Speeding pointing in tiled widgets: Understanding the effects of target expansion and misprediction

International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces, Proceedings IUI

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 229-238

  Ruiz, Jaime ^a   Lank, Edward ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Fitts law; Human performance; Pointing; Target expansion; Tiled targets

Indexed keywords

FITTS LAW; HUMAN PERFORMANCE; MULTIPLE TARGETS; POINTING; TARGET PREDICTION;

PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; USER INTERFACES;

TARGETS;

EID: 77951124887     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1719970.1720002     Document Type: Conference Paper

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