Acknowledgements: The authors appreciate the comments and suggestions from Tina Lowrey, the anonymous reviewer, and the participants of the 25 th Advertising and Consumer Psychology Conference. Video-cued thought protocols – A method for tracing cognitive processes at the point of purchase The store plays a crucial role in consumer decision making. Many purchases are decided management in retai...

Controlling Home Appliances remotely is à main part of automation. There is a great deal of inconvenience in controlling each digital home appliance with its own separate remote. In this paper we present an advanced universal remote which can control and regulate lights, fans and also any IR controlled Home appliance like TV, home theater, air conditioner etc. This paper gives the design on how...

This study aims to explore the factors that determine the attractiveness of shopping mall locations for developers, from the perspective of those who want to select site to open shopping malls in China, and to evaluate the relative importance of these factors. Through a literature review, shopping mall location, store attractiveness in the shopping mall, fit between target market customers and ...

In this paper we describe an infrastructure based on an existing, commercially available, GSM mobile phone for achieving .connectivity between digital cameras and an Internet Website. Pictures are loaded from a standard digital camera, or compact flash card, by an embedded appliance, which establishes the Internet connection and controls the transfer of pictures from the camera to a remote webs...

While vendors on the Internet may have enjoyed an increase in the number of clicks on their Web sites, they have also faced disappointments in converting these clicks into purchases. Lack of trust is identified as one of the greatest barriers inhibiting Internet transactions. Thus, it is essential to understand how trust is created and how it evolves in the Electronic Commerce (EC) context thro...

Home automation commercial technologies have been deployed as smart grids have extensively grown. Home automation raises the fact that home security needs an abundant amount of attention. In fact, with home automation, all connected appliances are in a critical condition since they are connected to the Internet. The term of cyber security can become an optimal explanation of the most concerned ...

Congressional districts create two levels of representation. Studies of representation focus on a disaggregated level: the electoral connection between representatives and constituents. But there is a collective level of representation—the result of aggregating across representatives. This article uses new measures of home styles to demonstrate that responsiveness to constituents can have negat...

electric motors are the largest consumer of world electric energy, consuming more than twice as much as lighting, the next largest consumer. electric motors account for between 43 and 46% of all global electricity consumption approximately. they give rise to about 6 040 mt of co2 emissions. end‐users approximately spend usd 565 billion per year on electricity [1]. in recent years, increase in e...

Comparing with the traditional store, the online store can keep the track of customers’ purchasing records and personal information. By analyzing these customers’ records, online store can have a better understanding of their customers’ profile and purchasing behavior. In this paper, we define a standard product loyalty status, or SPLS, using customers’purchasing records to evaluate each custom...