Understanding pointing problems in real world computing environments

ASSETS'08: The 10th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 43-50

  Hurst, Amy ^a   Mankoff, Jennifer ^a   Hudson, Scott E ^a  

^a Carnegie Mellon University   (United States)

Author keywords

Data collection in the wild; Motor impairments; Pointing performance

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER USE; COMPUTING ENVIRONMENTS; DATA COLLECTION IN THE WILD; LABORATORY SESSIONS; MOTOR IMPAIRMENTS; MOVEMENT TRAJECTORIES; PERFORMANCE BASED; POINTING PERFORMANCE;

DATA ACQUISITION; MOTORS;

REAL TIME SYSTEMS;

EID: 62949187404     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1414471.1414481     Document Type: Conference Paper

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