by Humanities
Please join the Rhetoric, Theory, and Culture (RTC) graduate program on Friday (Jan. 12) at noon in the Petersen Library (Walker 318) for a Brown Bag event presented by Timothy Kiernan (HU) and Vyas Shenoy.
The presentation is titled “Redesigning an Automotive Feature from Gasoline to Electric: A Use Experience Case Study.”
Keirnan is a former interaction engineer at Ford Motor Company and a current assistant teaching professor at Michigan Tech.
Shenoy is a core feature owner with Ford Product Development.
From the abstract:
Join us for a case study of engineering and user experience design from the automotive industry. Tim and Vyas will describe how they designed the human-machine interface (HMI) for Ford’s award-winning Pro Power Onboard feature that provides home-sized levels of power in electrical outlets on Ford trucks and vans.
This case study will reveal:
• When to break with user interface consistency in a product and why,
• User research we conducted to guide our early design concept,
• Paper prototypes we created to support our usability testing of the concept with vehicle owners, and
• How we navigated internal debate over changes that we designed to make the electric F150’s Pro Power Onboard even better.