{"id":432,"date":"2016-08-03T19:13:54","date_gmt":"2016-08-03T19:13:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.purdue.edu\/hhs\/hk\/Biomechanics-MotorBehavior\/?p=432"},"modified":"2016-08-03T19:13:54","modified_gmt":"2016-08-03T19:13:54","slug":"individual-differences-in-fitts-law-performance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.purdue.edu\/hhs\/hk\/Biomechanics-MotorBehavior\/individual-differences-in-fitts-law-performance\/","title":{"rendered":"Individual differences in Fitts\u2019 Law Performance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Fitts\u2019 Law (JEP, 1954) is the most robust relation in all of motor performance, relating movement time, T, movement distance, D, and target precision, W, in the now famous T = a + bLog2 (2D\/W). \u00a0This law characterizes averaged group behavior. \u00a0We have asked whether this relation can be used to classify individuals as reliably good or poor Fitts\u2019 Law performers. \u00a0In our first two experiments we have shown that Fitts\u2019 Law is capturing a general feature of human movement that produces correlated individual differences and as well we have discovered a degree of specificity such that the strength of the correlated individual differences is inversely related to the magnitude of index of difficulty differences.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"><b>PI<\/b> \u2013 Dr. Howard Zelaznik<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fitts\u2019 Law (JEP, 1954) is the most robust relation in all of motor performance, relating movement time, T, movement distance, D, and target precision, W, in the now famous T = a + bLog2 (2D\/W). \u00a0This law characterizes averaged group behavior. \u00a0We have asked whether this relation can be used to classify individuals as reliably [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-432","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-motor-control","entry","override"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.purdue.edu\/hhs\/hk\/Biomechanics-MotorBehavior\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/432","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.purdue.edu\/hhs\/hk\/Biomechanics-MotorBehavior\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.purdue.edu\/hhs\/hk\/Biomechanics-MotorBehavior\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.purdue.edu\/hhs\/hk\/Biomechanics-MotorBehavior\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.purdue.edu\/hhs\/hk\/Biomechanics-MotorBehavior\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=432"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.purdue.edu\/hhs\/hk\/Biomechanics-MotorBehavior\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/432\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":433,"href":"https:\/\/www.purdue.edu\/hhs\/hk\/Biomechanics-MotorBehavior\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/432\/revisions\/433"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.purdue.edu\/hhs\/hk\/Biomechanics-MotorBehavior\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=432"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.purdue.edu\/hhs\/hk\/Biomechanics-MotorBehavior\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=432"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.purdue.edu\/hhs\/hk\/Biomechanics-MotorBehavior\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=432"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}