Fitts’ Law

 

1-     The Information Capacity of the Human Motor system in Controlling the Amplitude of Movement, P. M. Fitts, Journal of Experimental Psychology, 1954

2-     Information Capacity of Discrete Motor Responses , P. M. Fitts and J. R. Peterson , Journal of Experimental Psychology , 1964

3-     On the rate of gain of information , W. E. Hick , Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology , 1952

4-     Stimulus information as a determinant of reaction time, R. Hyman, Journal of Experimental Psychology,1953

5-     Fitts' law and the microstructure of rapid discrete movements, R. J. Jagacinski and D.W. Repperger and M.S. Moran and S.L. Ward and B. Glass, Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, American Psychological Association, 1980

6-     Movement time prediction in human-computer interfaces, I. S. MacKenzie, Readings in human-computer interaction, 2nd Edition, 1995

7-     Accuracy measures for evaluating computer pointing devices, I. S. MacKenzie and T. Kauppinen and M. Silfverberg, Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems – CHI'01 http://citeseer.nj.nec.com/cache/papers/cs/23643/http:zSzzSzwww.yorku.cazSzmackzSzCHI2001-accuracy.PDF/mackenzie01accuracy.pdf

8-     Performance differences in the fingers, wrist, and forearm in computer input control, R. Balakrishnan and I.S. MacKenzie, Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems – CHI'97  http://www.acm.org/sigchi/chi97/proceedings/paper/rb2.htm

9-     A tool for the rapid evaluation of input devices using Fitts' law models, I. S. MacKenzie and W. Buxton, of the ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, SIGCHI Bulletin, 1993 http://www.billbuxton.com/fitts93.html

10- The prediction of pointing and dragging times in graphical user interfaces, I. S. MacKenzie and W. Buxton, Interacting with Computers, 1994

11- Extending Fitts' law to two-dimensional tasks, I. S. MacKenzie and W. Buxton, Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - CHI'92 http://www.billbuxton.com/fitts92.html

12- Generalized Fitts' Law Model Builder, R. W. Soukoreff and I. S. MacKenzie , Companion Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems -
  CHI'95

13- Acquisition of expanding targets, M. McGuffin and R. Balakrishnan, Companion Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems -
  CHI'02

14- The Bubble Cursor: Enhancing Target Acquisition by Dynamic Resizing of the Cursor's Activation Area, T. Grossman and R. Balakrishnan, Companion Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Smart Interaction Techniques - CHI'05

15- Object pointing: a complement to bitmap pointing in GUIs, Y. Guiard and R. Blanch and M. Beaudouin-Lafon, Proceedings of the 2004 conference on Graphics interface

16- Semantic Pointing: Improving target acquisition with Control-Display ratio adaptation, R. Blanch and Y. Guiard and M. Beaudouin-Lafon, ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, CHI'04

17- Multiscale Pointing: Facilitating Pan-Zoom Coordination, F. Bourgeois and Y. Guiard, Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, CHI'02, Short Talks, 2002

18- Pan-Zoom Coordination in Multi-Scale Pointing, F. Bourgeois and Y. Guiard and M. Beaudouin-Lafon, Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, CHI'01, Interactive Posters, 2001

19- Beyond the 10-Bit Barrier: Fitts' Law in Multiscale Electronic Worlds, Y. Guiard and F. Bourgeois and D. Mottet and M. Beaudouin-Lafon, Proceedings of IHM-HCI 2001

20- Beyond Fitts' Law: Models for Trajectory-Based HCI Taks, J. Accot and S. Zhai, Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, CHI'97, 1997, http://citeseer.nj.nec.com/accot97beyond.html

21- Performance Evaluation of Input Devices in Trajectory-Based Tasks: An Application of the Steering Law, J. Accot and S. Zhai, Proceedings of the SIGCHI conference on Human factors in computing systems: CHI'99, http://www.tls.cena.fr/divisions/PII/Rapports/NR99-662/chi99.html

22- More than dotting the i's Foundations for crossing-based interfaces , Johny Accot,Shumin Zhai,2002, Proceedings of ACM CHI'2002 Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, http://citeseer.nj.nec.com/accot02more.html

23- Scale effects in steering law tasks: Do device size and different motor joints matter? Johny Accot,Shumin Zhai, CHI'2001 Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, http://www.almaden.ibm.com/u/zhai/papers/EASEChinese/Scale.pdf

24- More than dotting the i's Foundations for crossing-based interfaces , Johny Accot,Shumin Zhai,2002, Proceedings of ACM CHI'2002 Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, http://citeseer.nj.nec.com/accot02more.html

