Looking through the Eye of the Mouse: A Simple Method for Measuring End-to-end Latency using an Optical Mouse

Casiez, Géry; Conversy, Stéphane; Falce, Matthieu; Huot, Stephane; Roussel, Nicolas

Document type :

Communication dans un congrès avec actes

DOI :

10.1145/2807442.2807454

Title :

Looking through the Eye of the Mouse: A Simple Method for Measuring End-to-end Latency using an Optical Mouse

Author(s) :

Casiez, Géry [Auteur]

Computing tools to empower users [MJOLNIR]
Conversy, Stéphane [Auteur]
ENAC - Equipe Informatique Interactive [LII]
Falce, Matthieu [Auteur]
Computing tools to empower users [MJOLNIR]
Huot, Stephane [Auteur]

Computing tools to empower users [MJOLNIR]
Roussel, Nicolas [Auteur]
Computing tools to empower users [MJOLNIR]

Scientific editor(s) :

ACM Press

Conference title :

UIST '15

City :

Charlotte

Country :

Etats-Unis d'Amérique

Start date of the conference :

2015-11-08

Journal title :

UIST '15 Proceedings of the 28th Annual ACM Symposium on User Interface Software & Technology

Publisher :

ACM

Publication date :

2015-11-11

English keyword(s) :

latency measure
lag
Latency
computer mouse.
latency jitter

HAL domain(s) :

Informatique [cs]/Interface homme-machine [cs.HC]
Informatique [cs]/Bibliothèque électronique [cs.DL]

English abstract : [en]

We present a simple method for measuring end-to-end latency in graphical user interfaces. The method works with most optical mice and allows accurate and real time latency measures up to 5 times per second. In addition, ...
Show more >We present a simple method for measuring end-to-end latency in graphical user interfaces. The method works with most optical mice and allows accurate and real time latency measures up to 5 times per second. In addition, the technique allows easy insertion of probes at different places in the system I.e. mouse events listeners - to investigate the sources of latency. After presenting the measurement method and our methodology, we detail the measures we performed on different systems, toolkits and applications. Results show that latency is affected by the operating system and system load. Substantial differences are found between C++/GLUT and C++/Qt or Java/Swing implementations, as well as between web browsers.Show less >

Language :

Anglais

Peer reviewed article :

Oui

Audience :

Internationale

Popular science :

Non

ANR Project :

Interactions tactiles haute performance

Collections :