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View size and pointing difficulty in multi-scale navigation

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Michel Beaudouin-Lafon,

Dennis Pasveer,

Shumin ZhaiAuthors Info & Claims

AVI '04: Proceedings of the working conference on Advanced visual interfaces

Pages 117 - 124

https://doi.org/10.1145/989863.989881

Published: 25 May 2004 Publication History

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Using a new taxonomy of pointing tasks which includes view pointing beside traditional cursor pointing, we introduce the concept of multi-scale pointing. Analyzing the impact of view size, we demonstrate theoretically and experimentally that (1) the time needed to reach a remotely located target in a multi-scale interface still obeys Fitts' law and (2) the bandwidth of the interaction (i.e., the inverse of Fitts' law slope) is proportional to view size, a relationship bounded by an early ceiling effect. We discuss these results with special reference to navigation in miniaturized and enlarged interfaces.

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View size and pointing difficulty in multi-scale navigation
1. Human-centered computing
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