Designing for small display screens

  • Authors:
  • Lari Kärkkäinen;Jari Laarni

  • Affiliations:
  • Center for Knowledge and Innovation Research Helsinki School of Economics and Business Administration Tammasaarenkatu 3, 00180 Helsinki Finland;Center for Knowledge and Innovation Research Helsinki School of Economics and Business Administration Tammasaarenkatu 3, 00180 Helsinki Finland

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the second Nordic conference on Human-computer interaction
  • Year:
  • 2002

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Abstract

Wireless access to the Internet via PDAs (personal digital assistants) provides Web type services in the mobile world. What we are lacking are design guidelines for such PDA services. For Web publishing, however, there are many resources to look for guidelines. The guidelines can be classified according to which aspect of the Web media they are related: software/hardware, content and its organization, or aesthetics and layout. In order to be applicable to PDA services, these guidelines have to be modified. In this paper we analyze the main characteristics of PDAs and their influence to the guidelines.