MICELAB: Spatial processing of mouse movement in Turbo Pascal

Springer Science and Business Media LLC - Tập 27 - Trang 76-82 - 1995
Thierry Baccino1, Alan Kennedy2
1Laboratoire de Psychologie Expérimentale, Université de Nice Sophia-Antipolis, Nice Cedex 3, France
2University of Dundee, Dundee, Scotland

Tóm tắt

Pointing tasks with a mouse are very useful in psychological experiments concerned with a subject’s ability to track a visual object or to move to a target location (e.g., to find a word in text). Such tasks are quite easily performed by subjects, and numerous variables may be obtained from the mouse movement. In this article we describe a set of Turbo Pascal 6.0 units and a program running on the IBM PC family that show how data (x,y coordinates) recorded from a mouse movement can be analyzed to give dispersion, direction, and distance of the movement.

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