Title
A Comparison Of List Vs. Hierarchical Uis On Mobile Phones For Non-Literate Users
Abstract
Previous research has shown that low-literate users have difficulty using hierarchical information architectures and that a list design showing all items at once on a PC screen works best for search tasks. However, the limited screen space on phones makes it impossible to show more than a few items at once on a single screen. Does a hierarchical UI work better on a phone? In this study, we compared the performance of non-literate users from Bangalore, India, on a search task using a hierarchical UI (four levels deep) and a multipage list that had forty items across seven pages of a touch-screen phone. Our results show that participants using the multi-page list perform better both in terms of time taken and percent correct even when the list UI design requires them to browse through multiple pages of items on the phone.
Year
DOI
Venue
2013
10.1007/978-3-642-40480-1_33
HUMAN-COMPUTER INTERACTION - INTERACT 2013, PT II
Keywords
Field
DocType
Non-literate users, list design, hierarchy, mobile phone
World Wide Web,Computer science,Phone,Mobile phone,Self-organizing list,Hierarchy,Multimedia,Screen space
Conference
Volume
ISSN
Citations 
8118
0302-9743
5
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.44
5
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Indrani Medhi146828.78
Kentaro Toyama24296347.17
Anirudha Joshi317926.46
Uday Athavankar4343.52
Ed Cutrell52731205.59