The angle mouse: Target-agnostic dynamic gain adjustment based on angular deviation

Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 1401-1410

  Wobbrock, Jacob O ^a   Fogarty, James ^a   Liu, Shih Yen ^a   Kimuro, Shunichi ^a   Harada, Susumu ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Control display gain; Cursor control; Dynamic gain adjustment; Mouse pointing; Pointing facilitation; Pointing techniques; Target acquisition

Indexed keywords

ANGULAR DEVIATIONS; CONTROL-DISPLAY GAIN; CURSOR CONTROL; DYNAMIC GAINS; GAIN ADAPTATION; MOTOR IMPAIRMENTS; TARGET ACQUISITION; TARGET LOCATION;

BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH; HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION; HUMAN ENGINEERING; USER INTERFACES;

MAMMALS;

EID: 84892472842     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1518701.1518912     Document Type: Conference Paper

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