Forward/up directional incompatibilities during cursor placement within graphical user interfaces

Ergonomics

Volumn 48, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 722-735

  Phillips, James G ^a   Triggs, Thomas J ^a   Meehan, James W ^b  

^a MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b DEFENCE SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY ORGANISATION   (Australia)

Author keywords

Directional compatibility; Graphical user interface; Graphics tablet; Kinematics

Indexed keywords

ASPECT RATIO; CONTROL EQUIPMENT; MICE (COMPUTER PERIPHERALS); MOTION ESTIMATION; TARGETS; TRAJECTORIES;

CURSOR CONTROL DEVICES; CURSOR MOTION; DIRECTIONAL INCOMPATIBILITIES; VISUAL FIELDS;

GRAPHICAL USER INTERFACES;

ACCELERATION; ACCURACY; ADULT; ARTICLE; COMPUTER INTERFACE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECELERATION; DIRECTIONAL VISION; FEMALE; HAND MOVEMENT; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMAGE DISPLAY; KINEMATICS; LATENT PERIOD; MALE; MOTOR CONTROL; MOVEMENT PERCEPTION; REACTION TIME; SPATIAL ORIENTATION; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL FIELD;

ADULT; COMPUTER GRAPHICS; EFFICIENCY; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FEMALE; HUMAN ENGINEERING; HUMANS; MALE; REACTION TIME; SPACE PERCEPTION; SPATIAL BEHAVIOR; USER-COMPUTER INTERFACE;

EID: 21844439222     PISSN: 00140139     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00140130500095795     Document Type: Article

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