Re: [IxDA Discuss] Heuristic Evaluation Criteria for Physical Devices

2008-09-30 Thread Gustavo Gawry
You should take a look at the Ergonomic criteria for human-computer interaction from Bastien and Scapin. http://www.inria.fr/rrrt/rt-0156.html On Mon, Sep 29, 2008 at 11:24 AM, David Shaw <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Thank you all who have replied to my post! I'm going to look over the > stuff

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Heuristic Evaluation Criteria for Physical Devices

2008-09-29 Thread David Shaw
Thank you all who have replied to my post! I'm going to look over the stuff and see how we can integrate it in our workflow. David On Fri, Sep 26, 2008 at 10:05 AM, David Shaw <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Good Friday! > I'm trying to find a list of criteria when doing a heuristic evaluation on >

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Heuristic Evaluation Criteria for Physical Devices

2008-09-26 Thread rob tannen
David - You can apply most, if not all, of the same heuristic principles that you apply to a strictly UI analysis, but I would also integrate key physical ergonomic factors like reach and posture. Here's a quick description of those characterisitcs - Feedback - Identify where the user's access to

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Heuristic Evaluation Criteria for Physical Devices

2008-09-26 Thread Joel Eden
David, Here's a link to a paper by Jiajie Zhang and others where they extend heuristic evaluation and task analysis a bit with ideas from distributed cognitive task theory (from earlier work by Zhang and Don Norman) for the medical device domain; e.g. they analyze infusion pump interfaces in the p

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Heuristic Evaluation Criteria for Physical Devices

2008-09-26 Thread David Shaw
Thanks Adamya... hopefully others will have some possible insight too. :-) On Fri, Sep 26, 2008 at 11:17 AM, adamya ashk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Ah, I see. There may be lists more geared towards this type of > question. Particulalry ones with lots of industrial designers. maybe > others on t

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Heuristic Evaluation Criteria for Physical Devices

2008-09-26 Thread adamya ashk
Ah, I see. There may be lists more geared towards this type of question. Particulalry ones with lots of industrial designers. maybe others on the board can chime in. I wonder if you can find some guidelines (even rough ones based on people's experiences). They would give you a shortest path to 'he

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Heuristic Evaluation Criteria for Physical Devices

2008-09-26 Thread David Shaw
Sure... we're investigating some peripheral devices to our product (medical measurement devices like a blood sugar meter, etc.). Our target is elderly 60-80 with some type of chronic condition. I didn't know if there was a list geared more towards physical interaction (maybe even ergonomics). On

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Heuristic Evaluation Criteria for Physical Devices

2008-09-26 Thread adamya ashk
That would depend on the type and purpose of the device being evaluated. Can you elaborate? "Heuristics are "rules of thumb", educated guesses, intuitive judgments or simply common sense" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heuristic -Adamya On 9/26/08, David Shaw <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Good Fri

[IxDA Discuss] Heuristic Evaluation Criteria for Physical Devices

2008-09-26 Thread David Shaw
Good Friday! I'm trying to find a list of criteria when doing a heuristic evaluation on a physical device. So far the only thing I've been able to find is Useit.com's list, http://www.useit.com/papers/heuristic/heuristic_list.html which is specific to screen interfaces. Is there anything out there