Scale effects in steering law tasks

Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2001, Pages 1-8

  Accot, Johnny ^a   Zhai, Shumin ^b  

^a Centre D' Etudes de la Navigation Aerienne   (France)

^b IBM ALMADEN RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Arm; C D ratio; Control gain; Device size; Elbow; Finger; Hand; Input device; Joints; Limb; Motor control; Movement scale; Steering law; Wrist

Indexed keywords

ARM; C-D RATIO; CONTROL GAINS; DEVICE SIZES; ELBOW; FINGER; HAND; INPUT DEVICES; LIMB; MOTOR CONTROL; MOVEMENT SCALE; STEERING LAW; WRIST;

HUMAN ENGINEERING; JOINTS (ANATOMY); JOINTS (STRUCTURAL COMPONENTS);

KNOBS;

EID: 0035034613     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/365024.365027     Document Type: Conference Paper

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