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USING ARCHETYPES TO CREATE USER PANELS FOR USABILITY STUDIES
Stavrakos, K.; Ahmed-Kristensen, S.; Goldman ,T.
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Year:
2014
Editor:
Marjanovic Dorian, Storga Mario, Pavkovic Neven, Bojcetic Nenad
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DESIGN
Section:
INDUSTRIAL DESIGN
Page(s):
2157-2166
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 for a reliable user panel to represent large populations and validates the proposed framework to predict comfort factors, such as physical fit. Data of 200 head was analysed by forming clusters, 9 archetypal people were identified out of a 200 people’s ear database. The archetypes’ responses on physical fit were compared against those of 20 participants interacting with 6 headsets.
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