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The next millennium

This paper reviews the impact of new technologies in the research process over the past five years and the incoming new technologies up to the next millennium. The main focus, the effect of speech-to-text Voice Recognition technology - upon the...

Catalogue: Seminar 1997: Do we control IT or are we IT's slave?

Author: Sarah Bonner

January 1, 1997

A new generation Of CAPI

Nowadays new equipment, new software with multi-media features and new data-input techniques are available for computer-aided personal interviews (CAPI): pen and voice recording. We call these small and light pen-pads with keyboards the CAPI...

Catalogue: Seminar 1997: Do we control IT or are we IT's slave?

Author: Gerd Meier

Company: GfK

January 1, 1997

Tales from the web

The Internet reminds me of Las Vegas, said one of the developers I interviewed when researching this paper. He was right. Like Las Vegas, the world wide web offers stunning shows of human invention and mind-boggling choices mixed with crass...

Catalogue: Seminar 1997: Do we control IT or are we IT's slave?

Author: Philippe Boutié

January 1, 1997

New possibilities?!

“Within thirty years, we will have the technological means to create superhuman intelligence. Shortly after, the human era will be ended.” (Vernor Vinger, 1993 “The Coming Technological Singularity..,”), Impatiently looking...

Catalogue: Seminar 1997: Do we control IT or are we IT's slave?

Author: Rolf Pfleiderer

Company: Burke, Inc.

January 1, 1997

People's views on it

In general, the telecom industry is about to lose its power to individual consumers. Given the intensified competition in the field of telecommunications, it is consumer buying power that increasingly determines the rules of the business. However,...

Catalogue: Seminar 1997: Do we control IT or are we IT's slave?

Author: Ulla Nyberg

January 1, 1997

Efficiency and added value

This paper describes the potential effects of the advent of the “network computer” on computing in quantitative market research. These effects may be expected to be beneficial, both for the activities of data collection and data analysis....

Catalogue: Seminar 1997: Do we control IT or are we IT's slave?

Author: Iain MacKay

January 1, 1997

Online advertising

This paper examines the theoretical and practical principles of on-line advertising via the Internet. It addresses fundamental issues raised by this increasingly consequential, emerging area of business and presents solutions developed by a European...

Catalogue: Seminar 1997: Do we control IT or are we IT's slave?

Author: Hendrik Dohmeyer

January 1, 1997

Online research

This paper gives an overview of the key on-line research techniques that are currently available and how they may be applied in mainstream market research. In addition, it examines the results of a brief survey of leading research organisations in...

Catalogue: Seminar 1997: Do we control IT or are we IT's slave?

Author: David Walker

January 1, 1997

Consumer cognitions

This paper reports on a research study using a mental mapping technique, involving laddering interviews, which makes the link between perfume brands and the benefits derived from the purchase, and how these benefits in turn satisfy the purchaser's...

Catalogue: Seminar 1996: Capturing The Elusive Appeal Of Fragrance

Author: Susan Baker

December 1, 1996