Luxury sports products and brands in general have seen a significant increase their sales, highlighting the high consumption of smart watches. The purpose this study is to investigate mediating role cobranding, self-presentation, self-expression, symbolic values relationship between consumer’s need for uniqueness intention repurchase luxury sample consisted total 217 users An online questionnai...

industrial design is attempting to answer physical, emotional and functional needs of human by including different fields such as product design, transporting design, interaction design and etc. products have various functions and appearances, due to their users’ specifications. industrial design is attempting to answer physical, emotional and functional needs of human by including different fi...

Global positioning system (GPS) watches have been introduced commercially, converting frequent measurements of time, location, speed (pace), and elevation into energy expenditure (EE) estimates. The purpose of this study was to compare EE estimates of 4 different GPS watches (Forerunner, Suunto, Polar, Adeo), at various walking speeds, with EE estimate from a triaxial accelerometer (RT3), which...

Respiratory rate (RR) is a useful vital sign that can not only provide auxiliary information on physiological changes within the human body, but also indicate early symptoms of various diseases. Recently, methods for the estimation of RR from photoplethysmography (PPG) have attracted increased interest, because PPG can be readily recorded using wearable sensors such as smart watches and smart b...

BACKGROUND Wearable devices are gaining increasing market attention; however, the monitoring accuracy and consistency of the devices remains unknown. OBJECTIVE The purpose of this study was to assess the consistency of the monitoring measurements of the latest wearable devices in the state of normal activities to provide advice to the industry and support to consumers in making purchasing cho...

Customize your time: Mass Customization in the watch industry: Watches are one of the most prominent fashion items and a dominant matter of self expression. Thus, customization of watches is a very interesting field to study. Recently, three new examples of mass customization in this industry came to the market: the Microsoft SPOT watch, the customization initiative in Swatch’s Via della Spiga ...