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Showing 1 to 20 of 130 for “"Consumer electronics"”.
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Television meets Facebook : social networking through consumer electronics
… thesis explores how the merging of ubiquitous consumer electronics and the sociable web improve the user experience of these devices, increase the functionality of both, and help distribute content in a more sociable way. The project will consist of one well fleshed out principal application: a …
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Reducing complexity of consumer electronics interfaces using commonsense reasoning
User interfaces to consumer electronics devices - Video recorders, phones, cameras, washing machines, microwave ovens, etc. - are getting too complicated to be easily used by ordinary consumers. We believe that what is responsible for such complication is a design philosophy which simply maps …
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Development of new ecological footprint techniques applicable to consumer electronics
In order to extend ecological footprint analysis (EFA) to electronic products, new methods had to be developed which associate the world average bioproductive space per capita and year - the fair Earth share - with an individual product. The problem analysed in this thesis is the need for an …
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American gadgets: cybernetics, consumer electronics, and twentieth-century us fiction
… my dissertation analyzes the ways in which consumer electronics reinscribe the human subject as a privileged category in the information age. Through spaces like the Matrix, Windows 7, or even the single row of play controls on a cassette deck, gadgets preserve the concept of human autonomy …
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Decision elements in the design of a consumer electronics assembly plant
Thesis (M.B.A.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Sloan School of Management; and, (S.M.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Mechanical Engineering, 1999.
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Reverse logistics for consumer electronics : forecasting failures, managing inventory, and matching warranties
… reverse logistics systems commonly used in the Consumer Electronics industry. The context and motivation for this work stem from a collaboration with an industrial partner, a Fortune 500 company that sells consumer electronics and is one of the top retailers in its sector. The thesis is divided …
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Product development strategy for LG Electronics in optical storage-based consumer electronics
… product development strategy for my company, LG Electronics, in terms of short-range and mid (long)-range plan, specifically on means to sustain and keep the profit margin reasonable in spite of the current competitive market situation. The system dynamics tool is used as a method of analysis and …
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The internationalization process of the firm : the case of the Korean consumer electronics industry
Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Sloan School of Management, 1985.
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An investigation of incidental vocabulary learning using English online consumer electronics review with undergraduates of Computer Science (EdD TESOL)
… course for Taiwanese undergraduates using online consumer electronics reviews as authentic materials so as to provide opportunities for incidental vocabulary learning to occur. The study was divided into three stages. In Stage One, a corpus-based study was undertaken to create and analyze a corpus …
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A strategic method to establish sustainable platform businesses for next-generation home-network environments
The situation of the consumer electronics industry has become severe due to the rapid growth of digital hardware technology, and sophisticated open source technology. Every product of this industry has become commoditized very rapidly due to the emergence of those technologies, and many firms have …
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RFID : ROI opportunities after the sunk cost
… into long-term comparative advantage for a consumer electronics manufacturer. By examining the different scenarios for a Consumer Electronics Manufacturer (CEM) supplier of Wal-Mart that will be RFID tagging small ticket items on a case level, this study proposes an ROI/ROA framework within …
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A method for selecting and sequencing enterprise software to improve high-volume new product introduction performance
Powerful software exists to help consumer electronics enterprises manage complex product lifecycles and improve the speed with which they introduce new products to the market. While significant research exists to inform the organizational design for a high-performing new product introduction …
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Services in Manufacturing Industries: Contributions to Quality and Competition
… manufacturers affect product quality? How does consumer demand respond to product quality and service attributes when manufacturers compete on services? How are consumer intentions influenced by product quality and service quality perceptions, and how does consumer heterogeneity influence this …
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The role of heat assisted magnetic recording in future hard disk drive applications
(cont.) portable consumer electronics, such as PDAs, cell phones, music players, digital cameras, etc. make a relatively modest but fast growing market for ultrahigh areal density HAMR-based HDDs. HAMR-based HDD for portable applications could very well be a disruptive technology in the magnetic …
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La influencia del producto, precio y promoción en la decisión de compra de smartphones en las mujeres millennials de Lima Metropolitana
… and the demand of new products in the electronic consumer industry is growing and led us to investigate the factors that influence the purchase decision of these new consumers called “millennials”. According to a study carried out by CPI (2019), there is a higher consumer demand through the …
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The Effect of Buckling on the Interface Conductance in Flexible Lithium-Ion Batteries
… including medical implants, wearable electronics, consumer electronics or roll-up displays are often subjected to bending and buckling during their operation life. It is imperative to investigate the impact of buckling on the performance of the flexible lithium ion battery (LIBs). In …
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Accelerating time-to-market in the global electronics industry
In today's electronics industry, fast time-to-market (TTM) and time-to-profit (TTP) is key to customer satisfaction and firm competitiveness. Optimizing the product development and new product introduction (NPI) process is particularly critical for products in dynamic market segments such as …
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Energy impacts of cloud computing trends
Current research on consumer electronics mainly focuses on the energy expenditures of individual electronic devices or on data centers, while consideration of the larger consumer electronics system is overlooked. This thesis fills the existing research gap by analyzing current hardware energy …
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