Usability of overview-supported zooming on small screens with regard to individual differences in spatial ability

Büring, Thorsten; Gerken, Jens; Reiterer, Harald

Usability of overview-supported zooming on small screens with regard to individual differences in spatial ability

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Datum

2006

Autor:innen

Büring, Thorsten

Gerken, Jens

Reiterer, Harald

Open Access-Veröffentlichung

Open Access Green

Sammlungen

Informatik und Informationswissenschaft

Publikationstyp

Beitrag zu einem Konferenzband

Publikationsstatus

Published

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Proceedings of the working conference on advanced visual interfaces. New York, NY: ACM, 2006, pp. 233-240. ISBN 1-59593-353-0. Available under: doi: 10.1145/1133265.1133310

Zusammenfassung

While zoomable user interfaces can improve the usability of applications by easing data access, a drawback is that some users tend to become lost after they have zoomed in. Previous studies indicate that this effect could be related to individual differences in spatial ability. To overcome such orientation problems, many desktop applications feature an additional overview window showing a miniature of the entire information space. Small devices, however, have a very limited screen real estate and incorporating an overview window often means pruning the size of the detail view considerably. Given this context, we report the results of a user study in which 24 participants solved search tasks by using two zoomable scatterplot applications on a PDA - one of the applications featured an overview, the other relied solely on the detail view. In contrast to similar studies for desktop applications, there was no significant difference in user preference between the interfaces. On the other hand, participants solved search tasks faster without the overview. This indicates that, on small screens, a larger detail view can outweigh the benefits gained from an overview window. Individual differences in spatial ability did not have a significant effect on task-completion times although results suggest that participants with higher spatial ability were slowed down by the overview more than low spatial-ability users.

Fachgebiet (DDC)

004 Informatik

Schlagwörter

small screen, zoom, spatial ability, scatterplot, overview plus detail

Konferenz

AVI 2006, 23. Mai 2006 - 26. Mai 2006, Venezia, Italy

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BÜRING, Thorsten, Jens GERKEN, Harald REITERER, 2006. Usability of overview-supported zooming on small screens with regard to individual differences in spatial ability. AVI 2006. Venezia, Italy, 23. Mai 2006 - 26. Mai 2006. In: Proceedings of the working conference on advanced visual interfaces. New York, NY: ACM, 2006, pp. 233-240. ISBN 1-59593-353-0. Available under: doi: 10.1145/1133265.1133310

BibTex

@inproceedings{Buring2006Usabi-6261,
  year={2006},
  doi={10.1145/1133265.1133310},
  title={Usability of overview-supported zooming on small screens with regard to individual differences in spatial ability},
  isbn={1-59593-353-0},
  publisher={ACM},
  address={New York, NY},
  booktitle={Proceedings of the working conference on advanced visual interfaces},
  pages={233--240},
  author={Büring, Thorsten and Gerken, Jens and Reiterer, Harald}
}

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