Diagnosis and resolution of a customer-defined satisfaction issue in automotive user controls

Proceedings from the 6th Conference on Design and Emotion 2008

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages

  Pitts, Matthew ^a   Williams, Mark A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Haptics; Usability; User controls

Indexed keywords

AUTOMOTIVE CONTROL; DESIGN PHASE; ENGINEERING SPECIFICATION; ERGONOMIC DESIGN; HAPTICS; MEASUREMENT STUDY; PRODUCT CHARACTERISTICS; PRODUCT PERFORMANCE; SIGNIFICANT IMPACTS; USABILITY; USABILITY PROBLEMS; USER CONTROL; VEHICLE MANUFACTURERS;

CUSTOMER SATISFACTION; PRODUCT DESIGN; PROFESSIONAL ASPECTS; SALES; SPECIFICATIONS; VEHICLES;

QUALITY CONTROL;

EID: 84857357211     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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