in 2001 and 2002, evaluating their preferences for livestock product attributes using ordered-probit models and factor analyses. Empirical results confirm the heterogeneity of Chinese livestock retail markets and suggest that livestock distributors should focus on Chinese female consumers and young consumers considering c...

Recommending Products When Consumers Learn Their Preferences

Consumers often learn their preferences as they search. For example, after test driving new cars, a consumer might find she undervalued trunk space and overvalued sunroofs. Preference learning makes search complex because, each time a product is searched, updated preferences affect the value of all products and the value of subsequent (optimal) search. Recommendations that take preference learn...