Target Acquisition in Multiscale Electronic Worlds



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Exp. 1

Figure 23. Bandwidth for a broad range of view sizes. Error bars represent α=.05 confidence limits based
on between-participant variability. Note that the sign of the
y variable (the slope of the IDt vs. time
function) has been inverted.

5.3.2. Experiment 2b: Lower Range of View Size

Using a new sample of volunteers, we replicated Experiment 2a with a lower range of view
sizes to check whether the variations of
V below 40 pixels does indeed influence bandwidth
and, if yes, to evaluate whether or not the proportionality relation stated by Equation 6 holds.
The task, the levels of
ID (14 and 17 bits), and the design were the same. The only change
was that the levels of
V were now 5, 7, 10, 15, 20, and 40 pixels.

Results and Discussion

Exp. 2

Bandwidth
(bit/s)

Figure 24. Bandwidth for a lower selection of view sizes.

The results, illustrated in Figure 24, confirmed our suspicions. Not only did the bandwidth
decrease dramatically as
V was reduced below 20-40 pixels but the shape of the curve was
consistent with our hypothesis that the relationship starts as a proportionality. Evaluated over
the leftmost three and four points of the plot, the
r2 for fitting a straight line was fairly high in
all six participants (mean
±sd = .988±.009 and .913±.046, respectively) and the intercept small
enough to give credit to the proportionality hypothesis (-0.82
±0.32 and 0.03±0.34,
respectively).

Summary

Experiment 2 supports the hypothesis that in multiscale view pointing (1) the bandwidth of
the interaction varies proportionally with view size up to a certain critical point and (2)



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