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Eye and Pointer Coordination in Search and Selection Tasks

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Bieg,  H-J
Department Human Perception, Cognition and Action, Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics, Max Planck Society;
Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics, Max Planck Society;

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Chuang,  LL
Department Human Perception, Cognition and Action, Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics, Max Planck Society;
Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics, Max Planck Society;

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Fleming,  RW
Department Human Perception, Cognition and Action, Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics, Max Planck Society;
Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics, Max Planck Society;

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Bülthoff,  HH
Department Human Perception, Cognition and Action, Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics, Max Planck Society;
Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics, Max Planck Society;

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Bieg, H.-J., Chuang, L., Fleming, R., Reiterer, H., & Bülthoff, H. (2010). Eye and Pointer Coordination in Search and Selection Tasks. In H. Morimoto, H. Istance, A. Hyrskykari, & Q. Ji (Eds.), ETRA '10: Proceedings of the 2010 Symposium on Eye-Tracking Research & Applications (pp. 89-92). New York, NY, USA: ACM Press.


Cite as: https://hdl.handle.net/11858/00-001M-0000-0013-C106-2
Abstract
Selecting a graphical item by pointing with a computer mouse is a ubiquitous task in many graphical user interfaces. Several techniques have been suggested to facilitate this task, for instance, by reducing the required movement distance. Here we measure the natural coordination of eye and mouse pointer control across several search and selection tasks. We find that users automatically minimize the distance to likely targets in an intelligent, task dependent way. When target location is highly predictable, top-down knowledge can enable users to initiate pointer movements prior to target fixation. These findings ques-tion the utility of existing assistive pointing techniques and suggest that alternative approaches might be more effective.