How fast is fast enough? A study of the effects of latency in direct-touch pointing tasks

Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 2291-2300

  Jota, Ricardo ^a   Ng, Albert ^b   Dietz, Paul ^b   Wigdor, Daniel ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b MICROSOFT   (United States)

Author keywords

Direct input; Direct manipulations; Latency; Touch input

Indexed keywords

COMMERCIAL DEVICES; COPING MECHANISMS; DIRECT INPUT; DIRECT MANIPULATION; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; LATENCY; TOUCH INPUTS; USERS' PERCEPTION;

HUMAN ENGINEERING; TOUCH SCREENS;

HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION;

EID: 84877980458     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2470654.2481317     Document Type: Conference Paper

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