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Varying Subjective Speed-accuracy Biases to Evaluate the Generalizability of Experimental Conclusions on Pointing-facilitation Techniques

Abstract

In typical experiments to evaluate novel pointing-facilitation techniques, participants are asked to perform a task as rapidly and accurately as possible. However, the balance can differ among participants, and the techniques’ effectiveness would change if the majority of participants give weight to either speed or accuracy. We investigated the effects of three subjective biases (emphasizing speed, neutral, and emphasizing accuracy) on the evaluation results of pointing-facilitation techniques, namely Bubble Cursor and Bayesian Touch Criterion (BTC). The results indicate that Bubble Cursor outperformed the baseline in terms of movement time and error rate under all bias conditions, while BTC underperformed a simpler target-prediction technique, which was an inconsistent outcome to the original study. Examining multiple biases enables researchers to discuss the (dis)advantages of novel or existing techniques more precisely, which can be beneficial to reach a more reliable conclusion.

Information

Book title

CHI '23: Proceedings of the 2023 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

Volume

317

Pages

1-13

Date of issue

2023/04/19

DOI

https://doi.org/10.1145/3544548.3580740

Citation

Shota Yamanaka, Taiki Kinoshita, Yosuke Oba, Ryuto Tomihari, Homei Miyashita. Varying Subjective Speed-accuracy Biases to Evaluate the Generalizability of Experimental Conclusions on Pointing-facilitation Techniques, CHI '23: Proceedings of the 2023 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, Vol.317, pp.1-13, 2023.

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