Persona-Technology footprint: an evaluation of 144 student’s perception of a person using assistive technology
George Torrens
Ian Storer
Salman Asghar
Ruth Welsh
Karl Hurn
10.17028/rd.lboro.7466783.v1
https://repository.lboro.ac.uk/articles/dataset/Persona-Technology_footprint_an_evaluation_of_144_student_s_perception_of_a_person_using_assistive_technology/7466783
<p>The persona-technology footprint is the
visual balance between the enabling technologies associated with an individual
and the person. This design heuristic enables a practitioner to quickly assess
the area of visible technology compared with that of the person. The objective
of a designer is to minimise the perceived technology and emphasise the
personality of the individual. This study looks to provide detail about the
visual balance between areas of a person covered by assistive technology and
which areas of a person it is important to ensure are visible. A survey of 144
undergraduate design students involved them choosing where they considered they
no longer saw ‘the person’, due to them being covered by assistive technology.
This involved three different line drawings: one that had different sections of
the person’s profile blacked out to represent the presence of equipment in
front of the person; the second with the outer profile of the person visually
broken by the overlapping blacked section; and, a line drawing of a person’s
head with blacked out sections that both covered areas of the head and broke
the outer profile. The points chosen by students were collated and processed
statistically using ANOVA. In all three choices, students chose the point where
the person was covered up to the point of their eyes being covered. This
suggests we view another person’s eyes to represent them more than any other
part of their body. Further studies are required to explore this outcome. </p>
<p>Eye-tracking
experiment was conducted which provides further insights from eye-movement data
of the participants, when making selection between the presented choices. </p><p>This data-set contains files form the eye-tracking experiment including; images to show
defined Areas of Interests (AOI), heatmaps from the experiment, as well as videos
to present, how pattern of heatmaps and gaze sequence were developed for different
choices. Additionally, the screenshots provide the nomenclature used to denote
each AOI for the experiment. Lastly, the results were extracted from the experiment
in the form of raw files (raw data-set), and further processed to streamline the
relevant data (event statistics, all participants). The files named as; larger AOI
and integrated AOI, shows summarised outcomes from the eye-tracking experiment.
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2018-12-20 16:14:09
Design heuristic
Assistive Technology product design
Perceptions
Design Innovation
Digital and Interaction Design
Industrial Design
Care for Disabled
Health Care
Design
Psychological Methodology, Design and Analysis
Sociology
Health, Clinical and Counselling Psychology