25- A Study of the Performance of Steering Tasks under  , Spatial Transformation of Input Mihail E Tudoreanu and Eileen Kraemer,  http://citeseer.nj.nec.com/591935.html

26- The "Silk Cursor": Investigating transparency for 3D target acquisition, Zhai, S., Buxton, W. & Milgram, P. (1994), Proceedings of CHI '94, 459-464. , http://www.billbuxton.com/silkcursor.pdf

27- The "Silk Cursor": Investigating transparency for 3D target acquisition, Zhai, S., Buxton, W. & Milgram, P. (1994), Proceedings of CHI '94, 459-464. , http://www.billbuxton.com/silkcursor.pdf

28- Improving browsing performance: A study of four input devices for scrolling and pointing tasks, S. Zhai and B. Smith and T. Selker,  Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, CHI'93.

29- Human On-line Response to Target Expansion, S. Zhai and S. Conversy and M. Beaudoin-lafon and Y. Guiard, Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, CHI'03

30- View size and pointing difficulty in multi-scale navigation , Y. Guiard and M. Beaudouin-Lafon and J. Bastin and D. Pasveer and S. Zhai , AVI '04: Proceedings of the working conference on Advanced visual interfaces, 2004

31- Tangible Bits: Towards Seamless Interfaces between People, Bits, and Atoms, H. Ishii and B. Ullmer, Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, CHI'97

32- Beating Fitts' Law: Virtual enhancements for pointing facilitation, R. Balakrishnan, International Journal of Human-Computer studies, IJHCS, Elsevier Science Publishing, 2004

33- Speed-accuracy tradeoff in Fitts' law tasks-on the equivalency of actual and nominal pointing precision, S. Zhai and J. Kong and X. Ren, International Journal of Human-Computer studies, IJHCS, Elsevier Science Publishing, 2004

34- Behind Fitts' law: kinematic patterns in goal-directed movements, R. J. Bootsma and L. Fernandez and D. Mottet, International Journal of Human-Computer studies, IJHCS, Elsevier Science Publishing, 2004

35- Towards a standard for pointing device evaluation, perspectives on 27 years of Fitts' law research in HCI, R. W. Soukoreff and I. S. MacKenzie, International Journal of Human-Computer studies, IJHCS, Elsevier Science Publishing, 2004

36- Characterizing computer input with Fitts' law parameters- the information and non-information aspects of pointing, S. Zhai, International Journal of Human-Computer studies, IJHCS, Elsevier Science Publishing, 2004

37- Target acquisition in multiscale electronic worlds, Y. Guiard and M. Beaudouin-Lafon, International Journal of Human-Computer studies, IJHCS, Elsevier Science Publishing, 2004

38- Why Engineers Should Know and Use Fitts' Law? C. A. Phillips and D. W. Repperger, Proceedings - 19th International Conference - IEEE/EMBS

39- Bullseye! When Fitts' Law Doesn't Fit , N. Friedlander and K. Schlueter and M. Mantei , Proceedings of the SIGCHI conference on Human factors in computing systems , CHI'98

40- Evaluation of mouse, rate-controlled isometric joystick, step keys, and text keys for text selection on a CRT, S. K. Card and W. K. English and B. J. Burr, Ergonomics, 1978

41- Comparing Two One-handed Access Methods on a PDA, L. Dong and C. Watters and J. Duffy, Proceedings of the MobileHCI’05, Salzburg, Austria, 2005

42- Feedback control of hand-movement and Fitts' law, E. R. F. W. Crossman and P. J. Goodeve, Journal of Experimental Psychology, (Original work presented at the meeting of
  the Experimental Psychology Society, Oxford, England, July 1963), 1983

43- An investigation of Fitts' Law using a wide range of movement amplitudes, G. D. Langolf and D. B. Chaffin and J. A. Foulke, Journal of Motor Behaviour, 1976

44- Capture of moving targets: A modification of Fitts' law, E. R. Hoffmann, Ergonomics, 1991

45- Navigation as multiscale pointing: extending Fitts' model to very high precision tasks, Y. Guiard and M. Beaudouin-Lafon and D. Mottet, Proceedings of the SIGCHI conference on Human factors in computing systems: CHI'99

46- Fitts' Law as a Performance Model in Human-Computer Interaction , I. Scott MacKenzie , PhD thesis, University of Toronto,  1991, http://www.yorku.ca/mack/phd.html

47- Effects of Output Display and Control-Display Gain on Human Performance in Interactive Systems, I. S. MacKenzie and S. Riddersma, Behaviour and Information Technology, 1994

48- An audio perspective over predictive HCI models, PhD thesis