Grocery store coupons influence shoppers’ food purchases. We performed a content analysis of online store coupons from 6 national grocery chains. Of 1,056 online store coupons available during the 4-week study period, 25% were for processed snack foods, candies, and desserts (the largest category). Approximately 12% of coupons were for beverages, more than half of which were for sodas, juices, ...

Online music streaming services have become popular in listening to music. Most online music streaming services employ the freemium business model. The specific gratifications from online music streaming are not well understood. Moreover, research examining the freemium model from a user experience perspective remains scant. We employ uses and gratifications theory and examine four gratificatio...

Music is a domain with several dimensions and some specific characteristics. When different types of music are considered, modeling this domain becomes even more challenging. This paper presents some of the characteristics that makes music such an interesting domain to model and summarizes a conceptualization process based on the Dahlberg conceptual triangle for guiding the construction of an o...

This paper presents a novel mechanism that seeks to allow people to explore large collections of loosely structured audio. The approach provides a lightweight preview mechanism that allows people to explore the audio collection by providing supporting information (analogous to the use of tooltips in visual interfaces) We present an evaluation of these “preview cues” towards developing a design ...

the world of music. Musicians use inexpensive personal computers instead of expensive recording studios to record, mix, and engineer music. Musicians use the Internet to distribute their music for free instead of spending large amounts of money creating CDs, hiring trucks, and shipping them to hundreds of record stores. As the cost to create and distribute recorded music has dropped, the amount...

Speakers in all cultures and ages use gestures as they speak (i.e., cospeech gestures). There have been different views in the literature with regard to whether and how a specific type of gestures speakers use, i.e., iconic gestures, interacts with language processing. Here I review evidence showing that iconic gestures are not produced merely from the spatial and/or motoric imagery but from an...

Music alignment links events in a score and points on the audio performance time axis. All the parts of a recording can be thus indexed according to score information. The automatic alignment presented in this paper is based on a dynamic time warping method. Local distances are computed using the signal’s spectral features through an attack plus sustain note modeling. The method is applied to m...

With the development of e-commerce, web store design has attracted much attention. However, what are the critical success factors (CSFs) for online web stores? With a focus on online retailing, this study identifies perceived usefulness and trustworthiness of the retailer as two CSFs for etailing systems. Four major web store design features are then identified, and the relationship between des...

Online stores of multichannel retailers continue to lag pure internet retailers with reference to consumers0 shopping intentions and sales. This study develops and tests a framework in which (a) trust and attitude (conceptualized as a second-order construct with hedonic and utilitarian dimensions) influence purchase intentions, (b) congruity between the multichannel retailer0s land-based and on...

With an abundance of products available online, many online retailers provide sales rankings to make it easier for consumers to find the best-selling products. Successfully implementing product rankings online was done a decade ago by Amazon, and more recently by Apple’s App Store. However, neither market provides actual download data, a very useful statistic for both practitioners and research...