The Interaction of Information Searching On Seven-inch Displays

This paper presents the results to supplement previous work to include testing 7" display devices (mini tablet) and compare its performance to tablet and phone directly (and to desktop indirectly via the previous results). The study was only concerned with the within documentation navigation using scrolling interaction to evaluate how these methods affect task efficiency on seven inch display (iPad mini). Overall, the quantitative data was reflected by task execution time and qualitative data was analyzed using task load and usability data measures. Findings indicated that most users would likely spend more time in searching task on mobile devices they carry around (phone), which echoed the conclusion by Laura Marcial's previous research. In terms of seven inch tablet, it performed better than phone and more or less equally to the tablet.Master of Science in Information Scienc