Notebook input devices put to the age test: The usability of trackpoint and touchpad for middle-aged adults

Ergonomics

Volumn 50, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 426-445

  Armbruster C ^a   Sutter, C ^a   Ziefle, M ^a  

^a RWTH AACHEN UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ERGONOMICS; INTERACTIVE DEVICES; LAPTOP COMPUTERS; MAN MACHINE SYSTEMS;

MOBILE INPUT DEVICE; POINT-CLICK TASK; POINT-DRAG-DROP TASK; TOUCHPAD; TRACKPOINT;

HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION;

ACCURACY; ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; COMPUTER; COMPUTER INPUT DEVICE; COMPUTER MOUSE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; NORMAL HUMAN; TOUCHPAD; TRACKPOINT; TRAINING; VELOCITY;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; COMPUTER PERIPHERALS; COMPUTERS, HANDHELD; FEMALE; HUMAN ENGINEERING; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PILOT PROJECTS; TASK PERFORMANCE AND ANALYSIS; USER-COMPUTER INTERFACE;

EID: 34250712837     PISSN: 00140139     EISSN: 13665847     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00140130601127885     Document Type: Article

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