• Archives of design research
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• v.11 no.1
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• pp.109-118
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• 1998

Recently, the importance of user-interface design has been increasing due to the development of electronic and semiconductor technology. Under these surroundings a lot of Approaches that are for the analysis of video sequential data have been developed. The study on the method of analysing various aspects in the use of real product should find the characteristics of users' behavior. Also, the study should include the interaction dffects among these aspects. For these reasons this study proposed an analysis method for the video sequential data of usability test. The study begins with discussing the nature of user-interface through reviewing the various aspects of user-interface. Based on the findings the structure of methods that analyze the characterisics of user's behavior is identified. Thereafter, we developed a computerized tool for analysing video sequential data from usability tests. The tool comprises of four different modules: module for identifying users' profiles, module for video data logging, module for analysing user's characteristics, and module for synthesizing these data for user-interface design. Finally findings are summarized and further research was suggested.