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System Evaluation and User Interfaces

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It is essential for developing a useful system to evaluate its user interface. The interface should be evaluated by potential users instead of experts, if unbiased results are to be obtained. It is more recommendable to observe users’ reactions to an actual working prototype of the interface than to simply ask them about what kind of interface is preferable. The observation in a laboratory room can produce more general and scientific results than that in a real-world situation does. Thus, this chapter describes how to conduct a laboratory study. It collects users’ reactions to the prototype of a user interface in a controlled situation. There are many items to consider in order to conduct a laboratory study: goals, hypotheses, factors, conditions, experimental design, tasks, subjects, data collection, and analysis. Each of these items is explained in detail. An example of system evaluation that is conducted in the past study on telepresence robots is discussed.

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  1. Graduate School of Engineering, Osaka University, Suita, Osaka, Japan

    Hideyuki Nakanishi

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  1. Graduate School of Letters, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan, Osaka University, Osaka, Japan

    Masashi Kasaki

  2. Osaka University, Osaka, Japan

    Hiroshi Ishiguro

  3. Osaka University, Osaka, Japan

    Minoru Asada

  4. Osaka University, Osaka, Japan

    Mariko Osaka

  5. Osaka University, Osaka, Japan

    Takashi Fujikado

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    This chapter has introduced and described an example of telepresence robot in a certain way. In the same way, summarize the goal, hypotheses, factors, conditions, experimental design, task, subjects, data collection, and analysis of some other study on robotic telepresence technology (see Nakanishi et al. 2009, 2011, 2014).

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    Plan your own study that evaluates the user interface of some interactive system, and describe its goal, hypotheses, factors, conditions, experimental design, task, subjects, data collection, and analysis.

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Nakanishi, H. (2016). System Evaluation and User Interfaces. In: Kasaki, M., Ishiguro, H., Asada, M., Osaka, M., Fujikado, T. (eds) Cognitive Neuroscience Robotics A. Springer, Tokyo. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-4-431-54595-8_7

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