Improving Web interaction on small displays

被引:97
作者
Jones, M [1 ]
Marsden, G [1 ]
Mohd-Nasir, N [1 ]
Boone, K [1 ]
Buchanan, G [1 ]
机构
[1] Middlesex Univ, Sch Comp Sci, London N17 8HR, England
来源
COMPUTER NETWORKS-THE INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF COMPUTER AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS NETWORKING | 1999年 / 31卷 / 11-16期
基金
英国工程与自然科学研究理事会;
关键词
handheld computers; mobile computers; small screen display; Web interaction; user interface;
D O I
10.1016/S1389-1286(99)00013-4
中图分类号
TP3 [计算技术、计算机技术];
学科分类号
0812 ;
摘要
Soon many people will retrieve information from the Web using handheld, palmsized or even smaller computers. Although these computers have dramatically increased in sophistication, their display size is - and will remain - much smaller than their conventional, desktop counterparts. Currently, browsers for these devices present Web pages without taking account of the very different display capabilities. As part of a collaborative project with Reuters, we carried out a study into the usability impact of small displays for retrieval tasks. Users of the small screen were 50% less effective in completing tasks than the large screen subjects. Small screen users used a very substantial number of scroll activities in attempting to complete the tasks. Our study also provided us with interesting insights into the shifts in approach users seem to make when using a small screen device for retrieval. These results suggest that the metaphors useful in a full screen desktop environment are not the most appropriate for the new devices. Design guidelines are discussed, here, proposing directed access methods for effective small screen interaction. In our ongoing work, we are developing such 'meta-interfaces' which will sit between the small screen user and the 'conventional' Web page. (C) 1999 Published by Elsevier Science B.V. All rights reserved.
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页码:1129 / 1137
页数:9
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