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Investigating Effects of Post-Selection Feedback for Acquiring Ultra-Small Targets on Touchscreen

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CHI '16: Proceedings of the 2016 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

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https://doi.org/10.1145/2858036.2858593

Published: 07 May 2016 Publication History

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In this paper, we investigate the effects of post-selection feedback for acquiring ultra-small (2-4mm) targets on touchscreens. Post-selection feedback shows the contact point on touchscreen after a user lifts his/her fingers to increase users' awareness of touching. Three experiments are conducted progressively using a single crosshair target, two reciprocally acquired targets and 2D random targets. Results show that in average post-selection feedback can reduce touch error rates by 78.4%, with a compromise of target acquisition time no more than 10%. In addition, we investigate participants' adjustment behavior based on correlation between successive trials. We conclude that the benefit of post-selection feedback is the outcome of both improved understanding about finger/point mapping and the dynamic adjustment of finger movement enabled by the visualization of the touch point.

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