Slow and steady wins the race? Three-year-old children and pointing device use

Behaviour and Information Technology

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 57-64

  Strommen, Erik F ^a   Revelle, Glenda L ^a   Medoff, Lisa M ^a   Razavi, Setarah ^a  

^a Children's Television Workshop   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER APPLICATIONS; GRAPHICAL USER INTERFACES; HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION; INTERACTIVE COMPUTER SYSTEMS; INTERACTIVE DEVICES; MAN MACHINE SYSTEMS; PERFORMANCE;

CURSOR CONTROL; POINTING DEVICES; THREE YEAR OLD CHILDREN; TRACKBALL;

USER INTERFACES;

EID: 0029754129     PISSN: 0144929X     EISSN: 13623001     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/014492996120409     Document Type: Article

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