Fitts' law and expanding targets: Experimental studies and designs for user interfaces

ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction

Volumn 12, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 388-422

  Mcguffin, Michael J ^a   Balakrishnan, Ravin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Empirical evaluation; Expanding targets; Expansion; Fitts' law; Growing targets; Interaction design; Interaction modeling; Target magnification; Widget design

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; DESIGN AIDS; OPTIMIZATION; PROBLEM ORIENTED LANGUAGES;

EMPIRICAL EVALUATION; EXPANDING TARGETS; FITTS' LAW; GROWING TARGETS; INTERACTION DESIGN; INTERACTION MODELING; TARGET MAGNIFICATION; WIDGET DESIGN;

INTERFACES (COMPUTER);

EID: 33745167682     PISSN: 10730516     EISSN: 10730516     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/1121112.1121115     Document Type: Article

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