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Fitts' law

Fitts' law is the alternative form of Fitts's law.

Meaning of Fitts's law

Proper noun

Fitts's law

  1. 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.

Questions about Fitts' law

What is Fitts' law the alternative form of?
Fitts' law is the alternative form of Fitts's law.

Words near Fitts' law in the dictionary

  1. Fitton
  2. fittonia
  3. fittonias
  4. Fittons
  5. fitts
  6. Fitts' law
  7. Fitts's law
  8. fitty
  9. fitusiran
  10. fitweed
  11. Fitz

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