Title :

No more bricolage! Methods and tools to characterize, replicate and compare pointing transfer functions

Author(s) :

Casiez, Géry [Auteur]
Laboratoire d'Informatique Fondamentale de Lille [LIFL]
Methods and tools for gestural interactions [MINT]
Roussel, Nicolas [Auteur]
Methods and tools for gestural interactions [MINT]

Conference title :

UIST'11, 24th ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology

City :

Santa Barbara

Country :

Etats-Unis d'Amérique

Start date of the conference :

2011-10-16

Publication date :

2011-10-19

HAL domain(s) :

Informatique [cs]/Interface homme-machine [cs.HC]

English abstract : [en]

Transfer functions are the only pointing facilitation technique actually used in modern graphical interfaces involving the in- direct control of an on-screen cursor. But despite their gen- eral use, very little is known ...
Show more >Transfer functions are the only pointing facilitation technique actually used in modern graphical interfaces involving the in- direct control of an on-screen cursor. But despite their gen- eral use, very little is known about them. We present Echo- Mouse, a device we created to characterize the transfer func- tions of any system, and libpointing, a toolkit that we devel- oped to replicate and compare the ones used by Windows, OS X and Xorg. We describe these functions and report on an experiment that compared the default one of the three sys- tems. Our results show that these default functions improve performance up to 24% compared to a unitless constant CD gain. We also found significant differences between them, with the one from OS X improving performance for small target widths but reducing its performance up to 9% for larger ones compared to Windows and Xorg. These results notably suggest replacing the constant CD gain function commonly used by HCI researchers by the default function of the con- sidered systems.Show less >

Language :

Anglais

Peer reviewed article :

Oui

Audience :

Internationale

Popular science :

Non

Collections :

• Centre de Recherche en Informatique, Signal et Automatique de Lille (CRIStAL) - UMR 9189

Source :

Harvested from HAL