Abstract
Understanding the structure or organization of an interface is important to make sense of the information presented. This is essential especially when involving information on a large display. The desired information architecture in terms of arranging the information becomes critical and pervasive. The huge interactional space conceives a challenge to the design process. This paper investigates a suitable information structure of a museum application on a large display in order to support navigation. A user study was conducted with ten participants interacting with a museum application interfaces, running on a Microsoft SUR40 tabletop. The study findings suggest that a suitable information structure for a large display depends on the purpose of the navigation. A scattered image concept is more appropriate for specific object finding while a structured tree concept is for information finding in a virtual environment. These findings could be useful for the development of museum interfaces on a huge display.
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We would like to thank all the participants who took part in the study. This research was financially supported by Universiti Teknologi PETRONAS.
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Mohammad Shuhaili, F., Sulaiman, S., Mahamad, S., Sarlan, A., Abro, A. (2018). An Investigation on a Suitable Information Structure of a Museum Environment for Large Display. In: Abdullah, N., Wan Adnan, W., Foth, M. (eds) User Science and Engineering. i-USEr 2018. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 886. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-1628-9_27
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