A Study of the Effect of Interface Handiness to the Performance in Reaction Games

• Main Authors: Wei-Yuan Hsu, 許維元
• Other Authors: Hua-Cheng Chang
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2009
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/75394905557885962819

碩士 === 南台科技大學 === 多媒體與電腦娛樂科學系 === 97 === According to the ergonomics improvement, usability has been seen as (becom) one important factor in the field of software design. Besides, whether software is successful usually depends on the design of usability. However, for left -handed users, the design of usability nowadays is not completely suitable. In fact, most lefthanders get used to products that are built for right-handers, namely, few lefthanders are willing to change accommodated right-handed habits to adapt to left-handed settings. Taking the operation interface of FPS for example, function keys are usually set on the right side of a keyboard or a control panel; nevertheless, left-handed users may be unhandy to operate a keyboard based on a right-handed setting. Thus, the present research focuses on examining the settings of right-handed keyboards and finding out what operational problems will happen and appear when a left-hander plays a FPS game with right-handed device. In order to investigating and analyzing operational problems, there are some main sections in the study as follows. First, I explored left-hand players’ efficiency of the using mouse and keyboard. Second, I also investigated if the coordinate ability would affect a participant’s speed reaction. For the purpose of the study, I asked left-handed and right-handed participants to have 3 different types of action. They are active operation, passive operation and Asymmetric bimanual operation. The data gathered in the test was analyzed by T-test. And I also gathered some participants’ background information for Correlation Analysis. The data gathered in the examination were used to find out the performance when players play PC by using right-handed and left-handed setting. From the result, I discovered that left-handed users had lesser problems using two different settings than right-handed users had. And their operation performances in using left-handed and right-handed keyboard settings are about the same. In contrast, right-handed users had better performance in using right-handed setting. Besides, in the study I also found that participants’ background information has no connection between their operating performances. Summing up upper research results, we could see that left-handed examinees had nearly equal performances in using left-handed and right-handed keyboard settings. Even they didn’t have a chance to practice before having tests. And also we could see the background has no relation with operating performance both in right-handers and left-handers.