The effects of positional constancy on searching menus for information

Teitelbaum, Richard C.; Granda, Richard E.

doi:10.1145/800045.801600

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“…For example, "on" is congruent to "off" but not to "Stop." In addition, TAL fails to capture the consistency of location: Obviously, items that are not always in the same location on the display reduce the effectiveness of locational knowledge (Teitelbaum & Granda, 1983).…”

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Learning Consistent, Interactive, and Meaningful Task‐Action Mappings: A Computational Model

Howes

Young

1996

Cognitive Science

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Section: Resultsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Learning Consistent, Interactive, and Meaningful Task‐Action Mappings: A Computational Model

Howes

Young

1996

Cognitive Science

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“…Participants had no prior warning of this experimental condition. This technique has been shown to be significantly disruptive of performance times (Teitelbaum & Granda, 1983). The control group completed all six performance blocks with no spatial interference.…”

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Computerized Information Retrieval: Individual Differences in the Use of Spatial vs Nonspatial Navigational Information

Westerman

1995

Percept Mot Skills

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Although a number of experiments have demonstrated the importance of spatial ability as a predictor of computer-based performance, there is little evidence relating to the mechanics of this association or the implications for interface design. Two experiments on the relative importance of spatial and nonspatial semantic information within the context of computerized information retrieval are described. The first experiment indicated that spatial ability did not interact with the spatial information content of the computer interface. The second experiment indicated that the effects of spatial ability are attenuated when additional nonspatial semantic information is provided.

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“…Others have shown that a lack of positional constancy in icon and menuitem placement harms performance [23,32].…”

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Faster document navigation with space-filling thumbnails

Cockburn

Gutwin

Alexander

2006

Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

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Scrolling is the standard way to navigate through many types of digital documents. However, moving more than a few pages can be slow because all scrolling techniques constrain visual search to only a small document region. To improve document navigation, we developed Space-Filling Thumbnails (SFT), an overview display that eliminates most scrolling. SFT provides two views: a standard page view for reading, and a thumbnail view that shows all pages. We tested SFT in three experiments that involved finding pages in documents. The first study (n=13) compared seven current scrolling techniques, and showed that SFT is significantly faster than the other methods. The second and third studies (n=32 and n=14) were detailed comparisons of SFT with thumbnail-enhanced scrollbars (TES), which performed well in the first experiment. SFT was faster than TES across all document types and lengths, particularly when tasks involved revisitation. In addition, SFT was strongly preferred by participants.

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The effects of positional constancy on searching menus for information

Cited by 21 publications

References 11 publications

Learning Consistent, Interactive, and Meaningful Task‐Action Mappings: A Computational Model

Learning Consistent, Interactive, and Meaningful Task‐Action Mappings: A Computational Model

Computerized Information Retrieval: Individual Differences in the Use of Spatial vs Nonspatial Navigational Information

Faster document navigation with space-filling thumbnails

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