Re: Scrolling vs. Paging

Given the user preferences split, I'm a big fan of putting some control
into the hands of the users themselves.
Of course, this depends on the expected level or re-uses (is it an intranet
or google where they will come back a lot?).
If so, then having a preference where they can specify the number of
results returned is a simple way for the user to decide this for
themselves.
Just make sure that it's intelligent, by profile saving or cookies, so they
don't have to re-select their preference.
See Google's preferences for this.

What is the context of use?

Cheers,
Sam

On Mon, 21 May 2007 08:39:27 -0700, Justizin <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 5/21/07, Nikki Roberg <[email protected]> wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> I am currently working on a project in which a part of the interface
> will
>> display search results. This part of the interface will take up about
> 1/4+
>> of the screen (if that even matters).
>>
>> During a group walkthrough with potential users 50% wanted to be able to
>> scroll through a long list of results and 50% wanted to have the results
>> paginated with links to the next set of results.
>>
>> I'm wondering if anyone knows of any research (aside from Piolat, A.
>> Roussey, J-Y., and Thunin, Olivier (1997)) that discusses this issue
> and/or
>> shows that one presentation may be better than another? I would also be
>> interested in other ways of implementing the design.
>>
> 
> IMO no research can supercede user preference.  If you have a clear 50
> / 50 split you should consider:
> 
>   (a) developing a new meme which satisfies the root desire of each set
of
> users
>         ( ajax load-on-demand ? )
> 
>   (b) sending a paginated set at first, and allowing to select a full
> scrollable set
> 
>   (c) sending the full set, but hiding most of it unless a user
> selects to have it fully scrollable.  That is to say, you can paginate
> dynamically.
> 
> In a web application, (b) will generally be faster and/or allowed to
> run more times per second than simply giving a full data set, and it's
> the first avenue I would investigate.
> 
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