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Cursor relocation techniques to help older adults find 'lost' cursors

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Nic Hollinworth,

Faustina HwangAuthors Info & Claims

CHI '11: Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

Pages 863 - 866

https://doi.org/10.1145/1978942.1979068

Published: 07 May 2011 Publication History

Abstract

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.

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Cursor relocation techniques to help older adults find 'lost' cursors
1. Human-centered computing
  1. Human computer interaction (HCI)
    1. Interaction devices
      1. Touch screens
    2. Interaction paradigms

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CHI '11: Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

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DOI:10.1145/1978942

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Microsoft Research
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Mcgill MKehoe AFreeman EBrewster S(2020)Expanding the Bounds of Seated Virtual WorkspacesACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction10.1145/338095927:3(1-40)Online publication date: 31-May-2020
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3380959
Liu CZhao R(2018)Find the ‘Lost’ Cursor: A Comparative Experiment of Visually Enhanced Cursor TechniquesIntelligent Computing Theories and Application10.1007/978-3-319-95933-7_11(85-92)Online publication date: 6-Jul-2018
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