PointAssist for older adults: Analyzing sub-movement characteristics to aid in pointing tasks

Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings

Volumn 2, Issue , 2010, Pages 1115-1124

  Hourcade, Juan Pablo ^a   Nguyen, Christopher M ^b   Perry, Keith B ^a   Denburg, Natalie L ^b  

^a University of Iowa   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

Author keywords

accuracy; assistive technologies; older adults; pointing

Indexed keywords

ASSISTIVE TECHNOLOGY; MOTOR DEFICITS; MOVEMENT CHARACTERISTICS; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL; OLDER ADULTS; VISUAL APPEARANCE; WINDOWS XP; YOUNG CHILDREN;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE; HUMAN ENGINEERING; VISUALIZATION;

USER INTERFACES;

EID: 77954025096     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1753326.1753494     Document Type: Conference Paper

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