Computer Science ›› 2015, Vol. 42 ›› Issue (9): 50-55.doi: 10.11896/j.issn.1002-137X.2015.09.011

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Comparison of Direct and Indirect Pen Tilt Input Performance

XIN Yi-zhong, MA Ying and YU Xia   

  • Online:2018-11-14 Published:2018-11-14

Abstract: More and more pen devices introduce tilting to expend the parallel input capacity.However,when using pen tilt on direct device and indirect device respectively,due to the diversities of operating environment and visual feedback,the performance of direct and indirect pen tilt input are often discrepant.Aiming at exploring the differences of pen tilt input performance on these two kinds of devices,we empirically investigated the speed,stability and accuracy of pen tilt input in target selection tasks according to different angle interval.We discussed the possible reasons why the performances of pen tilt input are different and suggested the optimal tilt angle interval and tilt target.Experimental results indicate that the human abilities to control pen tilt in direct and indirect input device are different.That users complete tilt selection tasks on direct devices is faster but less stable and accurate than on the indirect ones.20° tilt angle interval is the optimal interval for user to select both of devices,while the indirect one is better if smaller interval is given.Therefore,this study gave guidelines for pen interface designs in direct and indirect pen tilt conditions and presented user habits with these two kinds of devices as a reference.

Key words: Human-computer interaction,Pen tilt angle,Direct input,Indirect input

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