46th International Exhibition of Inventions of Geneva (2018) - Gold Medal & Special Prize from National Research Council of Thailand
The International Exhibition of Inventions Geneva is the world’s largest annual event devoted exclusively to inventions and the licensing market.
The project will study the effects of social media impacts on apparel fashion colour. The project would develop a mathematic model, to predict garment sales volume precisely and then place production order quantity accordingly in different colours, and reduce the over-stock percentage. Investigation on the impact of social media data on colour fashion preferences would be conducted. Social media data would be collected from facebook.com and weibo.com in English, Traditional Chinese, and Simplified Chinese, focusing on Hong Kong and Mainland China users. Validation of the model would be conducted using real-time social media data and frontline sales data (i.e. sale volume, stock volume, and price etc.) from at least one apparel company on a rolling base in the project period. A/B test would be conducted to measure the performance of the model and compare with the apparel company’s original in-house prediction method. Precise estimation of order volume is a critical factor affecting apparel company profit. An accurate order volume could reduce the chance of over-stock and out-of-stock.
