• DocumentCode
    744572
  • Title

    Crowdfunding for Ubicomp Products: Interviews with Amanda Williams and Khai Truong

  • Author

    Schmidt, Albrecht

  • Author_Institution
    University of Stuttgart
  • Volume
    14
  • Issue
    3
  • fYear
    2015
  • Firstpage
    79
  • Lastpage
    83
  • Abstract
    Over the last few years, thanks to crowdfunding, many interesting products have become available for sale that would have been unlikely to hit the market otherwise. Yet crowdfunding is not a silver bullet. If you look closely at the listings at Kickstarter.com and Indiegogo.com, you´ll find many ideas that weren´t successful. Interviews with Amanda Williams and Khai Truong, both of whom have created successful crowdfunding projects, highlight what it takes to exploit crowdfunding to turn an idea into an actual product.
  • Keywords
    crowdfunding; hardware; pervasive computing; project management; prototype;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Journal_Title
    Pervasive Computing, IEEE
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • ISSN
    1536-1268
  • Type

    jour

  • DOI
    10.1109/MPRV.2015.55
  • Filename
    7140684