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A market-oriented approach to accomplish product positioning and product recommendation for smart phones and wearable devices

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Recently, several global companies start to develop wearable devices like smart watches or smart glasses to avoid market saturation in smart phones, especially when wireless technology was rapidly shifting from the third to the fourth generation. In order to better understand the relative strengths and weaknesses of smart alternatives, this paper presents a market-oriented framework to accomplish product positioning and product recommendation. Initially, correspondence analysis is applied to elicit expert perceptions for conducting product positioning. Then, based on customer preferences, product recommendation can be accomplished in either an unsupervised way (purchase profiles for new products are unavailable) or a supervised manner (for justifying the validity of the proposed recommender system). In particular, analytical hierarchy process is employed to elicit customers’ choices among smart alternatives (treated as prior information or decision labels). In summary, managerial insights are provided as follows: (1) smart phones are good at providing a platform for satisfying home entertainment, (2) smart watches are perceived as auxiliary carriers to accomplish health care and safety monitoring and (3) smart glasses are promising to fulfill industrial operation, logistics service and homeland security.

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  • Chih-Hsuan Wang, 2015. "A market-oriented approach to accomplish product positioning and product recommendation for smart phones and wearable devices," International Journal of Production Research, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 53(8), pages 2542-2553, April.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:tprsxx:v:53:y:2015:i:8:p:2542-2553
    DOI: 10.1080/00207543.2014.991046
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    1. Wang, Zhanpeng & Ye, Chao & Liu, Xinxin & Ma, Ruize & Sun, Zilai & Ruan, Junhu, 2023. "Optimal retail sales strategies for old and new products in monopoly and horizontal competition scenarios," Journal of Retailing and Consumer Services, Elsevier, vol. 71(C).
    2. Choi, Hyunhong & Koo, Yoonmo, 2023. "New technology product introduction strategy with considerations for consumer-targeted policy intervention and new market entrant," Technological Forecasting and Social Change, Elsevier, vol. 186(PA).
    3. Juin-Ming Tsai & Shiu-Wan Hung & Guan-Ting Lin, 2022. "Continued usage of smart wearable devices (SWDs): cross-level analysis of gamification and network externality," Electronic Markets, Springer;IIM University of St. Gallen, vol. 32(3), pages 1661-1676, September.

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