Enhanced area cursors: Reducing fine pointing demands for people with motor impairments

UIST 2010 - 23rd ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 153-162

  Findlater, Leah ^a   Jansen, Alex ^a   Shinohara, Kristen ^a   Dixon, Morgan ^a   Kamb, Peter ^a   Rakita, Joshua ^a   Wobbrock, Jacob O ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Accessibility; Area cursors; Bubble cursor; Goal crossing; Magnification; Motor space; Visual space

Indexed keywords

ACCESSIBILITY; AREA CURSOR; BUBBLE CURSOR; GOAL CROSSING; MAGNIFICATION; VISUAL SPACE;

USER INTERFACES;

EID: 78649616550     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1866029.1866055     Document Type: Conference Paper

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