Does mouse size affect study and evaluation results?: A study comparing preschool children's performance with small and regular-sized mice

Proceedings of the 6th international Conference on Interaction Design And Children, IDC 2007

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 109-116

  Hourcade, Juan Pablo ^a   Crowther, Michael ^b   Hunt, Lisa ^b  

^a University of Iowa   (United States)

^b Waterford Research Institute   (United States)

Author keywords

Accuracy; Children; Efficiency; Experience; Fitts' law; Human computer interaction; Maturation; Mouse; Mouse size; Target reentry; Training

Indexed keywords

ENGINEERING RESEARCH; HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION; PROBLEM SOLVING; SOFTWARE DESIGN; STATISTICAL METHODS;

FITTS' LAW; MOUSE SIZE; SOFTWARE EVALUATIONS; TARGET REENTRY;

MICE (COMPUTER PERIPHERALS);

EID: 41149109711     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1297277.1297300     Document Type: Conference Paper

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