Research Article

Hierarchizing the Product Characteristics of Industrial Plain Sewing Machine for Making Best Purchase Decision

Table 2

Literature review on Kano model application.

SectorReferencePurposeFuzziness?Sample population

Engineering (product design)Shahin and Shahiverdi [58]Estimating customer lifetime value for new product developmentNo20
Bilgili et al. [59]Developed jewelry with tile design and calculated customer satisfaction for new product developmentNo102
Gangurde and Patil [60]Identifying customer satisfaction through the integrated Kano model and QFD method for new product development for mobile phonesNo225
Hashim and Dawal [61]Improving the ergonomics and user needs of adolescent workstation design in a school workshop using an integrated Kano and QFD approachNo255
Hwang et al. [62]Identifying the relationship between user emotional experiences and satisfaction with community culture products, by using the Kano model and Kano’s regression methodNo62
Salahuddin and Lee [63]Identifying the key quality features of wearable technology embedded products that have the most influence on consumer satisfactionNo471

EducationMadzík et al. [64]Identifying student needs and preferences in the field of higher educationNo102
Arefi et al. [65]Identifying student requirements for the quality of Master’s programs at Tehran’s state universitiesNo136
Venkateswarlu et al. [66]Identifying student’s level of satisfaction studying at private Indian private universitiesNo193

HealthcareGustavsson et al. [67]Identification of a wide range of patients’ needs within a Swedish hospital’s children’s and women’s healthcare department, based on a view of multiple patient roles, as a means to support this new patient perspectiveNo113
Matı´as-Guiu et al. [68]The Kano methodology was used to assess the expectations of patients receiving symptomatic migraine treatment and the neurologists treating themNo204
Huang [69]Improving mobile healthcare service quality by implementing the Kano model and the IPA (importance performance analysis) method by confirming service quality attributes for priority improvementNo300

Tourism industryYang et al. [70]Proposes a strategic pricing model for a 5-star hotel in Taiwan that can provide customers with increased value by charging less while maintaining reasonable featuresNo115
Zobnina and Rozhkov [71]Identifying the factors that influence tourist satisfaction in the context of a Russian hotelNo1238