Ahmed-Kristensen, Saeema, Stavrakos, SK and Goldman, T, 2016, Journal Article, Using archetypes to create user panels for usability studies: Streamlining focus groups and user studies Applied Ergonomics, 56. pp. 108-116. ISSN 0003-6870
Abstract or Description: | 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 to issue a reliable user panel to represent large populations and validates the proposed framework to predict comfort factors, such as physical fit. Data of 200 heads was analyzed by forming clusters, 9 archetypal people were identified out of a 200 people's ear database. The archetypes were validated by comparing the archetypes' responses on physical fit against those of 20 participants interacting with 6 headsets. This paper suggests a new method of selecting representative user samples for prototype testing compared to costly and time consuming methods which relied on the analysis of human geometry of large populations. |
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Official URL: | https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/... |
Subjects: | Creative Arts and Design > W200 Design studies |
School or Centre: | School of Design |
Identification Number or DOI: | https://doi.org/10.1016/j.apergo.2016.02.016 |
Date Deposited: | 15 Mar 2018 11:36 |
Last Modified: | 03 Feb 2020 10:21 |
URI: | https://researchonline.rca.ac.uk/id/eprint/3281 |
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