HCI Project 2007

HCI 2 is a module at the Computer Science school at the University of Birmingham. The HCI Project 2007 blog is the place where the team will discuss ideas and processes involved in developing a 'useful piece of technology' for our target audience - children <= 11 years old.

Saturday, March 03, 2007

Prototype: LCD Screen Size

In our meeting we decided to make the screen show 3 lines of text, we came to this conclusion after studying different mobile phone screens and comparing their sizes with how many lines of text the screen could show.

We concluded that a lot of text could be shown on a small mobile phone screen and could be read quite easily. As a group we came to the decision that 3 lines of text was about the right amount for our word scanner design to accommodate everything we wished to show on screen and would be clearly visible to the user.

Here is an example mobile phone screen with many lines of text on it, showing that a lot of text can be accommodated on a small screen which can also be read with ease.

Labels: