Variability of throughput in pointing device tests: Button-up or button-down?

ACM International Conference Proceeding Series

Volumn 189, Issue , 2006, Pages 68-77

  Isokoski, Poika ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE LORRAINE   (France)

^b TAMPERE UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Finland)

Author keywords

Button down; Button up; Fitts' law; Pointing device; Throughput

Indexed keywords

OBJECT RECOGNITION; THROUGHPUT;

FITTS' LAW; POINTING DEVICE;

GRAPHICAL USER INTERFACES;

EID: 34547146435     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1182475.1182483     Document Type: Conference Paper

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