In-Situ Ergonomics: A Proposal of Product Operation Information Gathering Method for Ubiquitous Computing Environment

In a ubiquitous computing environment, the operation information on a product is collectable to a homeserver.Operation information in this paper means that the button on an operation panel are pushed and the door of a refrigerator are opened.This data is very extensive and is a motion level.Authors consider analysing this information by datamining method.That is, it is extracting the information about usability out of operation information by datamining.The authors propose this called In-Situ Ergonomics: gathering data from products in the actual situation, analysing data with datamining method and extract information for ergonomics research.In order to realize In-Situ Ergonomics, the following serves as a subject.- The collection method of the user operation information from each product- The accumulation method of a lot of data- The semantic analysis of operation information- datamining method- The cooperation method with the existing usability analysis method