Drag-and-Drop versus Point-and-Click Mouse Interaction Styles for Children

ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 1-33

  Inkpen, Kori M ^a  

^a DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

children; computers in education; drag and drop; electronic games; Experimentation; gender; Human Factors; input techniques; interaction styles; Interface design; Measurement; mouse interaction; Performance; point and click

Indexed keywords

EID: 84857066982     PISSN: 10730516     EISSN: 15577325     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/371127.371146     Document Type: Article

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