Enabling devices, empowering people: The design and evaluation of Trackball EdgeWrite

Disability and Rehabilitation: Assistive Technology

Volumn 3, Issue 1-2, 2008, Pages 35-56

  Wobbrock, Jacob O ^a   Myers, Brad A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

area pointing; gestures; goal crossing; Text entry; text input; unistrokes; word completion; word prediction; word level stroking

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER; COMPUTER PROGRAM; DISABLED PERSON; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; HUMAN; INSTRUMENTATION; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MICROCOMPUTER; MIDDLE AGED; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; SELF HELP; SPINAL CORD INJURY; TASK PERFORMANCE; THEORETICAL MODEL;

COMPUTER PERIPHERALS; COMPUTERS, HANDHELD; DISABLED PERSONS; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, THEORETICAL; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; SELF-HELP DEVICES; SOFTWARE; SPINAL CORD INJURIES; TASK PERFORMANCE AND ANALYSIS;

EID: 44449150449     PISSN: 17483107     EISSN: 17483115     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/17483100701409227     Document Type: Article

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