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Behaviour & Information Technology

2011 Volume 30, Number 6

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Number of articles: 9

  1. 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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  2. 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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  3. 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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  4. 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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  5. 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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  6. 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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  7. 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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  8. 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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  9. 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

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