Browsing by Department "Consumer and Design Sciences"
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Accumulative vs. Appreciative Materialism: Implications for Sustainable Apparel Consumption
(2024-04-25)
This study explores the relationship between appreciative and accumulative materialism and sustainable apparel consumption. Through the lens of the symbolic self-completion theory, self-esteem was assessed as a possible ...
Aesthetic Acquisitions: How Perceptions of Airbnb Interiors Influence Consumer Booking Intentions and Willingness to Pay
(2024-07-30)
The introduction of short-term vacation rental companies such as Airbnb and VRBO, have disrupted the way many consumers search for and select vacation rental accommodations. The image-dominant content of these vacation ...
Aesthetic Experience of a Synesthetic Dress
(2018-11-30)
Presently, there is a cultural phenomenon whereby technology-enabled dresses are displayed for aesthetic appraisal in museum contexts. This study was an exploratory investigation of museum visitors’ aesthetic experiences ...
An Attribution Theory Approach to Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) Communication: Consumer Response to Consistency-Based CSR Positioning
(2016-08-31)
Although corporate social responsibility (CSR) appears to be mutually beneficial for companies and consumers, the modern marketplace has left both parties in vulnerable positions, with consumers increasingly subjected to ...
Chinese Consumers’ Perceptions of Cross-Border E-Commerce Retailer Attributes: A Scale Development and Validation Study
(2022-08-05)
Cross-border e-commerce (CBEC) offers a new way for consumers to purchase foreign products online. China is the largest e-commerce market in the world and thus is a lucrative market for CBEC. However, no quantitative scale ...
Consumers’ Perceptions of AI-Designed Apparel: Antecedents and Consequences
(2024-08-01)
The incorporation of artificial intelligence (AI) into fashion design processes underscores a significant shift in the industry. This transformation necessitates a deeper understanding of consumer perceptions of fashion ...
Design What Matters, Better: A Case Study of Universal and Inclusive Design Implementation Throughout the Design Process Toward Empowerment
(2024-04-30)
The architecture and design industry wields significant influence over inclusion and empowerment in the built environment. Historically, marginalized groups have been left out of the design process, resulting in spaces ...
Designing Sustainability with Emotions by Communities Who Care
(2024-07-30)
The fashion industry has been increasingly scrutinized for its environmentally damaging operations, but fashion companies are not implementing sustainable solutions fast enough to counterbalance the negative environmental ...
Determinants of Consumers’ Sustainable Disposal Behavior of Clothing Items: An Application of Triandis’s Theory of Interpersonal Behavior (TIB)
(2020-07-30)
The purpose of this study was to investigate the personal and situational factors that influence consumers’ sustainable clothing disposal behavior. The conceptual research framework was developed by adopting theoretical ...
Development and Application of a Functional Apparel Framework Using Mixed Methods
(2019-07-26)
This study employed a mixed method approach to develop and apply the proposed Multidimension Functional Apparel Framework (MFAF) to two separate case studies. The proposed functional apparel framework was developed from ...
Disruption in Digital Fabrication: Exploring FDM 3D Printing and 3D CAD for a Wearable Apparel Product
(2019-04-26)
Three-dimensional printing (3D printing) technology has been applied in several fields due to its advantages of customization, complex shape manipulation, and energy and material sustainability. Apparel designers and ...
Effective Storytelling in a Fashion-based Crowdfunding Campaign: The Impact of Narrative Temporality, Narrative Appeal, and Mental Simulation on Crowd-funder Engagement
(2022-12-14)
The entrepreneurial world has witnessed a revolutionary shift from conventional seed funding solutions, such as angel investors, venture capitalists, and governmental funds, to crowdfunding. Although crowdfunding platforms ...
The Effects of Augmented Reality (AR) Modality and User-Virtual Product Interaction Design on Consumers’ Product Evaluation: A Cognitive-Experiential Self-Theory Perspective
(2021-08-16)
Given the rise of augmented reality (AR) application in retail settings as well as the recognition of theoretical and empirical literature gap in how consumers’ product evaluation can be shaped by AR, this research ...
The Effects of Design Piracy on Consumer Perception: When Large Fashion Corporates Pirate Small Independent Fashion Designers
(2018-07-19)
Unlike most creative industries, fashion design is not adequately assessed by Intellectual Property law in the United States. Fashion design piracy occurs when part or all of a designer’s original design is reproduced or ...
The Effects of Product Review Photos on Consumers’ Perceptions of Reviewers and Consumptive Outcomes: A Socio-Cognitive Information Processing Perspective
(2023-11-08)
E-commerce product reviews are tantamount to product and brand successes. However, the breadth of existing literature overlooks a critical aspect of modern review publishing—the ability for reviewers to share product photos. ...
Engaged Active Student Learning: A Tale of Two Design Case Studies
(2018-07-24)
Active learning, a constructivist approach to learning, can be an effective pedagogical tool. As active learning becomes more ubiquitous and begins to replace some lecture-style content delivery, the built environment ...
Enhancing the efficacy of brand activism messaging: A construal level theory approach
(2023-08-04)
As interest in brand activism has increased in recent years due to polarizing social issues, scholars and practitioners have been motivated to understand consumers’ response and perceptions of authenticity in relation to ...
An Exploratory Study of Home Interior Design Features to Support Maternal Mental Health and Well-Being in the Postpartum Period
(2023-04-18)
The national maternal mortality crisis in the United States is a problem of urgent importance marked by clear disparities when examining death rates based upon race, ethnicity, and region of the country. Upon reviewing the ...
Exploring Socialization Processes in Mothers’ Styling of their African American Millennial Daughters’ Hair
(2017-04-25)
In many cultures, hair has been a long-standing representation of beauty (Bankhead & Johnson, 2014). For African Americans, notions about hair have been passed down from teachings perpetuated during slavery. These teachings ...
Fashion, Forward! A Practice-Led Exploration into the Confluence of Traditional Techniques and Contemporary Technologies in Fashion and Making
(2018-04-25)
The current research is a combination of practice-led design research and a phenomenological qualitative study into the incorporation of traditional handcraft techniques such as garment construction and fabric dyeing, with ...