Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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10365899 | Applied Ergonomics | 2014 | 10 Pages |
Abstract
A balance between portability and usability made the 10.1â³ diagonal screens popular in the Mobile PC market (e.g., 10.1â³ mini-notebooks/netbooks, convertible/hybrid ultraportables); yet no academic research rationalizes this phenomenon. This study investigated the size effects of display and input devices of 4 mini-notebooks (netbooks) ranged in size on their performances in 2 simple and 3 complex applied tasks. It seemed that the closer the display and/or input devices (touchpad/touchscreen/keyboard) sizes to those sizes of a generic notebook, the shorter the operation times (there was no certain phenomenon for the error rates). With non-significant differences, the 10.1â³ and 8.9â³ mini-notebooks (netbooks) were as fast as the 11.6â³ one in almost all the tasks, except for the 8.9â³ one in the typing tasks. The 11.6â³ mini-notebook (netbook) was most preferred; while the difference in the satisfactions was not significant between the 10.1â³ and 11.6â³ ones but between the 7â³ and 11.6â³ ones.
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Authors
Chih-Chun Lai, Chih-Fu Wu,