Acquisition of dynamically revealed multimodal targets

  • Authors:
  • Teemu Tuomas Ahmaniemi

  • Affiliations:
  • Nokia Research Center, Helsinki, Finland

  • Venue:
  • ICMI '11 Proceedings of the 13th international conference on multimodal interfaces
  • Year:
  • 2011

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Abstract

This study investigates movement time needed for exploring and selecting a target that is not seen in advance. An experiment where targets were presented with haptic, audio or visual feedback was conducted. The task of the participant was to search the targets with a hand held sensor-actuator device by horizontal scanning movements. The feedback appeared when the pointing was within the target boundaries. Range of distances to the target was varied between the experiment blocks. The results show that the modality did not have a significant effect on the total movement time but visual feedback yielded the shortest and haptic feedback the longest dwell time on target area. This was most probably caused by a visual priming effect and the slow haptic actuator rise time. The wider range of distances yielded longer movement times and within the widest range of distances the closest targets were explored longer than the targets in the middle. This was shown to be caused by the increased number of secondary submovements. The finding suggests that an alternative model to Fitts' law or linear prediction of target acquisition time should be developed taking into account the user's prior knowledge about target location.