Fitts' law

A form of Fitts's law — A predictive model of human movement primarily used in human-computer interaction and ergonomics, stating that the time required to move rapidly to a target area (for example, using a computer mouse) is a function of the ratio between the distance to the target and the width of the target.

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proper noun
  1. alternativeAlternative form of Fitts's law.
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