Differential effects of target height and width on 2D pointing movement duration and kinematics

Motor Control

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 278-289

  Bohan, Michael ^a,b   Longstaff, Mitchell G ^a   Van Gemmert, Arend W A ^a   Rand, Miya K ^a   Stelmach, George E ^a  

^a ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b WICHITA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Aiming; Fitts' Law; Pointing; Target height

Indexed keywords

ACCELERATION; ACCURACY; ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROL STRATEGY; DECELERATION; HAND MOVEMENT; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; KINEMATICS; NORMAL HUMAN; PHYSICAL PARAMETERS; POINTING MOVEMENT; REACTION TIME; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; TARGET HEIGHT; TARGET WIDTH; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS; VELOCITY; YOUNG ADULT; ARM; BIOMECHANICS; COMPUTER SYSTEM; DEPTH PERCEPTION; MOVEMENT (PHYSIOLOGY); PERCEPTION; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; REFERENCE VALUE; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ACCELERATION; ADULT; ARM; BIOMECHANICS; COMPUTER SYSTEMS; HUMANS; MOVEMENT; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; REACTION TIME; REFERENCE VALUES; SIZE PERCEPTION; SPACE PERCEPTION; TASK PERFORMANCE AND ANALYSIS;

EID: 0041731982     PISSN: 10871640     EISSN: 15432696     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1123/mcj.7.3.278     Document Type: Article

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