• DocumentCode
    1920176
  • Title

    Ergonomic experiment for thumb keyboard design

  • Author

    Yunfei, Xiong

  • Author_Institution
    Digital Art & Design Center, Hubei Univ. of Technol., Wuhan
  • fYear
    2006
  • fDate
    17-19 Nov. 2006
  • Firstpage
    1
  • Lastpage
    5
  • 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;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • 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
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/CAIDCD.2006.329369
  • Filename
    4127138