The “prince” technique: Fitts' law and selection using area cursors
CHI '95 Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Making computers easier for older adults to use: area cursors and sticky icons
Proceedings of the ACM SIGCHI Conference on Human factors in computing systems
Manual and gaze input cascaded (MAGIC) pointing
Proceedings of the SIGCHI conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Acquisition of expanding targets
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
Object pointing: a complement to bitmap pointing in GUIs
GI '04 Proceedings of the 2004 Graphics Interface Conference
The bubble cursor: enhancing target acquisition by dynamic resizing of the cursor's activation area
Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Predictive interaction using the delphian desktop
Proceedings of the 18th annual ACM symposium on User interface software and technology
Fitts' law and expanding targets: Experimental studies and designs for user interfaces
ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction (TOCHI)
Endpoint prediction using motion kinematics
Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Ninja cursors: using multiple cursors to assist target acquisition on large screens
Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Starburst: a target expansion algorithm for non-uniform target distributions
AVI '08 Proceedings of the working conference on Advanced visual interfaces
The angle mouse: target-agnostic dynamic gain adjustment based on angular deviation
Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Disambiguating ninja cursors with eye gaze
Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Rake cursor: improving pointing performance with concurrent input channels
Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Examining the costs of multiple trajectory pointing techniques
International Journal of Human-Computer Studies
Effects of Target Expansion on Selection Performance in Older Computer Users
ACM Transactions on Accessible Computing (TACCESS)
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We present the satellite cursor - a novel technique that uses multiple cursors to improve pointing performance by reducing input movement. The satellite cursor associates every target with a separate cursor in its vicinity for pointing, which realizes the MAGIC (manual and gaze input cascade) pointing method without gaze tracking. We discuss the problem of visual clutter caused by multiple cursors and propose several designs to mitigate it. Two controlled experiments were conducted to evaluate satellite cursor performance in a simple reciprocal pointing task and a complex task with multiple targets of varying layout densities. Results show the satellite cursor can save significant mouse movement and consequently pointing time, especially for sparse target layouts, and that satellite cursor performance can be accurately modeled by Fitts' Law.