It is an especially frustrating predicament, not to mention ironic, as elevator button design is extensively regulated by the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA). Those standards specify minimum ...

During the COVID-19 pandemic, it’s not fun to be anywhere with strangers. But by far the worst situation is the elevator. You’re trapped in a small box, and you have to touch shared buttons to ...

We dig into HCI through an unusual lens: the crappy elevator buttons that are driving our office-mates insane. They’re really... pushing our buttons. Skip to main content. The homepage ...

Let's be honest, shall we? You have pushed the 'close door' button in the elevator, whether someone was coming or not, because you just want to keep moving. Hey, I've done it and I'm not ashamed ...

Pedestrian crossings, elevator “close door” buttons and office thermostats often don’t do anything – by design. Here’s why that’s not necessarily a bad thing.

(NEXSTAR) – Perhaps no button on Earth is mashed as furiously as the “door close” button in an elevator. The button, usually denoted by a set of arrows pointing inward, is a favorite of ...

Most of the time, we press buttons to make something happen. The open door button in elevators is an exception — we press it to prevent something from happening and, in doing so, help our fellow ...

Martin Lindstrom looks into the psychology behind elevators, and why we can't resist pushing the button repeatedly, even though we know it's not going to go any faster.