Interacting with notebook input devices: An analysis of motor performance and users' expertise

Human Factors

Volumn 47, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 169-187

  Sutter, Christine ^a   Ziefle, Martina ^a,b  

^a RWTH AACHEN UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL RWTH AACHEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CURSOR CONTROL; JOYSTICK; TOCHPAD DEVICES;

LAPTOP COMPUTERS; OPTIMIZATION; PERFORMANCE;

ERGONOMICS;

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; COMPUTER; DEVICE; ERGONOMICS; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; NORMAL HUMAN;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; COMPUTER PERIPHERALS; COMPUTERS, HANDHELD; CONSUMER SATISFACTION; HUMANS; MAN-MACHINE SYSTEMS; MOTION PERCEPTION; PROBABILITY; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; REACTION TIME; SOFTWARE DESIGN; TASK PERFORMANCE AND ANALYSIS; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 17844392318     PISSN: 00187208     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1518/0018720053653893     Document Type: Article

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