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An End User and Environment Field Study for an Inclusive Design of Consumer Products


Authors

  • Fiddian, T.
  • Bowden, C.
  • Magennis, M.
  • Fennell, A.
  • O Connor, J.
  • Kirisci, P. T.
  • Mohamad, Y.
  • Lawo, M.

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  • Year: 2011, Reviewed
  • Jacko, J. A. (Editors)
  • In: Human-Computer Interaction. Users and Applications
  • Subtitle: 14th International Conference, HCI International 2011, Orlando, FL, USA, July 9-14, 2011, Proceedings, Part IV
  • Conference: 14th International Conference, HCI International 2011 in Orlando, FL, USA (July 9-14, 2011)
  • Series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol. 6764
  • Publisher: Springer, Berlin Heidelberg
  • Pages: 443-452
  • ISBN: 978-3-642-21618-3 , eISBN: 978-3-642-21619-0
  • ISSN: 0302-9743
  • DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-21619-0_55



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Abstract

In this paper an approach to improve the design of every day consumer products for inclusive design with a focus on elderly people with mild to medium physical and sensory impairments is presented. As mainstream manufactures do not have a detailed understanding of the needs of this target group the idea is to use a Virtual Human Model that covers these impairments. A Virtual Laboratory with three design phases is the approach to allow designers to plan and evaluate the user interfaces of their products. The paper gives a state of the art and presents the Virtual User Model as a mixture of human and environment context. In this paper we present results of a detailed ethnographic study. The research carried out on a group of 58 elderly people from the UK, Ireland and Germany who had a range of three mild-to-medium impairments; hearing, vision and manual dexterity.



Fiddian, T.; Bowden, C.; Magennis, M.; Fennell, A.; O Connor, J.; Kirisci, P. T.; Mohamad, Y.; Lawo, M.
An End User and Environment Field Study for an Inclusive Design of Consumer Products
In: Jacko, J. A. (eds.): Human-Computer Interaction. Users and Applications. 14th International Conference, HCI International 2011, Orlando, FL, USA, July 9-14, 2011, Proceedings, Part IV. Springer, Berlin Heidelberg, 2011, pp. 443-452
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