A Study on the Menu Position and Interaction Experience of Web Browser Application on Smart Phone Devices
| Autor: | Jing-Lan Yang, 楊景嵐 |
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| Rok vydání: | 2013 |
| Druh dokumentu: | 學位論文 ; thesis |
| Popis: | 101 The 21st century is the era of digitization. The increasing popularity of mobile devices, including smartphones and tablets have tremendously changed the way people getting online. Meantime, these devices also provide fertile ground for the growth of mobile apps. This complementary concept, mobile devices plus mobile apps, profoundly describes the ecological environment construction of mobile era. According to the survey of audiences' user behavior in the smartphone sector, the research found that “browsing the internet”comes No.1 in a ranking of things users are used for. People are highly dependent on the app browsers to get into the virtual world nowadays. Therefore, the interface designs and usability of web browser application will deeply affect the users' interaction experiences. In this study, “usability”and “user experience” design factors pertinent to web browser application were explored. It is hoped that the research results could be referred to improve the current interactive design and the future interface optimization. This study includes two parts of experiment：（1）The first phase of the experiment is to investigate the current interactive designs of web browser applications. It explored the menu positions, system functions, procedure of operations and came along with the audience interviews to seek the possibilities of interface optimization. （2）Combine the first phase experiment results with the relevant literatures to conduct the validation experiment in the second phase. The experiment was designed base on a 3 (main menu position) by 2 (text auxiliary) two-way ANOVA. The factor of main menu position has three levels：（1）The main menu is permanently displayed at the bottom of the screen where users could utilize and operate the function icons directly. （2）The main menu is permanently hidden at the bottom of the screen. Users will need to trigger the Android menu icon to roll out the function icons. （3）The main menu is hidden at the upper right corner and with a metaphor menu icon to point out its position. The factor of text auxiliary has two levels：（1） Function icons with subtitle supports. （2） Function icons without subtitle supports. The generated results indicated that：（1）The main menu permanently displayed at the bottom effectively enhance the usability of the interface. （2）Provide text auxiliary will better help users to identify the true functionality of the icons. （3）Metaphor menu icon was better identified then the Android menu icon.（4）Main menu should always be located at the bottom of the screen which would help users to improve the operational efficiency. |
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