Essays on Usability

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Dataset Technology Company Logo Slogan Brand Extension Dataset’s long-term strategy towards competitiveness in the market is through product extensions (Stokes, & Lomax, 2008). Product extensions for the company will include variations in core software rather than launch new products. Product extensions will mostly target software applications that Dataset is already offering in the market and web designs that provide improved usability for clients. For instance, the educational software applications that the Company has been offering on the market will be extended to a family of related educational software so that clients can have a variety to choose. Secondly, Dataset’ ...

Apple knows how to create buzz when it is about to launch a new product or when they have just launched the product. This is evident from the tweet and posts from other social media platform cascades. The outburst in social media platforms and the cascading stock prices just before the release of the products are not mere coincidences or unrelated. Apple has its grip on the market and is doing things right based on the hype created. Apple seems always to dominate the media, the customer hearts as well as their minds while other companies are trying really ...

Electronic Health Record (EHR): Literature Review

Changes pertaining to EHR in the health care industry affect an organization: Current developments pertaining to EHR include enabling patients to access personal information relative to their plan of care . There were expected positive benefits from patient accessible electronic health records (PAEHR); yet the study apparently generated varied results. The findings revealed that “patients believe that record access increases their perception of control; however, outcome measures thought to create psychological concerns (such as patient anxiety as a result of seeing their medical record) are still unanswered” . Moreover, in another study, the usability of EHRs were evaluated and problems relative ...

Project title: Microsoft Office Project

Purpose: It is a tool designed by Microsoft that is helpful in the management of portfolio and project by planning, managing budgets, tracking project progress and workload analysis.

Description: Its main modules consist of project teams, project works, finances and schedules.

Objective: The objective of the MS project is to help managers and the users to create projects, track the progress of the project and to report the results of the project. Expected benefits: Ms Project is expected to provide a management interface that will help its user to manage projects effectively and with ease by providing tools that are flexible and having the appropriate usability blend. Funding: The cost of Microsoft ...

I. Google Search A. http://www.mymsaa.org/about-ms/overview/ This is a website of Multiple Sclerosis Association of America. Multiple sclerosis is an autoimmune disease wherein the myelin sheath sof the nerves are damaged causing symptoms such as numbness, fatigue, mobility problems and more (Mymsaa.org). 5 Facts

A steroid (Cortisone) was first to treat Multiple Sclerosis relapses in the year 1951.

The French neurologist, Jean-Martin Charcot gave MS its name in 1868. The myelin sheath or the protective covering of nerves is damaged in MS. “Lesions” or “plaques” are the inflamed or damaged areas in the brain and spinal cord. Worldwide, about 2.5 million individuals have Multiple Sclerosis. (Mymsaa.org) No specific author was indicated in the page. ...

Coke

Coca-Cola is a well established company and one of world's most valued brands. In her new global marketing Campaign, Taste the Feeling, Coca-Cola addresses a global customer across six regions in one unified communication campaign (Moye, 2016). This expansion in marketing objectives is, if anything, reflected in company's corporate website. Specifically, Coca-Cola has a global portal for all six continent market presences namely, North America, Latin America, Europe, Eurasia, Africa and Asia Pacific. Thus, company's portal is, based on current region-based segmentized content, offers information about company's product offerings, corporate strategy, social responsibility, media information and financial position and ...

Abstract

The hotel and hospitality industry is expanding as the need for globalization in business operations continues to create much attention. The paper sought to conduct a study on the religious attitudes and behavior that make Muslim consumers subscribe to a particular food or service in hotels across Thailand. The sample for the study was 100 Muslim respondents who are residents as well as visitors. The sample was selected randomly with a structured questionnaire used to collect data from the respondents. Regression analysis was then conducted to determine level of significance ion the relationships between the identified variables and a ...

Introduction

Essential changes have occurred in the previous decade in the disabled people’s position within the society and the community. A multitude of factors has led towards the formation of newer legislations, regulations and standards in various countries to focus on removing present discrimination against disabled individuals and allow them to take part completely in the domains of education, employment and other services in the community (Bowles, 2011). Such factors are inclusive of increasing the awareness regarding advantage to the society on the whole when involvement and disable person's independence are increased as well as increasing the assertion and ...

