Reading text on a smart phone: Scrolling vs. paging: Toward designing effective electronic manuals

Proceedings - 2011 International Conference on User Science and Engineering, i-USEr 2011

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 59-63

  Fukaya, Takugo Y ^a   Ono, Susumu ^b   Minakuchi, Minoru ^b   Nakashima, Seiya ^b   Hayashi, Masako ^b   Ando, Hiroshi ^c  

^a ADVANCED TELECOMMUNICATIONS RESEARCH INSTITUTE INTERNATIONAL   (Japan)

^b Warp Style   (Japan)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATIONS TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

comprehension; designing manuals; paging; procedural text; reading; scrolling; smart phone

Indexed keywords

COMPREHENSION; DESIGNING MANUALS; PAGING; PROCEDURAL TEXT; READING; SCROLLING;

ERRORS; TEXT PROCESSING;

SMARTPHONES;

EID: 84857698826     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/iUSEr.2011.6150537     Document Type: Conference Paper

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