TY - JOUR
T1 - An online affordance evaluation model for product design
AU - Hsiao, Shih Wen
AU - Hsu, Chiao Fei
AU - Lee, Yin Ting
N1 - Funding Information:
The authors are grateful to the National Science Council of the Republic of China for supporting this research under grant NSC95-2221-E-006-127 .
Copyright:
Copyright 2012 Elsevier B.V., All rights reserved.
PY - 2012/3
Y1 - 2012/3
N2 - This paper aims to establish an online affordance evaluation model for measuring affordance degree to evaluate the usability of a product. By using this model, designers could easily identify the appearance features of a product necessary to be revised and optimized. In addition, an online survey, which replaces the realized operational survey, is also recommended. This model includes three parts: first, identifying the affordance properties and its correlative weights by using multidimensional scaling, K-means clustering and the Analytic Hierarchy Process; second, analyzing the user's tasks and functional components of the product; third, constructing an evaluation model which provides the affordance degree. Finally, a case study with the steam iron GC2510 is performed to verify the effect of this model.
AB - This paper aims to establish an online affordance evaluation model for measuring affordance degree to evaluate the usability of a product. By using this model, designers could easily identify the appearance features of a product necessary to be revised and optimized. In addition, an online survey, which replaces the realized operational survey, is also recommended. This model includes three parts: first, identifying the affordance properties and its correlative weights by using multidimensional scaling, K-means clustering and the Analytic Hierarchy Process; second, analyzing the user's tasks and functional components of the product; third, constructing an evaluation model which provides the affordance degree. Finally, a case study with the steam iron GC2510 is performed to verify the effect of this model.
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U2 - 10.1016/j.destud.2011.06.003
DO - 10.1016/j.destud.2011.06.003
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:84857647281
SN - 0142-694X
VL - 33
SP - 126
EP - 159
JO - Design Studies
JF - Design Studies
IS - 2
ER -