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Use of augmented reality in the usability evaluation of products

Issue title: IEA 2012: 18th World congress on Ergonomics - Designing a sustainable future

Article type: Research Article

Authors: Faust, Fernanda | Roepke, Giorgia | Catecati, Tiago | Araujo, Fernanda | Ferreira, Marcelo Gitirana Gomes | Albertazzi, Deise

Affiliations: Departamento de Design, Universidade do Estado de Santa Catarina, Campus Itacorubi, Santa Catarina, Brasil. | Departamento de Engenharia de Produção e Sistemas, Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Campus Trindade, Florianópolis, Santa Catarina, Brasil | Departamento de Design, Universidade Federal do Paraná, Rua General Carneiro, 460, 8° andar, Curitiba, Paraná, Brasil.

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Keywords: Augmented reality, product development, evaluation

DOI: 10.3233/WOR-2012-0298-1164

Journal: Work, vol. 41, no. Supplement 1, pp. 1164-1167, 2012

Published: 2012
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Abstract

Many characteristics of a product are evaluated during the development phase, such as function, aesthetics and manufacturing. The conception phase is supported by drawings and computer graphics, followed by physical prototypes that help evaluating the product features. The augmented reality technology has a great potential to assist the designers in this phase, reducing the development process time and costs and improving the quality of the evaluation. This paper presents a study that intends to investigate the suitability of using augmented reality to evaluate the usability of electronic products.

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