Goal crossing with mice and trackballs for people with motor impairments: Performance, submovements, and design directions

ACM Transactions on Accessible Computing

Volumn 1, Issue 1, 2008, Pages

  Wobbrock, Jacob O ^a   Gajos, Krzysztof Z ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b University of Washington   (United States)

Author keywords

Area pointing; Fitts'law; Goal crossing; Motor impairments; Mouse pointing; Movement microstructure; Path analysis; Steering law; Submovements; Target acquisition; Throughput

Indexed keywords

FITTS' LAW; GOAL CROSSING; MOTOR IMPAIRMENTS; PATH ANALYSIS; POINTING MOVEMENT; STEERING LAW; SUBMOVEMENTS; TARGET ACQUISITION;

AUTOMOBILE EXHIBITIONS; DESIGN; ERGONOMICS; GRAPHICAL USER INTERFACES; INTERFACES (COMPUTER); MERGERS AND ACQUISITIONS; MICROSTRUCTURE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RESEARCH; TARGETS;

COMPUTER CONTROL SYSTEMS;

EID: 77953969417     PISSN: 19367228     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/1361203.1361207     Document Type: Conference Paper

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