Design proposals to assist older adults in using a computer mouse

IEICE Transactions on Information and Systems

Volumn E86-D, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 141-145

  Iwase, Hirokazu ^a   Murata, Atsuo ^b  

^a KANAGAWA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b HIROSHIMA CITY UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Aging; Elderly person; Fitts' law; PC mouse; Performance model

Indexed keywords

ERROR ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MICE (COMPUTER PERIPHERALS);

LOGARITHMIC FUNCTION;

SYSTEMS ANALYSIS;

EID: 0042977472     PISSN: 09168532     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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