An evaluation of sticky and force enhanced targets in multi target situations

ACM International Conference Proceeding Series

Volumn 189, Issue , 2006, Pages 58-67

  Ahlström, David ^a   Hitz, Martin ^a   Leitner, Gerhard ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KLAGENFURT   (Austria)

Author keywords

"force fields"; "sticky targets"; Control display ratio; Cursor pointing; Fitts' law; Interaction improvement

Indexed keywords

INDEXING (OF INFORMATION); USER INTERFACES;

CONTROL-DISPLAY RATIO; CURSOR POINTING; FITTS' LAW; INTERACTION IMPROVEMENT;

HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION;

EID: 34547152122     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1182475.1182482     Document Type: Conference Paper

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