[IxDA Discuss] Anticipatory Gestures

[Josh Viney]

Keith - good point. When I wrote the email, I wasn't thinking so much about
the mouse movement as I was about the failed click (or double-click) when
the expected link wasn't under the pointer. I was thinking of anticipation
as a symptom of expectation. The user's expectations are built up over a
series of interactions w/ the interface to the point that the user is making
anticipatory gestures only to be disappointed when the interface fails to
meet the expectations it set for itself.

I do remember an old web site that asked visitors to think of a number, and
promised it could guess the number. The site had the numbers along one side
of the screen, and it relied on the visitors mouse-scanning behavior to
guess the number. The number would appear in a small box on the opposite
side of the screen. It seemed like magic at the time.

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Josh Viney
EastMedia Group
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