Exploratory evaluation of a planar foot-operated cursor-positioning device

Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings

Volumn Part F130202, Issue , 1988, Pages 13-18

  Pearson, Glenn ^a   Weiser, Mark ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^b PALO ALTO RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Cursor positiong; Handicapped AIDS; Haptic input devices; Motor interface devices; Response time evaluation; Target selection; Workstation peripherals

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER WORKSTATIONS; HAPTIC INTERFACES; HUMAN ENGINEERING; HUMAN REHABILITATION EQUIPMENT; MAMMALS;

CURSOR POSITIONG; EXPLORATORY STUDIES; INPUT DEVICES; INTERFACE DEVICES; POSITIONING DEVICES; RELATED FUNCTIONS; SMALL TARGETS; TARGET SELECTION;

RESPONSE TIME (COMPUTER SYSTEMS);

EID: 0343694977     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/57167.57169     Document Type: Conference Paper

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