The Investigation of Pointing Behaviors in Web Browsing
Haining Wang · 2016
Abstract : The STIR proposal aims at understanding Internet users online activities from the influence of a pointing device, such as a mouse, touch pad, and stylus, to an on-screen target. This will allow us to use this new understanding to identify potential cyber threats such as bot actions. There are four tasks proposed in the project: (1) PI will apply Fitts law formula to pointing actions in a natural web browsing environment in an attempt to assess Fitts laws applicability to typical GUIs outside of an experimental setting. (2) PI will identify whether or not fast movements have a different error model from slow movements and study the impact induced by the open-loop nature of fast movements. (3) PI will comparison of Fitts law results for natural browsing using two different pointing devices: physical mouse and laptop touchpad in order to determine whether the choice of pointing device has an effect on the linear relationship described by Fitts law. (4) PI will analyze the standard deviation of Fitts law calculations of mean pointing time, to better understand the variance present in the Fitts model.