Effects of Display Size and Navigation Type on a Classification Task

Can Liu; Olivier Chapuis; Michel Beaudouin-Lafon; Éric Lecolinet; Wendy E. Mackay

doi:10.1145/2556288.2557020

Effects of Display Size and Navigation Type on a Classification Task

Can Liu ^{1, 2, 3} Olivier Chapuis ^{1, 2} Michel Beaudouin-Lafon ^{1, 2} Éric Lecolinet ³ Wendy E. Mackay ^{1, 4}

LRI - Laboratoire de Recherche en Informatique, UP11 - Université Paris-Sud - Paris 11, Inria Saclay - Ile de France, CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique : UMR8623

2 LRI - Laboratoire de Recherche en Informatique

3 LTCI - Laboratoire Traitement et Communication de l'Information

4 InSitu

LRI - Laboratoire de Recherche en Informatique

Abstract : The advent of ultra-high resolution wall-size displays and their use for complex tasks require a more systematic analysis and deeper understanding of their advantages and drawbacks compared with desktop monitors. While previous work has mostly addressed search, visualization and sense-making tasks, we have designed an abstract classification task that involves explicit data manipulation. Based on our observations of real uses of a wall display, this task represents a large category of applications. We report on a controlled experiment that uses this task to compare physical navigation in front of a wall-size display with virtual navigation using pan-and-zoom on the desktop. Our main finding is a robust interaction effect between display type and task difficulty: while the desktop can be faster than the wall for simple tasks, the wall gains a sizable advantage as the task becomes more difficult. A follow-up study shows that other desktop techniques (overview+detail, lens) do not perform better than pan-and-zoom and are therefore slower than the wall for difficult tasks.

Keywords : Classification task Wall-size display Physical navigation Pan-and-zoom Lenses Overview+detail

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Computer Science [cs] / Human-Computer Interaction [cs.HC]

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