Turning to learn: Screen orientation and reasoning with small devices.
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...
| Publicado en: | Computers in Human Behavior Vol. 27; no. 2; pp. 793 - 798 |
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Elsevier Science
March 2011
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