Investigating pointing tasks across angularly coupled display areas

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  • Fabian Hennecke
  • Alexander De Luca
  • Ngo Dieu Huong Nguyen
  • Sebastian Boring
  • Andreas Butz
Pointing tasks are a crucial part of today’s graphical user interfaces. They are well understood for flat displays and most prominently are modeled through Fitts’ Law. For novel displays (e.g., curved displays with multi-purpose areas), however, it remains unclear whether such models for predicting user performance still hold – in particular when pointing is performed across differently oriented areas. To answer this question, we conducted an experiment on an angularly coupled display – the Curve – with two input conditions: direct touch and indirect mouse pointer. Our findings show that the target position affects overall pointing speed and offset in both conditions. However, we also found that Fitts’ Law can in fact still be used to predict performance as on flat displays. Our results help designers to optimize user interfaces on angularly coupled displays when pointing tasks are involved.
Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationHuman-Computer Interaction – INTERACT 2013 : 14th IFIP TC 13 International Conference, Cape Town, South Africa, September 2-6, 2013, Proceedings, Part I
EditorsP. Kotzé
Number of pages8
VolumePart I
PublisherSpringer
Publication date2013
Pages720-727
ISBN (Print)978-3-642-40482-5
ISBN (Electronic)978-3-642-40483-2
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2013
Event14th IFIP TC 13 International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction: designing for diversity - Cape Town, South Africa
Duration: 2 Sep 20136 Sep 2013
Conference number: 14

Conference

Conference14th IFIP TC 13 International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction
Nummer14
LandSouth Africa
ByCape Town
Periode02/09/201306/09/2013
SeriesLecture notes in computer science
Volume8117
ISSN0302-9743

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