Publications related to Does Sharing Lead to Smarter Products? Managing Information Flows for Collective Servitization

PopTouch: A Submillimeter Thick Dynamically Reconfigured Haptic Interface with Pressable Buttons

Herbert Shea, Amir Firouzeh, Ayana Mizutani

The interactions with touchscreens rely heavily on vision: The virtual buttons and virtual sliders on a touchscreen provide no mechanical sense of the object they seek to represent. This work presents PopTouch: a 500 mu m thick flexible haptic display that ...

Wiley-V C H Verlag Gmbh2023

The Economics of Sharing Markets

Maryam Razeghian Jahromi

Sharing and redistributing assets between individuals has become a noticeable part of the economy. Ownership is no longer the sole mode of consumption and consumers have the option of choosing between ownership and access-based consumption. This change in ...

EPFL2017

Diving into the dynamics of product evolution : analyzing technological discontinuities during the era of incremental change and cognitive convergence on a dominant design

Olivier Waeber

Three distinct stages describe the technological evolution of a product over time: ferment, convergence on a dominant design and an era of incremental change. Until recently, the era of incremental change has been characterized as stable and one that invol ...

EPFL2017

Trust, integrated information technology and new product success

Christopher Tucci

Purpose - The purpose of this paper is to investigate the combined roles via trust relationships of the two technology cores of the firm: information technology (IT) and R& D and their impact on new product success. Design/methodology/approach - A model wa ...

Emerald2017

Intermediation in a Sharing Economy: Insurance, Moral Hazard, and Rent Extraction

Thomas Alois Weber

Electronic intermediaries have become pervasive in sales transactions for many durables, such as cars, power tools, and apartments. Yet only recently have they successfully tackled the challenge of enabling parties to share such goods. A key impediment to ...

Routledge Journals, Taylor & Francis Ltd2014

My hands or my mouse: Comparing a tangible and graphical user interface using eye-tracking data

Sébastien Cuendet, Pierre Dillenbourg, Mina Shirvani Boroujeni, Lorenzo Lucignano, Beat Adrian Schwendimann

Tangible User Interfaces (TUIs) have drawn the interest of HCI and learning communities because of their potential positive impact on the learning experience. In this paper, we describe a preliminary study of a TUI application for training spatial skills o ...

2014

Product relationships management enabler for concurrent engineering and product lifecycle management

Dimitrios Kyritsis

The current competitive industrial context requires more flexible, intelligent and compact product lifecycles, especially in the product development process where several lifecycle issues have to be considered, so as to deliver lifecycle oriented products. ...

Elsevier2013

A decision support method for product conceptual design considering product lifecycle factors and resource constraints

Dimitrios Kyritsis, Paul Xirouchakis, Jongho Shin

In general, it is difficult to select a satisfactory product concept because the information in the early stage of design process is subjective, qualitative, and even uncertain to design engineers. The correlations among engineering characteristics for a p ...

Springer Verlag2011

An empirical evaluation of touch and tangible interfaces for tabletop displays

Guillaume Zufferey, Pierre Dillenbourg, Patrick Jermann, Aurélien Lucchi

Tabletop systems have become quite popular in recent years, during which there was considerable enthusiasm for the development of new interfaces. In this paper, we establish a comparison between touch and tangible interfaces. We set up an experiment involv ...

2010

The Complementarity of Tangible and Paper Interfaces in Tabletop Environments for Collaborative Learning

Guillaume Zufferey

The current trend in Human-Computer Interaction aims at bridging the gap between the digital and the real world, exploring novel ways to engage users with computational devices. Computers take new forms that are better integrated into our environment and c ...

EPFL2010

Designable Visual Markers for Mobile Human-Computer Interaction

Enrico Costanza

Visual markers are graphic symbols designed to be easily recognised by machines. They are traditionally used to track goods, but there is increasing interest in their application to mobile human-computer interaction (HCI). By scanning a visual marker throu ...

EPFL2010

There is more to market learning than gathering good information: The role of shared team values in radical product definition

Christopher Tucci

User feedback is vital to a radical new product development (NPD) effort. However, shared team values (beliefs and possibly ideology) determine whether a development team will act on user feedback. This paper addresses this important issue by investigating ...

Wiley-Blackwell2010

Design and evaluation issues for user-centric online product search

Jiyong Zhang

Nowadays more and more people are looking for products online, and a massive amount of products are being sold through e-commerce systems. It is crucial to develop effective online product search tools to assist users to find their desired products and to ...

EPFL2008

Evaluating product search and recommender systems for E-commerce environments

Pearl Pu Faltings, Pratyush Kumar, Li Chen

Online systems that help users select the most preferential item from a large electronic catalog are known as product search and recommender systems. Evaluation of various proposed technologies is essential for further development in this area. This paper ...

Springer US2008

A comparison of two compound critiquing systems

Pearl Pu Faltings, Jiyong Zhang

Compound critiques allow users to simultaneously express directional preferences over several product attributes. Presenting the user with compound critiques is not a new idea. The original Find-Me Systems (e.g., Car Navigator) showed static compound criti ...

Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY 10036-5701, United States2007

Compatibility modeling to support opportunity analysis in new product development

Julie Hohenegger

The general context of this Ph.D. dissertation is the new product development (NPD) which is the process for transforming an opportunity that is a business or technology gap in the current situation into a product available for sale. This Ph.D. dissertatio ...

EPFL2007

Development of a collaborative conceptual desing support system

Duck Young Kim

Most of the life cycle cost of a product can be pre-determined by the end of the conceptual design phase, which begins with the establishment of a function structure by decomposing an overall function into a set of sub-functions. However, today's products ...

EPFL2006

Error handling in multimodal voice-enabled interfaces of tour-guide robots using graphical models

Plamen Prodanov

Mobile service robots are going to play an increasing role in the society of humans. Voice-enabled interaction with service robots becomes very important, if such robots are to be deployed in real-world environments and accepted by the vast majority of pot ...

EPFL2006