@inproceedings{c98fde4ba919418f939539daad7511dc,
title = "Does (multi-)touch aid users' spatial memory and navigation in 'panning' and in 'zooming & panning' UIs?",
abstract = "Recent findings from Embodied Cognition reveal strong effects of arm and hand movement on spatial memory. This suggests that input devices may have a far greater influence on users' cognition and users' ability to master a system than we typically believe - especially for spatial panning or zooming & panning user interfaces. We conducted two experiments to observe whether multi-touch instead of mouse input improves users' spatial memory and navigation performance for such UIs. We observed increased performances for panning UIs but not for zooming & panning UIs. We present our results, provide initial explanations and discuss opportunities and pitfalls for interaction designers.",
keywords = "embodied cognition, multi-touch, navigation, panning, spatial memory, touch, user study, zooming, ZUI",
author = "Hans-Christian Jetter and Svenja Leifert and Jens Gerken and S{\"o}ren Schubert and Harald Reiterer",
year = "2012",
doi = "10.1145/2254556.2254575",
language = "English",
isbn = "9781450312875",
series = "Proceedings of the Workshop on Advanced Visual Interfaces AVI",
publisher = "ACM Press",
pages = "83--90",
booktitle = "Proceedings of the Working Conference on Advanced Visual Interfaces, AVI 2012",
note = "International Working Conference on Advanced Visual Interfaces ; Conference date: 22-05-2012 Through 26-05-2012",
}