The Effects of Panel Location, Target Size, and Gender on Efficiency in Simple Direct Manipulation Tasks

Michalski, Rafał

doi:10.5772/6311

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“…This outcome is partly consistent with tasks performed in some previous works (e.g. [4], [21], where women were slower than men but were more accurate. The overall number of errors in this study was more than twice as big as in [21] which indicates a more difficult task.…”

Section: Discussionsupporting

confidence: 91%

“…In the literature, panel layouts were most often analyzed and optimized from a perspective of moving a hand or mouse pointers between panel components (e.g. [14], [20], [21], [24]) The present paper examines the usability of specific control panel layout types by analyzing the number of errors made (effectiveness) and task execution times (efficiency). These basic analyses are deepened by the detailed exploration of human visual activity temporal parameters, registered during experimental tasks.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Eye Tracking Based Experimental Study on Basic Digital Control Panel Usability

Michalski¹

2016

2016 Third European Network Intelligence Conference (ENIC)

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Various versions of a typical control panels are experimentally analyzed both from the effectiveness and efficiency point of view. The stimuli differed in objects' locations within a panel, and the type of the expected response to the presented stimuli. The results of users' performance are investigated using classical analyses of variance. Moreover, visual activity of all examined persons gathered by means of eye tracking system were presented and formally analyzed.

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Section: Discussionsupporting

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Section: Introductionmentioning

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Eye Tracking Based Experimental Study on Basic Digital Control Panel Usability

Michalski¹

2016

2016 Third European Network Intelligence Conference (ENIC)

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“…The results of performing numerous visual tests discussed in [24] suggest generally higher efficiency of men (especially in the group under 30) in various types of visual message processing. However, some experimental studies indicate that women, though on the average slower in performing visually guided tasks, are superior to males when the accuracy is taken into account (e.g., [25][26][27]). It seems that our findings support this hypothesis, all the more that subjects had unlimited time to perform the experimental tasks.…”

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Vector and Triangular Representations of Project Estimation Uncertainty: Effect of Gender on Usability

Kuchta

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Michalski

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Computational Science – ICCS 2021

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The paper proposes a new visualisation in the form of vectors of notfully-known quantitative features. The proposal is put in the context of project defining and planning and the importance of visualisation for decision making. The new approach is empirically compared with the already known visualisation utilizing membership functions of triangular fuzzy numbers. The designed and conducted experiment was aimed at evaluating the usability of the new approach according to ISO 9241-11. Overall 76 subjects performed 72 experimental conditions designed to assess the effectiveness of uncertainty conveyance. Efficiency and satisfaction were examined by participants subjective assessment of appropriate statements. The experiment results show that the proposed visualisation may constitute a significant alternative to the known, triangle-based visualisation. The paper emphasizes potential advantages for the proposed representation for project management and in other areas.

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“…Additionally, there have been many studies investigating the effects of gender on pointing task performances (e.g., Michalski, 2008;Rohr, 2006), while experimental evidence of the gender difference induced by display size effect is rare.…”

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“…A recent study (Cockburn, Ahlström, & Gutwin, ) showed that the movement (or submovement) type of limbs/fingers and muscle groups (which were defined as “motor scale” in this study, the scale of upper limb joint coordination) used should be considered together with varied directions of cursor movements (i.e., task complexity) to compare the performances between the tasks of input devices. Additionally, there have been many studies investigating the effects of gender on pointing task performances (e.g., Michalski, ; Rohr, ), while experimental evidence of the gender difference induced by display size effect is rare.…”

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Balance with the interactive size effects of display, target, and key spacing in tablet tapping, dragging, and typing tasks

Chen

2019

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This study aimed to expand the current demonstration of display size effects from pointing tasks to dragging and tap‐typing tasks to investigate the effects of influential factors on the performance of touchscreen tablets. From 7‐ to 11‐in. displays, the index of difficulty was kept constant by increasing the target amplitudes and widths (6.0–9.5 mm) proportionally, and the key spacing were, respectively, 13.5 × 7.3–21.5 × 11.5 mm with 0‐mm key gaps. The results demonstrated that simple task types (complexities) reinforced the display size effects and that the effects interacted with target sizes (including amplitude/width scaling) and key spacing to reflect increasing efficiency and usability with increasing sizes. Gender effects were only significant in subjective assessments. Display sizes approaching 10 in., target sizes not less than 7 mm (optimal 9–10 mm) and key spacing larger than 17.5 mm induced the effects of motor scale (the scale of the upper limb joint coordination) and interacted with one another to result in the optimal performance and usability.

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The Effects of Panel Location, Target Size, and Gender on Efficiency in Simple Direct Manipulation Tasks

Cited by 4 publications

References 40 publications

Eye Tracking Based Experimental Study on Basic Digital Control Panel Usability

Eye Tracking Based Experimental Study on Basic Digital Control Panel Usability

Vector and Triangular Representations of Project Estimation Uncertainty: Effect of Gender on Usability

Balance with the interactive size effects of display, target, and key spacing in tablet tapping, dragging, and typing tasks

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