Industry professionals’ evaluation of apparel design student portfolios

This paper shows Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) certified hospitality properties exhibit increased expenses and earn lower net operating income (NOI) than non-certified buildings. ENERGY STAR certified properties demonstrate lower overall expenses than non-certified buildings with statistically neutral NOI effects. Using a custom sample of all green buildings and their competitive data set as of 2013 provided by Smith Travel Research (STR), the paper documents potential reasons for this result including increased operational expenses, potential confusion with certified and registered LEED projects in the data, and qualitative input. The qualitative input comes from a small sample survey of five industry professionals. The paper provides one of the only analyses on operating efficiencies with LEED and ENERGY STAR hospitality properties.

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Introduction to biometric measures for Games User Research

10.1093/oso/9780198794844.003.0016 ◽

2018 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Lennart E. Nacke

Keyword(s):

Physiological Data ◽

Biometric Data ◽

User Research ◽

Academic Practice ◽

The Past ◽

Informed Decisions ◽

Trade Offs ◽

Research Questions ◽

Industry Professionals

This chapter presents the physiological metrics used in Games User Research (GUR). Aimed at GUR professionals in the games industry, it explains what methods are available to researchers to measure biometric data while subjects are engaged in play. It sets out when it is appropriate to use biometric measures in GUR projects, the kind of data generated, and the differing ways it can be analysed. The chapter also discusses the trade-offs required when interpreting physiological data, and will help games researchers to make informed decisions about which research questions can benefit from biometric methodologies. As the equipment needed to collect biometric data becomes more sophisticated as well as cheaper, physiological testing of players during a game’s development will become more common. At the same time, Games User Researchers will become more discriminating in its use. Where in the past professionals in the games industry have used biometric testing to generate quick, actionable feedback about player responses to elements of a game, and have been less concerned with the scientific robustness of their methodology, as GUR develops a new breed of games industry professionals are attempting to deploy good academic practice in their researches.

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Opportunities and Challenges of Green-Lean: An Integrated System for Sustainable Construction

Sustainability ◽

10.3390/su12114460 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 12 (11) ◽

pp. 4460 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Mohammadsoroush Tafazzoli ◽

Ehsan Mousavi ◽

Sharareh Kermanshachi

Keyword(s):

Cost Savings ◽

Integrated Approach ◽

Integrated System ◽

Waste Minimization ◽

Sustainable Construction ◽

Future Research ◽

Safety Improvement ◽

The Individual ◽

High Level ◽

Industry Professionals

Although the two concepts of lean and sustainable construction have been developed due to different incentives, and they do not pursue the same exact goals, there exists considerable commonality between them. This paper discusses the potentials for integrating the two approaches and their practices and how the resulting synergy from combining the two methods can potentially lead to higher levels of fulfilling the individual goals of each of them. Some limitations and challenges to implementing the integrated approach are also discussed. Based on a comprehensive review of existing papers related to sustainable and lean construction topics, the commonality between the two approaches is discussed and grouped in five categories of (1) cost savings, (2) waste minimization, (3) Jobsite safety improvement, (4) reduced energy consumption, and (5) customers’ satisfaction improvement. The challenges of this integration are similarly identified and discussed in the four main categories of (1) additional initial costs to the project, (2) difficulty of providing specialized expertise, (3) contractors’ unwillingness to adopt the additional requirements, and (4) challenges to establish a high level of teamwork. Industry professionals were then interviewed to rank the elements in each of the two categories of opportunities and challenges. The results of the study highlight how future research can pursue the development of a new Green-Lean approach by investing in the communalities and meeting the challenges of this integration.

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SPE Fellow of Society Awards Program Focused on Industry Professionals and Their Achievements

Plastics Engineering ◽

10.1002/peng.20443 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 77 (2) ◽

pp. 8-10

Keyword(s):

Industry Professionals

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Using Blockchain Technology to Foster Collaboration among Shippers and Carriers in the Trucking Industry: A Design Science Research Approach

Logistics ◽

10.3390/logistics5020037 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 5 (2) ◽

pp. 37

Author(s):

Serkan Alacam ◽

Asli Sencer

Keyword(s):

Private Information ◽

Design Science ◽

Science Research ◽

Trucking Industry ◽

Research Approach ◽

Blockchain Technology ◽

Storage Solutions ◽

Sustainability Problems ◽

And Storage ◽

Industry Professionals

In the global trucking industry, vertical collaboration between shippers and carriers is attained by intermediaries, called brokers. Brokers organize carriers for a shipper in accordance with its quality and price requirements, and support carriers to collaborate horizontally by sharing a large distribution order from a shipper. Brokers also act as trustees, preventing the passing of private information of any party to the others. Despite these benefits, intermediaries in the trucking industry are involved in several sustainability problems, including high costs, high levels of carbon emissions, high percentages of empty miles, low-capacity utilizations, and driver shortages. Several studies have acknowledged the importance of improving collaboration to address these problems. Obviously, the major concern of brokers is not collaboration, but rather to optimize their own gains. This paper investigates the potential of blockchain technology to improve collaboration in the trucking industry, by eliminating brokers while preserving their responsibilities as organizers and trustees. This paper extends the transportation control tower concept from the logistics literature, and presents a system architecture for its implementation through smart contracts on a blockchain network. In the proposed system, the scalability and privacy of trucking operations are ensured through integration with privacy-preserving off-chain computation and storage solutions (running outside of the blockchain). The potential of this design artifact for fostering collaboration in the trucking industry was evaluated by both blockchain technology experts and trucking industry professionals.

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