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4.2 Participants

would have necessitated locating the extra-

Thirty-five subjects participated in the first ex-

choice radio button at a separated remote place

periment: 14 women and 21 men, ranging in age

from the 5-star scale radio buttons, since concep-

from 22 to 73. Thirty-six subjects participated in

tually it cannot be located on a nearby position.

the second experiment: 23 women and 13 men

From the user interaction point of view, the

ranging in age from 20 to 59. All participants

mouse movement to that location would have

were native speakers of English, had an aca-

been either considerably shorter or longer (de-

demic education, and had normal or corrected-to-

pending on its distance from the initial location

normal eye-vision.

of the mouse curser at the beginning of each