Pointassist: Helping four year olds point with ease

Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Interaction Design and Children, IDC 2008

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 202-209

  Hourcade, Juan Pablo ^a   Perry, Keith B ^a   Sharma, Aditya ^a  

^a University of Iowa   (United States)

Author keywords

Algorithm; Children; Human computer interaction; Mouse; Pointing tasks; Sub movements

Indexed keywords

CHILDREN; MOUSE CURSOR; POINTING DEVICES;

KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT; STANDBY POWER SYSTEMS;

HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION;

EID: 70450237941     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1463689.1463757     Document Type: Conference Paper

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