Consumers often make unplanned online purchase spontaneously and intuitively after being exposed to stimulating cues, like price promotion, advertisement of limited offer and attractive product appearance. Prior studies suggested that 30–50% of all retail sales are from impulse purchase while almost 90% of consumers make purchase on impulse occasionally. In particular, approximately 40% of all the money spent on e-commerce…
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In recent years there has been a lot of buzz about two important ways to understand communities and their behaviour through what they do online, and through where they go. In our research we have identified evidence that these two are strongly linked, and we identify a set of fundamental driving forces that shape our behaviour and movement. Two ways…
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Congratulations to Jakob Rogstadius for this great distinction. CrisisTracker, an open-source platform built in collaboration by the University of Oulu, the University of Madeira, IBM Research, and the Qatar Computing Research Institute, has won the “Tech Challenge” award by USAID and Humanity United. The Tech Challenge for Atrocity Prevention emerged in response to an initiative issued by US President Barack Obama, and…
Continue ReadingCongratulations to Denzil Ferreira who has just defended his PhD. His opponent was Andrew Campbell (Darthmouth College), and his pre-examiners Ceclia Mascolo (University of Cambridge) and Florian Michahelles (ETZ Zurich). Denzil’s thesis was entitled AWARE: A mobile context instrumentation middleware to collaboratively understand human behaviour. You can read more about his thesis in this post. Photo: Denzil (middle) is posing with…
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