Conceptual model = how the operation of the control affects the vehicle; is an explanation, usually highly simplified, of how something works.
It doesn't have to be complete or even accurate as long as it is useful.
Ex. "The files, folders, and icons you see displayed on a computer screen help people create the conceptual model of documents and folders inside the computer, or of apps or applications residing on the screen, waiting to be summoned."
Ex. "Thus, if we speed up the left wheel of a wheelchair while stopping the right wheel, it is easy to imagine the chair's pivoting on the right wheel, circling to the right."
"It doesn' t matter whether these conceptual models are accurate: what matters is that they provide a clear way of remembering and understanding the mappings"
Norman, Donald A. "Chapter 1: The Psychopathology of Everyday Things."The Design of Everyday Things. New York: Doubleday, 1990. 1-36. Print.
It doesn't have to be complete or even accurate as long as it is useful.
Ex. "The files, folders, and icons you see displayed on a computer screen help people create the conceptual model of documents and folders inside the computer, or of apps or applications residing on the screen, waiting to be summoned."
Ex. "Thus, if we speed up the left wheel of a wheelchair while stopping the right wheel, it is easy to imagine the chair's pivoting on the right wheel, circling to the right."
"It doesn' t matter whether these conceptual models are accurate: what matters is that they provide a clear way of remembering and understanding the mappings"
Norman, Donald A. "Chapter 1: The Psychopathology of Everyday Things."The Design of Everyday Things. New York: Doubleday, 1990. 1-36. Print.
-Angelo Lambroschino