A Comparison of Pressure and Tilt Input Techniques for Cursor Control

Xiaolei ZHOU; Xiangshi REN

doi:10.1587/transinf.E92.D.1683

A Comparison of Pressure and Tilt Input Techniques for Cursor Control

Xiaolei ZHOU, Xiangshi REN

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Three experiments were conducted in this study to investigate the human ability to control pen pressure and pen tilt input, by coupling this control with cursor position, angle and scale. Comparisons between pen pressure input and pen tilt input have been made in the three experiments. Experimental results show that decreasing pressure input resulted in very poor performance and was not a good input technique for any of the three experiments. In "Experiment 1-Coupling to Cursor Position", the tilt input technique performed relatively better than the increasing pressure input technique in terms of time, even though the tilt technique had a slightly higher error rate. In "Experiment 2-Coupling to Cursor Angle", the tilt input performed a little better than the increasing pressure input in terms of time, but the gap between them is not so apparent as Experiment 1. In "Experiment 3-Coupling to Cursor Scale", tilt input performed a little better than increasing pressure input in terms of adjustment time. Based on the results of our experiments, we have inferred several design implications and guidelines.

Publication: IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Information Vol.E92-D No.9 pp.1683-1691

Publication Date: 2009/09/01

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Online ISSN: 1745-1361

DOI: 10.1587/transinf.E92.D.1683

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Category: Human-computer Interaction

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Xiaolei ZHOU, Xiangshi REN, "A Comparison of Pressure and Tilt Input Techniques for Cursor Control" in IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Information, vol. E92-D, no. 9, pp. 1683-1691, September 2009, doi: 10.1587/transinf.E92.D.1683.
Abstract: Three experiments were conducted in this study to investigate the human ability to control pen pressure and pen tilt input, by coupling this control with cursor position, angle and scale. Comparisons between pen pressure input and pen tilt input have been made in the three experiments. Experimental results show that decreasing pressure input resulted in very poor performance and was not a good input technique for any of the three experiments. In "Experiment 1-Coupling to Cursor Position", the tilt input technique performed relatively better than the increasing pressure input technique in terms of time, even though the tilt technique had a slightly higher error rate. In "Experiment 2-Coupling to Cursor Angle", the tilt input performed a little better than the increasing pressure input in terms of time, but the gap between them is not so apparent as Experiment 1. In "Experiment 3-Coupling to Cursor Scale", tilt input performed a little better than increasing pressure input in terms of adjustment time. Based on the results of our experiments, we have inferred several design implications and guidelines.
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