ElevatorInterface

Elevator Interface

Real Life Example

Issues with Design

• Alarm button looks like a hanging light button
• Lack of Audio when selection of any floor

Explanation of Issues

• This confusing image makes a user confused on the functionality of that specific button
• Without an audio cue, a user does not know if the button was properly selected. Especially if the user is blind

Common/Rare Use Cases

• Fast way to travel between floors in a building
• Allows for users in a wheelchair to travel up floors in a building
• Moving large loads/furniture up and down a building

Common Sequence of Actions

• Press outside button to call the elevator
• Walk into the elevator
• Select floor option by pressing a button
• Arrive at floor and leave elevator

Feedback to User with Current Design

• The grouping of the buttons and the black background makes it easy to see which label goes with what button
• The brail next to the button allows blind users to read what each button is for
• The screen allows person to understand what floor they are currently at

Common Errors Made with Design

• Get on the elevator traveling the wrong direction due to a lack of display on elevator traveling direction

Redesign

Touch Screen Design

• Screen Size: 12.1 x 20.2
• Link: Touch screen

Demonstration Instructions

• Open the link and sign in to Adobe XD
• Zoom out to see most of the screen
• Click the Touch Panel
• Click the Alarm button to hear alarm (Bottom Left)
• Click the ! for the maintenance and setting outside
  • Takes you to a window to select Settings or maintenance that takes you to a code pad
• Click the back arrow and the back button to return to Panel Screen
• Click on Floor 6 and observe animations
• Click on Floor 3
• Back at main panel screen, click the up facing arrow
• Then click the bottom facing arrow to finish the Demonstration

Supports Disabilities

• My design supports wheelchair access people. The buttons below the screen allow for people who cant reach the screen to be able to still easily navigate the elevator’s control panel

• The button design are large to help users that have trouble reading small text

Extra Info on Display

• The companies name of where the elevator is located
• The current floor of the elevator
• An easy maintenance button and screen that is password protected
• Floor options with room to name floors and ease of use
• Alarm button to sound an alarm

Extra Unique Features (Imagination)

• Voice commands

Not demoed fully

• A voice that says which floor is selected, Could not double up the animations but in live development it would say “Floor X selected”

• Voice Commands: you can demo it on the panel page by holding space in the panel page and saying “Elevator go to floor 2”. Does not work 100% of the time at this time