The Challenges in Modeling Human Performance in 3D Space with Fitts’ Law

Eleftherios Triantafyllidis, Zhibin Li

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Abstract

With the rapid growth in virtual reality technologies, object interaction is becoming increasingly more immersive, elucidating human perception and leading to promising directions towards evaluating human performance under different settings. This spike in technological growth exponentially increased the need for a human performance metric in 3D space. Fitts’ law is perhaps the most widely used human prediction model in HCI history attempting to capture human movement in lower dimensions. Despite the collective effort towards deriving an advanced extension of a 3D human performance model based on Fitts’ law, a standardized metric is still missing. Moreover, most of the extensions to date assume or limit their findings to certain settings, effectively disregarding important variables that are fundamental to 3D object interaction. In this review, we investigate and analyze the most prominent extensions of Fitts’ law and compare their characteristics pinpointing to potentially important aspects for deriving a higher-dimensional performance model. Lastly, we mention the complexities, frontiers as well as potential challenges that may lay ahead.
Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationExtended Abstracts of the 2021 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. CHI EA '21
PublisherACM Association for Computing Machinery
Pages1-9
Number of pages9
ISBN (Electronic)9781450380959
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 8 May 2021
EventThe ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems 2021 - Virtual Conference, Japan
Duration: 8 May 202113 May 2021
https://chi2021.acm.org/

Conference

ConferenceThe ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems 2021
Abbreviated titleCHI 2021
Country/TerritoryJapan
CityVirtual Conference
Period8/05/2113/05/21
Internet address

Keywords / Materials (for Non-textual outputs)

  • Fitts’ Law
  • 3D Performance Model
  • Human Performance
  • 3D Pointing
  • 3D Manipulation
  • Motor Performance Review
  • Object Interaction
  • Virtual Reality
  • Models and Metrics
  • Evaluation Metrics
  • Gestural Input
  • Interaction Techniques

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