Do knobs have character? Exploring diversity in users' inferences

Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 2907-2912

  Karapanos, Evangelos ^a   Wensveen, Stephan ^a   Friederichs, Bart ^a   Martens, Jean Bernard ^a  

^a EINDHOVEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Haptic interfaces; Product character; User experience

Indexed keywords

FLOW INTERACTIONS; HAPTIC INTERFACES; HUMAN ENGINEERING;

EMPIRICAL STUDIES; ERROR RATES; EXPLORATORY STUDIES; HAPTIC INFORMATIONS; INFERENCE PROCESSES; PHYSICAL CONTROLS; PHYSICAL INTERACTIONS; PRODUCT CHARACTER; USER EXPERIENCE;

COMPUTER SYSTEMS;

EID: 57049165489     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1358628.1358782     Document Type: Conference Paper

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