Barrier pointing: Using physical edges to assist target acquisition on mobile device touch screens

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

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 19-26

  Froehlich, Jon ^a   Wobbrock, Jacob O ^a   Kane, Shaun K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Accessible interfaces; Corners; Edges; Mobile phones; Motor impairments; PDAs; Target acquisition; Touch screens

Indexed keywords

ACCESSIBLE INTERFACES; BARRIER POINTING; MOTOR IMPAIRMENTS; TOUCH SCREENS;

MOBILE DEVICES; PERSONAL DIGITAL ASSISTANTS; TOUCH TONE TELEPHONE SYSTEMS; UBIQUITOUS COMPUTING; USER INTERFACES;

TARGET TRACKING;

EID: 42249108518     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1296843.1296849     Document Type: Conference Paper

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