The performance of touch screen soft buttons

Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 309-318

  Lee, Seungyon Claire ^a,b   Zhai, Shumin ^a  

^a IBM ALMADEN RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^b GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Buttons; Feedback; Finger; Input; Keyboard; Mobile; Stylus; Tangible interface; Touch screen

Indexed keywords

BUTTONS; FINGER; INPUT; KEYBOARD; MOBILE; STYLUS; TANGIBLE INTERFACES;

EXPERIMENTS; FASTENERS; FEEDBACK; HUMAN ENGINEERING; MOBILE DEVICES; TOUCH SCREENS;

HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION;

EID: 84870166604     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1518701.1518750     Document Type: Conference Paper

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