The effect of spring stiffness and control gain with an elastic rate control pointing device

Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 1709-1718

  Casiez, Géry ^a   Vogel, Daniel ^b  

^a UNIV LILLE   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Control gain; Elastic; Rate control; Stiffness

Indexed keywords

HUMAN ENGINEERING; IMAGE CODING;

CONTROL GAIN; CONTROLLED EXPERIMENTS; DESIGN GUIDELINES; EASE OF USE; ELASTIC; ELASTIC RATES; ELASTIC STIFFNESS; OPTIMUM CONTROLS; POINTING DEVICES; RATE CONTROL; SPRING STIFFNESS; USER FEEDBACKS;

STIFFNESS;

EID: 57649189041     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1357054.1357321     Document Type: Conference Paper

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