COMPARISON OF PAGING AND SCROLLING FOR CHANGING SCREEN CONTENTS BY INEXPERIENCED USERS.

Abstract

With scrolling, the information moves either continuously (pan scroll) or line by line (roll scroll) in the desired direction up or down the screen; with paging, on the other hand, the presented piece of information changes all at once. Unpracticed subjects performed three different tasks (word reading, line searching, sorting) with both modes of operation. The subjects also rated the suitability of the two modes of operation for each task. Paging was preferred by inexperienced users and it resulted in better performance on the sorting task.