Shopper Lab Chicago
Our Lab has the latest in shopper technology and the flexibility to test different environments (grocery, mass & convenience) as well as different product categories (CPG, Pharmaceutical, QSR, Electronics and Banking).
Equipped with the latest in technology including virtual reality, eye tracking, facial coding and other biometrics, our facility can effectively measure shopper behavior. Cameras are located throughout to capture 360 degree shopper viewing for the ultimate client viewing experience.
Explorer Chicago Shopper Lab
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Chicago Shopper lab has many different specialized areas for testing.
Virtual Reality
Our Virtual Reality lab allows for life-size testing of different environments. Our VR is fully equipped with eye tracking to capture what is being noticed. Our green screen set-up in our labs allows for third person viewing of what the respondent is seeing and doing in the VR environment.
Explorer Media Room
The Explorer Media Room is designed to simulate real home environments making it ideal for media and digital research. It is fully equipped with all our biometric capabilities such as eye tracking and EEG and also features adjacent client viewing. Our media room is the ideal environment to test advertising across different platforms and capture how consumers really view and engage with your advertising. The living room design is also used to conduct focus groups and innovation sessions.
E-Commerce & Digital Usability
A step up from traditional usability labs as Explorer blends traditional usability tools with the latest in eye tracking and biometric testing to deliver superior insights. Our digital usability facility is ideal for testing of websites, online shopping and mobile platforms. We can deliver both qualitative and quantitative studies in this environment.
QSR Menu Board testing facility
Flexible staging capabilities allow us to create restaurant environments to test menu boards or overall design and layout. We can also utilize our projection capabilities to immerse consumers in different restaurant or quick service environments.
Focus Group Rooms
Our state of the art focus group rooms are equipped with cameras that capture each individual respondent’s reactions. We also use facial coding as part of our qualitative toolkit. Comfortable client viewing rooms with split screen close up viewing of each respondent enhance the research experience.
4K Projection
With the push of a button, we can immerse respondents into lifesize environments whether it is a store, restaurant or bank branch. Our life-size 4K projection technology provides the ultimate in flexibility to test reactions to different environments.
