Homework
- Homework 1: Web Design Critique
due September 8th
- Read Hinckley, K., E. Cutrell, S. Bathiche, and T. Muss. Quantitative analysis of scrolling
techniques. Proceedings of CHI'02, pp. 65-72.
for November 2nd
- How does Fitts' law (pp. 367-369 of the textbook) apply to a scrolling task?
- Figure 1 show an example of a crossover effect. Why is it important?
- According to authors, what are the pros and cons of the ScrollPoint device? What about the
scrollwheel? The authors also proposed a modification to the scrollwheel, why?
- What are the main contributions presented in this paper? What are the authors' hypotheses?
What sort of study did they perform?
- In the study, participants were asked to perform a set of tasks. Why were these task selected,
and what were the authors measuring?
- What are the quantitative results of the experiment? What are the qualitative feedbacks gathered
by the authors?
