High-Resolution Displays Facilitating Greater Insight in a Dynamic Environment

This paper discusses the outcome of an experiment that tracked the navigation and performance of participants as they played a popu- lar strategy game on one, four, and nine monitors. The results show that having only one monitor was a clear disadvantage in both per- formance and the percent of time participants navigated. Partici- pants performed significantly better on the four and nine monitors than the one monitor due to increased awareness and insight into the game. Also, the larger the display, the less participants navigated. There was also found to be a positive transfer from the smaller to larger screens, but no transfer (positive or negative) from the larger to smaller screens.