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A low cost technique to evaluate usable product for small manufacturing companies: a case study on Garcia robot

Issue title: IEA 2012: 18th World congress on Ergonomics - Designing a sustainable future

Article type: Research Article

Authors: An, Vatana | Soares, Marcelo

Affiliations: College of Engineering and Computer Science, University of Central Florida, Orlando, FL, 32816 | Department of Design, Federal University of Pernambuco, Cidade Universitaria, Recife, PE 50.670-420, Brazil

Note: [] Corresponding author E-mail: vatana.an@gmail.com.

Keywords: interface, improvement, evaluate, deliver, result

DOI: 10.3233/WOR-2012-0436-2089

Journal: Work, vol. 41, no. Supplement 1, pp. 2089-2096, 2012

Published: 2012
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Abstract

A usability evaluation technique to evaluate user interfaces is introduces. The technique is effective and affordable for small manufacturing companies. By using this technique, an integration of users’ feedbacks and some usability concepts, a product can be 3 times easier to use among potential users and more than 5 times easier to use among motivated users. In addition, the technique can be implemented with the company’s employees as participants.

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