People's ability to remember and recall spatial information can be harnessed to improve navigation and search performances in interactive systems. In this paper, we investigate how display size and input modality influence spatial memory, especially in relation to efficiency and user satisfaction. Based on an experiment with 28 participants, we analyze the effect of three input modalities (trackpad, direct touch, and gesture-based motion controller) and two display sizes (10.6" and 55") on people's ability to navigate to spatially spread items and recall their positions. Our findings show that the impact of input modality and display size on spatial memory is not straightforward, but characterized by trade-offs between spatial memory, efficiency, and user satisfaction.
%0 Conference Paper
%1 conf/chi/ZagermannPFBR17
%A Zagermann, Johannes
%A Pfeil, Ulrike
%A Fink, Daniel
%A von Bauer, Philipp
%A Reiterer, Harald
%B Proceedings of the CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
%D 2017
%E Mark, Gloria
%E Fussell, Susan R.
%E Lampe, Cliff
%E m. c. schraefel,
%E Hourcade, Juan Pablo
%E Appert, Caroline
%E Wigdor, Daniel
%I ACM
%K 2017 C01 sfbtrr161
%P 1899-1910
%R 10.1145/3025453.3026001
%T Memory in Motion: The Influence of Gesture- and Touch-based Input Modalities on Spatial Memory
%U https://doi.org/10.1145/3025453.3026001
%X People's ability to remember and recall spatial information can be harnessed to improve navigation and search performances in interactive systems. In this paper, we investigate how display size and input modality influence spatial memory, especially in relation to efficiency and user satisfaction. Based on an experiment with 28 participants, we analyze the effect of three input modalities (trackpad, direct touch, and gesture-based motion controller) and two display sizes (10.6" and 55") on people's ability to navigate to spatially spread items and recall their positions. Our findings show that the impact of input modality and display size on spatial memory is not straightforward, but characterized by trade-offs between spatial memory, efficiency, and user satisfaction.
%@ 978-1-4503-4655-9
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abstract = {People's ability to remember and recall spatial information can be harnessed to improve navigation and search performances in interactive systems. In this paper, we investigate how display size and input modality influence spatial memory, especially in relation to efficiency and user satisfaction. Based on an experiment with 28 participants, we analyze the effect of three input modalities (trackpad, direct touch, and gesture-based motion controller) and two display sizes (10.6" and 55") on people's ability to navigate to spatially spread items and recall their positions. Our findings show that the impact of input modality and display size on spatial memory is not straightforward, but characterized by trade-offs between spatial memory, efficiency, and user satisfaction.},
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author = {Zagermann, Johannes and Pfeil, Ulrike and Fink, Daniel and von Bauer, Philipp and Reiterer, Harald},
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booktitle = {Proceedings of the CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems},
doi = {10.1145/3025453.3026001},
editor = {Mark, Gloria and Fussell, Susan R. and Lampe, Cliff and m. c. schraefel and Hourcade, Juan Pablo and Appert, Caroline and Wigdor, Daniel},
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timestamp = {2020-03-05T14:18:55.000+0100},
title = {Memory in Motion: The Influence of Gesture- and Touch-based Input Modalities on Spatial Memory},
url = {https://doi.org/10.1145/3025453.3026001},
year = 2017
}