Practical Application: Technology Acceptance Model

Part 1: Theory and Application A theory is one of the instruments to comprehend a given topic and develop concrete explanation on it. The theory is described as a given relationship between two or more observed phenomena. It is defined as the coherent statement or collection of concepts that propound phenomena or facts observed, from which principles and laws can be established. Thus, it can provide verification to a hypothesis by experiments or observations. The application is the practical domain of the theory in various areas. However, they are interlinked with one another. Practical application cannot take place without ...

Critical Debates in Marketing

Part A: With Products, Is It Form or Function? The form versus function debate has been around for many ages. However, the preference of one to the other depends on the subject under discussion. In marketing, form precedes function because a marketer always strives to create a positive impression of a product (Rindova & Kotha, 2001). The precedence of form over function should not be mistaken to mean the functionality of a product is not fundamental as marketing efforts. The reasoning behind favoring form to come before function in marketing is that a product’s functionality alone cannot give it ...

Introduction

E-Government is an important aspect of the government where the users and civilians are encouraged to use online government websites to find convenience as well as efficiency in dealing with the government. However, numerous individuals are still unsure of their interaction with the government agencies through such mediums. There are numerous factors which may contribute to the promotion or hindrance of e-Government usage in a country. Thus, this article attempts to understand the different studies that have already been conducted on the topic and also decipher any aspects which have previously remained unexplained or improperly covered in those studies. ...

A process that needs to be improved in my organization is the patient admission and discharge process. The three concepts that I would use are benchmarking, data gathering, and usability evaluation.

Benchmarking

This is the evaluation of other organizations’ best practices and metrics and determining how they can be applied to one’s organization (U.S. Department of Health & Human Services, n.d.b.). I will use this as basis for the changes that need to be made in my organization’s workflows. For example, I would examine the processes of St. Johns Hopkins Hospital and see if I can pattern my organization’ ...

Marketing

Hoover’s Market Position (PESTLE) Political – The company can expect a long-term advantage in terms of political stability in its major markets in the US and UK. Both major markets for the brand is far from facing political conflicts that might impact Hoover’s business continuity. Economic – The leading markets for Hoover’s line of vacuum cleaners are in stable condition, which poses no apparent effect on the consumers’ buying power in the US and UK market. On the other hand, the rest of the European markets for the brand are facing economic uncertainty given the perceived negative implications ...

Introduction

Contactless payment systems have evolved into a popular method of payment across the United Kingdom and internationally (CPSS 2012). Many merchants, including ExxonMobil, McDonald’s, Burger King, AMT Coffee, Tesco, Subway and other notable members of the hospitality, production, energy and other industries accept this form of payment (Anderson 2015). The most influential members of the international financial community, including MasterCard, Citibank, American Express, JPMorgan Chase, Barclays Bank, Visa and other institutions, involved in banking and financial sector, power the system (Dapp 2012; Chaudhyry 2012). The commentators anticipate that by 2020 every third transaction online and offline will be ...

Absract

http://www.bigcakelittlecake.com.au and http://cupcake-elegance.com.au represent two websites addressing wedding cakes and qualities that influence wedding cake choices in unique ways. Both the two websites show different cakes that can help in weddings although they present the idea differently. The latter offers more extensive information about the cakes hence it is more usable than the former website. Simplicity of the data also influences the usability of the website according to the paper. This paper forms an intensive analysis into the usability of the two websites and qualities that influence such usability.

1.0 Introduction

Wedding cakes form the best moments in weddings with many ...

Abstract

This study analyzes the benefits and challenges of implementing an electronic medical system in both hospital and clinic environments. The overall research problem addressed in this study is determining how to effectively manage and communicate expectations associated with perceived benefits and challenges derived from a new install of an electronic medical record. The purpose of this study is to analyze perceptions associated with both the benefits and challenges derived from installing an electronic medical record system. This problem is relevant to many such as those who ...

