TY - GEN
T1 - The cost of display switching
T2 - a comparison of mobile, large display and hybrid UI configurations
AU - Rashid, Umar
AU - Nacenta, Miguel A.
AU - Quigley, Aaron
PY - 2012/5/21
Y1 - 2012/5/21
N2 - Attaching a large external display can help a mobile device user view more content at once. This paper reports on a study investigating how different configurations of input and output across displays affect performance, subjective workload and preferences in map, text and photo search tasks. Experimental results show that a hybrid configuration where visual output is distributed across displays is worst or equivalent to worst in all tasks. A mobile device-controlled large display configuration performs best in the map search task and equal to best in text and photo search tasks (tied with a mobile-only configuration). After conducting a detailed analysis of the performance differences across different UI configurations, we give recommendations for the design of distributed user interfaces.
AB - Attaching a large external display can help a mobile device user view more content at once. This paper reports on a study investigating how different configurations of input and output across displays affect performance, subjective workload and preferences in map, text and photo search tasks. Experimental results show that a hybrid configuration where visual output is distributed across displays is worst or equivalent to worst in all tasks. A mobile device-controlled large display configuration performs best in the map search task and equal to best in text and photo search tasks (tied with a mobile-only configuration). After conducting a detailed analysis of the performance differences across different UI configurations, we give recommendations for the design of distributed user interfaces.
UR - http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/2254556.2254577
U2 - 10.1145/2254556.2254577
DO - 10.1145/2254556.2254577
M3 - Conference contribution
SN - 9781450312875
T3 - AVI '12
SP - 99
EP - 106
BT - Proceedings of the International Working Conference on Advanced Visual Interfaces
PB - ACM
CY - New York, NY, USA
ER -