designed
HMI for
hand-operated
devices
Assessing and optimizing the ergonomics and usability of hand-operated tools.
Go to Test Bench
Making technical ergonomics tangible through pressure mapping.
Go to Test Bench
Analyze device applications to record physical loads on the user and his movements.
Go to Test Bench
The foundation of effective, human-centered development is a shared understanding of the strategic direction of the development activities.
It is important to clarify relevant conditions and define coordinated roles and interfaces between all stakeholders in the entire project team.
This activity may include:
You want to entrust your usability project to competent hands and support project management?
We take care of the necessary framework conditions.
The primary goal is to gain extensive knowledge and understanding of the product context of use.
Initially, the focus is on capturing handling situations, body postures, movements, and identifying user needs in the analysis.
Using a task-based approach (task analysis) and appropriate testing and measurement tools, these insights range from captured work postures to movement sequences (e.g., forces endured & joint angles) to cognitive processes (e.g., intuitiveness & cognitive usability).
This, combined with ergonomic criteria such as demographic and ethnographic classification of users (e.g., anthropometry & human performance), enables the definition of HMI quality.
This activity may include:
Are you looking for a solid foundation to improve your product by correctly and early involving users and their needs?
We provide you with the right access to the user world.
Condensing the information obtained from human-centered development activities is essential
for deriving specifiable design requirements (known as User Interface Specifications) accurately.
These specifications represent the result of identified optimization potentials of examined human-machine interfaces.
Comfort optimizations of pressure distribution or improvements in controllability can be achieved through load-strain assessments.
Whether it's control elements or handles, every user interface can be ideally adapted to the user and the application through targeted design parameter adjustments.
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Do you need to identify the specific HMI optimization potentials of your product for planning future development activities?
Whether it's an ergonomic quick win or a visionary product innovation, we will show you the way.
Whether you are a User Researcher, UX-Professional, or Usability Engineer, every role in the human-centered product development team
can generate the decisive solution idea.
Therefore, especially in creative development phases, we rely on the interdisciplinarity of our entire team - and with proven success.
Because sustainable development of great and innovative products is only possible through team creativity, which optimally leverages the strengths of each discipline.
In ideation phases, we provide creativity spaces for our development teams through workshops, methods, and guidance to tap into these strengths - gladly with you as well.
Whether it's a clever micro-innovation of a HMI-component or an innovative user interaction concept, we always measure the applicability of the solution from the user's perspective.
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Are you seeking a creative partner who doesn't just design HMI ideas to be tucked away in a presentation drawer?
Together, we develop HMI concepts that we proudly stand behind in front of users and customers at all times.
In compact pretotyping and prototyping sprints, we efficiently and effectively generate a tangible basis for decision-making for previous concept ideas.
Our special claim is to quickly and conscientiously create the appropriate HMI fidelity in order to provide the entire project team with a reliable basis for decision-making regarding the existing design options.
For both physical and digital HMI concepts, our expertise combined with the latest prototyping tools adds true value in this crucial phase of human-centered product development - all of this available in-house at USE-Ing.
This activity may include prototyping tools like:
Do you require expertise and guidance in making potential product innovations tangible?
We are your partner for the effective prototypical implementation of HMI concepts.
Our experts at USE-Ing. act as an objective partner for evaluating the ergonomic interface quality of your products or product concepts in our Usability and Ergonomics Testing Laboratory.
Similar to analytical phases, methods for objectively capturing Human Factors parameters are used.
Our verification activities primarily focus on aligning the HMI properties with the defined User Interface requirements, ergonomic acceptance criteria, as well as ergonomic and normative guidelines and recommendations.
If it is necessary for product development to obtain valuable real-world feedback on usability through user evaluations, we are happy to conduct usability tests in one of our labs or on-site.
The goal is to ensure transparency about the current quality of the product's HMI for the entire project team.
For this reason, USE-Ing. also acts for the certification of product ergonomics.
This activity may include:
Do you need a reliable assessment of your product's ergonomics or usability, or for strategic marketing claims?
We evaluate and certify the ergonomics and usability of your product.
