I was looking for a theoretical framework among the HCI ones that might be suitable for UI/interaction development in AR (for example Activity Theory) in order to contextualize it to industrial AR applications, but I am not really sure of one that fits completely the case - e.g. Activity Theory does not have any human factors / UX consideration. Any suggestion or source to look at?
I wrote a paper proposing a usability evaluation framework for computer vision based applications. I have provided a link below, it might prove useful.
Usability evaluation framework for computer vision based interfaces
www.cs.man.ac.uk/~tmorris/.../ali%20morris%20WASET%202012.pdf
P.S. We can discuss any potential research ideas.
Hi M Raza Ali,
thank you for your answer. Unfortunately I'm not able to download the paper as the link you posted return a 404. Can you upload a working link? Thank you very much.
In addition, from what you said it seems that the framework you created is an evaluation framework. What I'm looking for is of a slightly broader scope. I'm talking about a theoretical framework (from which evaluation frameworks are indeed directly derived) that provides a theoretical basis for UI design.
Something along the lines of
Activity theory: here
GOMS: here
Do you think that the two things (evaluation and theoretical frameworks) are somewhat overlapping?
http://dl4a.org/uploads/pdf/kuuti1.pdf
http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=225374
I have attached the paper. I agree that each usability evaluation technique is indeed 'inspired' by one or more principles (or theoretical concepts). For example the usability techniques I have used in my framework aim to evaluate a vision based interface using primarily Nielsen's key principles.
Thanks for the links, I will have a look and then discuss.
Take a look at the Cognitive Work Analysis (CWA) framework. It is used to describe complex sociotechnical systems by analysing five layers: work domain, control task (or activity), strategies, social organisation and co-operation, and finally worker competencies. There is a large body of literature on the subject.
Rasmussen, J., Pejtersen, A., & Goodstein, L. P. (1994). Cognitive systems engineering. New York: Wiley.
Vicente, K.J. (1999). Cognitive Work Analysis: Towards safe, productive, and healthy computer-based work. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.
Also, you can have a look at the human-tech ladder from Vicente. It conssits of five levels: physical, psychological, team, organizational, and political elements.
Vicente, K. J. (2003). The Human Factor: Revolutionizing the Way People Live with Technology. Toronto: Knopf Canada.
http://www.cognitivesystemsdesign.net/Tutorials/CWA%20Tutorial.pdf
http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.142.1257&rep=rep1&type=pdf
http://phdadventure.webs.com/humanfactors.htm
I have a master student working on similar things with AR that I pointed to Distributed Cognition and DiCoT today:
http://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/5117/1/5117.pdf
But Vicente's ecological interfaces would probably work well too.
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