Host: The Japan Society of Mechanical Engineers
Name : [in Japanese]
Date : September 25, 2019 - September 27, 2019
As a method of evaluating usability, usability tests are widely used, in which designers observe users using products. However, conventional usability tests take efforts on designers because designers need to manually input and analyze operation data of users when using tests. This paper proposes methods that can be applied uniformly through upstream to downstream design phases by using motion capture and Dynamic Time Warping (DTW). These methods enable designers to automatically acquire operation data of users and to calculate similarity of operation locus between designers and users. As the first step, an experiment was conducted that assumed the upstream design phases, using a triple digital timer. Consequently, it is revealed that it is possible to detect operations which are considered to have usability problems by using methods which this paper proposes.
