Evaluation of Usability in Home Appliances

The products used in domestic atmosphere have been absorbing the technological progresses continually, resulting in!arger complexity in terms of its chamcteristics ami fanctionality. Basing on the ergonomics ’ vision and usability measures on projects of pmdwts a m&xl of usability evaluation was dewloped, which hopes to point the items that are hindering the interface and to understand the di&oIties found by the user. This bases on the hypothesis that the consideration of usability approaches in consumption products favors the relationship coosomer versus fd pmduc ~ And that interface problems in devices ofinfwmatio ~ command and control of consomption prodacts can be reduced by nteans of the application of a study that tries to detect he usability needs and to transform it io suggestions for improvements in the product. 1. Initial considerations Nowadays with the technological evolution reached tit the most several areas of the knowledge, the *‘products used in domestic atmosphere and in the work has being more an