Affiliation:
1. University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin
Abstract
The discrete movement task employed in this study consisted of moving a cursor from the center of a computer display screen to circular targets located 24.4 and 110.9 mm in eight radial directions. The target diameters were 2.7, 8.1, and 24.2 mm. Performance measures included movement time, cursor path distance, and root-mean-square cursor deviation. Ten subjects with no movement disabilities were studied using a conventional mouse and a lightweight ultrasonic headcontrolled computer input pointing device. Average movement time was 306 ms greater (63%) for the head-controlled pointer than for the mouse. The effect of direction on movement time for the mouse was relatively small compared with the head-controlled pointer, which was lowest at 90 and 270 deg, corresponding to head extension and head flexion, respectively. Average path distance and root mean square displacement was lowest at off-diagonal directions (0, 90, 180, and 270 deg). This methodology was also shown to be useful for evaluating performance using an alternative head-controlled input device for two subjects having cerebral palsy, and measured subtle performance improvements after providing a disabled subject with lateral torso support.
Subject
Behavioral Neuroscience,Applied Psychology,Human Factors and Ergonomics
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