Performance and Usability Evaluation Scheme for Mobile Manipulator Teleoperation

Design and Performance Tests of a Mobile Mechanical Manipulator

Mobile mechanical manipulators are one of the automation aspects which were revealed in last years of twentieth century. These machines assume the responsibility of human and gradually expand the domain of their activities in industry. This paper is a presentation of the Sweeper Robot designed in the Robotic Laboratory of Iran University of Science and Technology. The original design of this ro...

Virtual teleoperation and reactive motion of a wheeled mobile manipulator

Usability Evaluation for Software Keyboard on High-Performance Mobile Devices

Most of high-performance mobile devices called smartphone or slate computer which recently emerged uses general-purpose mobile operating system (Mobile OS) such as Android, iOS, Symbian OS, etc. These devices have two characteristics compared with previous mobile devices: 1) many of the devices have touchscreen as main user interface, hence users operate graphical user interfaces (GUIs) display...

IBA Performance and Usability for Mobile Phones

Mobile phones are becoming increasingly sophisticated, enabling consumers to access more services and generate more data. However, the current PIN and password protection capabilities available on mobile phones are often misused resulting insufficient protection of the information stored within mobile phones. Image-based authentication (IBA) leverages the human ability to recognize graphics bet...

Usability Evaluation Methods for Mobile Applications

abstract Evaluating mobile applications and devices is particularly challenging given the variability of users, uses, and environments involved. This chapter introduces usability evaluation methods (UEMs) for mobile applications. Over the past decades various usability evaluation methods have been developed and implemented to improve and assure easy-to-use user interfaces and systems. Since mos...