Website Maintenance Planning

The maintenance plan comprises of events done weekly, quarterly and yearly as follows: Weekly

- Updating the website to reflect the currents and upcoming events - Uploading additional features as needed such as online payment systems, social feeds, etc. - Uploading articles, feedback and recommendations from satisfied clients. - Regular updates of the company’s information. Examples include; new destination packages, discounts and offers, peak and non-peak seasons, etc.

Quarterly

- Link updates: Some links to external sources, for instance, references may become broken or cease to exist. ...

Abstract

The pace by which information flows cross organizational boundaries is rapidly increasing. Individuals and groups in organizational contexts are exchanging more information across different – often isolated – platforms. Against a backdrop of conventional information management, present business ecosystem mandates more systematic management of information and hence holistic systems. This paper highlights how management information systems have come to be increasingly adopted. Initially rejected as of little relevance to companies' operations and strategy, information systems have shown more enhancements as to necessitate adoption. Therefore, management information systems have been widely adopted in many industries, most notably supply chain, environment stewardship ...

Abstract

The current and ongoing debate around renewable and alternative energy sources has led to the scientific examination of such energy sources. The result has been the continuous development of two energy sources, the wind and solar energy. The two have been subject to research into the ways through which they can be utilised to obtain the best results from them. Hence, the question of viability has arisen. Australia is one country where the impact of climate change is been felt. Thus, wind and solar energy could offer the best option for reduction of these effects. As a result, ...

Selection from an 8 year-period of pulmonary valve replacement and cross sectional follow up of a commercially available biological valve, assessed with established and a new method

What This Thesis Is About

Pulmonary valve replacement is a procedure necessary in many congenital heart defects and in-valve degeneration cases. Surgical results are excellent, but the longevity of artificial valves is very limited. Our goal was to give a retrospective overview of methods and results from the year 2000 until 2008 at Rikshospital, as well as the prospective five year follow-up of a biological valve made from bovine pericardium. Follow up included clinical examination with ECG, echocardiography, spirometry, treadmill testing, echocardiography ...

- Chapter 1: Introduction This project is focused on a creating mobile application based on android mobile OS. There are several frameworks out there that can be used for the application development, and it is necessary to opt the best framework for creating a robust application. The main aim for creating this application is to connect more people with the company and make something that will be useful once the project has been completed. The application is developed for a company called AL-MASA that based in Saudi Arabia, and their work involves different types of media including web design, live radio ...

Internet Marketing

Digital marketing is defined as a broad term that refers to the various promotional techniques that are used to reach the customers through electronic media .

Digital marketing has the following benefits: - Can be used anytime (24 x 7) and anywhere Digital marketing can be done anytime and anywhere through digital devices the are connected to the internet. The customers can shop on the website using the internet at anytime and anywhere. The convenience of anytime shopping and selling is one of the main benefits of digital marketing. - Quick transactions

The digital marketing involves quick transactions with the customers that save time and costs.

- Easy information

The information is easily available through the digital marketing channels such as social media, websites and email.

- Ability to ...

Abstract

Visual programming is used to develop exceptional quality software and products. These are used at institutions, departments, private organizations for developing database, handling and managing various tasks. The software developed using .NET programming, advanced windows forms and classes, is implemented and tested by engineers to protect and validate the project so as to make software able to be deployed and contribute functions. The software project functional and non functional requirements are depicted by use case and class diagrams. While the software code of the project is tested for correct functioning. Later the deployment is possible with ensuring ...

IAS 39 Financial Instruments, comprising of recognition and Measurement is an accounting standard used internationally for financial instruments. It was released by International Accounting Standards Board (IASB). Its main purpose is to outline requirements that were needed for the recognition and measuring of financial; assets, liabilities and contracts that are used in the buying or selling of items that are non-financial. The instruments become recognized when the entity becomes a party. IAS 39 came into use on December 2003 and applied to the annual periods that begun on and after 1st January 2005.

It would be swapped and interchanged ...

Introduction

The usability test is going to be conducted on http://cov-primo.hosted.exlibrisgroup.com/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?vid=COV_VU1 which is a Coventry university website that allows students to search and access relevant library materials. A number of subjects will be used to perform the usability test. The participants are going to be selected from the student fraternity who are likely to use the website. The selected participants must be a representative of the whole student population. The test is going to be carried out in form of a research. The researcher will set out tasks, which the participants will be required to perform in the website. The researcher will collect ...

