Ninja cursors: Using multiple cursors to assist target acquisition on large screens

Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 949-958

  Kobayashi, Masatomo ^a   Igarashi, Takeo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

Fitts' law; Large screens; Multiple cursors; Pointing

Indexed keywords

HUMAN ENGINEERING; MERGERS AND ACQUISITIONS; RADAR;

AVERAGE DISTANCES; FITTS' LAW; LARGE SCREENS; MOUSE MOVEMENTS; MULTIPLE CURSORS; NOVEL METHODS; POINTING; PRACTICAL USE; TARGET ACQUISITIONS; TARGET DENSITIES; VARIABLE NUMBERS;

TARGETS;

EID: 57649239408     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1357054.1357201     Document Type: Conference Paper

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