How does Fitts' law fit pointing and dragging?
CHI '90 Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Extending Fitts' law to two-dimensional tasks
CHI '92 Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Fitts' law as a performance model in human-computer interaction
Fitts' law as a performance model in human-computer interaction
Human performance using computer input devices in the preferred and non-preferred hands
CHI '93 Proceedings of the INTERACT '93 and CHI '93 Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Human-computer interaction: psychology as a science of design
International Journal of Human-Computer Studies
An evaluation of an eye tracker as a device for computer input2
CHI '87 Proceedings of the SIGCHI/GI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems and Graphics Interface
Navigation as multiscale pointing: extending Fitts' model to very high precision tasks
Proceedings of the SIGCHI conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Human-computer interaction: interdisciplinary roots and trends
Journal of Systems and Software
Selection from alphabetic and numeric menu trees using a touch screen: breadth, depth, and width
CHI '85 Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
The Psychology of Human-Computer Interaction
The Psychology of Human-Computer Interaction
Refining Fitts' law models for bivariate pointing
Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Card, English, and Burr (1978): 25 years later
CHI '03 Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Pointing at trivariate targets in 3D environments
Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Semantic pointing: improving target acquisition with control-display ratio adaptation
Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
View size and pointing difficulty in multi-scale navigation
Proceedings of the working conference on Advanced visual interfaces
Object pointing: a complement to bitmap pointing in GUIs
GI '04 Proceedings of the 2004 Graphics Interface Conference
A Mathematical Theory of Communication
A Mathematical Theory of Communication
A predictive model of menu performance
Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
A study on the scalability of non-preferred hand mode manipulation
Proceedings of the 9th international conference on Multimodal interfaces
A model of non-preferred hand mode switching
GI '08 Proceedings of graphics interface 2008
Predicting the cost of error correction in character-based text entry technologies
Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Modeling dwell-based eye pointing target acquisition
Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Predicting Chinese text entry speeds on mobile phones
Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
A model of novice and expert navigation performance in constrained-input interfaces
ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction (TOCHI)
UIMarks: quick graphical interaction with specific targets
UIST '10 Proceedings of the 23nd annual ACM symposium on User interface software and technology
Anticipation as a strategy: a design paradigm for robotics
KSEM'10 Proceedings of the 4th international conference on Knowledge science, engineering and management
International Journal of Human-Computer Studies
INTERACT'11 Proceedings of the 13th IFIP TC 13 international conference on Human-computer interaction - Volume Part II
The entropy of a rapid aimed movement: Fitts' index of difficulty versus Shannon's entropy
INTERACT'11 Proceedings of the 13th IFIP TC 13 international conference on Human-computer interaction - Volume Part IV
An empirical methodology for human integration in the SE technical processes
Systems Engineering
interactions
Action graphs and user performance analysis
International Journal of Human-Computer Studies
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The Hick-Hyman Law and Fitts' Law are two surviving human performance principles based on Shannon and Weaver's (1949) Information Theory. In the early 1980s, Card, Moran, and Newell (1983) presented the laws as design principles for developers to maximize usability in the design of human-computer interfaces. A search of the current human-computer interaction (HCI) literature, however, will reveal that the Hick-Hyman Law failed to gain momentum in the field of HCI, whereas Fitts' Law received, and continues to receive, substantial attention. This article begins with a discussion the common information theoretical concepts of the two laws, and then examines each law with respect to its origins, theoretical formulation, theoretical development, research, and applications and examines the possible contributing factors responsible for the failure of Hick-Hyman Law to gain momentum in the field.