WinFitts: Two-dimensional Fitts experiments on Win32

The Human Computer Interaction Lab (HCI) at the University of Oregon has developed WinFitts, a program for running 2-dimensional Fitts experiments on Win32 platforms. This program was used for our implementation of the ISO 9241 Pointing Device standard. For a description of this standard and its implementation as a set of experiments testing a trackpad and a finger-controlled isometric joystick, see Douglas, S. A., Kirkpatrick, A. E., & MacKenzie, I. S. (1999). Testing pointing device performance and user assessment with the ISO9241, Part 9 standard. To appear in Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - CHI '99. New York: ACM.

The program was implemented using Microsoft Visual C++ 6.0 and the Microsoft Foundation Classes (MFC). There is no documentation for this program, although you will probably be able to figure it out by exploring the menus. You will need to modify the program if your experimental structure is different from the ones supported by this program. Modifying the program will require knowledge of MFC.

Download the WinFitts source code and project (*.DSW) files in .ZIP format

We have also developed a data preparation program, iso2d, which summarizes the output of the Fitts experiment into a form suitable for input to a statistics package. Documentation for this program is in the comments at the start of the source file. The program was implemented in Visual C++ 6.0, but does not use any Microsoft features and should be compilable with any ANSI-compliant C++ compiler. You will almost certainly have to modify this program to suit your particular analysis needs.

Download the iso2d source code and project (*.DSW) files in .ZIP format

If you have any comments, questions, or problems, please contact Arthur Kirkpatrick.

Last Modified: January 18, 2001
by Shasta k Willson