The goal of this study was to examine three interfaces for handheld mobile computing (HMC) on the iPhone and then assess against a standard personal computer (PC) interface. While designers originally envisioned similar performance between HMC and PC, our results indicate differences between these platforms. However, specialized mobile sites and applications (Apps) greatly enhanced HMC performance on the iPhone. In particular, mobile content that required larger amounts of data entry benefited much more from these sorts of interfaces than mobile content for data acquisition.
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