There are five stages in the information systems development process. These are initiating stage, planning, executing, monitoring and controlling, and completion stages. It is these stages that form the systems development life cycle (SDLC).It is the role of the systems analyst to act as the project manager of the information systems project. Throughout the system development lifecycle, it is the responsibility of the project manager to initiate, plan, execute and close down the systems development project. Management of the project is actually the most important phase of an information system development project. Efficient and effective management of the ...

Digital advancement in the world has led to improved methods of access of data of different organisations, businesses and even government information. Creating of websites has been a trend for some time now. Essentially, it involves creating a link of two or more web pages using hyperlinks that help navigate the website from one page to the next by clicking on a specific point (King 2008). when acessing a specific webpage, an address known as the uniform resource locator is given identifying the specific webpage on the internet. Obviously, the interface of a website gives the reader a general idea of what information one is ...

Frustrating aspects about the college web forms and possible solution:

The college website form has 32 fields, and a Send and Reset button making it too long. Long forms are tiring and usually have issues with saving data. Users enter data, but the text gets lost during submission forcing them to re-enter the information. Another problem with web forms is the lack of validation on the required fields, password string requirements, and provision of feedback on issues such as already taken usernames. These frustrating issues with web forms can be solved by breaking down the form into sections based on content and flow. These sections may include personal details, ...

Abstract

For this evaluation, a website was analyzed for the quality of its usability and interface design. There were several factors for which scores were issued with 10 being excellent and 1 being a very poor score. Although there were quite a few positive features to acknowledge, the overall quality was found to be quite low. Suggestions are included for what would make this website more usable and valuable for its visitors. What was learned from this study is that a website needs to engage the reader. This can be done by offering a solution to problems. Another way to improve usability is to offer a ...

The case is about how people get frustrated with the product with multiple features, especially the electronics. The development in technology has made it possible to load products with several features which might be perceived as useful. However, the multiple features can cause a product to be irresistible to consumers and at the same time hard to operate. Thus, adding too many features into a single product will lead to feature fatigue.

The case analyzes how consumers trade off capability and usability before and after the usage of the product. In the research, the participants were allowed to interact with the ...

Introduction

Online trust between consumers and companies is becoming an integral component of online business and marketing. If a company wants a lasting online presence, then its marketing strategy must include ensuring to build customer rapport, trust, and loyalty. One of the vital benefits of internet marketing is its ability to reach a wider audience due to the quality of the information dissemination method. Because of its wide reach, it is able to traverse geographic and national boundaries at a cheaper cost. By improving its web marketing strategy, a company increases its sales and achieves a competitive advantage over similar businesses that do not employ the ...

This refers to the preliminary investigation to be conducted by the analysis team for the Ipad Rollout Project of your organization. To be unable to know the scope and limitations of the project, as well as the interventions to be made, a background investigation to determine the applicability of the project and its specifications is needed. In this regard, the project management team would like to request access to your company’s Annual Reports, teacher and student profiles, organizational structure, policies and any other documents that may help the team determine the applicability and scope and limitations of the ...

The search engine market took a new direction in 2009 when Microsoft decided to introduce their search engine, Bing. By then there were already Google and Yahoo in the search engine market. Since Bing’s launch, which was said to have cost a massive 100 million dollars, there has been a debate on which engine offers unique and better services between Google and Bing. The two search engines have almost a similar way of searching which makes users unsure of what Bing offers that Google does not or vice versa.

The organization of the search results on the page background brings out a difference ...

A lifecycle model is a representation of “a model that captures a set of activities and how they are related” (Rogers et al., 2007, p. 444). Three of the lifecycle models used in HCI are the Star lifecycle; the Usability Engineering lifecycle; and the ISO 13407 Human-centered design processes for interactive systems.

The Star lifecycle model has its origins in empirical work that aimed to understand how designers dealt with HCI design problems. It has evaluation at its core and represents a process that’s flexible. This model was developed by Hatson and Hix who identified 2 activity modes in HCI, namely ...

