Investigating the influence of colors on the performance of pointing tasks for human interface design

IEICE Transactions on Information and Systems

Volumn E90-D, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 500-508

  Kong, Jing ^a,b   Ren, Xiangshi ^c   Shinomori, Keizo ^c  

^a NAGOYA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b HARBIN ENGINEERING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c KOCHI UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Color; Fitts' law; Human performance; Modeling; Pointing

Indexed keywords

COLOR; MAN MACHINE SYSTEMS; PERSONAL COMPUTERS; RANDOM PROCESSES;

FITTS' LAW; HUMAN PERFORMANCE; INPUT DEVICES; POINTING TASKS;

PRODUCT DESIGN;

EID: 33847158726     PISSN: 09168532     EISSN: 17451361     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ietisy/e90-d.2.500     Document Type: Article

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