An Automated Test of Fitts' Law and Effects of Target Width and Control/ Display Gain Using a Digitizer Tablet

Abstract

Motor performance in relation to response magnitude and response variability has been one of the most widely studied topics in human factors and experimental psychology. Following Shannon and Weaver's indication(1949)that information theory could be applied to psychological problems, an information- processing model combined with information theory has become a very popular approach to the study of human performance. Fitts(1954, 1964, 1966)was one of the earliest and most influential proponents of this approach. He extended information theory to the human motor system and proposed that the information capacity of the motor system can be interpreted as analogous to Shannon's Theorem 17.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Feb 01, 1988
Accession Number
ADA198202

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  • A. K. Parng

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  • University of South Dakota

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  • Cyber
  • Human Systems

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  • Amplitude
  • Analysis Of Variance
  • Applied Psychology
  • Channel Capacity
  • Command And Control
  • Data Analysis
  • Data Mining
  • Data Science
  • Equations
  • Experimental Design
  • Information Processing
  • Information Science
  • Information Theory
  • Psychology
  • Regression Analysis
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