Research On Laptop Input Usage Model Based On User Behavior

The research on usage model has been becoming a key issue while the theory of UCD becoming more and more important. However, most researches are focusing on the area of bissiness model in the fiels of bissiness administration; less of them are about ergonomics of industrial design. As IT market is growing up, laptop is becoming the most important role in market instead of desktop. This paper is focus on the research on the needs of operators based on their behaviors, and build up the input usage models based on the needs.The paper based on the theory of UCD, with the knowledge of usage model, starts from analysis of users'input behaviors, the characters of novice group and skilled group are studied by using the HVM to mapping the different needs of each group in an experiment. A Users'Needs Model is builed up combining the needs model with usage model. Based on the models, both the advantages and disadvatiages of laptop input usage models available (mouse, touchpad tracepoint) are discussed. Finally a new method of finding a new market blank baded on the User Needs Model and the possibility to creat a new input usage model are proposed.The research about input usage model for laptop is useful not only in theory but also in practice for designing a new usage model for market. Meanwhile, except for the field of laptop, the approaches proposed can also be used in other fields.