Where is technology heading? And how will our behaviors towards these new innovations look? This project questions the direction of ?beyond smart? Products, through scenarios within our everyday life. The work is both critical and speculative. Speculative in the sense that it is speculating in how a future scenario with ?beyond smart? Products would look like.

Where is technology heading? And how will our behaviors towards these new innovations look? This project questions the direction of ?beyond smart? Products, through scenarios within our everyday life. The work is both critical and speculative. Speculative in the sense that it is speculating in how a future scenario with ?beyond smart? Products would look like.

A woman is dying of cancer, she refuses to use her walking aid. Because she is embarrassed. This means she can?t leave her house, and her last days become very limited.Why do we act like this?Can the view we have of Products adapted for disabled be changed by working with colour, texture, form and materials?There are many Products adapted for disabled, the Products often have a good function and well developed ergonomic aspects but the visual aspect leaves a lot to wish for. There is neither effort nor money put in to the exterior design of most of these Products.A lot of the solutions that are invented for adapted Products can be used in design of ?regular? Products.Why should we then divide Products in to adapted and non-adapted.

This master thesis aims to investigate and quantify the potential associated with increasing the usage of edible by-Products as food for human consumption on the Swedish market. The main emphasis is on the Swedish production of offal and the obstacles that currently inhibit greater usage of these Products as foods.The results indicate that the Swedish market for offal is limited. Only a small amount of the edible by-Products that are produced in Sweden every year are consumed as foods and a considerable amount seem to be downgraded into animal feed or thrown away. The utilization of these Products is restricted by economical, technical, legal, and cultural factors that all need to be taken into consideration. On the whole, large-scale slaughter plants seem to be more inclined to utilize these Products effectively, as the profit from doing so increases proportionately to the produced volumes.

The background to the work bases on the consumers view around Swedish and foreign meat Products, and how the attitude around the meat Products is pursued in the shops. The consumers request high meat quality and security . Many consumers value local produced and ecological meat Products but the price is too high. We have done verbal interviews with consumers on three different shops, where we asked questions and had dialogues around Swedish meat Products where the consumers have told us their arguments and opinions about Swedish and foreign meat. The result shows that the majority of consumers consider that it is important to know that meat is produce in Sweden.

Balcony Art is an idea for a new kind of furniture group for those who have limited space on their balcony. This report will discuss conceptual and part of primary construction of the chair and table for use on balconies, how the Products developed from an idea to primary, preliminary Products.In the conceptual design part, the report will discuss how product requirements and specifications are developed and how these controls the design.In the primary construction, the report will discuss the Products journey from sketch to functional CAD models and how the Products of individual parts are designed and how the durability calculations affect the design..

Until the 1st of January 2003 there were thirteen processed meat Products provided with name protection in Sweden. These Products had to contain a certain amount of meat and/or a certain amount of fat to be allowed to carry a recognized name. Among these thirteen Products, one could find, for example, meat balls (köttbullar), liver pâté (leverpastej), and Falun sausage (Falukorv). While imports of these Products started to increase, the system with name protection lost its ability to guarantee a certain quality for all Products sold in Sweden and the legislation was removed on December 31st 2002. At the same time, a common definition of meat was adopted in the European Union.

Extended Producer Responsibility (ERP) is a form of product take-back regulation that requires the producers to manage their Products at the end of life. By internalising the Products? entire life cycle costs into the market price the ultimate objective of such regulations is to reduce the environmental burden from the Products. This Master´s thesis seeks to examine if the total life cycle cost of a product actually is borne by the producer, and if not, predict who will then take this cost. This is done by analysing the market for take-back activities in three different categories of Products; electrical and electronic equipment, cars and wind power stations.

The essay aimed to investigate whether people choose light Products or original Products regarding dairy Products and beverages as well as the motives for their respective choice. Finally the purpose was to find out where they had obtained the knowledge to make their choice and how they thought media had affected their choice. The method used was a qualitative decsriptive study with three focus groups consisting of six women aged 40-50, six women aged 20-30 and four men aged 25-35. Each interview lasted 2 hours. The groups were a selection of comfort.   The results showed that all respondents choose original Products. The primary reason was because they thought that original Products tasted better and had a better consistence.

The project has been oriented for development of fixtures to ateljé Lyktan to provide a more efficiency line. In the year 2012 the company invested in a new coating booth, which leads to opportunities to upgrading the fixtures and also new design. The request is to minimize the area for storage of fixtures, and therefore should fixtures be designed to apply as many articles as possible The priority of Products that fixtures have development to has been Products that are most frequently coated and new Products that don?t have any fixtures. The product families that the project has been having focus on is TIME and FOVEA with RONDO.

This study examines if there are any behavioural differences in-store between consumers who choose a healthy product and consumers who choose a regular product. 540 observations were conducted were different variables were studied. Tthe results indicate that there are some variables that show a significant difference in behaviour at the point of choice between consumer who choose healthy Products and those who choose regular Products..

The project has been oriented for development of fixtures to ateljé Lyktan to provide a more efficiency line. In the year 2012 the company invested in a new coating booth, which leads to opportunities to upgrading the fixtures and also new design. The request is to minimize the area for storage of fixtures, and therefore should fixtures be designed to apply as many articles as possible The priority of Products that fixtures have development to has been Products that are most frequently coated and new Products that don?t have any fixtures. The product families that the project has been having focus on is TIME and FOVEA with RONDO. In the developing of fixtures have ideas been discussed with the staff, and instructions were made about how you are suppose to hang up the different Products.

The purpose of this thesis is to investigate whether placement, using a special display, of ecological Products, will have an effect on consumer buying behaviour and thereby sales of these Products. When talking about sales we refer to the amount of ecological Products that are being bought, habitual and unplanned, as a response due to the placement of the Products in-store. To further elucidate the purpose, the thesis will focus on if the placement of the Products itself will have an impact on the customers? attitude towards buying ecological Products. A deductive approach was applied where we did a quantitative study using triangulation to receive data to reveal if the placement of ecological Products had any effect on the sales of these Products.

A common assumption in marketing is the wider variety of product a corporation has, the better for the consumer: more product - more choices. Companies often develop a line extension to broaden consumer range through product attributes including quality, function and design. These developed attributes within the product are not always optimal for the consumer. As a result, companies often become entangled in having a price higher than the cost and benefit of the Products. This essay aims to analyze the consumer value of line extension Products and how these evaluations relate to extended line product pricing.

The majority of the Swedish population were self-provided within agriculture a hundred years ago. Times do change and today the situation is the other way around - most of us live within city boundaries and only few work with farming and related agricultural businesses. One thing that has not changed though, is the need of supplies from Swedish agriculture.What do we think of those Products? Are we even aware of the connection between us and agriculture? The Federation of Swedish Farmers, LRF (Lantbrukarnas riksförbund), started their project to strengthen the link between consumers and producers in 2008.This paper is part of the project and its aim is to investigate consumers' views and values upon the effects and Products from Swedish agriculture.Opinions and values have been studied through interviews influenced by phenomenology. The results show that the informants in general had a positive approach and thinking concerning the Products and effects from Swedish agriculture.