To Miss is Human: Information-Theoretic Rationale for Target Misses in Fitts’ Law

Published in ACM CHI, 2017

Recommended citation: Gori, Julien, Olivier Rioul, and Yves Guiard. "To Miss is Human: Information-Theoretic Rationale for Target Misses in Fitts’ Law." Proceedings of the 2017 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. 2017. https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-01690133/document

This work discusses how to treat target misses in a Fitts’ law task, and in particular the distinction between errors, where the amplitude of the miss matters, and erasures, where the amplitude of the miss does not matter. This idea is also exploited in our 2018 TOCHI submission