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Is fitts' law continuous in discrete aiming?

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The lawful continuous linear relation between movement time and task difficulty (i.e., index of difficulty; ID) in a goal-directed rapid aiming task (Fitts' law) has been recently challenged in reciprocal performance. Specifically, a discontinuity was observed at critical ID and was attributed to a transition between two distinct dynamic regimes that occurs with increasing difficulty. In the present paper, we show that such a discontinuity is also present in discrete aiming when ID is manipulated via target width (experiment 1) but not via target distance (experiment 2). Fitts' law's discontinuity appears, therefore, to be a suitable indicator of the underlying functional adaptations of the neuro-muscular-skeletal system to task properties/requirements, independently of reciprocal or discrete nature of the task. These findings open new perspectives to the study of dynamic regimes involved in discrete aiming and sensori-motor mechanisms underlying the speed-accuracy trade-off.
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hal-01450706 , version 1 (03-10-2018)

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Rita Sleimen-Malkoun, Jean Jacques Temprado, Raoul Huys, Viktor Jirsa, Eric Berton. Is fitts' law continuous in discrete aiming?. PLoS ONE, 2012, 7 (7), pp.e41190. ⟨10.1371/journal.pone.0041190⟩. ⟨hal-01450706⟩
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