TY - GEN
T1 - Proposal of new paradigm for hand and foot controls in the context of spatial compatibility effect
AU - Chan, Alan H. S.
AU - Chan, Ken W. L.
PY - 2008
Y1 - 2008
N2 - Many workstations make heavy use of the hands for primary control of a process. If some control tasks can be assigned to the feet, there would be an obvious benefit in having the hands free for other tasks that require a higher level of precision and dexterity. Spatial compatibility between displays and controls is a weighty determinant of performance. This paper proposes a research framework that aims to 1. Design and conduct a series of spatial compatibility experiments for measuring human subjects' response preferences and choice reaction times at different configurations of displays and hand and foot controls. 2. Investigate the effect of interaction between hand and foot controls in such configurations. 3. Determine the optimum positional mappings of hand and foot controls with visual signals presented at different planes of displays. The objective is progress toward an optimal human-machine interface design for improving overall system performance. © 2008 Springer Science+Business Media, LLC.
AB - Many workstations make heavy use of the hands for primary control of a process. If some control tasks can be assigned to the feet, there would be an obvious benefit in having the hands free for other tasks that require a higher level of precision and dexterity. Spatial compatibility between displays and controls is a weighty determinant of performance. This paper proposes a research framework that aims to 1. Design and conduct a series of spatial compatibility experiments for measuring human subjects' response preferences and choice reaction times at different configurations of displays and hand and foot controls. 2. Investigate the effect of interaction between hand and foot controls in such configurations. 3. Determine the optimum positional mappings of hand and foot controls with visual signals presented at different planes of displays. The objective is progress toward an optimal human-machine interface design for improving overall system performance. © 2008 Springer Science+Business Media, LLC.
KW - Ergonomic design
KW - human-machine interface
KW - spatial compatibility
UR - https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/79957453766
UR - https://www.scopus.com/record/pubmetrics.uri?eid=2-s2.0-79957453766&origin=recordpage
U2 - 10.1007/978-0-387-74905-1_5
DO - 10.1007/978-0-387-74905-1_5
M3 - RGC 32 - Refereed conference paper (with host publication)
SN - 9780387749037
VL - 5 LNEE
T3 - Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering
SP - 57
EP - 65
BT - Advances in Industrial Engineering and Operations Research
T2 - International Multi-Conference of Engineers and Computer Scientists, IMECS 2007
Y2 - 21 March 2007 through 23 March 2007
ER -