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Abstract | ||
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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 an 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. |
Year | DOI | Venue |
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2011 | 10.1007/978-3-642-21619-0_55 | HCI (4) |
Keywords | Field | DocType |
target group,environment field study,virtual human model,end user,detailed ethnographic study,virtual laboratory,detailed understanding,day consumer product,inclusive design,elderly people,design phase,virtual user model | Virtual Laboratory,End user,Computer science,Universal design,Human–computer interaction,Mobile phone,Virtual actor,User interface,Virtual user,Mainstream,Multimedia | Conference |
Volume | ISSN | Citations |
6764 | 0302-9743 | 0 |
PageRank | References | Authors |
0.34 | 0 | 8 |
Name | Order | Citations | PageRank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Thomas Fiddian | 1 | 3 | 0.77 |
| Chris Bowden | 2 | 3 | 0.77 |
| Mark Magennis | 3 | 4 | 0.93 |
| Antoinette Fennell | 4 | 6 | 1.89 |
| Joshue O'Connor | 5 | 7 | 2.23 |
| Pierre T. Kirisci | 6 | 19 | 4.38 |
| Yehya Mohamad | 7 | 51 | 11.42 |
| Michael Lawo | 8 | 0 | 0.34 |