The impact of control-display gain on user performance in pointing tasks

Human-Computer Interaction

Volumn 23, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 215-250

  Casiez, Géry ^a   Vogel, Daniel ^b   Balakrishnan, Ravin ^b   Cockburn, Andy ^c  

^a UNIV LILLE   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CANTERBURY   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DATA STRUCTURES; FORECASTING; KETONES; LAWS AND LEGISLATION; MOTORS; POWER AMPLIFIERS; SPEED; THREE DIMENSIONAL;

CONSTANT GAIN; SMALL TARGETS; STANDARD DESKTOP;

DATA STORAGE EQUIPMENT;

EID: 51349164084     PISSN: 07370024     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/07370020802278163     Document Type: Article

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