[Sigia-l] Click that eye

[Berry, Nicholas F]

It moves too fast.  If I make a mistake and mouseover a link on the way
to another link, I can't go back without clicking.  

-----Original Message-----
From: Ziya Oz [mailto:listera at earthlink.net] 
Sent: Tuesday, July 11, 2006 11:10 AM
To: SIGIA-L
Subject: Re: [Sigia-l] Click that eye

Jonathan Baker-Bates:
 
> I'm not an HCI guru so I'm on thin ice with this, but is this idea not

> fundamentally flawed? Computer interaction generally has a "point and 
> shoot" model: you use your senses to "acquire" a target for 
> interaction, you then need to think about something before you "shoot"

> with the input device to initiate the interaction with the system. If 
> you combine the acquisition mechanism with the input device it'll be 
> like www.dontclick.it, only ten times worse.

So you don't like www.dontclick.it? :-)

I don't know how this particular system works, but in general, you can
use finely-tunable statistical timing methods to "learn" how a specific
user acquires targets and initiates a clickless click and create a
personalized signature, as it were. (Financial industry uses a similar
method of timing how fast you type your password and patterns therein to
authenticate, for
example.) On a cleanly hierarchical system like the iPod interface I bet
one can get pretty good results that way.

Still, sounds a bit of wishful thinking, innit?

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Ziya