Alghamdi Ebtisam, Yunus Faisel, Househ Mowafa
College of Public Health and Health Informatics, King Saud Bin Abdulaziz University for Health Sciences (KSAU-HS), National Guard Health Affairs (NGHA), Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
Stud Health Technol Inform. 2014;202:217-20.
Abstract goes here. This is completion of the research and update of the previous work that was published in 2013[1]. The paper describes our recent experimental study of the impact of mobile screen size on the user comprehension of health information and application structures. An experiment was conducted to measure the impact of screen size on user comprehension and retention. Participants were given the same simple scenario, which consisted of searching from different menus, navigating and reading some contents. They were timed and tracked for correctness. Also, a follow-up survey was given to each participant that consisted of a rating scale to assess usability features, comprehension and retention abilities of the participants based on different mobile screen sizes. Results showed that there was a significant difference between mobile phone screen size and the time taken to read the contents, which was at its highest on small screens (p-value=0.02). Also, reading characters was hardest on a small screen (p-value=0.003). In addition, there was a significant difference between the three screen sizes regarding the organization of the application's information, showing that the smaller the screen size, the more organized the information. On the other hand, there was no significant impact of screen size on user comprehension, retention scores, number of errors or effective task completion but it was generally better if a large screen size was used. This study concludes that the screen size is not the main concern in comprehension of the contents or application structure. However, reading speed improves with the larger screen size and positively influences the task completion and understanding of the application elements.
摘要如下。这是对之前于2013年发表的工作[1]的研究完成及更新。本文描述了我们最近关于手机屏幕尺寸对用户理解健康信息及应用结构影响的实验研究。进行了一项实验来测量屏幕尺寸对用户理解和记忆的影响。给参与者相同的简单场景,包括从不同菜单中搜索、导航和阅读一些内容。记录他们的时间并跟踪正确性。此外,还对每个参与者进行了后续调查,调查包括一个评分量表,用于根据不同手机屏幕尺寸评估参与者的可用性特征、理解和记忆能力。结果显示,手机屏幕尺寸与阅读内容所需时间之间存在显著差异,小屏幕上的时间最长(p值 = 0.02)。而且,在小屏幕上阅读文字最困难(p值 = 0.003)。此外,三种屏幕尺寸在应用信息的组织方面存在显著差异,表明屏幕尺寸越小,信息越有条理。另一方面,屏幕尺寸对用户理解、记忆得分、错误数量或有效任务完成没有显著影响,但使用大屏幕通常更好。本研究得出结论,屏幕尺寸不是理解内容或应用结构的主要关注点。然而,阅读速度随着屏幕尺寸的增大而提高,并对任务完成和对应用元素的理解产生积极影响。