Differences in pointing task performance between preschool children and adults using mice

ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction

Volumn 11, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 357-386

  Hourcade, Juan Pablo ^a,b   Bederson, Benjamin B ^a   Druin, Allison ^a   Guimbretière, François ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^b U S CENSUS BUREAU   (United States)

^c University of Maryland ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Accuracy; Children; Fitts' law; Human computer interaction; Mouse; Target reentry

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; CHILDREN; FITTS' LAW; MOUSE; TARGET REENTRY;

BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH; DATA PROCESSING; DIGITAL LIBRARIES; INPUT OUTPUT PROGRAMS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PROBLEM SOLVING;

HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION;

EID: 10844249430     PISSN: 10730516     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/1035575.1035577     Document Type: Article

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