A Good Grasp of Knobs: 2022 Ig Informal Lecture
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- čas přidán 17. 12. 2022
- The Ig Nobel Prizes honor achievements that make people LAUGH, then THINK.
In the Ig Informal Lectures, some days after the ceremony, the new Ig Nobel Prize winners attempt to explain what they did, and why they did it.
The 2022 Ig Nobel Prize for Engineering was awarded to Gen Matsuzaki, Kazuo Ohuchi, Masaru Uehara, Yoshiyuki Ueno, and Goro Imura, for trying to discover the most efficient way for people to use their fingers when turning a knob.
REFERENCE: “How to Use Fingers during Rotary Control of Columnar Knobs,” Gen Matsuzaki, Kazuo Ohuchi, Masaru Uehara, Yoshiyuki Ueno, and Goro Imura, Bulletin of Japanese Society for the Science of Design, vol. 45, no. 5, 1999, pp. 69-76.
[LINK: doi.org/10.11247/jssdj.45.69]
REFERENCE: “Experimental Studies on the Rotary Control of Columnar Knobs - The Number of Fingers used at the Time of starting Rotary Control,” Gen Matsuzaki, Goro Imura, and Maseru Uehara, Proceedings of the Third Asia Design Conference, 1998, pp. 37-40.
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Highly useful for synthesizer design purposes. Thank you for sharing.
Thank you for this insightful research. I have designed control surfaces for a few tools and equipment panels we use at work, and have tried to take ergonomics into account when it comes to knob size with the task at hand. I didnt realize that the orientation of the knob would make such a significant difference, especially with finger spacing. Now for a question: Have you taken the use of gloves into consideration with knob size and finger count? I had to account for the operator wearing two distinct types of gloves, so one of the knobs I designed was oblong shaped to assist with the proper "feel".
Good work. Thank you for sharing it.
There are many large knobs that i operate with one finger. For that, the knobs need to rotate smoothly and not bind. I think one finger operation is an overlooked topic.
Unfortunately, Ham radio operators would buck this pattern. We use knobs with dimples for one finger operation :)
rotary phone uses 1 touchpoint as well
hopefully applied to improve all the sex toys.