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

This paper describes the author's dissertation research on improving the accessibility of penbased 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.

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2008
• Where: CHI
• Authors: Karyn Moffatt
• Keywords: CHI 2008, Controlled Laboratory Study, Human Computer Interaction, Target Acquisition Difficulty