Partitioning cursor movements in "point and click" tasks

Studies of cursor trajectories can help explain performance differences in "point and click" tasks. As users can have different difficulties with moving the cursor to a point on the screen, as compared with pressing a button to select an object, it is helpful to study the two stages of the interaction separately. This paper proposes a method of partitioning a cursor trajectory into a travel and a select phase. The movements of motion-impaired users are studied to show that, by analyzing the two phases separately, it is possible to capture aspects of movement that are otherwise lost. Keywords Cursor trajectories, motion-impaired users, pointing devices

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2003
• Where: CHI
• Authors: Faustina Hwang
• Keywords: CHI 2003, Cursor Trajectory, Human Computer Interaction, Keywords Cursor Trajectories, Motion-impaired Users