This paper describes a shape-changing robotic mannequin. It is designed to imitate shapes of different people to be used in online clothes retail and made-tomeasure garment industry. We discuss the challenges related to creation of a female robotic mannequin and describe the technical solutions. 

References The CNMV's Advisory Committee has been set by the Spanish Securities Market Law as the consultative body of the CNMV. This Committee is composed by market participants (members of secondary markets, issuers, retail investors, intermediaries, the collective investment industry, etc) and its opinions are independent from those of the CNMV.

We formulate a simple model of advice which can be useful to guide the regulation of the financial retail industry. An informed agent (financial adviser) transmits information to an otherwise uninformed principal (investor) with uncertain degree of strategic sophistication. Incentives for truthful information disclosure and information acquisition are studied. The role of explicit monetary tran...

background: psychologically traumatic workplace events (known as critical incidents) occur within various work environments, with workgroups in certain industries vulnerable to multiple incidents. with the increasing prevalence of incidents in the usa, incident response is a growing practice area within occupational medicine, industrial psychology, occupational social work and other occupationa...

In an era when the customer is deemed as the king of the retail market, it pays heed to analyze every dimension of the customer’s purchase behavior to provide an insight into their buying patterns and to better understand retail rationale of the customers. This dissertation has attempted to envisage the temporal traits of the customer’s behavior in the Retail marketing. The research has put for...

In this paper, we aim to model the vertical relation between retailers and suppliers in the food industry whereby retailers exercise seller power in their relation with consumers and buyer power in their relation with producers. We then evaluate the degree of price transmission, relative to the perfectly competitive benchmark, from the farm to the retail sector assuming a supply shock. With the...

Digital technologies are becoming fundamental elements of the business environment, practitioners, policymakers and researchers. An essential component for companies in this new era is Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) system used companies’ management. The ERP part an Information System (IS) that permits interaction between people technology, being represented as agile, intuitive planned tool...

T obacco firms face an increasingly stringent regulatory environment. Despite having fewer viable options in the promotional mix, industry promotional spending has persisted, reaching record levels. In the USA, $11.22 billion was spent on tobacco promotion during 2001. Once one form of promotion is banned, tobacco firms utilise other marketing strategies to continue communicating brand imagery....