[IxDA Discuss] Fix screen and more than a screen of text: Should Ipaginate vertically or horizontally?

[Håkan Reis]

Im not fully clear what you have as navigation but I will do a few
assumptions:

The interesting part is what buttons you use when you select items and what
you use when navigate. I would try to use the selection keys (most often
up/down) for pagination (as I suppose you do not have both navigation and
selection in the text view).

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On 9/3/07, Stew Dean <stewdean at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Thanks Marijke
>
> The problem is there are two forms of main navigation on the service.
> One uses left and right to move between screens and the other uses a
> 'grid' system where left and right moves you around a screen.
>
> On the sevice it's self there are already scrolling boxes (up and down
> are the only keys free to use).
>
> Channel Up and Down are used to page up and down both in text and in
> lists. It's not that intuitive but, for now, I'm going to ignore that
> and that I think it's bad usability and instead go for consistancy
> (which is a real poor get out cause of bad usability I know).
>
> In some ways I have my hands tied as I'm working with a third party
> solution that has some weird and wonderful interface solutions that
> work for the tasks it aims to do but doesnt think beyond it's imediate
> goals.
>
> It's been interesting to explore the different potential solutions
> different platforms use.
>
> Cheers
>
> Stewart Dean
>
>
>
> On 31/08/07, Marijke Rijsberman <marijke at interfacility.com> wrote:
> > I've tested TV-based services where the left-right paging approach
> worked
> > well. This could have been a consequence of the fact that the entire
> > interface was based on a left-right paradigm. Essentially nothing moved
> up
> > or down. That may be the determining factor.
> >
> > Marijke
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: discuss-bounces at lists.interactiondesigners.com
> > [mailto:discuss-bounces at lists.interactiondesigners.com] On Behalf Of
> Stew
> > Dean
> > Sent: Friday, August 31, 2007 9:21 AM
> > To: discuss at ixda.org
> > Subject: [IxDA Discuss] Fix screen and more than a screen of text:
> Should
> > Ipaginate vertically or horizontally?
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > This is one of those 'pattern' issues.
> >
> > I'm setting out interaction styles  for a TV based service and I'm
> > covering scenarios where there is quite a bit of text (given that
> > we're also saying 'the less text the better). From a usability point
> > of view I know I'm goig to say 'don't put text in a scrolling box'
> > (fine for T+Cs but not for help text or stuff you want folks to read).
> >
> > So...
> >
> > The alternatives is you have 'pages' of text which, using the remote
> > control, you page through. So the text may be 4 pages (that's not much
> > text but the font size is nice and chunky).  What I'm trying to
> > determine, without having time to do user testing etc, is if the page
> > should be navigated 'left and right' or 'up and down'.  I'm focused
> > upon arrow keys, select and back key to drive the experience and have
> > the user not have to try and find buttons they don't normaly use so
> > don't worry about other buttons. We don't have a page up / page down
> > button like some services.
> >
> > Anyone had experience with this.  My playstation 3 has scrolling text
> > boxes, but this stuff is just for T+Cs.
> >
> > So left and right or up and down - thoughts?
> >
> > --
> > Stewart Dean
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