Spatial Cues in Small Screen Devices: Benefit Or Handicap?

Ziefle, Martina

doi:10.1007/978-3-642-03655-2_70

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“…Difficulties to navigate through the device causes users to get disorientated in a menu system, without knowing where there are, where to go next and how to get back to previous navigation routes or known parts in the menu [13]. This especially for menus implemented in small screen sizes and constrained navigational ability.…”

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Designing mobile services For MARDI

Endam

Yahya

Mukhtar

et al. 2011

Proceedings of the 2011 International Conference on Electrical Engineering and Informatics

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Currently, mobile handheld device are being used increasingly for web access. This leads to the issue relating to the ease of use for users, which refers to not user-friendly web design, unorganized content and difficulty of information navigation. Based on literature analysis, design of physical features and functions for mobile devices are unique, as it should emphasize mobility, personality and flexibility features, apart from providing the added values, such as accessibility at anytime and anywhere access. However as most web applications are designed specifically for desktop environments, it is discovered that most web applications design are inappropriate for mobile devices. In other words, web sites design for desktop is unsuitable to be adopted for the mobile devices. Literature had stated that designing mobile web application approach differs from development ordinary web for desktop computer. Adapting the original web content dynamically to deal with the constraints of mobile handheld devices (the screen size and limited system resources and variation of user preferences) becomes very important. Combination of User Centred Design (UCD) and Service Science (SS) approach expected to enhance quality of the mobile web that can meet user satisfaction. As such the purpose of this study is to identify the design of mobile web content that is suitable for users' in which it meet users' values and requirement. The work conducted uses a co-creation approach in which co-creation values are obtained through a series of process. Co-creation value is essential as it is the missing part that is not being incorporated during the design process. As a result a guideline on web mobile design application based on cocreation values is established. The investigations presented in this paper highlight some ways in development of mobile web applications by adopting co-creation value with customer to make it more accessible to mobile devices. A case study conducted at Malaysian Agricultural Research And Development Institute (MARDI) as its web mobile applications is still at its initial. A prototype system based on the proposed guideline is provided as a proof of concept and shows the difference required in web applications for mobile design where values are incorporated.

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confidence: 93%

Designing mobile services For MARDI

Endam

Yahya

Mukhtar

et al. 2011

Proceedings of the 2011 International Conference on Electrical Engineering and Informatics

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“…Forthesmartphone,thelimiteddisplaysizecouldincreaseusers'memoryload (Chae&Kim, 2004).Therearetwowaystodealwithlimiteddisplay.Thefirstwayistostaywiththetreestructure andimproveitsdesign.Previousstudieshaveeitherprovidednavigationtoolsorbalancedmenu depthandbreadth (Zhou,Rau&Salvendy,2012;Ziefle,2008Ziefle, ,2009.Menubreadthmightconflict withfontsize.Displayingfivemenuitemsperpageonfeaturephoneswasbetterthandisplaying onemenuitemperpage,and12pt.fontsizewasbetterthan8pt. (Ziefle,2010).Anavigationtool, whichaddedsurveyknowledgetothetreestructureoffeaturephones,helpedusersachievebetter interactionperformance (Ziefle&Bay,2006).Thesecondwayistoabandonthetreestructure.A piemenuwithroundpatternwasdesignedandcomparedtothelinearmenu.Resultsshowedthatthe piemenureducedtargetsearchingtimeanderrorrates (Callahan,Hopkins,Weiser&Shneiderman, 1988).Also,theroundrotatingmenuwasimplementedonapersonaldigitalassistant(PDA)prototype andgainedpositivefeedbackfromolderadults (Zao,2008).…”

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The Influence of Menu Structure and Layout on Usability of Smartwatches

Zhou

2018

International Journal of Mobile Human Computer Interaction

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This study aims to investigate the effect of smartwatches' menu structure and layout on user performance and satisfaction. A total of 30 younger and older adults participated in this study. Usability testing was first conducted, and it identified the two most serious usability problems of smartwatches: confusing information structure and interface content. Furthermore, results showed that menu disorientation was predominant. Therefore, prototypes with a different menu structure and menu layout were developed and tested in two subsequent experiments. The menu structure experiment indicated that the tree structure of the menu is better than the linear structure in terms of performance and satisfaction, and the two-branch hierarchical menu contributed to better performance than the three-branch hierarchical menu. The menu layout experiment indicated that menus with high visual density had a slightly better performance but lower satisfaction than low visual density. In the end, design guidelines about smartwatch menus were proposed.

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Design for Aging

Zhou

Gao

2021

Handbook of Human Factors and Ergonomics

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Spatial Cues in Small Screen Devices: Benefit Or Handicap?

Cited by 4 publications

References 29 publications

Designing mobile services For MARDI

Designing mobile services For MARDI

The Influence of Menu Structure and Layout on Usability of Smartwatches

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