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From Desktop to Palmtop: Creating Usable Online Documents for Handheld Devices 
Realize that reading online at low resolution reduces reading comprehension significantly. Think in terms of nuggets, not chunks. Be prepared to display text in larger type than you are accustomed to seeing in documents designed to be read on the desktop. Apply bold, italics, and color with caution. Don’t expect to have access to a large variety of fonts.
Hayhoe, George F. STC Proceedings (2002). Presentations>Web Design>Wireless Web>PDA
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Web Design Issues When Searching for Information in a Small Screen Display 
In this paper, we report preliminary findings from an experimental study in which twenty-eight users answered questions by performing strategic information searches on web pages. Pages, which varied in length from 100 to 850 words, were displayed on either a standard, desktop monitor (full-sized) or a palm handheld interface (small-screen). Overall, users took more time to perform the tasks on the small screen interface, with the break in efficacy appearing between 225 and 350 word-lengths. Finally, contrary to our hypothesis, participants were similarly accurate across conditions.
Kim, Loel and Michael J. Albers. ACM SIGDOC (2001). Presentations>Web Design>Wireless Web>PDA
