TY - GEN
T1 - Bigger is not always better
T2 - 32nd Annual ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, CHI 2014
AU - Rädle, Roman
AU - Jetter, Hans-Christian
AU - Müller, Jens
AU - Reiterer, Harald
N1 - Copyright:
Copyright 2014 Elsevier B.V., All rights reserved.
PY - 2014
Y1 - 2014
N2 - Dynamic peephole navigation is an increasingly popular technique for navigating large information spaces such as maps. Users can view the map through handheld, spatially aware displays that serve as peepholes and navigate the map by moving these displays in physical space. We conducted a controlled experiment of peephole map navigation with 16 participants to better understand the effect of a peephole's size on users' map navigation behavior, navigation performance, and task load. Simulating different peephole sizes from 4″ (smartphone) up to 120″ (control condition), we confirmed that larger peepholes significantly improve learning speed, navigation speed, and reduce task load; however, this added benefit diminishes with growing sizes. Our data shows that a relatively small, tablet-sized peephole can serve as a "sweet spot" between peephole size and both user navigation performance and user task load.
AB - Dynamic peephole navigation is an increasingly popular technique for navigating large information spaces such as maps. Users can view the map through handheld, spatially aware displays that serve as peepholes and navigate the map by moving these displays in physical space. We conducted a controlled experiment of peephole map navigation with 16 participants to better understand the effect of a peephole's size on users' map navigation behavior, navigation performance, and task load. Simulating different peephole sizes from 4″ (smartphone) up to 120″ (control condition), we confirmed that larger peepholes significantly improve learning speed, navigation speed, and reduce task load; however, this added benefit diminishes with growing sizes. Our data shows that a relatively small, tablet-sized peephole can serve as a "sweet spot" between peephole size and both user navigation performance and user task load.
KW - Display size
KW - Experimentation
KW - Map navigation
KW - Navigation performance
KW - Peephole navigation
KW - User study
UR - https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/84900450859
U2 - 10.1145/2556288.2557071
DO - 10.1145/2556288.2557071
M3 - Conference contribution
SN - 9781450324731
T3 - Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings
SP - 4127
EP - 4136
BT - CHI 2014
PB - Association for Computing Machinery
Y2 - 26 April 2014 through 1 May 2014
ER -