Extension of fitts' law to modeling motion performance in man-machine interfaces

IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics Part A:Systems and Humans.

Volumn 29, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 205-209

  Radix, C L ^a   Robinson, P ^a   Nurse, P ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PLYMOUTH   (United Kingdom)

^b ACR   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Control systems; Information theory; Input devices; Manipulators; User interfaces

Indexed keywords

CONTROL SYSTEM SYNTHESIS; MAN MACHINE SYSTEMS; MANIPULATORS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS;

FITTS' LAW;

USER INTERFACES;

EID: 0033101921     PISSN: 10834427     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/3468.747855     Document Type: Article

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