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Records mouse activity and suggest topics of interest? [closed]

Is there any way to collect users mouse activity in browser? I need this information, so as I can suggest some topics which user might be interested in. I am planning to gather some information over ...
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Mouse scroll wheel should target focus or hover?

I've noticed an inconsistency with controls responding to scroll input. Different OSs (and even different programs within the same OS) behave differently. Here's the scenario:- Imagine you have two ...
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Are there any recent studies of the “Keyboard vs Mouse”-issue?

Back in the late 80's, Apple Human Interface concluded that the mouse is faster than the keyboard, objectively. But also that every test person subjectively thought that the keyboard was faster. ...
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What is the purpose behind mouse acceleration?

Windows XP enables it by default, I don't know about vista or 7, in Mac OS X you have to buy a shareware to remove both mouse acceleration AND accelerated scrolling. Why are those things always ...
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How to inform user that he can use mouse wheel to interact with an object?

On a website I have a map-like gizmo and list-like object. Both has their controls - the map has a google-map-like zoom giozmo and the list has simplified scroll bar. But both can be navigated using ...
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UI design with MINIMUM number of clicks

Project : ASP.NET with C# Client side : JavaScript and jQuery Consider the scenario, I have a number of user to use the software. I will classify them into different groups. Then, I would like to ...
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Should a button become lighter or darker on hover?

We're having a discussion in the office about whether a button should become lighter or darker when a user hovers over it. Here are some examples from the field: Apple "Buy Now" button (Second is ...
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So how big is the mouse pointer?

In the research of creating a design standard for touch applications, the size of the average finger pad comes up as an important figure (1cm x 1cm) But what about the interaction method we have been ...