A tool to assess the comfort of wearable computers
A tool to assess the comfort of wearable computers
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DOI：
10.1518/0018720053653875
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发表时间：
2005-03-01
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影响因子：
3.3
通讯作者：
Baber, C
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作者：
Knight, JF;Baber, C
可穿戴电脑的舒适性可能会受到许多因素的影响，因此基于一个值和一个标尺的评估是不合适的。本文介绍了一种工具，它从六个维度衡量可穿戴舒适性：情绪、依恋、伤害、感知变化、运动和焦虑。通过对使用可穿戴计算机舒适项分组的结果开发的舒适项关联矩阵应用多维标度，专门为可穿戴设备评估开发了这些舒适度评定表的维度。在四种不同类型的可穿戴电脑上测试这些天平表明，这些天平可以用来突出不同类型的技术在不同方面的舒适性差异。组内相关系数为872，表明量表的使用具有较高的可靠性。第二项研究表明，对可穿戴电脑进行的修改会带来舒适性的改善，尽管并不显著(p>；0.05)。这项研究的一个潜在应用是帮助设计者和研究人员评估可穿戴计算机设备的舒适性，并确定对可穿戴设备设计进行的任何修改的有效性。
Wearable computer comfort can be affected by numerous factors, making its assessment based on one value with one scale inappropriate. This paper presents a tool that measures wearable comfort across six dimensions: emotion, attachment, harm, perceived change, movement, and anxiety. The dimensions for these comfort rating scales were specifically developed for wearable equipment assessment by applying multidimensional scaling to a comfort term association matrix developed using the results of groupings of wearable computer comfort terms. Testing the scales on four different types of wearable computer showed that the scales can be used to highlight differences in comfort between different types of technology for different aspects of comfort. An intraclass correlation of 872 suggested that the scales were used with a high level of reliability. A second study showed that modifications made to a wearable computer resulted in improvements in comfort, although they were not significant (p > .05). A potential application for this research is as an aid to designers and researchers for assessing the wearability, in terms of comfort, of wearable computer devices and to determine the effectiveness of any modifications made to the design of a wearable device.