Improving on human's movement time model for pointing task - Introducing the target position factor into Fitts' law

  • Junmin Du*
  • , Haiwen Shi
  • *Corresponding author for this work

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Abstract

The experiments were aimed at determining the effect of target position on movement time when performing a target pointing movement task. 21 subjects performed pointing movements with 72 conditions of various target position. The movement time data were collected. It was shown that the starting point position and target position greatly affect the movement time. As a result, the movement times were not explained satisfactorily by the conventional Fitts' model. The conventional model was improved by introducing the target position factor into. Compared with the conventional Fitts' model, the new model could describe the data better, both in term of contribution value (r 2) and the standard error of the residual between the predicted value by model fit and the measured movement time.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationMaterials Science and Information Technology, MSIT2011
Pages2349-2355
Number of pages7
DOIs
StatePublished - 2012
Event2011 International Conference on Material Science and Information Technology, MSIT2011 - Singapore, Singapore
Duration: 16 Sep 201118 Sep 2011

Publication series

NameAdvanced Materials Research
Volume433-440
ISSN (Print)1022-6680

Conference

Conference2011 International Conference on Material Science and Information Technology, MSIT2011
Country/TerritorySingapore
CitySingapore
Period16/09/1118/09/11

Keywords

  • Fitts' law
  • Movement time
  • Pointing movement
  • Target position

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