Drewes, Heiko; Schmidt, Albrecht:
The MAGIC Touch : Combining MAGIC-Pointing with a Touch-Sensitive Mouse
In: Human-Computer Interaction – INTERACT 2009 : Proceedings, Part II / Gross, Tom; Gulliksen, Jan; Kotzé, Paula; Oestreicher, Lars; Palanque, Philippe; Prates, Raquel Oliveira; Winckler, Marco (Hrsg.). - Berlin: Springer, 2009 - (Lecture Notes in Computer Science ; 5727), S. 415 - 428
2009Buchaufsatz/Kapitel in TagungsbandOpen Access
InformatikWirtschaftswissenschaftenFakultät für Wirtschaftswissenschaften » Fachgebiet Informatik » Pervasive Computing
Titel in Englisch:
The MAGIC Touch : Combining MAGIC-Pointing with a Touch-Sensitive Mouse
Autor*in:
Drewes, Heiko;Schmidt, AlbrechtUDE
LSF ID
49166
ORCID
0000-0003-3890-1990ORCID iD
Sonstiges
der Hochschule zugeordnete*r Autor*in
Open Access?:
Open Access
Scopus ID
Sprache des Textes:
Englisch
Schlagwort, Thema:
Eye-tracking; eye-gaze pointing; touch-sensitive mouse; MAGIC pointing

Abstract in Englisch:

In this paper, we show how to use the combination of eye-gaze and a touch-sensitive mouse to ease pointing tasks in graphical user interfaces. A touch of the mouse positions the mouse pointer at the current gaze position of the user. Thus, the pointer is always at the position where the user expects it on the screen. This approach changes the user experience in tasks that include frequent switching between keyboard and mouse input (e.g. working with spreadsheets). In a user study, we compared the touch-sensitive mouse with a traditional mouse and observed speed improvements for pointing tasks on complex backgrounds. For pointing task on plain backgrounds, performances with both devices were similar, but users perceived the gaze-sensitive interaction of the touch-sensitive mouse as being faster and more convenient. Our results show that using a touch-sensitive mouse that positions the pointer on the user’s gaze position reduces the need for mouse movements in pointing tasks enormously.