Increasingly, businesses are engaging corporate customers and end consumers in more innovative means using digital media. Since mid 1990s, digital media has continued to change business overall strategies as businesses develop more sophisticated platform for B2B and B2C communications. Mainly, businesses – local and multinational – are investing more extensively in digital media platforms not only to reach out for more clients but also to enhance digital presence and, more significantly, to reformulate integrated marketing communication campaigns and strategies. Further, an increasing number of enterprises are launching digital-platform-only business units which operate primarily online or cloud-based. Interestingly, social media functionalities – initially ...

Summary

User interface models are faced with various types of ethical issues. This is most especially because a lot of these ethical issues are subjective, that is, they are largely dependent on an individual’s perception.

Some of the common ethical issues that are associated with user interface models are privacy (Rogers et al., 2007), confidentiality, safety, and intellectual property rights. With the use of intelligent agents in user interface designs, there’s also the ethical issue behind the personification of these agents.

Everybody wants their privacy protected, but this can be compromised by a poorly designed user interface model. An example ...

Introduction

UNIX, the ancestor of LINUX was a command line operating system that supported only textual commands to operate computer systems. In spite of these limitations UNIX is still considered as the most popular operating system due to its distribution and support base as well as due to its reliable architecture. Linus Torvalds, the inventor of Linux, made a cloned version of UNIX and called it LINUX. The initial version of LINUX was very minimal with a LINUX Kernal and the command line interface “bash”, update utility for flushing the file streams and GCC a compiler. Linus published his operating system on the internet ...

Introduction

The purpose of formulating the paper is to provide the readers a comprehensive formal policy for sensitive financial and health care data of LSS. Therefore, in this regard, it is important to understand the whole concept of security, it is essential to understand the various basic concepts that govern it, because otherwise it is not possible to establish a base of study. Information Resources: computer equipment and telecommunications; systems, programs and applications as well as data and information in an organization. They are also known as "IT assets"

Threat: source or potential unwanted events can result in damage to computer resources of the organization incidents cause.

Risk: the likelihood of an adverse event occurs combined with its impact ...

Advancement of technology specifically information technology is playing a significant role in buying electronics products (Tai, Pearn and Chen, 2015). This swift and fast modern technology affect the attitude of a customer. Consumers employ to acquire new models/versions and quality products. This is the prime cause of boosting the branded products, and numerous market players present themselves to consumers with a great deal of futures innovated designs in their products. In addition, consumer’s enticed to modern technology feels more comfortable about existing market trend.

E-commerce: Online Accessibility of Products

The online accessibility of electronic products provide a superior array of options, brand names and the lack of ...

Economics

The document presents a comparison of the Microsoft Personal Computers (PCs) and Apple Macintosh computers. The document provides reasoning and justifications to persuade the readers to agree that the Microsoft PCs are better than Apple in terms of the market analysis, market economy, cost, and price discrimination. However, the technical comparison (in terms of usability, security, price, operating system, etc.) of the Microsoft Personal Computers with Apple Macintosh Computers is always crucial to present market economics. It is pertinent to specify here that the scope of this document is limited to the comparison of both products in terms of production, ...

Operations management is very crucial a process in the control of activities and decisions involved in the production, maintenance and delivery of goods and services. In encompasses all the activities and responsibilities that are employed in managing resources in production, maintenance and delivery of products and/or services. In at least every organization, there exists an operations arm that is mandated with such tasks of decision making and responsibility taking in trying to manage a company’s resources. This arm of management is usually headed by an operations manager who is responsible for supervisory work in managing these resources that form the ...

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- Introduction. 3 - Home Page Structure and Content.. 5 - Use of Color..7 - Text & Font7 - Ease of visibility by the search machine8 - Images.. 8 - Conclusion.9

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Abstract The report is all about e-commerce in the sense of comparing the usability of two websites for companies that sell their product or service. It aims at providing an overall evaluation of which website is superior to the other in respect of their usability by the target audience using useful criteria aspects such as font, color, and images used within the ...

