Effects of screen presentation on text reading and revising
International Journal of Human-Computer Studies
Students' experiences with PDAs for reading course materials
Personal and Ubiquitous Computing
Mobile learning: A framework and evaluation
Computers & Education
Do Mobile Device Applications Affect Learning?
HICSS '07 Proceedings of the 40th Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences
Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
How people use the web on mobile devices
Proceedings of the 17th international conference on World Wide Web
Character size and reading to remember from small displays
Computers & Education
Upright or sideways?: analysis of smartphone postures in the wild
Proceedings of the 15th international conference on Human-computer interaction with mobile devices and services
Proceedings of the South African Institute for Computer Scientists and Information Technologists Conference
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While the prevalence and use of mobile devices to gather important information is increasing rapidly, a critical question is whether information gathering and reasoning with these devices produces acceptable levels of performance, especially relative to more traditional desktop environments? Across two studies, participants were evaluated on their ability to not only remember information conveyed on small devices, but also reason with said information in complex ways. Results indicated that, when compared to a full-size display, there is a reasoning deficit when using a small device. However, changing the small device to landscape orientation effectively eliminated this performance decrement. Further, this orientation manipulation appears to most support individuals who are lower in working memory capacity, as these individuals have been shown previously to struggle with learning from scrolling interfaces. This suggests that consideration of learner differences, through adaptive design, can promote optimal use of small technologies.