The effects of task dimensionality, endpoint deviation, throughput calculation, and experiment design on pointing measures and models

Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 1639-1648

  Wobbrock, Jacob O ^a   Shinohara, Kristen ^a   Jansen, Alex ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Dimensionality; Effective target width; Endpoint deviation; Fitts' law; FittsStudy; Throughput

Indexed keywords

BIVARIATE; DIMENSIONALITY; EFFECTIVE TARGET WIDTH; ENDPOINT DEVIATION; EXPERIMENT DESIGN; FITTS'S LAW; FITTSSTUDY; LAWS MODEL; SPEED ACCURACY; UNIVARIATE;

THROUGHPUT;

EID: 79958079828     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1978942.1979181     Document Type: Conference Paper

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