Abstract
The display industry has grown so fast from black-and-white TV to color TV, from CRT monitor to Liquid Crystal Display, and from analog television to digital television, getting thinner and thinner. The display technology has made great progress, and its factories and stores further provide the interactive TV with Internet service.There is no standard for website layout and design of remote control device to date, and thus this study aims at proposing evaluation and suggestion to website layout as well as designing a proper and satisfactory remote control device for Web TV through human factors methodology, thereby to meet the demand of television history.In this study, the experiments were consisted of two parts: Experiment I and II. Experiment I paid much attention on website layout design for Web TV, investigating the proper sizes of characters and cursor as well as finding out possible gesture control motions. On the other hand, Experiment II focused on the design of remote control device, looking for the operating function for Web TV by means of motion analysis, usability evaluation and competitive advantage analysis for five different devices. After integrating analysis of all experimental data, we proposed a default value of the size of characters and cursor for the website layout design; besides, we provide suggestions for the design of remote control device and also design a new concept remote control device.