TY - GEN
T1 - Application of a universal design evaluation index to mobile phones
AU - Kim, Miyeon
AU - Jung, Eui S.
AU - Park, Sungjoon
AU - Nam, Jongyong
AU - Choe, Jaeho
N1 - Copyright:
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PY - 2007
Y1 - 2007
N2 - Universal design is considerably analogous to ergonomie design in a way that it takes the capabilities and limitations of users into consideration during the product development process. However, relatively few studies have been devoted to reflect the practical use of ergonomic principles on universal design. This research attempts to develop a universal design evaluation index for mobile phone design to quantify how well a product complies to the principles of universal design. The research also emphasizes on ergonomic principles as a basis of evaluation. A generation of the evaluation lists was done by cross-checking among the personal, activity and product components. Personal components consist of human characteristics including age, physique, perceptual capacity, life style, etc. Activity components were derived from the scenarios of mobile phone use while product components were composed of the parts to which a user interacts. A universal design index was generated systematically from the relationship matrices among the three components. The index was then used to test its suitability by applying it to the evaluation of mobile phones currently on the market. This study demonstrates a development process through which evaluations can be made possible for universal design. The research suggests an improved approach to the appraisal of how well mobile phones are universally designed based on ergonomic principles.
AB - Universal design is considerably analogous to ergonomie design in a way that it takes the capabilities and limitations of users into consideration during the product development process. However, relatively few studies have been devoted to reflect the practical use of ergonomic principles on universal design. This research attempts to develop a universal design evaluation index for mobile phone design to quantify how well a product complies to the principles of universal design. The research also emphasizes on ergonomic principles as a basis of evaluation. A generation of the evaluation lists was done by cross-checking among the personal, activity and product components. Personal components consist of human characteristics including age, physique, perceptual capacity, life style, etc. Activity components were derived from the scenarios of mobile phone use while product components were composed of the parts to which a user interacts. A universal design index was generated systematically from the relationship matrices among the three components. The index was then used to test its suitability by applying it to the evaluation of mobile phones currently on the market. This study demonstrates a development process through which evaluations can be made possible for universal design. The research suggests an improved approach to the appraisal of how well mobile phones are universally designed based on ergonomic principles.
KW - Evaluation process
KW - Mobile phone usability
KW - Universal design
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U2 - 10.1007/978-3-540-73107-8_41
DO - 10.1007/978-3-540-73107-8_41
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:38149072437
SN - 9783540731061
T3 - Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
SP - 364
EP - 373
BT - Human-Computer Interaction
PB - Springer Verlag
T2 - 12th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction, HCI International 2007
Y2 - 22 July 2007 through 27 July 2007
ER -