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Daniel Frey. Goldhaber, Tanya S. (Tanya Sofia) Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of Mechanical Engineering. Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Mechanical Engineering 2010-11-08T17:46:31Z 2010-11-08T17:46:31Z 2010 2010 http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/59925 676803971 Thesis (S.B.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Mechanical Engineering, 2010. Cataloged from PDF version of thesis. Includes bibliographical references (p. 20). As human interaction with digital displays becomes an indispensable part of everyday life, user Interface (UI) design is becoming an increasingly important field. There is a great demand in industry for tools to aid designers in UI design, and in response to this need, a perceptual tool, DesignEye, has been developed. DesignEye creates maps of saliency and clutter within an image, which can be used by designers to find problem areas in a design. The experiment described here tested how subjects differ in their analysis of existing UT designs when they have also been given access to maps from DesignEye. Subjects were asked to evaluate existing designs in Ford vehicles for three conditions: (i) while being given no assistance, (ii) while being asked to use a design technique like squinting, and (iii) while being asked to use DesignEye output. It was found that subjects did not substantially differ in their analysis when given a perceptual tool. However, due to the backgrounds of the subjects tested and the experimental setup and environment, further testing is necessary to determine how DesignEye might change the way designers analyze designs, build consensus within teams, and objectively rate potential design options. by Tanya S. Goldhaber. S.B. 32 p. eng Massachusetts Institute of Technology M.I.T. theses are protected by copyright. They may be viewed from this source for any purpose, but reproduction or distribution in any format is prohibited without written permission. See provided URL for inquiries about permission. http://dspace.mit.edu/handle/1721.1/7582 Mechanical Engineering. Investigation of potential industrial uses for tools assessing saliency and clutter of design features Thesis application/pdf Publication unknown unknown <Publication xmlns="https://www.openaire.eu/cerif-profile/1.1/" id="208b09d8-a80a-4844-8f70-fb7fc0983048"> <Type xmlns="https://www.openaire.eu/cerif-profile/vocab/COAR_Publication_Types">http://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_1843</Type> <Language>eng</Language> <Title>Investigation of potential industrial uses for tools assessing saliency and clutter of design features</Title> <PublishedIn> <Publication> </Publication> </PublishedIn> <PublicationDate>2010</PublicationDate> <Authors> <Author> <DisplayName>Goldhaber, Tanya S. (Tanya Sofia)</DisplayName> <Affiliation> <OrgUnit> </OrgUnit> </Affiliation> </Author> </Authors> <Editors> </Editors> <Publishers> <Publisher> <DisplayName>Massachusetts Institute of Technology</DisplayName> <OrgUnit /> </Publisher> </Publishers> <License>http://dspace.mit.edu/handle/1721.1/7582</License> <Keyword>Mechanical Engineering.</Keyword> <Abstract>As human interaction with digital displays becomes an indispensable part of everyday life, user Interface (UI) design is becoming an increasingly important field. There is a great demand in industry for tools to aid designers in UI design, and in response to this need, a perceptual tool, DesignEye, has been developed. DesignEye creates maps of saliency and clutter within an image, which can be used by designers to find problem areas in a design. The experiment described here tested how subjects differ in their analysis of existing UT designs when they have also been given access to maps from DesignEye. Subjects were asked to evaluate existing designs in Ford vehicles for three conditions: (i) while being given no assistance, (ii) while being asked to use a design technique like squinting, and (iii) while being asked to use DesignEye output. It was found that subjects did not substantially differ in their analysis when given a perceptual tool. However, due to the backgrounds of the subjects tested and the experimental setup and environment, further testing is necessary to determine how DesignEye might change the way designers analyze designs, build consensus within teams, and objectively rate potential design options.</Abstract> <Access xmlns="http://purl.org/coar/access_right" > </Access> </Publication>