A Note on the Information-theoretic Basis of Fitts' Law

Overview

Journal J Mot Behav

Publisher Routledge

Specialty Physiology

Date 1989 Sep 1

PMID 15136269

Citations 25

Authors

I S Mackenzie

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Abstract

Fitts' law is an information-theoretic view of human motor behavior developed from Shannon's Theorem, 17, a fundamental theorem of communications systems. Using data from Fitts' original experiments, we demonstrate that Fitts' choice of an equation that deviates slightly from the underlying principal is perhaps unfounded, and that the relationship is improved by using an exact adaptation of Shannon's equation.

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