Re: Some small ideas for the Shell Panel and Overview

[Marshall Neill <ramien43 windstream net>]

This will be my last posting on this topic.
Put your hand on the mouse, now move your hand to the right.
With me, and maybe I am the weird one here, the  pointer will move in an 
arc to the lower left, move to the right and the arc is up to the right.


On 04/09/2011 02:01 PM, Vishnoo wrote:
> On Sat, 2011-04-09 at 19:59 +0200, Florian Müllner wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > On Sat, 2011-04-09 at 10:44 -0500, Marshall Neill wrote:
> > > Right-handed people would seem to look to the right and moving the mouse
> > > to the right is easier.
> > This sounds rather surprising to me - are there any studies related to
> > this? With regards to movement: If I recall Fitts' law correctly, for
> > right-handed people the top-left corner makes a slightly easier target
> > than the top-right (though in practice each corner is just fine).
> Yup, seems so:
>
> "A right-handed user can access, in order of increasing difficulty, and
> starting with the point already mentioned:
>
>     a. The pixel immediately at the current cursor location: Click the
> mouse and you're done.
>
>     b. The bottom-right corner.
>     c. The top-left corner.
>     d. The top-right corner.
>     e. The bottom-left corner. "
>
> From:<http://www.asktog.com/columns/022DesignedToGiveFitts.html>
>
> However, it also depends on the angle at which user's hand is actually
> holding the mouse. Usually, people are at a desk and have the mouse
> right next to the keyboard, and the above would be fine.
> But if the user's hand is not at that angle, then angle of ease for
> movement would vary.