IFM Electronic CR0451 - Do You Know the Future Users

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ifm System Manual ecomatmobile BasicDisplay (CR0451) V01
Visualisations in the device Recommendations for user interfaces
7.1.2 Do you know the future users?
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The future users of the product should be known:
 Age
 Gender
 Senses:
 Eyesight
 Hearing ability
 Preferred hand (right or left hander)
 Tactile ability
 Training and education:
 General education level
 Specific training seminars and experience
 Motivation and cognitive abilities:
 Perception (sense organs): Not all available information is used but massively filtered,
integrated and changed in many ways before it comes into awareness.
 Thinking: The working memory where intellectual manipulation of information takes place has
a very small capacity.
 Learning: The information stored in the long-term memory is often changed in advance (e.g.
due to expectations) and subsequently (e.g. by subsequent information).
 Remembering: The information which is "actually" present in the long-term memory is often
not retrievable.
 Motivation and concentration: fatigue, weariness, distractibility etc. can affect the cognitive
capability.
 Familiarity with the problem or application area:
 Be able to recognise dangers
 Know what is to happen after an action
 Intensity of the application (how often and how intensely is the product used)
 Culture, e.g.:
 Language
 Meaning of colours and symbols
 Reading direction