Several sites (http://www.humanfactors.com/downloads/feb03.asp; http://typographica.org/000746.php) commented on a article published in the "Usability News", written by Ryan Baker (Department of Psychology of Wichita State University), called "The Impact of paging vs. scrolling on reading online text passages" (http://psychology.wichita.edu/surl/usabilitynews/51/paging_scrolling.htm).
Unfortunately, the Usability News link is not available anymore, but you can check the original dissertation (http://soar.wichita.edu/dspace/bitstream/10057/500/3/d05022.pdf). Basically, Baker set up three online reading conditions: 1. paging where there was no scrolling required and the users read a page of text with a medium line length and then used a page forward button to go to the next page and the next, 2. a "full" condition where there was some scrolling as well as a page forward key, and 3. a scrolling condition which had no paging, but required a lot of scrolling. Since you're specifically looking for "Lists", another article written by Baker, called "Paging vs. Scrolling: Examining Ways to Present Search Results" (http://psychology.wichita.edu/mbernard/HSEF.Paging.pdf) might cast more light into it. ... { Itamar Medeiros } Information Designer designing clear, understandable communication by caring to structure, context, and presentation of data and information mobile ::: 86 13671503252 website ::: http://designative.info/ aim ::: itamarlmedeiros skype ::: designative . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Posted from the new ixda.org http://www.ixda.org/discuss?post=33803 ________________________________________________________________ Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ....... [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe ................ http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines ............ http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .................. http://www.ixda.org/help
