The sweet spot: How people trade off size and definition on mobile devices

MM'08 - Proceedings of the 2008 ACM International Conference on Multimedia, with co-located Symposium and Workshops

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 21-30

  Knoche, Hendrik O ^a   Sasse, M Angela ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Mobile multimedia consumption; Resolution; Size; Trade off

Indexed keywords

ANGULAR RESOLUTION; ECOLOGICAL VALIDITY; HIGHER RESOLUTION; IMAGE SIZES; LABORATORY STUDIES; LARGE DISPLAYS; MOBILE MULTIMEDIA CONSUMPTION; MOBILE TV; PREDICTION MODEL; PREFERRED SIZE; RESOLUTION; SIZE; SWEET SPOT; TRADE-OFF; UPSCALING; VIEWING DISTANCE;

COMMERCE; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; METHOD OF MOMENTS; MOBILE DEVICES; PORTABLE EQUIPMENT;

MULTIMEDIA SYSTEMS;

EID: 69249141660     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1459359.1459363     Document Type: Conference Paper

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