Usabilidade de dispositivos no desenho para design: o mouse e a mesa digitalizadora

Abstract

This research proposes an evaluation of devices such as the mouse and the digitizer tablet with and without integrated screen monitor used in the creation process of digital drawings. The environment of study selected was the Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte Department of Distance Education (UFRN-SEDIS), located in the campus of Natal. The data collected was based on semi-structured interviews, questionnaires and tasks like drawing organic and geometric lines, in the analogic and digital mediums. In the usability tests it was proposed the same tasks for specific tools selected for data collecting such as the mighty mouse, bamboo fun pen and touch as digitizer tablet, and the digitizer tablet with screen monitor, the cintiq 12WX. In order to ease the evaluation, the postural and visual comparisons of the results of the applied tests, they were recorded in video. It is expected that the results of this study can contribute to positive increases in areas that use digital graphic work in UFRN, developing specific data to designers and to other common users about the usability of these kind of equipment.