The papers included in this collection are the results of work conducted at the prior FirstPerson, Inc., the group which later produced the interactive browser, HotJava.

The five papers report on experiments conducted:

1. to determine which of several candidate user interfaces for panning us most usable and intuitive;
2. to determine the smallest touchpad that subjects could accurately use to point to objects on a TV-sized video display;
3. to determine the effects of various factors on users' ability to hit an animated character (a sprite) moving across the TV screen, using a touchpad separate from the display;
4. to determine how accurately subjects could use a touch-sensitive remote control to hit targets on a TV screen; and
5. to determine which of several candidate pointing devices is most usable for controlling interactive TV applications.

Because FirstPerson, Inc. is no longer an active business unit, and because of its close association with the Labs, this collection was printed as a courtesy by Sun Microsystems Laboratories to document the results of these experiments.

^*FirstPerson, Inc. existed from 1993 to 1994.