Effects of Tiled High-Resolution Display on Basic Visualization and Navigation Tasks
You can read the actual paper here.
Abstract:
Large high-resolution screens are becoming increasingly
available and less expensive. This creates potential
advantages for data visualization in that more dense data
and fine details are viewable at once. Also, less navigation
may be needed to see more data. However, little work has
been done to determine the effectiveness of large highresolution
displays, especially for basic low-level data
visualization and navigation tasks. This paper describes an
exploratory study on the effects of a large tiled display with
a resolution of 3840x3072 as compared to two smaller
displays (1560x2048 and 1280x1024). We conclude that,
with finely detailed data, higher resolution displays that use
physical navigation significantly outperform smaller
displays that use pan and zoom navigation. Qualitatively,
we also conclude that use of the larger display is less
stressful and creates a better sense of confidence than the
smaller displays.
The slides we used to present the paper at CHI '05 are here.
The following figure shows the nine monitor used in the study.
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