Our daily lives present us with a range of sensors that enables us to access a world of technology with increasing levels of comfort. However, how can information from sensors be integrated to optimize technical assistance systems in vehicles, for example, in order to adaptively respond to the driver’s emotional states or social interaction?
International market research poses challenges. Cultural peculiarities need to be recognized and taken into account at all research stages. This also applies to recruiting participants. Jin Jlussi from Spiegel Institut Mannheim points out where pitfalls may lurk.
The first World Usability Day (WUD) in Ingolstadt was a success, and with the idea that “after the WUD is before the WUD” in, plans for the next event to be held in 2018 are already in the starting blocks according to two organisers Spiegel Institut and the Department of User Experience Design at the Technical University of Ingolstadt.
The day has come: On November 9, 2017, Spiegel Institut and the Department for User Experience Design of the Technical University of Ingolstadt extend an invitation to the first World Usability Day. The annual global event series is being held for the 13th time, and this year’s motto is “Inclusion through user experience”.
Under the motto “Meet the Future of Market Research”, the world’s leading trade fair for market research “Research & Results” is taking place in Munich from October 25-26, 2017. Spiegel Institut is once again on hand at the international conference for trends and innovations in market research with an offer worth seeing.
User experience consulting and usability research of technical devices make up the core of Spiegel Institut’s daily work, and as a silver sponsor of German UPA it goes without saying that this institute will attend this year's conference “Man and Machine” in Regensburg.
Spiegel Institut has been assessed by TÜV each year since 2009. This year was the first time the assessment was based on the new ISO 9001:2015 standard. The new DIN standard adopts a process-oriented approach and allows for a higher level of effectiveness in the quality management system.
In their daily work, researchers and consultants at Spiegel Institut around the world are placing the focus on the user and tracing the experience of the experience.
Nearly 1,700 students from the various universities in the city were so interested by this question that they decided to participate in the biannual survey organized by the City of Mannheim in cooperation with Spiegel Institut.
For over nine years, Spiegel Institut has offered expert knowledge at its own academy. The time had come to expand the academy’s offer to include the topic of user experience and give the entire academy appearance a new look.
Globalization implies that marketing and market research activities quite naturally take place at a global level. It often happens that a parent company in one country contracts and manages its research activities from a central location, usually with the desire of having comparable data collected in the various markets.
