Computer use on moving trains: Which pointing device?

Contemporary Ergonomics 2007

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 255-260

  Mansfield, Neil ^a   Arora, Yajur ^b   Rimell, Andrew ^a  

^a LOUGHBOROUGH UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY DELHI   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER USE; FITTS' LAW; LABORATORY STUDIES; MOVING TRAIN; MULTI-AXIS MOTION; POINTING DEVICES; POINTING TASKS; PORTABLE COMPUTERS; TOUCHPAD; WHOLE-BODY VIBRATIONS;

ERGONOMICS; LAPTOP COMPUTERS; MICROCOMPUTERS;

MAMMALS;

EID: 77249115495     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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