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Using archetypes to create user panels for usability studies: Streamlining focus groups and user studies
- Source :
- Applied Ergonomics. 56:108-116
- Publication Year :
- 2016
- Publisher :
- Elsevier BV, 2016.
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Abstract
- Designers at the conceptual phase of products such as headphones, stress the importance of comfort, e.g. executing comfort studies and the need for a reliable user panel. This paper proposes a methodology to issue a reliable user panel to represent large populations and validates the proposed framework to predict comfort factors, such as physical fit. Data of 200 heads was analyzed by forming clusters, 9 archetypal people were identified out of a 200 people's ear database. The archetypes were validated by comparing the archetypes' responses on physical fit against those of 20 participants interacting with 6 headsets. This paper suggests a new method of selecting representative user samples for prototype testing compared to costly and time consuming methods which relied on the analysis of human geometry of large populations.
- Subjects :
- Adult
Male
Engineering
business.product_category
Human Factors
1203 Design Practice And Management
Physical Therapy, Sports Therapy and Rehabilitation
Human Factors and Ergonomics
02 engineering and technology
User studies
Young Adult
Human–computer interaction
0202 electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering
Humans
0501 psychology and cognitive sciences
Safety, Risk, Reliability and Quality
Engineering (miscellaneous)
Archetype
050107 human factors
Headphones
1106 Human Movement And Sports Science
Aged
Anthropometry
business.industry
05 social sciences
Ear
Usability
Equipment Design
Focus Groups
Middle Aged
Human engineering
Focus group
1116 Medical Physiology
Female
020201 artificial intelligence & image processing
Ergonomics
business
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 00036870
- Volume :
- 56
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Applied Ergonomics
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....959e93072f35411a69d31f9fdc52485d