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The Ultimate in Shopper Insights

“Shopping is a high stakes, fast moving enterprise. Only recently with the introduction of mobile eye tracking and brainwave measurements can we understand what the shopper is experiencing in real time - - where she looks, what she process and how she feels - - all linked to purchase behavior. Researchers now have the tools they’ve always dreamed of. ”  Elissa Moses, EmSense Chief Analytics Officer

EmSense is the only Neuromarketing company offering combined eye tracking and neurosensory for quantitative mobile in-store studies in live store and other in-context shopper/consumer environments.  We have tested over 3,000 shoppers across all major retail channels and over 1,000 in virtual retail environments.

Environments tested include:

  • Grocery Stores
  • Mass Merchandisers
  • DIY/Home Improvement Stores
  • Electronic/Technology Retailers
  • Retail Banking Environments


  • Warehouse Outlets
  • Specialty Stores (Shoes, Clothing, Crafts, etc.)
  • Theme Parks
  • Gas Stations

Specific study areas include:

  • Shopper Journey By Category
  • Planograms & Category Adjacencies
  • Staff Interactions
  • Packaging Performance on Shelf
  • Signage and POS (including digital)
  • Check Out/Experiential

With EmSense In-Store research, marketers can understand the visceral drivers of purchase or rejection. EmSense captures the emotional and cognitive engagement of shoppers as they maneuver through store aisles, encounter signage and POS, engage with store personnel, scan categories, examine packages and make purchase decisions. EmSense incorporates mobile eye-tracking to capture where shoppers’ eyes naturally wander, enabling a truly natural shopper experience.

Key Deliverables:
Key deliverables include the EmSense Shopper Purchase Profile™, the EmSense Purchase Funnel™ and heat maps for Visual Attention, Cognitive Engagement and Emotion.  Decision models identify how the shopper response corresponds to the success or failure of products and categories at retail. EmSense In-Store research provides an in-depth understanding of a product’s or category’s strengths and opportunities, providing actionable insight to manufacturers and retailers alike:

  • Shopper Purchase Profile™: How does the shopper feel throughout the shopping journey?
  • Purchase Funnel™: How do shoppers behave? Why do they abandon the purchase process?
  • Consideration Cluster™: Which products are in your shopper’s consideration set? Which aren’t?
  • Purchase Decision Model: Which products are most and least effective at converting purchases?
  • Brand-Experience: How does the shoppers’ experience with your brand compare to competition?
  • Product fixations, emotion/cognition maps: What do shoppers look at? How long? How do they respond?
  • Standard and custom survey diagnostics
Offered in both live in-store and virtual store settings, EmSense technology provides the portability, ease-of-use, and sensitivity to measure the emotional and cognitive engagement that shoppers experience in their natural shopping environment, thereby providing marketers the insights needed to maximize the ROI of their shopper marketing initiatives.

Key Features:
All Study Types

  • Wireless, unobtrusive, EmSense headset (EmBand™)
  • Measures Positive/Negative Emotion & Cognitive Engagement
  • Quantitative sample sizes; n=100+
  • Any category, market, or class of trade
  • Experience Tracking™: Fast turnaround from field to insight
Live In-Store:

  • Mobile eye-tracking glasses
  • Small POV camera
  • Optional audio
Virtual In-Store:

  • Virtual store environment
  • Stationary eye tracking




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