The Fitts Law Filter Bubble: A Response to Heiko Drewes
Résumé
This paper assumes that the reader is familiar with Fitts' law and how it is used by HCI researchers [9, 18, 21], as well as rudimentary concepts in information theory. For a primer on information-theoretic concepts and their application to modeling aimed movement, the reader is referred to our work [15]. In a recent paper [5], Heiko Drewes argues that there is a filter bubble or echo chamber in HCI surrounding Fitts' law. Put briefly, Heiko Drewes' discourse is that:
1. researchers in HCI have upheld the narrative that Fitts "did it wrong" and that they "did it right".
2. that Fitts' analogy for ID is based on geometry and not Shannon's Theorem 17, 3. that Shannon's Theorem 17 does not apply because the channel analogy "does not work", 4. that Mackenzie's theory for the ID is incorrect, 5. that there exists an echo chamber, or filter bubble, in the HCI community when it comes to research on Fitts' law, 6. that the HCI community should research Fitts' law applications but not the law itself.
Heiko Drewes submitted his work to the Alt.Chi forum, the track for "alternative" papers at the flagship HCI conference "CHI". It has an open review process, but these reviews are accessible only during the reviewing phase. I have been asked about my review, which I attach as an appendix to this document. Other reviews were made by other people, but they are not accessible anymore as far as I know.
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