Thesis statement

User-friendly websites and electronic communication provide better customer service keep an organization up to the mark in satisfying customer needs. Introduction: An organization decides on what kind relationship it needs to have with people to whom they are serving. In addition, to serve people with your organization’s information, you need to develop excellent and smart strategy of core technology and quality service with fast response time. By using such technologies available, company saves time and gains high reputation, as well as the customer, would appropriately decide whether he is interested for further proceedings (Carlson, Jamie and ...

INTRODUCTION

This project is undertaken to find out how natural user interfaces can enhance the use of devices for illiterate people. This is given the fact that the rate of illiteracy is an issue of concern in South Africa and the world over. This chapter will focus on previous research which have been carried out and the gap that is lacking in this field. It is important to understand the work that has been carried in order to research on what is still lacking in this field.

What is Natural user interfaces?

A natural user interface (NUI) is a system for human-computer interaction that the user ...

A database or a databank is an application where data can be stored and retrieved quickly. It is also important to know how the data is stored and organized in a database. Database mainly refers to a relational database, indeed a Relational Database Management System (RDBMS). Collection of data items that are structured as a group of officially defined tables from which data can be retrieved in various ways without having to restructure the database tables is known as Relational Database. In relational database, the complete data is stored in tables. The structure of these tables is similar to the spreadsheet, and the tables ...

An interface is the point of contact between two systems. This paper deals with the dynamics involved in the contact between human beings and computers. Human-computer interface concerns itself with the multifarious methodologies and the numerous processes which are involved when designing computer interfaces. It also involves the methods used in implementing, evaluating and comparing the various human-computer interfaces . One of the long term goals of the human computer interface is to design a wide range of systems which either do away with or minimize what humans intend to cognitively achieve by interacting with the computer and the computer’s ...

1.0 Executive Summary The purpose of this business plan is to show general description of the surveillance security provider company. Surveillance Security Systems is a private-owned company that will provide quality products and maintenance services to both public business entities and individuals. The company will also provide users easy access to product database through the website, and competitive customer experience of surveillance products through user’s mobile app. 1.1 Products and Services Surveillance Security Systems will be one of the system security companies which actively sells, installs, and maintains advanced and reliable surveillance systems for public or ...

When we go about evaluating the Electronic Health Records (EHRs) functionality, standards or certifications, we follow the following usability principles:

- Simplicity: This means information or visual elements that are not necessary to the task are not included in the software package. The functions that are of greater significance should stand out and are easy to understand. The software application should have uncluttered and simple design. - Naturalness: This implies that the screen metaphors and icons are similar to those other computer application which people or clinicians use. It should also be intuitive such that it is easy learning, and expenditure on training is minimal. - Consistency: All the parts and terminology of the software has the ...

INTRODUCTION

Toofa Beauty Salon is a business enterprise offering beauty services and solutions. In a bid to expand more in the beauty industry, the store desires to establish a website where it can interact with its users more rewardingly. This paper details the development of the website of the company. The website puts in place the best industry wide practices for availability, access, navigation and usability. Specifically, this specification report explores the accessibility techniques employed in the development of the website, website description, design and implementation. It also includes evaluation mechanisms and validation and testing Aspects. Finally, it will provide recommendations for future ...

- What is the term/problem/concept? Does the author seem sufficiently comfortable with the term? What components of the term might need further research? Has this term been defined elsewhere, on-line, etc. (If you have a computer, do a quick search and see what you find)? If so, how is this extended definition different/unique? The concept given is about Asian Americans. The author seems comfortable with the topic as seen by the way he had presented the extended definition. The topic is well-discussed. The term can be found in several other online websites, educational or otherwise, such as the UCLA ...

An Android Based Mobile Applications

1. Introduction Open source android applications have captured the entire world. The Android OS remains in the smart phones. The android is the open source OS designed for Linux Kernel and it appears in mobile devices like smart phones, tablets. Google bought android in 2005. Android is the open source software and Google hold its source code. One of the biggest advantages of android is the android application can be easily modified, because it is open source in nature. The war between the smart phones started because of the android applications. Smart phones has many facilities like booking ...

