User knowledge has been an important source of novel product development and innovation, but gathering accurate user knowledge has been time consuming and difficult because user knowledge is tacit and globally dispersed. However, information and communication technology can expand the boundaries...

Intelligent production environments, mobile interaction devices, context modeling, design methods. - The dissertation deals with the conception of a design method for modeling mobile interaction devices with special focus upon intelligent production environments. Main result of the thesis...

Well-known companies allocate today a lot of money and time in creating web applications that skip the "famous" and also the "infamous" bottlenecks caused by the poor connectivity, the slow server response time, the network lag or by the browser incompatibility. A good deal were: the Dynamic...

This paper examines the eye movements of potential homebuyers searching for houses on the Internet. Total dwell time (looking at the photo), fixation duration (time spent at each focal point), and saccade amplitude (average distance between focal points) significantly explain someone's opinion...

Beyond knowledge experience always stays. But experience frequently resides in historical data combined into information, theorems, decisional models, ideas and many other invisible intellectual assets. The way we mange this could be the essence of the knowledge management. As said, decisional...

The success of any User-Generated Content (UGC) website depends crucially on its asset of content contributors. How firms should invest in the acquisition and retention of content contributors represents a novel question that is particularly important for these websites. We develop a vector...