Usability and Ergonomics
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A Real Plus for Your Customers: Functionality and Ergonomics
Whether shopping for televisions, tools, desk chairs, or dusters, your customers look for one thing, and one thing only: a product that is simple to use. Our experts test the usability of products from all industries. Employing selected volunteers, we test for ergonomics, efficiency, and consumer satisfaction. In our laboratories, we use specific parameters to evaluate the product's ergonomics - and easy of use. Prove the quality of your products with our test mark.
Benefits at a Glance
Ergonomic and Usability testing helps you:
- Communicate your commitment to high quality
- Avoid mistakes and minimize complaints during the warranty period
- Help your clients choose the product that is right for them
- Improve customer satisfaction
- Benefit from a brief testing period and from our years of experience
Five Steps to Improved Ergonomics
When conducting the ergonomic and usability tests, our experts consider the following points in turn:
- Specifying the context in which the product is used
- Tests to national or international ergonomics standards
- Test of documentation
- Testing by representative users (user test)
- Evaluation of test findings and drawing up the final report
Product Examples
- Household appliances
- IT equipment
- Furniture
- Medical devices
- Cleaning products
- Shoes
- Consumer electronics
- Tools
Ergonomics testing
To improve operability and safety with considerations for environment, the following evaluations and measurements are performed according to ergonomics standards:
- Measure the brightness of characters displayed on the screen (and the background) to check sufficiency of contrast ratio.
- Measure the coordinates of displayed colors to check the appropriateness against the values specified in applicable standards.
- Check the contrast ratio and color visibility change according to the light reflected when an additional light is irradiated on the screen
- Measure the static electricity on the screen and the intensity of electric and magnetic fields around the display
- Measure the power consumption
Applicable standards
- Ergonomics requirements of EK1-ITB 2000
- ISO 9241-307 (Evaluation of displays)
- 2 PfG 2546 (Color Accuracy evaluation for displays, our original requirements)
- 2 PfG 2383 (Low blue light content evaluation for displays, our original requirements)
- 2 PfG 1797 (Flicker Free Devices evaluation for displays, our original requirements)
- TCO certification and ecology evaluation：Display, Note PC, Projector, etc
- JEITA ITR-3003, 3004 (Requirements on static electricity, electric and magnetic fields)
- AAPMTG18 (medical image display devices for application of FDA approval)
- DIN V 6868-57 Acceptance testing (for image display devices)
- EN 60704 (Measurement of acoustic noise from home appliances)
- ISO 7779 (Measurement of acoustic noise from IT equipment)
- EN 50332-1/2 (Sound pressure measurement for audio devices)
- Energy Star, ErP related standards
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