Virtual User Concept for

Inclusive Design

of Consumer Products and

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2nd International Conference of AEGIS,

29.11.11 – 30.11.11, Brussels

of Consumer Products and

User Interfaces

Pierre T. Kirisci, University Bremen

BIK - Institute for Integrated ProductDevelopment

VICON Consortium

VICON Results - Sketch Phase

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VICON provides design recommendations asrecommendations asearly as in the sketchphase of productdevelopment.

VICON Results - CAD Phase

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VICON Virtual User Model (VUM) User Model (VUM) integrates withCAD applications(e.g. Siemens NX)

VICON Results - Evaluation Phase

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VICON empowers the designer to experience consumer products„through the eyes“ of the beneficaries.

VICON Results - Summarized

�Ontology containingn Specific „User Model“ instances(categorized personas withimpairments)

n 10 abstract environments (e.g.

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� Reasoning containingn Mass customization / classification ofUser Model Instances

n Binding of recommendations to:

n WHO ICF profile groupsn 10 abstract environments (e.g. cellar, kitchen, outdoor)

n Product-related tasks (e.g. dial a telephone number)

n 75 recommendations (e.g. glowingbuttons)

n quantitative recommendations (e.g. dButton> 5mm)

n WHO ICF profile groups

n Environments

n Tasks

n Annotated CAD components

VICON - Future Work

� Finalization of implementation

n Evaluating/Testing accessibility issues through a 3D virtual user interacting with the reference products (washing machine, mobile phone)

� Virtual Analysis of CAD products

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� Evaluation of VICON framework with designers

� Compare product design processes of industry partners with and without VICON

� Create prototypes and evaluate:

n Software (by the designers)

n Consumer product prototypes (by the beneficiaries)

Synergies with AEGIS

� VICON uses Datatype Properties, AEGIS uses ObjectProperties

� VICON reasoning contains information about usermodel classification etc., AEGIS has no reasoning

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model classification etc., AEGIS has no reasoning

� VICON focusses on HW interfaces (e.g. washing machine) vs. AEGIS on SW interfaces (e.g. website)

=> complement each other?

Thanks for listening!

Pierre Taner KirisciUniversity BremenBIK - Institute for Integrated Product

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BIK - Institute for Integrated Product Development kir@biba.uni-bremen.dewww.vicon-project.euwww.inclusiveproducts.eu

This research was conducted on behalf of the VICON project which is funded by the European Commission.