Spatial Tasks on a Large, High-Resolution Tiled Display: Females Mentally Rotate Large Objects Faster Than Men

Authors:
Bernt Ivar Olsen;Bruno Laeng;Kari-Ann Kristiansen;Gunnar Hartvigsen
Affiliations:
Department of Computer Science, University of Tromsø, Norway;Department of Psychology, University of Oslo, Norway and Department of Biological & Medical Psychology, University of Bergen, Norway;Department of Psychology, University of Tromsø, Norway;Department of Computer Science, University of Tromsø, Norway
Venue:
EPCE '09 Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Engineering Psychology and Cognitive Ergonomics: Held as Part of HCI International 2009
Year:
2009

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Abstract

In order to assess the qualitative properties of large displays, compared to smaller displays we conducted an experiment using a mental rotation task and a large, 230 inches, tiled display and compared it to performance on a 14.1 inches laptop computer. We also investigated the effect of expectation about the novel technology among the participants. We found that females rotated objects faster than men on the large display with wider field of view. Furthermore, we found that females were influenced by the expectation that the large display should give better performance, since such a positive expectation yielded a faster performance only among females, with no apparent sacrifice of accuracy.