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A Note on the Information-Theoretic Basis for Fitts’ Law
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Fitts' law is an information-theoretic view of human motor behavior developed from Shannon's Theorem, 17, a fundamental theorem of communications systems. Using data from Fitts' original experiments, we demonstrate that Fitts' choice of an equation that deviates slightly from the underlying principal is perhaps unfounded, and that the relationship is improved by using an exact adaptation of Shannon's equation.
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- Authors
- MacKenzie, I. S.
- Venue
- Journal of Motor Behavior
- Publisher
- Informa UK Limited
- Published
- 1989-09
- Volume
- 21
- Issue
- 3
- Pages
- 323-330
- ISSN
- 0022-2895 (ISSN-L)
- 1940-1027
- OpenAlex
- W2139419943
- Cited by
- 315
- References
- 3
- FWCI
- 1.95
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
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