Relaxed
mobility
Veronika Egger
is-design GmbH, IIID, design for all
International Institute for Information Design
Forschungsforum Mobilität, 21.10.2009, Wien

1. How can we best incorporate
all senses and experience in the
design?
2. How can we improve the
design process?
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Interaction
Information Environment
Experiences User
experience
Expetations
Decisions
Design
Quality
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Knowledge
Event
Perception
Experience
A B C D Understanding
Decision
Action/reaction
C2
B
A D
C
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Perception
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Perception
- Sensory perception
- Attention
- First impressions
(good/bad, pleasant/unpleasant)
- Evaluation
(important/unimportant, recognising
patterns)
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Information
other senses
10%
sehen, hören,
hearing
tasten
15% rational/controlled/
conscious
vision
75%
emotional/not controlled/
subconscious
Information?
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Sensory map rational/controlled/
conscious
see
close remote
feel
hear
move
taste smell
emotional/not contolled/
subconscious
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What we use rational/controlled/
in design conscious
What we are
missing
see
close remote
feel
hear
move
taste smell
emotional/not contolled/
subconscious
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Moving perception rational/controlled/
threshold through conscious
design
see
feel hear
close remote
move
smell
taste
emotional/not contolled/
subconscious
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Vision
- Clear image of our environment
- Is dominant for conscious, intellectual pattern
recognition, decisions, orientation
- Is dominant for movement and balance
- Changes in light intensity are connected to
spatial/temporal impressions (day/night,
inside/outside)
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Hearing
- We trust our ears more than our eyes
- In case of a dissonance between hearing and
vision the ear always wins
- Not hearing or not understanding an
announcement causes more stress than
overlooking visual information
- Changes in sound are connected to emotions
(loud/quiet, urgency/calming)
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Feeling
- Touch receptors in the feet provide
information about the composition and
inclide of the floor
- Tactile elements are information
- Haptic properties tell stories about a surface
- Feel the environment: temperature, air
movement
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Feeling AND seeing
Farbveränderung
Neigung
Colour change
Oberflächenbeschaffenheit
Tactile system
surface quality
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Feeling AND seeing
colour change
slant
surface quality
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Feeling AND seeing
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Feeling, seeing, hearing
use physical
properties of the
screen to provide
tactile information
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Smell
- Follow your nose – orientation by smell
- Can evoke strong emotions
- Normally we consciously take notice only
of very positive or very negative smells
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Experience
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Experience
- Intellectual comparison with similar
experiences makes it easier to understand
a new situation.
- Body memory: remembering sensory
experiences
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Experience and information
define expectations
Information
personal Expectation
experience
Event: Uncertainty,
losing control
stress
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Does more or better
information increase
expectations?
- In connection with little experience the
expectations could be too high
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Information
1910
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Information
2010
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http://www.smrt.co.kr/Train/Subwaymap/Eng/Subwaymap.jsp
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Little excursion: control
We prefer what we think
we can control
David Ropiek, Risk Consultant (Psychology Today)
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Even if objectively this is
more risky or not an
advantage.
„I can actively influence what‘s happening“
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Situations I am passively
exposed to cause a
heightened sense of stress.
Announcements, running text
(I can‘t re-visit, if I haven‘t heard/seen it,
it‘s gone)
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Loss of control makes
people communicate
When things don‘t go according to plan, a
bus full of people suddenly start talking to
each other.
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Road traffic: built-in
perceived risk increases
attention.
Lessens for public transport?
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Understanding
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Understanding/recognition
- Remembered experiences
- Learned patterns and concepts
(i.e. writing, sounds, surfaces)
- Intuitive understanding/recognition as body
memory
- intuitive understanding of natural patterns
(i.e. loud=urgent)
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Legible buildings
- Objects in the environment influence
orientation behaviour – the largest object is
the building itself
- Users should be able to comprehend the
building
- Less signage and explanation, more
implicitness (natural ractions)
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Talking objects
- Design should confirm expectations, an
object should signal
- Interaction is based on perceivable
properties of the object
- Signals to use natural patterns
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I am an
entrance
I am heavy/light,
open into the
building, open I am a pane
automatically .. of glass
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User experience
Authenticity,
harmony, aesthetics Atmosphere,
consistency Look Feel interaction with
environment
Usability
Functionality,
predictability, usability,
intellectual
understanding
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Improve user experience
- Incorporating all senses
- Use natural patterns
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A „nudge“ in the right
direction
- It „feels right“
- Use gradual/sudden change to convey
meaning
- Use familiarity with object properties
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From bi-sensory to
multi-sensory principle
- Don‘t focus on sensory deficits
- Learn from sensory abilities of users
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User Experience Design II
„implicit communication“ for mobility,
orientation and architecture
Look
Look Feel
Implicit
Feel
comm.
Usability
Usability
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Design process to reflect
complexity
1. Early involvement of all key players:
Users/custoemrs, organisation/provider, data and
information services, architecture, maintenance ...
2. Interdisciplinary team
3. Joint definition of success criteria
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Why define succes
criteria?
- The impact of design can be evaluated and
measured – in terms of usability and monetary
costs
- Design as an integral part of the quality indicators
of an organisation extends and ensures ownership
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A guided, non-linear
process
User
experience
Accessability Performance
criteria
Key players
Context Content Concept
The company/ The team
the organisation Design
Technical
briefing
Framework
Product/Service
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Intuitive usability and measurable
quality deliver an important
contribution towards relaxed
mobility –
for users and providers
Thank you.
International Institute for Information Design
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References:
- E. Avineri
- G.W. Evans / J. M. McCoy
- K. Lynch
- H. Monderman
- P. Natterer
- D. Norman
- G. Pezzulo / C. Castlefranchi
- M. Szalavitz
- J. Wiseman
- and many more colleagues
Please write to me at veronika.egger@isdesign.at for any further information.
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