Comparison of tilting, jumping, and accelerated mouse as new mouse interactions for wide display

Background Although the wider display than in the past has increased the amount of space the cursor can move, the interaction of mouse manipulation and cursor movement remains unchanged. Therefore, when pointing to a target on a wide display, users must move the mouse more and move the cursor for longer. To improve this, we propose the new mouse interactions that can move the cursor quickly with only a few mouse manipulations in a wide display environment. Methods The proposed interactions are that the cursor jumps rapidly to the center of an adjacent window in the display, depending on the slope of the mouse (tilting mouse), the speed at which the cursor moves (accelerated mouse), or the operation at which the mouse is lifted (jumping mouse). Then we implemented the prototypes of the proposed three mouse interactions and performed an experiment to compare with the general mouse. Participants performed the task of clicking the target in the wide display as fast as possible using four kinds of mouse in arbitrary order. Results Experimental result showed that the accelerated mouse showed the best results in all aspects such as task completion time, cursor movement speed, and subjective satisfaction. The accelerated mouse was an interaction that jumps the cursor to the center of the window closest to the movement direction when the cursor accelerated is faster than a certain value. This seems to be due to the fact that the accelerated mouse is easier and more natural to perform the movement of the cursor than the tilting or jumping mouse. Conclusions Accelerated mouse can be used widely for wide display in the future because it can be implemented without any additional hardware while using the general mouse operation is still used.