Augmented Reality enhances one’s real world perspective, different than Virtual Reality which immerses the user in a completely different realm. AR can overlay text onto store items and tourist attractions, which provides added insights about the product or attraction at hand. AR is a highly valuable resource for marketers; it allows consumers to interact in both the digital and physical…
It’s hard to forget the cacophonous bleeps, fuzz and buzz of our modem logging onto AOL in our pre-teen years. An exciting, confusing time when popular use of the internet was dawning, but so frustrating was that noisy wait to discover whether or not we had mail. There are few things we could hate so much as a kid but…
Marty McFly, 1955: “Yeah, you know we have two.” He is referring of course to the number of TV sets in his 1985 household, amazing his teenage uncle whose family just got their first. Marty goes back, of course, to the future, but I’m sure his uncle would be even more amazed by a report recently put out by Nielsen…
@tstoneresearch @theburchyburch Today, we have been asked to participate in a top secret Next Gen Market Research collaboration project! What 5 things will continue to be ‘Hot’ and what 5 things will not in regard to Market Research in the next few years? With rapid change and advancements in technology and tremendous growth of social networking goliath’s like Facebook…
The Pro’s & Con’s of using the iPad as a Field Research Device Travis Santa (@TravisSanta1) & Aaron Burch (@theburchyburch) There has been a lot of hype about the iPad and how it can be used by market researchers. We have laid out some positive and negative aspects of the tablet that you should know about before using it in…
The iPad and the Decline of the Paper Survey Travis Santa (@TravisSanta1) The marketing research industry has been waiting for a device like the iPad to put an end to the paper survey in face-to-face quantitative field research. Researchers have long bemoaned the paper survey for the amount of time and energy it takes to field a study and record…