Accuracy measures for evaluating computer pointing devices

Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2001, Pages 9-16

  Scott MacKenzie, I ^a   Kauppinen, Tatu ^b   Silfverberg, Miika ^b  

^a YORK UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b NOKIA RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Computer pointing devices; Cursor positioning tasks; Performance evaluation; Performance measurement

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY MEASURES; CAUSAL RELATIONSHIPS; COMPUTATIONAL TECHNIQUE; DIRECTION CHANGE; ERROR RATE; MOVEMENT BEHAVIOUR; MOVEMENT ERROR; MOVEMENT OFFSETS; MOVEMENT TIME; ORTHOGONAL DIRECTIONS; PERFORMANCE EVALUATION; PERFORMANCE MEASURE; PERFORMANCE MEASUREMENTS; POINTING DEVICES; POINTING TASKS; POSITIONING TASKS; THEORETICAL BASIS;

PSYCHOLOGY COMPUTING;

HUMAN ENGINEERING;

EID: 0035033606     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/365024.365028     Document Type: Conference Paper

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