Effect of age and Parkinson's disease on cursor positioning using a mouse

ASSETS 2005 - The Seventh International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 68-75

  Keates, Simeon ^a   Trewin, Shari ^a  

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

Author keywords

Age; Cursor; Cursor positioning tasks; Disability; Mouse; Performance measurement

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH; COMPUTER APPLICATIONS; DISEASES; HANDICAPPED PERSONS; HUMAN ENGINEERING; SOCIAL ASPECTS; USER INTERFACES;

AGE; CURSOR; CURSOR POSITIONING TASKS; DISABILITY; MOUSE; PERFORMANCE MEASUREMENT;

COMPUTER PERIPHERAL EQUIPMENT;

EID: 32344449743     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1090785.1090800     Document Type: Conference Paper

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