Title
A Fitts' Law Evaluation of Video Game Controllers: Thumbstick, Touchpad and Gyrosensor.
Abstract
We present a pilot study evaluating three different game input methods offered by the Steam Controller: a thumb-based touchpad, thumbstick, and gyrosensor. In a Fitts' law pointing experiment, we compared these three input methods to the mouse, a commonly used baseline condition. The mouse had the best throughput at 4.73 bps, followed by the touchpad at 2.98 bps, then the gyrosensor at 2.85 bps, and finally the thumbstick at 2.39 bps. This indicates that the touchpad and gyrosensor are good alternatives to the traditional thumbstick, despite prevalence of the thumbstick on modern game controllers.
Year
DOI
Venue
2017
10.1145/3027063.3053213
CHI Extended Abstracts
Field
DocType
Citations 
Control theory,Thumb,Fitts's law,Computer science,Simulation,Human–computer interaction,Throughput,Touchpad
Conference
3
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.41
7
2
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Adrian Ramcharitar130.75
Robert J. Teather232933.04