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Input
- using Pointing Devices

Foot Mouse

Description

Similar to a Mouse but “[i]t’s a two-part input device: one for cursor control (“slipper”), the other for mouse clicks and shortcuts (the pedal)” (Disabled World 2018)

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Bibliography

Garcia, F. P., & Vu, K.-P. L. (2011). Effectiveness of hand- and foot-operated secondary input devices for word-processing tasks before and after training. Computers in Human Behavior27(1), 285–295. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chb.2010.08.006

Hu, X., Wang, J., Gao, W., Yu, C., & Shi, Y. (2021). FootUI: Assisting people with upper body motor impairments to use smartphones with foot gestures on the bed. Extended Abstracts of the 2021 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. https://doi.org/10.1145/3411763.3451782

Minakata, K., Hansen, J. P., MacKenzie, I. S., Bækgaard, P., & Rajanna, V. (2019). Pointing by gaze, head, and foot in a head-mounted display. Proceedings of the 11th ACM Symposium on Eye Tracking Research & Applications. https://doi.org/10.1145/3317956.3318150

Velloso, E., Schmidt, D., Alexander, J., Gellersen, H., & Bulling, A. (2015). The feet in human–computer interaction. ACM Computing Surveys, 48(2), 1–35. https://doi.org/10.1145/2816455