US 2009/0157478 A1 · USABILITY EVALUATION METHOD AND SYSTEM OF VIRTUAL MOBILE INFORMATION APPLIANCE

Abstract

A system for evaluating usability of a virtual mobile information appliance unites a virtual reality technology integrating various digital data created in planning and in designing a product to operate a virtual product and visualizing the virtual product in photo-realistic level, an affective technology organizing a customer's emotional evaluation on a product's design in view of engineering, an ergonomic technology quantatively measuring and analyzing body force activity involved in the operation of a product in a biomechanic manner, and a mixed reality technology supporting both tangible interface capable of directly touching the digital data and a photo-realistic visualization, to thereby finding problems of usability early, obtaining improvements such as a design of the product, improving efficiently an overall quality of the product and managing product-lifetime-cycle in a company manufacturing the product.

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A system for evaluating usability of a virtual mobile information appliance, comprising:

a design evaluation unit for supporting emotional evaluation of a designed product in accordance with a component DB and a partially standardized guide in view of a customer and for real-time collecting design preference data based on a network online system;
a virtual product design modification and action simulation unit for uniting digital data related with the designed product to realize a photo-realistic visualization and a virtual operation;
an ergonomic based hand load evaluation unit for measuring an ergonomic based hand load and a fatigue using a hand interface based usability evaluation tool;
and
a mixed reality usability evaluation unit for applying an augmented reality technology and a printing technology to the realized photo-realistic visualization and the virtual operation and for creating a usability evaluation situation based on the measured ergonomic based hand load and fatigue to provide the created usability evaluation situation to a user.

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A method for evaluating usability of a virtual mobile information appliance, comprising:

supporting an emotional evaluation in view of a customer on a product designed in accordance with a component DB and a partially standardized guide and real-time collecting design preference data based on a network online system;
realizing a photo-realistic visualization and a virtual operation by uniting digital data related with the designed product;
measuring an ergonomic based hand load and fatigue using a hand interface based usability evaluation tool;
and
applying an augmented reality technology and a printing technology to the realized photo-realistic visualization and virtual operation, and creating a usability evaluation situation based on the measured ergonomic based hand load and fatigue to provide the created usability evaluation situation to a user.

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Usability evaluation method and system of virtual mobile information appliance

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Usability evaluation method and system of virtual mobile information appliance

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