Considerations on efficient touch interfaces - How display size influences the performance in an applied pointing task

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 4557 LNCS, Issue PART 1, 2007, Pages 136-143

  Oehl, Michael ^a   Sutter, Christine ^b   Ziefle, Martina ^b  

^a LEUPHANA UNIVERSITY OF LÜNEBURG   (Germany)

^b RWTH AACHEN UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Display size; Pointing performance; Small screen device; Task difficulty; Touch input

Indexed keywords

DISPLAY DEVICES; ERGONOMICS; OBJECT RECOGNITION; OPTIMIZATION; USABILITY ENGINEERING;

POINTING PERFORMANCE; SMALL SCREEN DEVICE; TOUCH INPUT;

USER INTERFACES;

EID: 38349169063     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-73345-4_17     Document Type: Conference Paper

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