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Scroll Placement and Handedness

This study explored how individuals categorized on handedness (being left or right hand dominant) reacted to having the vertical scroll bar of a web browser relocated to the left side of the screen. The relocation of the vertical scroll bar served as an alternative to the relocation of the prominent left aligned main navigation menu for most websites. Fifteen participants were recruited for the study. Each participant interacted with two versions of a web site in a modified browser to complete a set of ten short tasks. Participants completed tasks by interacting with a traditional and non-traditional vertical browser alignment. Left and right-handed participants were determined to be strikingly different in operation. Vertical scroll relocation produced some interesting results and responses.

  1. http://hdl.handle.net/1901/165
Identiferoai:union.ndltd.org:UNC_CH/oai:etd.ils.unc.edu:1901/165
Date2005 April 1900
CreatorsDamien M. Berahzer
ContributorsDiane Kelly
PublisherSchool of Information and Library Science
Source SetsUniversity of North Carolina-Chapel Hill
Languageen_US
Detected LanguageEnglish
TypeElectronic Theses and Dissertations
Formatapplication/pdf, 368164 bytes, application/pdf
RightsAttribution-NonCommercial 1.0

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