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Mouse movements of motion-impaired users: a submovement analysis

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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.

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      cover image ACM Conferences
      Assets '04: Proceedings of the 6th international ACM SIGACCESS conference on Computers and accessibility
      October 2004
      202 pages
      ISBN:158113911X
      DOI:10.1145/1028630
      • cover image ACM SIGACCESS Accessibility and Computing
        ACM SIGACCESS Accessibility and Computing Just Accepted
        Sept. 2003 - Jan. 2004
        192 pages
        ISSN:1558-2337
        EISSN:1558-1187
        DOI:10.1145/1029014
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