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How Much Faster is Fast Enough?: User Perception of Latency & Latency Improvements in Direct and Indirect Touch

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Jonathan Deber,

Clifton Forlines,

Daniel WigdorAuthors Info & Claims

CHI '15: Proceedings of the 33rd Annual ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

Pages 1827 - 1836

https://doi.org/10.1145/2702123.2702300

Published: 18 April 2015 Publication History

Abstract

This paper reports on two experiments designed to further our understanding of users' perception of latency in touch- based systems. The first experiment extends previous efforts to measure latency perception by reporting on a unified study in which direct and indirect form-factors are compared for both tapping and dragging tasks. Our results show significant effects from both form-factor and task, and inform system designers as to what input latencies they should aim to achieve in a variety of system types. A follow-up experiment investigates peoples' ability to perceive small improvements to latency in direct and indirect form-factors for tapping and dragging tasks. Our results provide guidance to system designers of the relative value of making improvements in latency that reduce but do not fully eliminate lag from their systems.

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How Much Faster is Fast Enough?: User Perception of Latency & Latency Improvements in Direct and Indirect Touch
1. Human-centered computing
  1. Human computer interaction (HCI)

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