Increasing the accessibility of pen-based technology: an investigation of age-related target acquisition difficulties

  • Authors:
  • Karyn Moffatt

  • Affiliations:
  • University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada

  • Venue:
  • ACM SIGACCESS Accessibility and Computing - ASSETS 2007 doctoral consortium
  • Year:
  • 2007

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Abstract

This paper describes the author's dissertation research on improving the accessibility of pen-based technology. The first step for this research was to gather information on the underlying causes of target acquisition difficulty. To meet this goal, a controlled laboratory study was conducted, which uncovered three sources of difficulty: slipping, drifting, and missing just below. The remaining work will be to address these difficulties by implementing new interaction techniques and experimentally evaluating their effectiveness.