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From Smart Homes to “Smart Families”
From Smart Homes to “Smart Families”

It's not about utility but identity.

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Algorithmic Customer Experiences
Algorithmic Customer Experiences

AI enhancing consumer identities

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Markus Giesler, a marketing professor at York University, is an expert on market creation and customer experience design.

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Future Prof: Digital and Critical
Future Prof: Digital and Critical

How not to become a thought leader.

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What Does “Smart” Really Mean?
What Does “Smart” Really Mean?

Smart consumers, homes, and families.

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Trust Me… I’m Amazon!
Trust Me… I’m Amazon!

Stranger Danger!

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AI: Customer of the Future
AI: Customer of the Future

What if you were marketing to Alexa?

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Designing Retail for Women
Designing Retail for Women

The science of gendered spaces.

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Making Banking Intimate
Making Banking Intimate

Fintech and the customer experience.

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Winter AMA 2019
Winter AMA 2019

Co-chaired by Markus Giesler, Sonny Lam and Xueming Luo.

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MSI Scholars Program
MSI Scholars Program

A list of 34 interdisciplinary marketing and consumer research scholars.

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Qual. Data Analysis Workshop 2019
Qual. Data Analysis Workshop 2019

Co-chaired by Linda Tuncay-Zayer, Ashlee Humphreys, and Markus Giesler.

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Designing Platform Experiences

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Should You Invest in Empathetic Consumers?
Should You Invest in Empathetic Consumers?

Why platforms need compassion. 

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Why Virtual Reality Design Needs Empathetic Storytelling
Why Virtual Reality Design Needs Empathetic Storytelling

Using perspective to incite empathy.

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Future Prof: Digital and Critical
Future Prof: Digital and Critical

How not to become a thought leader.

What Does “Smart” Really Mean?
What Does “Smart” Really Mean?

Smart consumers, homes, and families.

Consuming Interests
Consuming Interests

Sidney Levy's years with SRI.

What Makes Us Buy Into AI?
What Makes Us Buy Into AI?

Interview with Brainstorm Magazine.

Reject Your Customers Now
Reject Your Customers Now

The Case of Supreme.

Rethinking Cinema Experiences
Rethinking Cinema Experiences

The great escape.

Orchestrating a New Subway Experience
Orchestrating a New Subway Experience

The passenger journey.

How Human is Too Human for AI
How Human is Too Human for AI

Managing the uncanny valley.

Design for Consumer Happiness, Not Choice
Design for Consumer Happiness, Not Choice

Combating deal culture.

Why Virtual Reality Design Needs Empathetic Storytelling
Why Virtual Reality Design Needs Empathetic Storytelling

Using perspective to incite empathy.

Designing the Smart City
Designing the Smart City

For the citizens, by the citizens.

Trust Me… I’m Amazon!
Trust Me… I’m Amazon!

Stranger Danger!

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