A mischief of mice: Examining children's performance in single display groupware systems with 1 to 32 mice

Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 2157-2166

  Moraveji, Neema ^a   Inkpen, Kori ^b   Cutrell, Ed ^b   Balakrishnan, Ravin ^c  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b MICROSOFT RESEARCH   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Children; Large displays; Mice; Single display groupware

Indexed keywords

CHILDREN; CLASSROOM INTERACTION; EDUCATIONAL APPLICATIONS; LARGE DISPLAYS; MICE; ON-SCREEN KEYBOARD; POINTING TASKS; SINGLE DISPLAY GROUPWARE;

HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION; HUMAN ENGINEERING;

MAMMALS;

EID: 77950910698     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1518701.1519030     Document Type: Conference Paper

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