Evaluation of an Automatic Pointing Assistive Program in Improving Computer Target Pointing Efficiency

Abstract:

The latest research adopted software technology to redesign mouse drive, and proposed an Automatic Pointing Assistive Program (APAP) to evaluate whether two children with developmental disabilities and people with disabilities would be able to improve their pointing efficiency. The APAP is designed to move a cursor to a target instantaneously once the cursor nears a target (inside the activation area). However, the evaluation of latest researches focused only on people with disabilities. This work exhaustively examined the cursor-capturing functions in a target-positioning task with APAP. The APAP functions are expected to help aged users and novices in operating a mouse efficiently and easily.

• Periodical: Advanced Materials Research (Volume 548)
• Pages: 828-832
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/AMR.548.828
• Online since: July 2012
• Authors: Ching Tien Shih, Ching Hsiang Shih, Nai Ren Guo
• Keywords: Automatic Pointing Assistive Program, Cursor-Capturing Function, Mouse Driver

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