The underlying factors dominating categorical perception of product form of mobile phones

International Journal of Industrial Ergonomics

Volumn 39, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 667-680

  Chang, Chien Cheng ^a   Wu, Jun Chieh ^a  

^a HUAFAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Local feature; Product form classification; Similarity; Total image

Indexed keywords

CATEGORICAL PERCEPTION; CLASSIFICATION ,; CLASSIFICATION PROCEDURE; COGNITIVE MODEL; DOMINANT MECHANISM; FORM FACTORS; FORM FEATURES; HIERARCHICAL GROUPINGS; IMAGE PERCEPTION; LOCAL FEATURE; MENTAL MODEL; MORPHOLOGICAL ANALYSIS; NEW PRODUCT; NEW PRODUCT DESIGN; PROCESSING MODEL; PRODUCT FORM CLASSIFICATION; PRODUCT FORMS; SEMANTIC DIFFERENTIAL; SIMILARITY; STEP-BY-STEP; THINK ALOUD; TOTAL IMAGE; UNDERLYING FACTORS; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

APPROXIMATION THEORY; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; COMPETITION; MOBILE DEVICES; MOBILE PHONES; RISK PERCEPTION; TELEPHONE; TELEPHONE SETS; VISION;

PRODUCT DESIGN;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; ERGONOMICS; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMAGE DISPLAY; MALE; MOBILE PHONE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEMANTIC DIFFERENTIAL METHOD; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL DISCRIMINATION;

EID: 68549122852     PISSN: 01698141     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ergon.2009.02.012     Document Type: Article

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