A study for affordance and universal design in the interface of smart phone

• Main Authors: Yao-WenKuo, 郭堯文
• Other Authors: Shih-Wen Hsiao
• Format: Others
• Language: en_US
• Published: 2013
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/51035387350592074927

碩士 === 國立成功大學 === 工業設計學系碩博士班 === 101 === In nowadays research field, the definition and recognition of affordance for people are quite different. Gibson is the earliest to propose concept of affordance which derived from possibility between creatures and environment, the thesis discussed that environment entices creatures to have certain actions and further develop interactive relation. Later, Norman transferred the former concept into a kind of intuitive concept which has applied to design field and offered researchers and designers a new thinking way in product planning. Even though the concept of affordance approximates to intuitive design, the essences of two concepts are quite different. Thus, the target of this study is to uncover possibility and affordance between products and users, list and integrate principles of affordance into a set of evaluation not only can examine design through the evaluation but also lead design toward correct direction based on human requirement. The framework of research contains two parts, the first part is to integrate the elements of affordance and universal design and construct a new evaluation; in second part, the user interface would be revised and second evaluating analysis would be conducted to ensure and verify credibility and accuracy of the experiment. The experimental examples are based on present common systems, including four examples: Android, Windows, iOS and the interface developed in this study. The four interface would be compared with each other interactively. The statistics would derived from fuzzy analysis which could enhance the accuracy of experiment and further analyze the design issues. Therefore, researchers and design workers could seize the key point of improvement for design tasks, and then generate the best interface design is significance of this study.