Don’t click?
During some late night browsing I came across www.dontclick.it. A website that wants to be navigated without clicking any mouse button. (So I guess you can get rid of your new Mighty Mouse again.)
If you find out where on the site the different methods for navigating without mouse clicks are explained (and manage to navigate there), this will also give you an impression of the kind of problems eye tracking people run into when they are experimenting with gaze enabled interfaces. The basic problem is the “Midas Touch†phenomenon: if the simple approach is chosen, in which looking at a control activates it, the user will cause a lot of unintended “activity†on the interface. So the selection of a control has to be separated from its activation.
You can find out about options for doing so on the website and the article linked above. In any case, thinking of it, it might be a good idea keeping your Mighty Mouse…
PS: Regarding today’s previous post, maybe a zero click interface would be the ultimate goal from a certain viewpoint…
