# Fitts's law

<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fitts%27s_law>

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## From the page (probably an excerpt, not Jamie's words)

Fitts's law (often cited as Fitts' law) is a descriptive model of human movement primarily used in human–computer interaction and ergonomics. This scientific law predicts that the time required to rapidly move to a target area is a function of the ratio between the distance to the target and the width of the target.[1] Fitts's law is used to model the act of pointing, either by physically touching an object with a hand or finger, or virtually, by pointing to an object on a computer monitor using a pointing device.

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- From Wikipedia: Fitts's law, Predictive model of human movement

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