Final Design

This is the final proposed solution with improvements based on our usability testing findings.

Usability Testing

We conducted in-person, moderated usability tests in order to see how well the current gyromouse functioned.

Competitive Analysis

We needed to understand the mechanics of controllers better by doing a competitive analysis of adjacent products.

Affinity Diagram

My team and I organized our usability test observations into an affinity diagram to distill our findings before making design recommendations.

Usability Findings

Here are the common pain points we found based on user types which led to our main design recommendations.

Who - Qualcomm Institute

When - April to June 2013

How - Illustrator, PowerPoint

With - Team of 6 UX Designers

As - UX Researcher

The Set Up

The innovative research facility at Qualcomm Institute hosted a technology known as CAVE ("Cave Automated Virtual Environment"), which has now become the world's highest resolution walk-in VR environment. It's used to take an immersive dive into virtually anything, from the underwater Yucatan cave system to the abdomen of a Crohn's disease patient. Although its possibilities are immense, its gyromouse controller was flawed.

What We Did

My team and I conducted in-person usability tests and proposed an improved design of the gyromouse in order to ensure easy access to this great technology. These improvements included nesting the scroll wheel to avoid mistakenly bumping it, removing superfluous buttons then lighting up the enabled controls per program, and adding grooves for stability, comfort, and affordance for the correct hand position.

CAVE Gyromouse Redesign

The Set Up

What We Did