Paper Info
Title
Usability Evaluation Of Remote Controllers For Digital Television Receivers
Abstract
In order to develop a useful and ergonomically attractive remote controller for ISDB (Integrated Services Digital Broadcasting), which will begin very soon in Japan, we performed experiments with elderly and young subjects to evaluate the usability and the training effects of four types of remote controller: a button type, a trackball, a touch panel and a voice recognition system. We set the subjects the task of selecting an icon on a HDTV monitor as quickly and as accurately as possible using each remote controller. Semantic differential and ranked order questionnaire surveys were also conducted, and these results were analyzed statistically. The results showed that the trackball type was the most preferred, with no major differences in preference among the other three types especially for elderly subjects. From the analyses of the questionnaire surveys and operation time, we conclude that the reasons for the rankings obtained are as follows:Users preferred devices which they could operate without having to look down;Users preferred devices with which there was a significant learning effect in a relatively short period. It is considered that these are necessary conditions for an ergonomically attractive remote controller which users will want to use.
Year
DOI
Venue
2000
10.1117/12.387184
HUMAN VISION AND ELECTRONIC IMAGING V
Keywords
Field
DocType
remote controller, human interface, digital television, graphical user interface, usability, trackball, elderly, principal component analysis, learning effect
Broadcasting,Control theory,ISDB,Remote control,Computer science,Usability,Digital television,Graphical user interface,Digital broadcasting,Multimedia
Conference
Volume
ISSN
Citations 
3959
0277-786X
2
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.58
0
7
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Kazuteru Komine1204.02
Nobuyuki Hiruma22011.00
tatsuya ishihara320.58
eiji makino420.92
takao tsuda521.25
takayuki ito620.58
Haruo Isono731.63