Quizlet

Input devices

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• Are these new devices useful?

What are different types of keyboards, layouts, etc

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• ergonomic
• mechanical
  • more tactile feedback
• DVORAK
• digital (touch, swipe, onscreen)
  • slower
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• Qwerty vs DVORAK
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• Not necessarily worth it

What are tasks we would do with pointing devices

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• selection
• positioning
• choosing a point in space
• quantifying
  • selecting numerical value
• gesturing
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• indirect-control vs direct-control
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• Fitt’s Law
  • Model of human movement which tracks the time it takes for a user complete an action

What pointing devices have you seen?

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• Trackpad
• Trackball
• mouse
• stylus
• joysticks

• fingers

• Future devices
  • eye tracking
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• proximity input and gestures

• Leap Motion

Different kinds of displays

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• Touchscreens for maps
• Different refresh rates
• Table top display
• Projected (wall) display
• head-mounted
  • virtual reality
• phree

Thursday

• Walk through and see other groups and see if people have ideas that are helpful
  • See if your idea makes sense to people
• Need a paper prototype

vocab

term	definition
pointing activities	selection, positioning, choosing points in space, quantifying, gesturing
direct control	user’s physical movement exactly maps to the digital outcome (ex touch screen)
indirect control	user’s physical movement does not exactly map to the digital translation (ex mouse)
Fitt’s Law	model of human movement which tracks the time it takes for a user complete an action