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Post by onecreativenerd » Wed, Mar 07, 2012, 5:32 PM UTC

camtarn wrote: post #8

rokhayakebe wrote: post #3

Elevators should have touchscreen panels allowing an easy change of interface.

Physical buttons with braille are probably a bit easier for blind users. You could have the elevator read out the label of each button on the screen as it was dragged over, or use voice recognition. However, since a decent number of lifts have braille labels, a blind user would expect to be able to run a hand over the buttons, guess roughly where there button should be, and read the braille label - and once they'd fo…

Post by joshwprinceton » Wed, Mar 07, 2012, 5:38 PM UTC

slewis wrote: post #10

joshwprinceton wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

haha of course, thanks for the active commenting on the last thread! i think that's a good example, but it seems pretty clear that your hypothesis was correct :D

Well its an obvious insight. But the actual increase in time spent on page is what would be interesting.

Post by [deleted] » Wed, Mar 07, 2012, 5:40 PM UTC

camtarn wrote: post #9

Wonder how this changes when you take basement levels, strange starting floors, or different popular floors into account? My current building has three basement floors, which are below the ground floor on the button panel, my Uni building's ground floor was actually floor 2 (it was built on a hill!), and the local shopping center has the bottom floors dedicated to parking, so the usual pattern is reversed: 50% of the…

Post by [deleted] » Wed, Mar 07, 2012, 5:40 PM UTC

camtarn wrote: post #9

Wonder how this changes when you take basement levels, strange starting floors, or different popular floors into account? My current building has three basement floors, which are below the ground floor on the button panel, my Uni building's ground floor was actually floor 2 (it was built on a hill!), and the local shopping center has the bottom floors dedicated to parking, so the usual pattern is reversed: 50% of the…

Post by joshwprinceton » Wed, Mar 07, 2012, 5:43 PM UTC

huhtenberg wrote: post #12

If you start counting microsecond savings, shouldn't you also account for the fact that people looking for a Lobby button in a real elevator (and not on a website) would actually be looking at the bottom of the panel, because that's where a Lobby button typically is. If the button is not there, then a person will have a WTF moment, followed by a mental stumble, followed by a guess that the Lobby is actually on the 2n…