(Study Program)

Websites have the main function of availing information to web users through internet-enabled devices. As such, web designers must strive to develop interactive websites that provide a good user experience irrespective of the devices used to access such websites. With smartphones and tablets on the increase in the modern market, differences in device resolution requirements in web design can at times be a daunting task for web designers. The answer to this lies in responsive web design. For any web-designer with plans to implement a superb internet site, responsive web design provides a solution to design issues related to speed, dimensions ...

Introduction

The migration of systems to better and higher operating systems are an issue of concern for many organizations. It is in the quest to have higher performance in the organization. This paper will focus on migration to Windows 8. The migration will improve the performance and the quality of the business processes that are provided in any company. Windows 8 is the latest operating system that was released by Microsoft in October 2012. It was developed is that it would be easier to upgrade to it from previous operating systems. The migration has been made easier. Like any other ...

Marketing Products and Services

Theory of Branding Imagery and Attributes Marketing Products and Services Theory of Branding Imagery and Attributes

Introduction

Literature provides the dimensions of the impact of the theory of branding imagery and its attributes in marketing products and services as applied to this process in the Nokia and Microsoft agreement. Aligned to this is how textual stimuli combined with the influence pictorial marketing practices using product brand engages the consumer in spending decision-making behavior. Purposeful evaluation of the theory of branding reveals quality consumption as well as sophisticated visionary reactions to advertising producing emotional reaction and responses to the ...

- Description The technology of computers can be traced back historically whereby the history of computers from one stage to the next led to the successive enhancement in computer use. This development has greatly contributed to the improvement in the economy at largely ranging from government, health institutions, banks, transportation, business, academic institutions, and many others. This paper focuses on how digital teach which an outcome of computer technology is going to change schools and education. The development in computer technology has come with various benefits and even problems at the same time (Tatnall and Bill 2014). ...

Introduction

Mobile applications are software programs designed for use on mobile devices such as a phones and tablet computers. Mobile applications provide similar services to those offered by programs on personal computers. When mobile devices were introduced, they were used mainly for sending and receiving voice calls. Technology advanced rapidly, and mobile applications were introduced owing to the need for more functionality in mobile devices. Mobile devices are accessed by billions of people and have become necessary for daily living. The great number of mobile devices in use today has spurred the growth of mobile applications. The applications allow users to ...

Introduction

New product development is a long and complete process of bringing up a new product or service into the market. Familiarizing oneself with the customer's taste and preferences, demand and nature of market greatly influence the penetration of the new product into the market. Durability, time, performance, quality determines the costumer's needs and interests towards the product in question. Many customers will often discredit new products, especially if it penetrated for the first time. Thus, the new product owners must find a way to convince these customers to trust their products. The new products that the company should advertise the product in ...

FoodSpotting

FoodSpotting is one of the leading food applications that not only rates the restaurants but also provides the ratings on dishes by various users. It is a ‘visual guide’ to good dishes and where can the customers find them. Following are some of the strengths of the application:

App Strength:

- It helps in discovering nearby dishes as per your cravings and discover which nearby restaurant offers the dish and at what price. - It makes finding good food as a real time ‘visual’ experience and gives an experience of looking into a ‘bakery window’. - It keeps a track of dishes that a ...

Biosensors emerged as an important technology that has gained much attention in different fields of study. Biosensor is "a self-contained analytical device that combines the biological component with a physicochemical component for the detection of an analyte of biological importance." (Hasan et al. 2014). Perumal & Hashim (2013) defined it according to IUPAC recommendation of 1999, which states that a biosensor is, "an independently integrated receptor transducer device, which is capable of providing selective quantitative or semi-quantitative analytical information using a biological recognition element."The application of nanobiotechnology in the production of biosensors and various other applications is one of the most revolutionary trends ...

The purpose of this report is to provide an overview of the impacts of the iPad in a typical workplace. Several technological advancements have hit the workplace, but it is important to delve on a specific technological improvement. The main emphasis of the report is to highlight the significance of adopting the iPad in today’s workplace. The report will focus on the benefits, and challenges, if any, that may arise out of iPad usage in the workplace. The complete report will seek to convince companies to implement the use of iPad in the workplace owing to the many advantages ...