An Investigation of Usability Evaluation for Smart Clothing

Lee

International Journal of Human-Computer Interaction

2009

Smart clothing is a "smart system" capable of sensing and communicating with environmental and the wearer's conditions and stimuli. A comprehensive review is presented on the research and developments related to smart clothing including technology developments, human aspects in smart clothing, and the applications. Recent smart clothing technology can be summarized as a tendency toward textilebased technology for each component: interface, communication, data management, energy management, and integrated circuits. Human aspects in smart clothing, even though some areas were not fully covered, were dealt with in terms of usability, functionality, durability, safety, comfort, and fashion. General applications of smart clothing developed so far include bio-monitoring clothing, MP3 player-adopted clothing, and photonic clothing.

Section: Usabilitymentioning

confidence: 97%

Section: Usabilitymentioning

confidence: 99%

Review and Reappraisal of Smart Clothing

Lee

International Journal of Human-Computer Interaction

2009

“…The creation of wearables requires specific concepts, techniques and ingredients involving textiles, electronics and software that consider the diversity of potential users and their environments [3]. Thus, successful wearable usability is no longer about providing technical success, but rather about creating an optimal user experience [4].…”

Section: Review Of the Literaturementioning

confidence: 99%

Wearable Design Requirements Identification and Evaluation

Francés-Morcillo

Morer-Camo

Rodríguez-Ferradas

et al. 2020

Sensors

Wearable electronics make it possible to monitor human activity and behavior. Most of these devices have not taken into account human factors and they have instead focused on technological issues. This fact could not only affect human–computer interaction and user experience but also the devices’ use cycle. Firstly, this paper presents a classification of wearable design requirements that have been carried out by combining a quantitative and a qualitative methodology. Secondly, we present some evaluation procedures based on design methodologies and human–computer interaction measurement tools. Thus, this contribution aims to provide a roadmap for wearable designers and researchers in order to help them to find more efficient processes by providing a classification of the design requirements and evaluation tools. These resources represent time and resource-saving contributions. Therefore designers and researchers do not have to review the literature. It will no be necessary to carry out exploratory studies for the purposes of identifying requirements or evaluation tools either.

“…In fact, they examined some empirical data obtained from observation evaluation and wearability evaluation (WE). [12] In another study, Schall et al . discussed some barriers to the adoption of wearable sensors in the workplace including the related concerns with regard to the privacy/confidentiality of the collected data among the employees and their compliance, sensor durability, the cost/benefit ratio of using wearables, and good manufacturing practice requirements.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Requirement specification and modeling a wearable smart blanket system for monitoring patients in ambulance

2019

Background:Nowadays, the role of smart systems and developed tools such as wearable systems for monitoring the patients and controlling their conditions consistently has increased significantly. The present research sought to identify the factors which are essential for designing a wearable smart blanket system and modeling the proposed systems.Methods:To this aim, the requirements for creating the proposed system in ambulance were described after determining the features related to wearable systems by conducting on a comparative study. First, some studies were performed to identify the wearable system development. Then, the elicited questionnaire was given to the physicians and medical informatics specialists. Finally, the extracted requirements were implemented for modeling a smart blanket system.Results:Based on the results, the wearable smart blanket system includes some specific characteristics such as monitoring the important signs, communicating with the surroundings, processing the signals instantly, and storing all important signs. In addition, they should involve some nonfunctional characteristics such as easy installment and function, interactivity, error fault tolerance, low energy consumption, and the accuracy of sign stability. Then, based on the requirements and data elements extracted from the questionnaire, the system was modeled as a detailed design of the proposed technical blanket system. Based on the results, the architecture of the designed system could provide expected scenarios by using the Active Review for Intermediate Design-oriented scenario-based evaluation method.Conclusion:Today, smart systems and tools have considerably developed in terms of monitoring the patients and controlling their conditions. Therefore, wearable systems can be implemented for monitoring the health status of patients in ambulance.