Negative Inertia: A Dynamic Pointing Function

Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 1995, Pages 316-317

  Barrett, R C ^a   Selker, E J ^a   Rutledge, J D ^b   Olyha, R S ^b  

^a IBM ALMADEN RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^b IBM T J WATSON RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

index of performance; isometric joystick; pointing devices; transfer functions

Indexed keywords

MAMMALS; CLOSED LOOP CONTROL SYSTEMS; CONTROL THEORY; DYNAMICS; MICE (COMPUTER PERIPHERALS); PERFORMANCE; TRANSFER FUNCTIONS; USER INTERFACES;

APPLIED FORCES; INDEXES OF PERFORMANCE; ISOMETRIC JOYSTICK; LOSS OF CONTROL; MOTOR SKILLS; PERFORMANCE; POINTING DEVICES; POINTING TASKS; USER PERCEPTIONS; USER TESTS;

TRANSFER FUNCTIONS; INTERACTIVE DEVICES;

DERIVATIVE CONTROL; INDEX OF PERFORMANCE; ISOMETRIC JOYSTICK; POINTING DEVICES;

EID: 0029201439     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/223355.223692     Document Type: Conference Paper

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