Towards a standard for pointing device evaluation, perspectives on 27 years of Fitts' law research in HCI

Authors:
R. William Soukoreff;I. Scott MacKenzie
Affiliations:
Department oF Computer Science and Engineering, York University, 4700 Keele Street, Toronto, Ont., Canada M3J IP3;Department of Computer Science and Engineering, York University, 4700 Keele Street, Toronto, Ont., Canada M3J IP3
Venue:
International Journal of Human-Computer Studies - Special issue: Fitts law 50 years later: Applications and contributions from human-computer interaction
Year:
2004

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Abstract

This paper makes seven recommendations to HCI researchers wishing to construct Fitts' law models for either movement time prediction, or for the comparison of conditions in an experiment. These seven recommendations support (and in some cases supplement) the methods described in the recent ISO 9241-9 standard on the evaluation of pointing devices. In addition to improving the robustness of Fitts' law models, these recommendations (if widely employed) will improve the comparability and consistency of forthcoming publications. Arguments to support these recommendations are presented, as are concise reviews of 24 published Fitts' law models of the mouse, and 9 studies that used the new ISO standard.