Evaluation of pointing performance on screen edges

Proceedings of the Workshop on Advanced Visual Interfaces AVI

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 119-126

  Appert, Caroline ^a,b,c   Chapuis, Olivier ^b,c   Beaudouin Lafon, Michel ^b,c  

^a IBM ALMADEN RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^b UFR 919 Laboratoire d'Informatique Pour la Mécanique et les Sciences de l'Ingénieur   (France)

^c INRIA   (France)

Author keywords

Edge pointing; Fitts' Law; Performance modelling; Screen Edges

Indexed keywords

COMPLETION TIMES; CURSOR MOVEMENTS; D INDICES; DESKTOP ENVIRONMENTS; EDGE POINTING; FITTS' LAW; FITTS' LAWS; MOUSE MOVEMENTS; PERFORMANCE MODELLING; SCREEN EDGES; TIME USING;

EID: 57349154450     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1385569.1385590     Document Type: Conference Paper

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