March 29th, 2006 by Tim Bruysten in interFACE, usability, mobile

“[…] Repetitive clicking, required for scrolling down lists etc. with many handsets, is ergonomically less intensive for mobile users. These people are used to text messaging - which is ergonomically more stressful - repetitive hitting the *same* key is easy. Users reported no problems with a list scroll requiring more than a dozen clicks.

Problems arose if users lost their sense of ‘place’ within the mobile application, and this is a failing of several implementations that we reviewed in our research phase. Due to the real estate limitations, often times the ‘locating devices’ were sacrificed in the interest of content or functionality - to the detriment of the usability of the site. […]”

Ein interessanter Artikel, der einige diskussionswürdige Themen anschneidet.

siehe auch:
- Testung der Usability mobiler Anwendungen
- Ubiquitous Hardware
- Nordrhein-Westfalen erprobt Handy-TV via DMB
- mobile Entertainment
- mobile TV
- Mobile eLearning

extern:
- Datensicht Mobil - Seminarweblog von Prof. Klaus Gasteier

mnemo (beta):

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