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Death of depth?

This paper provocatively questions the 'depth ethos' so often determining today's qualitative research. The psychological primacy in qualitative research can be a barrier to generating inspiring and valuable insights by disregarding consumer reality...

Catalogue: Qualitative 2006

Authors: Oliver Schieleit, Ayobamidele Gnädig

Company: Happy Thinking People

October 8, 2006

Behaviour and attitudes of Chinese tourists

The China market has been acknowledged as one of the key emerging leisure markets in the world.This paper provides an overview of the China outbound travel market, and combines the findings from latest attitudinal studies on Chinese tourists.In...

Catalogue: Leisure 2006

Authors: Grace Wen Pan, Rene Bos

Company: Nielsen

October 8, 2006

Truly, madly, deeply

This paper examines how an ethnography study in two countries (USA and UK) helped a top 10 global pharmaceutical company radically revise how it thought about a medical condition and how clinical trials could be conducted differently by better...

Catalogue: Congress 2006: Foresight

Authors: Neil McPhee, Graeme Chrystal

Company: Zaicom Research Plus Limited

September 17, 2006

Axe 'click'

The paper explores how the global communication campaign for the 2006 Axe variant 'Click' was researched using evolutionary insights as a foundation. A multi-layered approach comprising desk-research, expert interviews and consumer groups validated...

Catalogue: Congress 2006: Foresight

Authors: Andy Bloor, Alistair Millar, Jem Fawcus

Company: Firefish

September 17, 2006

Breaking down barriers

The research industry is still wedded to the old paradigms of research. These evolved to meet the needs of different business functions and reflect the business thinking that was dominant at the times they emerged. Business thinking has moved on but...

Catalogue: Congress 2006: Foresight

Author: Peter Hutton

September 17, 2006

Sonic semiotics

Semiotic analyses have generally privileged visual over aural signs.This paper seeks to extend the boundaries of semiotics by recognising that sound and music also function as signs in culture and advertising. Music pushes powerful emotional buttons...

Catalogue: Congress 2006: Foresight

Authors: Alex Gordon, Chris Arning

Company: Flamingo

September 17, 2006

Measuring opinion in a 'war zone'

There was no history of polling in Iraq prior to 2003. a census existed but there was no social nor opinion research available. the hazard of ongoing violence and bombing meant that it was nigh on impossible for those trying to understand...

Catalogue: Congress 2006: Foresight

Authors: Johnny Heald, Munqith Daghir

Companies: ORB, IIACSS

June 15, 2006

From online games to Olympic games

Building on two previous papers on the expression (ESOMAR, 2002 and 2003), the authors discuss progress made by Initiative, MIT, and most recently IPG Media's Consumer Experience Practice, to explore how the elements of the expression are identified...

Catalogue: Worldwide Multi Media Measurement 2006

Authors: Alex Chisholm, Stacey Lynn Koerner

Company: Interpublic Group of Companies

June 4, 2006

Research World (June 2006)

We are witnessing a media explosion worldwide and the question is: can media measurement companies run fast enough to keep up? Traditional media such as print, TV, radio, cinema and outdoor, have in recent years been joined by other platforms such as...

Catalogue: Research World 2006

Author: ESOMAR B.V.

June 1, 2006