Empirical Study on the Improvement of the Usability of a Touch Panel for the Elderly - Comparison of Usability between a Touch Panel and a Mouse

IEICE Transactions on Information and Systems

Volumn E86-D, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 1134-1138

  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

MICE (COMPUTER PERIPHERALS); SIGNAL INTERFERENCE; VISUAL COMMUNICATION;

TOUCH PANELS;

USER INTERFACES;

EID: 0141937978     PISSN: 09168532     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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