Effect of posture on target acquisition with a trackball and touch screen

Proceedings of the International Conference on Information Technology Interfaces, ITI

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 257-262

  Schedlbauer, Martin J ^a   Pastel, Robert L ^b   Heines, Jesse M ^a  

^a University of Massachusetts Lowell   (United States)

^b Michigan Technological University   (United States)

Author keywords

Completion time predictions; Fitts' law; Human performance modelling; Input device evaluation

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER APPLICATIONS; UBIQUITOUS COMPUTING; USER INTERFACES;

COMPLETION TIME PREDICTIONS; HUMAN PERFORMANCE MODELING; INPUT DEVICE EVALUATION;

TARGET TRACKING;

EID: 41949108221     PISSN: 13301012     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/iti.2006.1708488     Document Type: Conference Paper

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