The IoT-enabled Interactive Design Investigation in User-Centered Design
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Background of study: IoT enabled systems such as mobile phones, smart homes, and medical applications play a significant role in improving convenience and usability in everyday life. The combination of IoT networks with graphical user interface designs, including websites and online applications, continues to grow rapidly. Despite this progress, interactive usability challenges remain, especially in aligning IoT technologies with human centered interaction principles.
Aims and scope of paper: This study explores the usability of interactive design and identifies new attributes that contribute to improving user experience in IoT enabled systems. It aims to classify logical and physical attributes that influence usability and to propose new interactive dimensions for IoT based design.
Methods: The study uses a descriptive and analytical approach based on a review of relevant literature and conceptual analysis. Logical and physical usability attributes were examined to understand their roles in interactive design and user experience across IoT environments.
Result: The results reveal that two major factors, logical and physical attributes, are fundamental to interactive design. These attributes can guide new rules for IoT based usability, expanding human computer interaction beyond traditional interfaces such as keyboard, mouse, and screen, and including motion, gaze, and posture as part of new interaction mechanisms.
Conclusion: This study focuses on interface usability to help developers create more attractive and user friendly designs. The findings open new research areas in interactive IoT systems and contribute to the development of adaptive, efficient, and human oriented interface design principles for future IoT applications.
Keywords: Human-Computer Interaction (HCI), Inspection Methods, Internet of Things (IoT), Usability Engineering, User-Centered-Design
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