A mouse adapter for people with hand tremor

IBM Systems Journal

Volumn 44, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 621-628

  Levine, James L ^a   Schappert, Michael A ^a  

^a IBM T J WATSON RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIGITAL FILTERS; HANDICAPPED PERSONS; LOW PASS FILTERS; MICE (COMPUTER PERIPHERALS); USABILITY ENGINEERING; USER INTERFACES;

HAND TREMOR; MOTION SMOOTHING FILTERING; MOUSE ADAPTER;

HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION;

EID: 23744471281     PISSN: 00188670     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1147/sj.443.0621     Document Type: Article

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