Aging and input devices: Voice recognition performance is slower yet more acceptable than a lightpen

Proceedings of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 167-171

  Jastrzembski, Tiffany ^a   Charness, Neil ^a   Holley, Patricia ^a   Feddon, Jeffrey ^a  

^a FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SOFTWARE; MICE (COMPUTER PERIPHERALS); MICROCOMPUTERS; OPTIMIZATION; SPEECH ANALYSIS; UBIQUITOUS COMPUTING;

INPUT DEVICES; LIGHTPENS; POSITIONING DEVICES; SPEECH RECOGNITION SOFTWARE;

SPEECH RECOGNITION;

EID: 34547331374     PISSN: 10711813     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1177/154193120504900204     Document Type: Conference Paper

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