TY - JOUR
T1 - When Is Moving a Cursor With a Computer Mouse Intuitive?
AU - Brenner, Eli
AU - de Graaf, Myriam L.
AU - Stam, Marielle J.
AU - Schonwetter, Margreet
AU - Smeets, Jeroen B.J.
AU - van Beers, Robert J.
PY - 2020/4/1
Y1 - 2020/4/1
N2 - People have a good intuition of how to move a computer mouse to place a cursor at a desired position on a screen. This is surprising because the hand and the mouse are at different locations and they generally move in different directions and over different distances. But using a computer mouse is not always intuitive: try positioning a cursor after turning the mouse by 90° in your hand. To examine when using a computer mouse is intuitive, we asked participants to move a cursor to targets on a screen by moving a mouse along a surface. We varied the orientation of this surface in space and that of the mouse in the hand. Participants performed best when the mapping between hand and cursor motion was close to what we are accustomed to, either in space or relative to the forearm.
AB - People have a good intuition of how to move a computer mouse to place a cursor at a desired position on a screen. This is surprising because the hand and the mouse are at different locations and they generally move in different directions and over different distances. But using a computer mouse is not always intuitive: try positioning a cursor after turning the mouse by 90° in your hand. To examine when using a computer mouse is intuitive, we asked participants to move a cursor to targets on a screen by moving a mouse along a surface. We varied the orientation of this surface in space and that of the mouse in the hand. Participants performed best when the mapping between hand and cursor motion was close to what we are accustomed to, either in space or relative to the forearm.
KW - computer mouse
KW - frames of reference
KW - perception/action
KW - sensorimotor transformations
KW - tool use
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U2 - 10.1177/0301006620915152
DO - 10.1177/0301006620915152
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85082939418
VL - 49
SP - 484
EP - 487
JO - Perception
JF - Perception
SN - 0301-0066
IS - 4
ER -