TY - GEN
T1 - Investigating the heterogeneity of product feature preferences mined using online product data streams
AU - Singh, Abhinav S.
AU - Tucker, Conrad S.
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
Copyright © 2015 by ASME.
PY - 2015
Y1 - 2015
N2 - This work investigates the "must have" and "deal breaker" product feature preferences expressed by users of online platforms (e.g., customer review websites or social media networks) in order to inform designers of product features that should be investigated during the next iteration of a product's launch. Existing design literature highlights the risks of aggregating group preferences, and suggest that design teams should instead, focus on maximizing enterprise value by optimizing the attributes of a product. However, design knowledge about products and product attributes are influenced by market information, which is dynamic and difficult to acquire. The use of online product review platforms has emerged in the design community as a viable source of product data acquisition and demand model prediction. However, as the heterogeneity of product preferences increases, so does the complexity of understanding which product attributes should be optimized by the design team to maximize enterprise value. These challenges are exacerbated in product preference acquisition techniques that rely on mining online data, as the customer is typically unknown to the designer, which limits the amount of follow up data available to be mined. By quantifying the degree of "must have" and "deal breaker" product preferences expressed online, designers will be able to understand what product-features should be omitted from next generation product design optimization models (i.e., "deal breaker" features) and what product features should be considered (i.e., "must have" features). A case study involving customer electronics mined from online customer review websites is used to demonstrate the validity of the proposed methodology.
AB - This work investigates the "must have" and "deal breaker" product feature preferences expressed by users of online platforms (e.g., customer review websites or social media networks) in order to inform designers of product features that should be investigated during the next iteration of a product's launch. Existing design literature highlights the risks of aggregating group preferences, and suggest that design teams should instead, focus on maximizing enterprise value by optimizing the attributes of a product. However, design knowledge about products and product attributes are influenced by market information, which is dynamic and difficult to acquire. The use of online product review platforms has emerged in the design community as a viable source of product data acquisition and demand model prediction. However, as the heterogeneity of product preferences increases, so does the complexity of understanding which product attributes should be optimized by the design team to maximize enterprise value. These challenges are exacerbated in product preference acquisition techniques that rely on mining online data, as the customer is typically unknown to the designer, which limits the amount of follow up data available to be mined. By quantifying the degree of "must have" and "deal breaker" product preferences expressed online, designers will be able to understand what product-features should be omitted from next generation product design optimization models (i.e., "deal breaker" features) and what product features should be considered (i.e., "must have" features). A case study involving customer electronics mined from online customer review websites is used to demonstrate the validity of the proposed methodology.
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U2 - 10.1115/DETC201547439
DO - 10.1115/DETC201547439
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84978937990
T3 - Proceedings of the ASME Design Engineering Technical Conference
BT - 41st Design Automation Conference
PB - American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME)
T2 - ASME 2015 International Design Engineering Technical Conferences and Computers and Information in Engineering Conference, IDETC/CIE 2015
Y2 - 2 August 2015 through 5 August 2015
ER -