Broadly defined, an “avatar” is a virtual being that represents a user in a virtual environment. This encompasses not only complex beings created for use in online gaming but any visual representation of a user in an online community [1]. However, avatars are most popular in online gaming, since they represent successful feats of users...
Author: Martin Treiber
Corporation Customer Communication
When communicating with customers, omotenashi can serve as guideline. It’s the Japanese way of good hosts making guests feel valued and respected by anticipating their needs while serving them well. On a customer journey you’ll find several moments where you can apply omotenashi: 1. interest: this is driven by a need or a desire. For...
Nobody will download your App
In the ever growing app market is has become more and more difficult to motivate people downloading an (your) App: the days when people downloaded an App because „there is an app for that“ are certainly over. What has happened? Nowadays, there is actually an App for „every that“ which has brought us several millions...
IKANGAI becomes a partner of the Austrian Retail Association
As of March 1st, IKANGAI is a partner of the Austrian Retail Association. From their press release: IKANGAI GmbH specializes in digital transformation and mobile customer communication for companies in the retail sector. The qonnect platform uses the latest technologies to link online and offline services to provide the best possible omnichannel customer experience for customers. As...
Will the Chatbot kill the Webshop?
If Rob LoCascio [1] is to believed we are going to see major changes in the way e-commerce is conducted in the very near future, i.e., this year. Shop websites will eventually go away and make room for conversational interfaces (bots). I find this thought intriguing and I think there are already sings that this...
qonnect CHAT
Chatbots have become the de facto standard for engaging with your customers on mobile devices. Available on the world’s largest chat platforms like Facebook Messenger, chatbots have conquered the world in storm and all major businesses are using them to engage with their customers. With qonnect CHAT your chatbot taps into the powerful language understanding...
How Physical Stores become more like Online Stores
The US retail chain Nordstrom started to experiment with a small concept store that focuses on services and that doesn’t stock any inventory. It is a familiar concept that other many other businesses have used in the past: they created showrooms for their customers to try out their products. What has changed, however, is the...
Smart Environments = Edge Computing + Bots + AI
The concept of smart environments can regarded as byproduct of pervasive computing with a strong focus on the interaction of humans and technology. Generally speaking, a smart environment is a physical world that is richly and invisibly interwoven with sensors, actuators, displays, and computational elements, embedded seamlessly in the everyday objects of our lives, and...
Is EDGE Computing the next logical step in computing?
In the comparably brief history of modern computing (70+ years or so) we went through several transformations. Without making a claim to be complete: we saw large single server systems (mainframe client-server systems) with dumb terminals, witnessed the personal desktop computer revolution in the 1970ies and 1980ies, the rise of the Web in the 1990ies...
The end of the checkout area in brick and mortar stores
With companies like Amazon actively pursing their version of the future brick and mortar store, one thing is certain: a dedicated checkout area will be a thing of the past. The checkout process of the (very near) future won’t require point of sale systems. People will just take the items they want to buy and...
