Understanding and modelling heterogeneity of human preferences for engineering design

Journal of Engineering Design

Volumn 22, Issue 8, 2011, Pages 583-601

  Hoyle, Christopher ^a   Chen, Wei ^a   Wang, Nanxin ^b   Gomez Levi, Gianna ^b  

^a Northwestern University   (United States)

^b FORD MOTOR COMPANY   (United States)

Author keywords

Consumer preference; Heterogeneity; Human appraisal; Ordered logit; Vehicle design

Indexed keywords

CONSUMER PREFERENCES; HETEROGENEITY; HUMAN APPRAISAL; ORDERED LOGIT; VEHICLE DESIGN;

CLUSTER ANALYSIS; EXPERIMENTS; HUMAN ENGINEERING; MATHEMATICAL MODELS;

DESIGN;

EID: 79960691132     PISSN: 09544828     EISSN: 14661837     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09544821003604496     Document Type: Article

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