An error model for pointing based on Fitts' law

Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 1613-1622

  Wobbrock, Jacob O ^a   Cutrell, Edward ^b   Harada, Susumu ^c   MacKenzie, I Scott ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b MICROSOFT RESEARCH   (United States)

^c University of Washington   (United States)

^d YORK UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Clicking errors; Error model; Error rates; Fitts' law; Mousing errors; Movement time; Pointing errors; Pointing time; Schmidt's law; Speedaccuracy tradeoff

Indexed keywords

COMMUNICATION CHANNELS (INFORMATION THEORY); ERRORS; HUMAN ENGINEERING; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; TARGETS; USER INTERFACES;

CLICKING ERRORS; ERROR MODEL; ERROR RATES; FITTS' LAW; MOUSING ERRORS; MOVEMENT TIME; POINTING ERRORS; POINTING TIME; SCHMIDT'S LAW; SPEEDACCURACY TRADEOFF;

LAWS AND LEGISLATION;

EID: 57649235371     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1357054.1357306     Document Type: Conference Paper

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