From designing Mobile Phones

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• From designing Mobile Phones
• to control rooms at Power Plants
• Focus on Methods and Experience
• Senja Edvardsson
• Consultant in Human Factors
• SwedPower AB

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Personal presentation

• My background NEC 616
• SwedPower
• Hi3G Access
• Symbian AB/Ericsson Mobile,
• Mobile Products on the market
• Motorola A835 Hi3G Motorola A920 Ericsson
  A910 Psion/Symbian

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Human Factors at SwedPower Asset Management

Produktion
Elnät
Management
Kärnkraft
Värmekraft
Stam- och regionnät
Miljö
Vattenkraft
Förnyelsebar energi
Distributionsnät
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Design situations

• Consumer design of mobile products
• Platforms
• Production/branding
• Short life cycle
• Technical limitations
• 3e party software
• Process industry and design of technology
• Replacing old technology
• Security Risk analysis
• Analysis of accidents
• Strong culture
• Strong standards, laws and regulations
• Functional

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System development cycle

• Analysis
• Design
• Implementation
• Test

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Methods in use at SonyEricsson, Symbian, Hi3G,
NEC, SwedPower

• Heuristic evaluation
• Lab tests
• Focus groups
• Workshops
• Button up approach or button down approach
• Mockups and Prototypes
• (The need for models for communication)
• Simulator/emulator
• Interviews and observation of work
• TestVerification and Validation

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Mockup address book Quartz platform at Symbian
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Questions