Published In

Portland International Conference on Management of Engineering and Technology: Technology Management For Social Innovation, Proceedings

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

9-1-2016

Subjects

Digital cameras -- Purchasing -- Decision making, Single-lens reflex cameras, College students -- Attitudes, Digital cameras -- Evaluation, Decision making -- Mathematical models

Abstract

A 3-level Hierarchical Decision Model (HDM) 111 is established in this paper to help 18-30 year old college students make a decision of choosing a desirable digital single-lens reflex camera (DSLR) from 5 famous DSLR camera manufacturers. The HDM has been utilized in this paper, because it measures the relative contribution of each criterion to the final decision based on quantified judgments of the respondents. A group of experts, consists of 12 male and 9 female provided their quantified judgements with different weighted value in each element at each level of the decision hierarchy. By applying desirable functions, there was one most desirable camera picked from each manufacturer of the 5. Additionally. the research team also analyzed the judgments from experts for possible different judgements between gender groups, and showing no significant differences. © 2016 Portland International Conference on Management of Engineering and Technology, Inc.

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This is the publisher's final PDF. Copyright 2016 by PICMET. Paper delivered at the 2016 Proceedings of PICMET '16: Technology Management for Social Innovation.

DOI

10.1109/PICMET.2016.7806763

Persistent Identifier

http://archives.pdx.edu/ds/psu/20762

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