Abstract:Background Usability studies of medical devices are mandatory for market access. The studies’ goal is to identify and eliminate usability problems that could cause harm the user or limit the device’s effectiveness. In practice, human factor engineers study participants under actual conditions of use and list the problems encountered. This results in a binary discovery matrix in which each row corresponds to a participant, and each column corresponds to a usability problem. One of the main challenges in usabili… Show more
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