Modeling pointing at targets of arbitrary shapes

Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 463-472

  Grossman, Tovi ^a   Kong, Nicholas ^a   Balakrishnan, Ravin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Arbitrary shapes; Fitts' Law; Pointing; Probabilistic model

Indexed keywords

ARBITRARY SHAPES; FITTS' LAW; PROBABILISTIC MODELS;

COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; TARGET TRACKING; USER INTERFACES;

PROBABILISTIC LOGICS;

EID: 35348890971     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1240624.1240700     Document Type: Conference Paper

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