Behaviour & Information Technology
2011 Volume 30, Number 6
Table of Contents
Number of articles: 9
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An Investigation of the Usability of the Stylus Pen for Various Age Groups on Personal Digital Assistants
Xiangshi Ren & Xiaolei Zhou
Many handheld devices with stylus pens are available in the market; however, there have been few studies which examine the effects of the size of the stylus pen on user performance and subjective... More
pp. 709-726
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Investigating the Effects of Multimodal Feedback through Tracking State in Pen-Based Interfaces
Minghui Sun & Xiangshi Ren
A tracking state increases the bandwidth of pen-based interfaces. However, this state is difficult to detect with default visual feedback. This paper reports on two experiments that are designed to... More
pp. 727-737
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Supporting Dictation Speech Recognition Error Correction: The Impact of External Information
Yongmei Shi & Lina Zhou
Although speech recognition technology has made remarkable progress, its wide adoption is still restricted by notable effort made and frustration experienced by users while correcting speech... More
pp. 761-774
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Colour Size Illusion on Liquid Crystal Displays and Design Guidelines for Bioinformatics Tools
Hyun Seung Yoo & Tonya L. Smith-Jackson
Although the influence of colour on size perception has been known for a century, there is only limited research on interventions that can reduce this effect. This study was therefore undertaken in... More
pp. 775-785
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The Influence of Product Aesthetics and User State in Usability Testing
Juergen Sauer & Andreas Sonderegger
An empirical study examined the effects of two influencing factors in usability tests on user performance and usability ratings. Product aesthetics (high vs. low) as the main independent factor and... More
pp. 787-796
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Effects of Typographic Variables on Eye-Movement Measures in Reading Chinese from a Screen
Nai-Shing Yen, Jie-Li Tsai, Pei-Ling Chen, Hsuan-Yu Lin & Arbee L. P. Chen
To investigate the most efficient way to represent text in reading Chinese on computer displays, three typographic variables, character size (41[feet] arc/24 pixels and 60[feet] arc/32 pixels),... More
pp. 797-808
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The Effect of User Characteristics on the Efficiency of Visual Querying
Peter Bak & Joachim Meyer
Information systems increasingly provide options for visually inspecting data during the process of information discovery and exploration. Little research has dealt so far with user interactions... More
pp. 809-819
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Evaluating Gaze-Based Interface Tools to Facilitate Point-and-Select Tasks with Small Targets
Henrik Skovsgaard, Julio C. Mateo & John Paulin Hansen
Gaze interaction affords hands-free control of computers. Pointing to and selecting small targets using gaze alone is difficult because of the limited accuracy of gaze pointing. This is the first... More
pp. 821-831
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The Promise of Zoomable User Interfaces
Benjamin B. Bederson
Zoomable user interfaces (ZUIs) have received a significant amount of attention in the 18 years since they were introduced. They have enjoyed some success, and elements of ZUIs are widely used in... More
pp. 853-866