Paper reading #33: Enhanced Area Cursors: Reducing Fine Pointing Demands

Reference Info:

Leah Findlater

UIST’10, October 3–6, 2010, New York, New York, USA

 

Summary

This paper talked about different ways to aid those users who have impairments and difficulties using the conventional computer mouse. Two different methods were discussed in the paper that would help users in this area: Click-and-Cross and Visual-Motor-Magnifier. The Visual-Motor-Magnifier enables user to enlarge area of click in order to better see and control their mouse. This allows for users to click on the intended button. This reduces the amount of fine pointing.

 

Discussion

I thought this was an interesting alternative to the constraints of clicking with the mouse.. It is interesting that they had two major methods of doing this in order to adjust to different users and their needs.