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EOR
2011
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13 years 4 months ago
The effects of sensitization and habituation in durable goods markets
: We develop a model to study the impact of changes in price or quality sensitivity on the firm as it introduces multiple generations of a durable product where unit costs are a co...
Guilherme Liberali, Thomas S. Gruca, Walter M. Niq...
SCL
2010
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13 years 4 months ago
Convergence in human decision-making dynamics
A class of binary decision-making tasks called the two-alternative forced-choice task has been used extensively in psychology and behavioral economics experiments to investigate h...
Ming Cao, Andrew Reed Stewart, Naomi Ehrich Leonar...
ICRA
2005
IEEE
146views Robotics» more  ICRA 2005»
14 years 3 months ago
Probabilistic Gaze Imitation and Saliency Learning in a Robotic Head
— Imitation is a powerful mechanism for transferring knowledge from an instructor to a na¨ıve observer, one that is deeply contingent on a state of shared attention between the...
Aaron P. Shon, David B. Grimes, Chris Baker, Matth...
ICWSM
2008
13 years 11 months ago
Predicting Success and Failure in Weight Loss Blogs through Natural Language Use
We explore the emerging phenomenon of blogging about personal goals, and demonstrate how natural language processing tools can be used to uncover psychologically meaningful constr...
Cindy K. Chung, Clinton Jones, Alexander Liu, Jame...
WWW
2008
ACM
14 years 10 months ago
Guanxi in the chinese web - a study of mutual linking
Guanxi is a type of dyadic social interaction based on feelings ("qing") and trust ("xin"). Long studied by scholars of Chinese origin, it has recently drawn t...
Valerie King, Louis Lei Yu, Yan Zhuang