Computer graphics processing and selective visual display system – Display driving control circuitry – Controlling the condition of display elements
Patent
1996-04-30
1999-03-09
Bayerl, Raymond J.
Computer graphics processing and selective visual display system
Display driving control circuitry
Controlling the condition of display elements
G06F 300
Patent
active
058807233
ABSTRACT:
An objective, quantitative metric is used in a system that measures the physical effort expended by a user on computer input devices while the user manages the functionality of application software so that an evaluation of the desirability of computer-human interfaces being evaluated is generated. For certain convex polygonal targets of arbitrary size and location relative to a target acquiring device, the present invention identifies a circular subset of points that permits determination of the width and distance parameters of Fitts' Index of Difficulty and thus, permits objective quantification of the physical effort incurred in acquiring a target via computer input devices. The invention itself presents a method for symbolically expressing actual targets appearing on a computer-human interface and physical actions required by a user to accomplish a task set utilizing the application software. This symbolic capability also presents procedures for storing relevant alterations to actual targets occasioned by user manipulations. Targets to which the invention applies are computer interface entities in the shapes of triangles, standard rectangles, parallelograms, trapezoids, and general convex quadrilaterals.
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