Rapid development of tangible interactive appliances: achieving the fidelity/time balance

Gill, Steve; Loudon, Gareth; Woolley, Alex; Hare, Joanna; Walker, Darren; Dix, Alan; Ramduny-Ellis, Devina

doi:10.1504/ijart.2008.022365

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“…The IE Units allow rapid prototyping without the usual electronics or programming prerequisites and have been used to empirically measure the performance of real products against physical and virtual prototypes. The results show that the link between the physical act of holding a product and interaction was more marked than has previously been understood (Gill et al, 2008), thus highlighting the need for understanding the precise nature of physicality in the design process. This led to our recent work on physigrams -a diagrammatic notation based on a formal framework for mapping the relationship between physical devices and their corresponding physical actions for designers' use (Dix et al, 2009).…”

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confidence: 79%

Physicality in Design: An Exploration

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Both the nature of many products and their process of creation are becoming increasingly digitally mediated. However, our bodies and minds are naturally conceived to interact with the physical, so crucial design information can be elicited by constructing meaningful prototypes. This paper examines how physical materials impact early design through a study that explores how groups with very different materials tackle a common design challenge. The inherent physical properties of the materials and the ways in which designers interpret and manipulate them give rise to subtle patterns of behaviour. These include the ways in which groups move between abstract and concrete discussions, the way groups comply with or resist the materials they are given, and the complex interactions between the physicality of materials and the group dynamics. This understanding is contributing to our research in explicating the fundamental role of physicality in the design of hybrid physical and digital artefacts.

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Section: Motivationmentioning

confidence: 79%

Physicality in Design: An Exploration

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“…However, if a simulated or quasi-contextual environment can provide an accurate notion of product interaction then such a strategy has the potential to reduce observation cost. Previous research has suggested that lower levels of fidelity in both the operating environment and prototype products still have the potential to provide accurate usage information (Woolley et al, 2010;Gill et al, 2008;Gordon & Wilgeroth, 2008). Because of the contentious nature of this proposition, the authors refer to such observation as 'ethnography inspired' to demonstrate that there is no claim of this model providing true ethnographic enquiry.…”

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Creating and Testing a Model-Driven Framework for Accessible User-Centric Design

2016

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Despite growing interest in user-centred design, there is limited discussion and critique of how to implement such an approach in a commercial design environment. This article examines the approach taken to gain knowledge of product use in order to evaluate a framework for user-research that draws on UCD theory through a number of commercial case studies. User-centric enquiry must fit into the design process where the aim is to create commercially viable output economically and efficiently, and where errors resulting from insufficient user consideration are mitigated costeffectively; something that is rarely discussed in literature. This paper documents a practicing design team's efforts to guide user-led design practice and product insight acquisition with the implementation of a model-driven, user-centred, approach across numerous commercial projects.

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“…The study set out to discover if results of a user trial with a tangible prototype were more similar to the final product than a software-only prototype, and the subsequent level of fidelity required of this prototype (Gill, et al, 2008). In total, four prototypes were constructed and compared to a final device.…”

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confidence: 99%