Effect of age and Parkinson's disease on cursor positioning using a mouse

Keates, Simeon; Trewin, Shari

Abstract

Point-and-click tasks are known to present difficulties to users with physical impairments, particularly motor- or vision-based, and to older adults. This paper presents the results of a study to quantify and understand the effects of age and impairment on the ability to perform such tasks. Results from four separate user groups are presented and compared using metrics that describe the features of the movements made. Distinct differences in behaviour between all of the user groups are observed and the reasons for those differences are discussed.

Citation

Keates, S., & Trewin, S. (2005, October). Effect of age and Parkinson's disease on cursor positioning using a mouse. Presented at 7th international ACM SIGACCESS conference on Computers and accessibility Assets '05, Baltimore, MD, USA

• Presentation Conference Type: Conference Paper (published)
• Conference Name: 7th international ACM SIGACCESS conference on Computers and accessibility Assets '05
• Start Date: Oct 9, 2005
• End Date: Oct 12, 2005
• Publication Date: Oct 9, 2005
• Deposit Date: Jan 30, 2019
• Publisher: Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
• Pages: 68-75
• Book Title: Proceedings of the 7th international ACM SIGACCESS conference on Computers and accessibility Assets '05
• ISBN: 1595931597
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1145/1090785.1090800
• Keywords: Age, Parkinson's Disease, cursor positioning, mouse
• Public URL: http://researchrepository.napier.ac.uk/Output/1497285