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The User Experience Research Of The Interaction Transition From Small Display To Big Display

Posted on:2010-04-26Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:X F ShengFull Text:PDF
GTID:2178360275970678Subject:Industrial design engineering
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Today, with the rapid development of new technology, more and more hi-tech products are designed and launched to meet the consumers'growing needs。Meanwhile, they also change people's behavior and life. As designers, we are committed to take the responsibility of making those"high-tech"products be more user friendly, and also offering the users better user experience.The birth of MID (Mobile Internet Device) turns the PC products into the more portable design trend. It represents a new category of smaller, truly mobile device that gives you an amazing internet experience -- allowing you to communicate with others, enjoy your favorite entertainment, and access information on the go. Web2.0, Blog, BBS, QQ, MSN…these on line tools are more and more popular among today's internet users, other web -based tools and games: My space, 2nd life, Google earth…are also be more familiar to everyone now.But MID has its great limitation on human-computer interaction, just because it's smaller and portable. Users want a bigger screen and more comfortable interaction when they are sitting around in the living room, playing games or watching movies. Thus, as the entertainment center in the living room, TV has the perfect opportunity to be connected with MID and provides the enhanced entertainment experience. Actually in Europe and the USA, more and more familiars start to move PCs into living room and connect it onto TV, to enjoy the movie and play the game.While the current connection based on the existing technology brings the user a really bad experience: the connection is too complicated, the setup is not easy to understand, and the interaction is really inconvenient when it's connected. It's definitely meaningful to understand the problem in current design and figure out the design refinement proposal. And this study will also be a really good reference for the interaction design when"switching the interaction from the smaller device to the bigger display".This study started from understanding the user needs of 3 typical MID users by interview and observation, then deeply digging out the design problems in current connection design by the study of"user task". Based on the current technology, this study also proposed a design refinement proposal with a reference design. It turns out to be a significant improvement on user experience which was proved by the following user tests. Hope this study and its enclosed design proposal could be a valuable reference for future MID user interaction design.
Keywords/Search Tags:user experience, usability, human-computer interaction, user research
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