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Mouse movements of motion-impaired users: a submovement analysis
  Understanding human movement is key to improving input devices and interaction techniques. This paper presents a study of mouse movements of motion-impaired users, with an aim to gaining a better understanding of impaired movement. The cursor trajectories of six motion-impaired users and three able-bodied users are studied according to their submovement structure. Several aspects of the movement are studied, including the frequency and duration of pauses between submovements, verification times, the number of submovements, the peak speed of submovements and the accuracy of submovements in two-dimensions. Results include findings that some motion-impaired users pause more often and for longer than able-bodied users, require up to five times more submovements to complete the same task, and exhibit a correlation between error and peak submovement speed that does not exist for able-bodied users.

  • Date:

    18 October 2004

  • Publication Status:

    Published

  • Publisher

    ACM

  • DOI:

    10.1145/1028630.1028649

  • Library of Congress:

    T Technology

  • Dewey Decimal Classification:

    004 Data processing & computer science

  • Funders:

    Historic Funder (pre-Worktribe)

Citation

Hwang, F., Keates, S., Langdon, P., & Clarkson, J. (2004). Mouse movements of motion-impaired users: a submovement analysis. In J. A. Jacko, & A. Sears (Eds.), ASSETS 04 : the Sixth International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility, 102-109. https://doi.org/10.1145/1028630.1028649

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Keywords

mouse movement, motion-impaired users, submovement analysis, motion-impaired, submovement structure, cursor trajectory, pointing device

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