Design and user evaluation of a joystick-operated full-screen magnifier

Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2003, Pages 25-32

  Kurniawan, Sri ^a   King, Alasdair ^a   Evans, David Gareth ^a   Blenkhorn, Paul ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Joystick; Screen magnifier; Visually impaired users

Indexed keywords

ERGONOMICS; INFORMATION ANALYSIS; NETWORK PROTOCOLS; USER INTERFACES; HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION; HUMAN ENGINEERING;

SCREEN MAGNIFIERS; COMPUTER USERS; DEVELOPMENT CYCLE; FIRST CYCLE; INFORMATION SEEKING; JOYSTICK; POINTING DEVICES; SCREEN MAGNIFIER; TEXT DOCUMENT; THINKING ALOUD; USER EVALUATIONS; VISUALLY IMPAIRED; VISUALLY-IMPAIRED USERS;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE; INFORMATION USE;

EID: 0038375710     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/642611.642618     Document Type: Conference Paper

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