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Abstract | ||
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Older adult computer users often lose track of the mouse cursor and so resort to methods such as mouse shaking or searching the screen to find the cursor again. Hence, this paper describes how a standard optical mouse was modified to include a touch sensor, activated by releasing and touching the mouse, which automatically centers the mouse cursor to the screen, potentially making it easier to find a 'lost' cursor. Six older adult computer users and six younger computer users were asked to compare the touch sensitive mouse with cursor centering with two alternative techniques for locating the mouse cursor: manually shaking the mouse and using the Windows sonar facility. The time taken to click on a target following a distractor task was recorded, and results show that centering the mouse was the fastest to use, with a 35% improvement over shaking the mouse. Five out of six older participants ranked the touch sensitive mouse with cursor centering as the easiest to use. |
Year | DOI | Venue |
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2011 | 10.1145/1978942.1979068 | CHI |
Keywords | Field | DocType |
distractor task,younger computer user,standard optical mouse,older adult computer user,touch sensor,touch sensitive mouse,mouse cursor,cursor relocation technique,older adult,alternative technique,older participant,windows sonar facility | Relocation,Computer mouse,Computer science,Pointer (user interface),Optical mouse,Human–computer interaction,Footmouse,Cursor (user interface) | Conference |
Citations | PageRank | References |
3 | 0.44 | 8 |
Authors | ||
2 | ||
Name | Order | Citations | PageRank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nic Hollinworth | 1 | 29 | 4.96 |
| Faustina Hwang | 2 | 206 | 24.70 |