College of Public Health and Health Informatics, King Saud Bin Abdulaziz University for Health Sciences (KSAU-HS), National Guard Health Affairs (NGHA), P.O. Box: 2350, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
King Faisal Specialist Hospital and Research Center, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia.
J Med Syst. 2016 Jan;40(1):11. doi: 10.1007/s10916-015-0381-5. Epub 2015 Oct 29.
This research analyzes the impact of mobile phone screen size on user comprehension of health information and application structure. Applying experimental approach, we asked randomly selected users to read content and conduct tasks on a commonly used diabetes mobile application using three different mobile phone screen sizes. We timed and tracked a number of parameters, including correctness, effectiveness of completing tasks, content ease of reading, clarity of information organization, and comprehension. The impact of screen size on user comprehension/retention, clarity of information organization, and reading time were mixed. It is assumed on first glance that mobile screen size would affect all qualities of information reading and comprehension, including clarity of displayed information organization, reading time and user comprehension/retention of displayed information, but actually the screen size, in this experimental research, did not have significant impact on user comprehension/retention of the content or on understanding the application structure. However, it did have significant impact on clarity of information organization and reading time. Participants with larger screen size took shorter time reading the content with a significant difference in the ease of reading. While there was no significant difference in the comprehension of information or the application structures, there were a higher task completion rate and a lower number of errors with the bigger screen size. Screen size does not directly affect user comprehension of health information. However, it does affect clarity of information organization, reading time and user's ability to recall information.
这项研究分析了手机屏幕尺寸对用户理解健康信息和应用结构的影响。我们采用实验方法,随机邀请用户使用三种不同的手机屏幕尺寸来阅读内容并在一个常用的糖尿病移动应用程序上完成任务。我们记录了一些参数的时间和跟踪,包括正确性、完成任务的效率、内容易读性、信息组织的清晰度以及理解程度。屏幕尺寸对用户理解/保留率、信息组织清晰度和阅读时间的影响是混合的。从表面上看,移动屏幕尺寸会影响信息阅读和理解的所有质量,包括显示信息组织的清晰度、阅读时间以及用户对显示信息的理解/保留率,但实际上,在这项实验研究中,屏幕尺寸对用户对内容的理解/保留率或对应用结构的理解没有显著影响。然而,它确实对信息组织的清晰度和阅读时间有显著影响。屏幕尺寸较大的参与者阅读内容的时间更短,阅读的轻松程度有显著差异。虽然在信息或应用结构的理解方面没有显著差异,但大屏幕尺寸的任务完成率更高,错误更少。屏幕尺寸不会直接影响用户对健康信息的理解。但是,它确实会影响信息组织的清晰度、阅读时间以及用户回忆信息的能力。