Supporting Gift Selection to Encourage Gift-receiver's Consideration from Various Perspectives

Abstract

The purpose of this research is to encourage consideration of a gift-receiver from various perspectives in the process of gift selection. People often purchase items as gifts for others such as a partner and friends. To select a gift for them, e-commerse sites that recommend gift items are available, however, it is difficult to select an appropriate one because these sites recommend items without considering hobbies and preferences of the gift-receivers. To solve the problem, we propose a system that encourages consideration about the gift-receiver. To achieve this, the proposed system provides questions about the gift-receiver and facilitates the deeper think of gift selection. With the proposed system, we conducted an experiment to observe the gift selection process of the participants. As the result, we confirmed that the participants' utterances about gift-receivers are increased.