What's the Optimum Computer Display Size?

Simmons, Terri

doi:10.1177/106480460100900405

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“…As a result, the data on the screen is simply enlarged. Terri Simmons [14] conducted a study comparing performance on different-sized monitors (17 inch to 21 inch), with slightly differing resolutions. His results were unsurprising in that they suggest that people perform faster with the largest monitor, and slightly higher resolution, as opposed to the smaller monitors.…”

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“…Several researchers have shown that larger displays improve performance with different tasks including multi-tasking [4], spatial orientation [17], and general usability [14] [7] to name a few.…”

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“…Also, Simmons [14] shows that just modestly increasing the resolution helps. [17] shows that just increasing the physical size is better for spatial performance.…”

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Analysis of User Behavior on High-Resolution Tiled Displays

Ball

North

2005

Lecture Notes in Computer Science

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Abstract. The use of multiple monitors for personal desktop computing is becoming more prevalent as the price of display technology decreases. The use of two monitors for a single desktop has been shown to have performance improvement in several studies. However, few studies have been performed with more than three monitors. As a result, we report an observational analysis of the use of a large tiled display containing nine monitors (in a 3x3 matrix). The total resolution of the large display is 3840x3072, for a total of 11,796,480 pixels. Over the course of six months we observed the behavior and actions of five users who used the display extensively as a desktop. We relate our observations, provide feedback concerning common usage of how people do and do not use the display, provide common scenarios and results of interviews, and give a series of design recommendations and guidelines for future designers of applications for high-resolution, tiled displays.

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Analysis of User Behavior on High-Resolution Tiled Displays

Ball

North

2005

Lecture Notes in Computer Science

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“…Research literature reveals overwhelming benefits of working on a big desktop monitor. Simmons's (2001) study showed that a 21-in. monitor outperformed 15-in., 17-in., and 19-in.…”

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WallTop: Managing Overflowing Windows on a Large Display

Bae

Balakrishnan

2013

Human–Computer Interaction

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With the ever increasing amount of digital information, users desire more screen real estate to process daily desktop computing work, and might well benefit from using a large high-resolution display for information management. Unfortunately, we know very little about users' behaviors when using such a display for daily computing, and current user interfaces are mainly designed for normal-sized desktop monitors, which might not well suit a large display. In this article, we first present a longitudinal study that investigates how users manage overflowing digital information on a wall-sized display in a personal desktop computing context by comparing it with single and dual desktop monitors. Results showed users' unanimous preferences of working on a large display and revealed large-display users' unique activity patterns of managing windows. Guided by the study results, we designed a set of interaction techniques that provide greater flexibility in managing multiple windows. They include facile methods for selecting, moving, and resizing multiple windows using an active window boundary called Fringe, rearranging selected windows using multi-and single-window marking menus, packing/unpacking the selected windows using easily activated icons, and freely adjusting the order of overlapping windows with a Jab-to-Lift operation. We coherently integrated these techniques with traditional operations in a large-display window management prototype called WallTop. Two rounds of usability testing showed that users can quickly and easily learn the new interaction techniques and apply them to realistic window management tasks on a large display with increased efficiency.Xiaojun Bi (xjunbi@gmail.com) is a computer science researcher with an interest in human-computer interaction; he is now at Google. Seok-Hyung Bae

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“…While the benefits of large or multi-display setups have been demonstrated in several studies (e.g. [2,4,7,18]), it has also been suggested that this increase in display space will lead to usability problems [7], window management difficulties [4] and issues related to information overload [13].…”

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Subtle gaze-dependent techniques for visualising display changes in multi-display environments

Kristensson

Quigley

2013

Proceedings of the 2013 International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces

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This paper explores techniques for visualising display changes in multi-display environments. We present four subtle gaze-dependent techniques for visualising change on unattended displays called FreezeFrame, PixMap, WindowMap and Aura. To enable the techniques to be directly deployed to workstations, we also present a system that automatically identifies the user's eyes using computer vision and a set of web cameras mounted on the displays. An evaluation confirms this system can detect which display the user is attending to with high accuracy. We studied the efficacy of the visualisation techniques in a five-day case study with a working professional. This individual used our system eight hours per day for five consecutive days. The results of the study show that the participant found the system and the techniques useful, subtle, calm and non-intrusive. We conclude by discussing the challenges in evaluating intelligent subtle interaction techniques using traditional experimental paradigms.

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What's the Optimum Computer Display Size?

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