Integrating the human factors characterization of disabled users in a design method. Application to an interface for playing acoustic music

Julien Veytizou (1) , Cécile Magnier (1) , François Villeneuve (1) , Guillaume Thomann (1)

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Users and uses inclusion in product design remains a challenge, especially when their characterization is very specific, which is the case with disabled persons. Many design methodologies integrating user exist, for example, User-Centered Design (UCD). The application of these methodologies results in custom product designs, but they haven't objective the motor activities characterization of stakeholders: people with disabilities. Our ambition is to characterize and model the motor specificities of these future users during the design process to adapt the man-machine interfaces to these motor performances. In this paper, we propose an adaptation of the UCD design process by integrating theoretical models and technological tools of motion capture. In conclusion an in response to identified needs of AE2M project (Ergonomic Adaptation of the Musical Material), we present an application of our approach in this context.

Mots clés: disabled people; user-centered design; motion capture; Design; human-machine interaction

Domaines: Interface homme-machine [cs.HC]

Julien Veytizou, Cécile Magnier, François Villeneuve, Guillaume Thomann. Integrating the human factors characterization of disabled users in a design method. Application to an interface for playing acoustic music. Association for the Advancement of Modelling and Simulation Techniques in Enterprises, 2012, 73 (Issue 3), pp.173. ⟨hal-00903819⟩