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An Inductive Ethnographic Study In Elderly Woman Technology Adoption And The Role Of Her Children, Noshad Rahimi, Antonie J, Jetter, Charles M. Weber

Engineering and Technology Management Faculty Publications and Presentations

Elderly woman strives to have a streamlined life surrounded by ease and familiarity. As she is aging, her desire for simplicity grows, her self-efficacy weakens, her prudency intensifies and her overall inclination toward status quo strengthens. As a result, she delays, or refuses, making any decision that might bring complexity and disrupt the continuity in her life, particularly new and unfamiliar technologies (which often bring complexity, before providing ease). Consequently, her technology adoption has a much lower rate than that of other demographics. To open the black box of elderly woman technology adoption process, this study focuses on the role …

Developing Strategic Decision Making Process For Product And Service Planning, Yonghee Cho

Engineering and Technology Management Faculty Publications and Presentations

It is imperative to forecast advanced or emerging technologies to aid in decision making on firm's R&D investments and business plan for commercialization efforts. Even though a company must align R&D planning with overall business planning such as manufacturing, sales and marketing, personnel, and finance, systematic management approaches are limited in it based upon the prediction of technological change and speed. This paper aims to provide a decision support tool to aid in strategic service planning and technology development in a firm. The study is to enhance strategic development of service and product with the consideration of emerging technologies. This …

Exploring The Design Factors Of Smart Glasses, Ali Emre Ok, Nuri A. Basoglu, Tugrul U. Daim

Engineering and Technology Management Faculty Publications and Presentations

Advances in information technology (IT) have started to focus studies on human computer interaction (HCI) which is an area in computer science embracing cognitive science. In this approach there are various aspects of researches about HCI in order to explore how people design, implement, and use interactive computer systems and how computers affect individuals, organizations, and society. This study represents exploring the adoption factors of smart glasses. Technology adoption process establishes preferences and needs of people who use computers and smart systems. To address this issue, technology adoption is essential for a rapidly changing world where technology has become central …

Forecasting Oled Tv Technology Using Bibliometrics And Fisher-Pry Diffusion Model, Yonghee Cho, Tugrul Unsal Daim, Paul Sklar

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The market of flat panel displays is experiencing rapid growth with the advancement of digital technologies in broadcasting service. The next challenge of LCD is OLED in TV market. The study attempts to investigate the trends in advanced or emerging technologies by determining their technology diffusion rates due to the lack of experiential data. With the development of information and communication technology, one of the recent methods to assist in technology forecasting is data mining in bibliometric or textual data from various sources such as patents, journals, and research awards. The information extracted from diverse sources can be employed in …

Technology Forecasting Of Digital Single-Lens Reflex Camera Market: The Impact Of Segmentation In Tfdea, Byung Sung Yoon, Apisit Charoensupyanan, Nan Hu, Rachanida Koosawangsri, Mimie Abdulai, Xiaowen Wang

Engineering and Technology Management Faculty Publications and Presentations

With the advancement of digital image technology, the big change in the camera market is that digital single-lens reflex cameras (DSLRs) have replaced film type single-lens reflex cameras, which have seen very little development lately. This advancement is reflected in some core technologies of DSLRs such as digital image sensors and electronic shutter mechanisms, which have allowed taking photographs even in the toughest conditions. Therefore, as a disruptive technology, the developments in DSLR technologies are worthy of notice.

This paper utilizes technology forecast using data envelopment analysis (TFDEA), which is a quantitative forecasting method. In the study, we use input …

Mining Picmet: 1997-2005 Papers Help You Track Management Of Technology Developments, Alan L. Porter, Robert J. Watts, Timothy R. Anderson

Engineering and Technology Management Faculty Publications and Presentations

PICMET is providing the abstracts from 1997 -- 2005 to enable you to "mine" the contents of these four conferences. This enables you to overview activity in the field of Management of Technology (MOT) and to identify specific research of interest.

Tfdea: A New Approach For Technology Forecasting Of New Product Development Targets, Lane Inman, Timothy R. Anderson

Engineering and Technology Management Faculty Publications and Presentations

Presentation delivered at the Portland International Conference on Management of Engineering and Technology (PICMET ?04), focusing on use of data envelopment analysis for technology forecasting.

Mining Picmet: 1997-2003 Papers Help You Track Management Of Technology Developments, Alan L. Porter, Robert J. Watts, Timothy R. Anderson

Engineering and Technology Management Faculty Publications and Presentations

PICMET is providing the abstracts from 1997, 1999, 2001, and 2003 to enable you to "text mine" the contents of these four conferences. Using VantagePoint reader software (available to PICMET attendees at no charge) allows you to locate specific research abstracts of interest. Text mining helps ascertain "who's doing what, when?" The software also enables you to see larger patterns in management of technology (MOT) research.