Movement time for motion-impaired users assisted by force-feedback: Effects of movement amplitude, target width, and gravity well width

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Volumn 4, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 85-95

  Hwang, Faustina ^a   Keates, Simeon ^b   Langdon, Patrick ^a   Clarkson, P John ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

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

Author keywords

Fitts' law; Force feedback; Haptic; Motion impaired

Indexed keywords

EID: 31044448307     PISSN: 16155289     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10209-005-0114-5     Document Type: Article

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