Computer Software
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A Support Technique to Begin Dragging Narrow Targets and its Evaluation
Shota YAMANAKAHomei MIYASHITA
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2016 Volume 33 Issue 1 Pages 1_111-1_125

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Dragging and dropping narrow and long targets, such as resizing windows by moving their edges, requires accurate manipulation and takes a long time. To facilitate such tasks, we propose a new technique called Cross-drag. We developed a system to utilize this technique in a realistic GUI environment. Moreover, we discussed the performance of Cross-drag by comparing it with other pointing methods used to drag-and-drop. The experiment to evaluate our technique was conducted by dragging-and-dropping narrow targets with various width/height/gap sizes. The operation time and error rate results showed that Cross-drag outperformed the traditional pointing-based drag-and-drop under many conditions, thereby illustrating the effectiveness of Cross-drag.

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