Mouse movements of motion-impaired users: a submovement analysis

Hwang, Faustina; Keates, Simeon; Langdon, Patrick; Clarkson, John

Abstract

Understanding human movement is key to improving input devices and interaction techniques. This paper presents a study of mouse movements of motion-impaired users, with an aim to gaining a better understanding of impaired movement. The cursor trajectories of six motion-impaired users and three able-bodied users are studied according to their submovement structure. Several aspects of the movement are studied, including the frequency and duration of pauses between submovements, verification times, the number of submovements, the peak speed of submovements and the accuracy of submovements in two-dimensions. Results include findings that some motion-impaired users pause more often and for longer than able-bodied users, require up to five times more submovements to complete the same task, and exhibit a correlation between error and peak submovement speed that does not exist for able-bodied users.

Citation

Hwang, F., Keates, S., Langdon, P., & Clarkson, J. (2004, October). Mouse movements of motion-impaired users: a submovement analysis. Presented at The 6th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility, Atlanta, GA, USA

• Presentation Conference Type: Conference Paper (published)
• Conference Name: The 6th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility
• Start Date: Oct 18, 2004
• End Date: Oct 20, 2004
• Acceptance Date: Oct 18, 2004
• Publication Date: Oct 18, 2004
• Deposit Date: Jan 31, 2019
• Publisher: Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
• Pages: 102-109
• Book Title: ASSETS 04 : the Sixth International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility
• ISBN: 158113911X
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1145/1028630.1028649
• Keywords: mouse movement, motion-impaired users, submovement analysis, motion-impaired, submovement structure, cursor trajectory, pointing device
• Public URL: http://researchrepository.napier.ac.uk/Output/1497296