Human experience and product usability: principles to assist the design of user-product interactions
(2008) Human experience and product usability: principles to assist the design of user-product interactions. Applied Ergonomics In Press.
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Abstract
This paper introduces research that investigates how human experience influences people's understandings of product usability. It describes an experiment that employs visual representation of concepts to elicit participants' ideas of a product's use. Results from the experiment lead to the identification of relationships between human experience, knowledge, and context-of-use – relationships that influence designers' and users' concepts of product usability. These relationships are translated into design principles that inform the design activity with respect to the aspects of experience that trigger people's understanding of a product's use. A design tool (ECEDT) is devised to aid designers in the application of these principles. This tool is then trialled in the context of a design task in order to verify applicability of the findings.
| Item Type: | Journal Article |
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| RM Number: | 2008001196 |
| Status: | In Press |
| Keywords: | Product design Experience Context-of-use |
| Subjects: | 410000 The Arts > 410400 Design Studies |
| ID Code: | 14475 |
| Deposited By: | Chamorro-Koc, Marianella I |
| Deposited On: | 21 August 2008 |
| Alternative Locations: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.apergo.2008.05.004 |
| Copyright Owner: | Copyright 2008 Elsevier |
| Additional Information: | For more information, please refer to the journal's website (see hypertext link) or contact the author. |