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Mouse Cursor Movements towards Targets on the Same Screen Edge

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Shota YamanakaAuthors Info & Claims

GI '18: Proceedings of the 44th Graphics Interface Conference

Pages 115 - 122

https://doi.org/10.20380/GI2018.16

Published: 01 June 2018 Publication History

Abstract

Buttons and icons on screen edges can be selected in a shorter time than those in the central area because the mouse cursor stops due to the impenetrable borderline. However, we have concerns regarding such edge targets, in particular, pointing to an edge target from another edge target on the same edge. For example, users would move the mouse toward outside the screen; thus, the virtual travel distance of the cursor including off-screen movements would be longer. In this study, we empirically confirmed that users exhibit such “pushing-edge” behavior, and 3% of cursor movements are wasted in off-screen movements. We also report how current user-performance models (variations of Fitts' law) can capture such pointing motions between targets on the same edge. The results show that the baseline model (Shannon formula) shows a reasonably high fit (R2 = 0.959), and bivariate pointing models show higher fitness (R2 = 0.966 at most).

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Oba YMiyashita H(2023)Effect of a Cursor Warping Left and Right of the NotchExtended Abstracts of the 2023 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems10.1145/3544549.3585766(1-8)Online publication date: 19-Apr-2023
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3544549.3585766

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GI '18: Proceedings of the 44th Graphics Interface Conference

June 2018

175 pages

ISBN:9780994786838

Conference Chairs:
Christopher Batty
University of Waterloo
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Derek Reilly
Dalhousie University

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NVIDIA
York University

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SIGGRAPH: ACM Special Interest Group on Computer Graphics and Interactive Techniques
SIGCHI: ACM Special Interest Group on Computer-Human Interaction
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Kang DKim NKang DYoon JKim SLee B(2024)Quantifying Wrist-Aiming Habits with A Dual-Sensor Mouse: Implications for Player Performance and WorkloadProceedings of the 2024 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems10.1145/3613904.3642797(1-18)Online publication date: 11-May-2024
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3613904.3642797
Oba YMiyashita H(2023)Effect of a Cursor Warping Left and Right of the NotchExtended Abstracts of the 2023 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems10.1145/3544549.3585766(1-8)Online publication date: 19-Apr-2023
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3544549.3585766

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