Swabbing touchscreen input for users with hand tremor
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Swabbing: touchscreen-based input technique for people with hand tremor.
Interacting with touchscreen computer systems is a challenging task for elderly tremor patients, because of a lower input accuracy caused by their tremor symptoms. Previous observations by Mertens et al. suggested that continuous movements are able to lower these symptoms. In this paper Swabbing, a input method for touchscreen systems based on such motions, is presented. A user study will show ...
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