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Customer Experience Learning Lab

The Customer Experience Learning Lab (C.E.L.L.) focuses on discovering fast-changing consumer behaviors and touch-points with state-of-the-art technologies.

What we do

This interdisciplinary facility supports students and faculty to advance current knowledge on merchandising, the fashion/retail industry, and customer experiences combined with Human-Computer Interaction (HCI). We aim to explore influential factors on consumers’ application and acceptance of new technologies, including virtual stores. This lab is centered on using empirical and behavioral science methodologies to study consumers as they interact with various forms of digital mediums.

Areas of research

  • User-centered interaction in a unified commerce environment
  • Application of advanced technologies to improve touch-points
  • Development of consumer-object interaction interface
  • Analysis of personal and situational factors
  • Consumer psychographic in advanced technology applications (e.g., virtual reality) 

Current technologies in place

  • Portable eye-tracking glasses
  • Virtual reality system
  • IMotion Suite
  • RGB-D sensors

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Meet Our Students

Jiale Man, Ph.D., Class of 2029

Jiale Man, Ph.D., Class of 2029

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