Title :
Ergonomic experiment for thumb keyboard design
Author_Institution :
Digital Art & Design Center, Hubei Univ. of Technol., Wuhan
Abstract :
The traditional man-machine questions take relation between people and big yardstick products as research object. Differently, this research regards relation between mobile phone and man hand as the main object, and carries on deeper and basic studying to this physiological characteristic with thumb. This research takes the outstanding question, placement design in mobile phone keyboard, as the center, utilized observing and experiment to obtain the basic principle of placement design of mobile phone keyboard for the male. Utilize this principle, we can not only appraise on the placement of the cell-phone keyboard after designed, but also offer guidance on the initial stage of designing
Keywords :
ergonomics; keyboards; mobile radio; user interfaces; ergonomic experiment; mobile phone keyboard; physiological thumb characteristic; placement design; thumb keyboard design; traditional man-machine questions; Appraisal; Ergonomics; Fingers; Humans; Joints; Keyboards; Man machine systems; Mobile handsets; Muscles; Thumb;
Conference_Titel :
Computer-Aided Industrial Design and Conceptual Design, 2006. CAIDCD '06. 7th International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Hangzhou
Print_ISBN :
1-4244-0683-8
Electronic_ISBN :
1-4244-0684-6
DOI :
10.1109/CAIDCD.2006.329369