The problem of consistency in the design of fitts' law experiments: Consider either target distance and width or movement form and scale

Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 1809-1818

  Guiard, Yves ^a  

^a CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

Experimental design; Fitts' law; Method; Theory

Indexed keywords

FITTS' LAW; METHOD; PRACTICAL RECOMMENDATION; QUANTITATIVE ESTIMATION; RIGHT-HAND SIDES; TASK DIFFICULTY; THEORY; TWO-DEGREE-OF-FREEDOM;

EXPERIMENTS; HUMAN ENGINEERING;

DESIGN OF EXPERIMENTS;

EID: 84892447310     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1518701.1518980     Document Type: Conference Paper

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