User Experience Design Ontology: Environmental Characteristics

This part of the User Experience Design Ontology defines environmental characteristics that can influence the quality of man-machine interaction.

Author(s): Coomans, Marc
Publisher: Agfa Healthcare

Introduction

The URI of this ontology is: http://www.agfa.com/w3c/2009/uxd-1-0-environment/. In the remainder of this document, we will assume that you import this vocabulary in your own document by associating the prefex "ux-e" with the above URI: xmlns:ux-e="http://www.agfa.com/w3c/2009/uxd-1-0-environment#". The concepts of this vocabulary can then be referenced with CURIEs (compact URIs) of the form ux-e:{resource name}.

Base classes:

• Environmental Characteristic (ux-e:EnvironmentalCharacteristic):
  The RDF supper class for all environmental characteristics that are defined in this ontology.

Characteristics of the physical environment

Lighting

Lighting (ux-e:Lighting)

Lighting values:

• 1Daylight (ux-e:Daylight)
• 2Twilight (ux-e:Twilight)
• 3Dark (ux-e:Dark)

Noise

Noise (ux-e:Noise):
The level of noise in the environment in which the IT product is being used.

Noise values:

• 1Silent (ux-e:Silent)
• 2Some noise (ux-e:SomeNoise):
  Represents the level of noise heard in a room where one or more people are present that are involved in activities that most people would still agree to be "fairly silent"; i.e. office environment.
• 3Noisy (ux-e:Noisy)