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      Improving expressivity in desktop interactions with a pressure-augmented mouse

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      Date
      2008
      Author
      Cechanowicz, Jared Edward
      Type
      Thesis
      Degree Level
      Masters
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      Abstract
      Desktop-based Windows, Icons, Menus and Pointers (WIMP) interfaces have changed very little in the last 30 years, and are still limited by a lack of powerful and expressive input devices and interactions. In order to make desktop interactions more expressive and controllable, expressive input mechanisms like pressure input must be made available to desktop users. One way to provide pressure input to these users is through a pressure-augmented computer mouse; however, before pressure-augmented mice can be developed, design information must be provided to mouse developers. The problem we address in this thesis is that there is a lack of ergonomics and performance information for the design of pressure-augmented mice. Our solution was to provide empirical performance and ergonomics information for pressure-augmented mice by performing five experiments. With the results of our experiments we were able to identify the optimal design parameters for pressure-augmented mice and provide a set of recommendations for future pressure-augmented mouse designs.
      Degree
      Master of Science (M.Sc.)
      Department
      Computer Science
      Program
      Computer Science
      Supervisor
      Gutwin, Carl
      Committee
      Stanley, Kevin; Mandryk, Regan; Kelly, Debbie M.; Irani, Pourang; Subramanian, Sriram
      Copyright Date
      2008
      URI
      http://hdl.handle.net/10388/etd-11192008-230346
      Subject
      interaction design
      input devices
      augmented interaction
      HCI
      interaction
      pressure
      force
      mouse
      expressivity
      desktop interaction
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