Re: Scrolling vs. Paging

Have you considered any sort of semantic paging or scrolling?

By semantic paging, I mean breaking the pages into meaningful units. e.g.
rolodexes are broken up by A, B, C, D, etc. which can be reduced into
categories like Adams - Jenkins, Johns - Quek, etc. Cameras under $100,
Cameras between $101 - 300. 

I believe certain versions of MS Word had, in addition to normal page
up/page down, the ability for the page down control to click to next
chapter, next illustration, next markup etc.

If the list is very large, consider providing search.

Eugene



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> Sent: Monday, May 21, 2007 10:35 AM
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> Subject: [CHI-WEB] Scrolling vs. Paging
> 
> 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.
> 
> Thank you for your help,
> 
> Nikki Roberg
> Usability & Interface Specialist
> Digital Library Program
> Indiana University, Bloomington
> Bloomington, IN 47405
> www.dlib.indiana.edu
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