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Partitioning cursor movements in "point and click" tasks

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Faustina HwangAuthors Info & Claims

CHI EA '03: CHI '03 Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems

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https://doi.org/10.1145/765891.765927

Published: 05 April 2003 Publication History

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Studies of cursor trajectories can help explain performance differences in "point and click" tasks. As users can have different difficulties with moving the cursor to a point on the screen, as compared with pressing a button to select an object, it is helpful to study the two stages of the interaction separately. This paper proposes a method of partitioning a cursor trajectory into a travel and a select phase. The movements of motion-impaired users are studied to show that, by analyzing the two phases separately, it is possible to capture aspects of movement that may otherwise be lost.

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Partitioning cursor movements in "point and click" tasks
1. Human-centered computing
  1. Human computer interaction (HCI)
  2. Interaction design
    1. Interaction design process and methods
      1. User centered design

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CHI EA '03: CHI '03 Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems

April 2003

471 pages

ISBN:1581136374

DOI:10.1145/765891

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Gilbert Cockton
University of Sunderland, UK
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Panu Korhonen
Nokia Research Center, Finland

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