Developing advanced interface design guidelines from survey based and empirical research

The Guideline project is concerned with the interface and interaction issues of consumer product control and display devices. The main objective of the project is to produce interface design guidelines for emerging or advanced consumer based products for interaction and product designers. The information for the guidelines is being produced using two different approaches; these are empirically based guidelines produced within the project, using software based prototypes of three anticipated advanced interfaces, and information gathered from relevant human computer interaction (HCI) literature. This paper presents an account of the project as a case study and documents some of the findings that have emerged so far.