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A comparison of input devices in element pointing and dragging tasks
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An experiment is described comparing three devices (a mouse, a trackball, and a stylus with tablet) in the performance of pointing and dragging tasks.During pointing, movement times were shorter and error rates were lower than during dragging.It is shown that Fitts' law can model both tasks, and that within devices the index of performance is higher when pointing than when dragging.Device differences also appeared.The stylus displayed a higher rate of information pmeessing than the mouse during pointing but not during dragging.The trackball ranked third for both tasks,
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- Authors
- MacKenzie, I. S., Sellen, A., & Buxton, W. A. S.
- Venue
- Proceedings of the SIGCHI conference on Human factors in computing systems Reaching through technology - CHI '91
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- ACM Press
- Published
- 1991
- Pages
- 161-166
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- W2147160183
- Cited by
- 371
- References
- 2
- FWCI
- 3.54
- Type
- conference paper
- Language
- en
- Open access
- gold
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