Empirical study on improvement of usability for touch-panel for elderly - Comparison of usability between touch-panel and mouse

Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man and Cybernetics

Volumn 1, Issue , 2002, Pages 252-257

  Iwase, Hirokazu ^a   Murata, Atsuo ^b  

^a KANAGAWA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b HIROSHIMA CITY UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Aging; Elderly person; Fitts' law; Performance model; Touch panel

Indexed keywords

DATABASE SYSTEMS; INTERFACES (COMPUTER); MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PERSONAL COMPUTERS;

TOUCH PANELS;

MICE (COMPUTER PERIPHERALS);

EID: 0037669068     PISSN: 08843627     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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