Paper Info
Title
Drivers' quality ratings for switches in cars: assessing the role of the vision, hearing and touch senses
Abstract
Sensory integration is critical to the perception of quality in automobile interior design. To investigate the relative contribution of the senses of vision, touch and hearing to the perception of quality for in-car switches, 30 participants rated eight switches taken from two vehicles when all senses were available and under various conditions of sensory deprivation: no hearing; no vision; no touch. Results indicated that touch had the greatest role to play in judgements of quality, enabling participants more easily to differentiate between the two vehicle designs. Furthermore, correlation and regression analyses for specific switches indicated that touch contributed up to three times as much to quality ratings compared to either the vision or hearing senses. Future research should aim to verify such findings and to establish which aspects of touch have particular influence.
Year
DOI
Venue
2009
10.1145/1620509.1620530
AutomotiveUI
Keywords
Field
DocType
automobile interior design,hearing sense,quality rating,enabling participant,in-car switch,greatest role,sensory integration,touch sense,particular influence,sensory deprivation,usability,interior design
Social psychology,Sensory deprivation,Usability,Psychology,Human–computer interaction,Sensory system,Affective design,Perception,Touch Senses,Applied psychology
Conference
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
2
0.39
5
Authors
2
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Gary Burnett1243.62
Ainojie Irune2241.55