A comparison of area pointing and goal crossing for people with and without motor impairments

ASSETS'07: Proceedings of the Ninth International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 3-10

  Wobbrock, Jacob O ^a   Gajos, Krzysztof Z ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b University of Washington   (United States)

Author keywords

Area pointing; Fitts' law; Goal crossing; Mouse; Steering law; Target acquisition; Throughput; Trackball

Indexed keywords

AREA POINTING; GOAL CROSSING; STEERING LAWS; TARGET ACQUISITION; TRACKBALL;

DATA ACQUISITION; HANDICAPPED PERSONS; MICE (COMPUTER PERIPHERALS); USER INTERFACES;

HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION;

EID: 42149108575     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1296843.1296847     Document Type: Conference Paper

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