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Understanding how to improve the accessibility of computers through cursor control studies When the cursor entered the well, a spring force pulled the mouse toward the center of the target until the target was selected. The cursor movements were recorded and analyzed using the cursor measures previously described. Although the experiment described is suitable for demonstrating the use of the cursor measures for interpreting cursor movement for motion-impaired users, it is insufficient to provide the sole basis for more accessible computers. www.cl.cam.ac.uk /~pr10/publications/chi02   (1206 words)

Cursor - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia A cursor is a moving marker or pointer that indicates a position. Especially in the plural, Cursores 'runners', it was the name of certain functions, originally messengers. Cursor was also the name of an early computer-based "magazine" that was distributed on cassette in the late 1970s. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Cursor   (189 words)

Cursor (computers) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia In computing, a cursor is an indicator used to show the position on a computer monitor or other display device that will respond to input. In most command line interfaces, the cursor is an underscore or solid rectangle, which may be flashing or steady, indicating where text will be placed when entered. While a computer process is performing tasks and cannot accept user input, a wait cursor (an hourglass in Windows and many other systems, watch in classic Mac OS, or spinning ball in Mac OS X) is displayed when the mouse cursor is in the corresponding window. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Cursor_(computers)   (526 words)

Teach me computers - lesson 2 - input devices User response is the user's answer to the computer's question, such as choosing OK, YES, or NO or by typing in text, for example the name of a file. The cursor on the screen follows the motion of the mouse. That is, to achieve the same cursor movement onscreen takes less movement of the finger on the glidepad than it does mouse movement. teachmecomputers.tripod.com /lesson_2.htm   (726 words)

Understanding how to improve the accessibility of computers through cursor control studies The results showed significant improvement in throughput for all users with force-feedback and the cursor control measures were effective in capturing the differences between the conditions. When the cursor entered the well, a spring force pulled the mouse toward the center of the target until the target was selected. The cursor movements were recorded and analyzed using the cursor measures previously described. rehab-www.eng.cam.ac.uk /papers/lsk12/chi2002   (1206 words)

CHI 97: Making Computers Easier for Older Adults to Use: Area Cursors and Sticky Icons The area cursor in our study was designed to have two hot spots - a single point hot spot, as in a conventional cursor, and a larger hot spot, of the same size as the area cursor. The pointer cursor appeared similar to the area cursor but the cross-hair did not have a border and the activation area was always at the center of the cross-hair (see Figure 1). The computer recorded mouse positions for the horizontal and vertical planes at 5 ms intervals until the mouse button was released. sigchi.org /chi97/proceedings/paper/nw.htm   (4202 words)

Cursor Plus "Cursor Plus" extends the editor even further, adding functions to move the cursor by one word, change the case of an entire screen line, delete the remainder of the line, and more. Single words can be changed by cursoring to the beginning of the word, changing the case of the rest of the line, cursoring to the next word, and changing the case again. It begins at the current cursor position and changes the high bit of all of the text to the end of the physical line, thus, changing inverted letters (blue on white) to normal letters (white on blue), and back. www.atarimagazines.com /compute/issue94/P62_1_CURSOR_PLUS.php   (650 words)

Fact Sheet on Computer Access Computer hardware and software can speak for non-verbal persons; read for persons with blindness or low vision; assist individuals with learning disabilities to more easily perform cognitive activities; allow persons who are deaf to communicate by phone; activate environmental controls for persons with paralysis; and much more. The "sticky" comes from the fact that these programs tell the computer to extend the function time of a keystroke beyond the moment in which the key is actually depressed. Visual beep indicators alert individuals with hearing disabilities to computer "beeps" produced when something is wrong with the computer, when a function of the computer or a program cannot be performed or when the computer generates a question or message for the user by means of a visual message on screen. www.abledata.com /abledata_docs/compute.htm   (1602 words)

Computer Vocabulary Quiz The information produced by the computer, as a result of processing, that is sent to devices that display, print, or store it. The physical equipment of a computer, such as the screen/monitor, the keyboard, the Central Processing Unit, and the storage devices. Key on a keyboard that is used to move the cursor directly to a tab stop. www.watauga.k12.nc.us /br/Quiz_1.htm   (625 words)

Cursor: Spring 2003   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-09) Computing Services strives to facilitate and support the educational and research goals of the campus community through the development and delivery of computing and communications services. Computers that generate large amounts of traffic are primarily FTP (File Transfer Protocol) servers, Web servers with high-volume content (such as videos, high-resolution pictures, or other large files), computers running Peer-to-Peer file-sharing applications (such as Gnutella or Kazaa) and multi-player gaming applications. Computers regularly in the top 50 are located all over campus and are owned or administrated by faculty, staff and students alike. www.cmu.edu /computing/cursor/2003_spring/2003_spring.htm   (3344 words)

CEA: Switched On! Computers - Input Devices A keyboard is equipped with letter keys like a typewriter, plus a variety of special controls, such as cursor directional keys, page up/down to scroll documents, and "home" to move a cursor to the top of a document. Laptops and notebook computers come with miniature track buttons or scratch pads, though there is often a port that allows connection of a mouse. Images can be downloaded into a computer by a cable connecting the two devices, or by placing the camera's floppy into the computer. www.ce.org /Press/650.asp   (656 words)

Computer News Many people keep more than one type of toolbar on their computers to assist them in making things a bit faster. Another way to delete an Internet address from the address bar of your computer is to align your cursor with the last letter of the address and then press the backspace key until the address is erased from right to left. If you would like to delete all Internet addresses that are showing within the browser history, say, after you are finished using your computer and ready to power down, then you can clear the history of the Internet Explorer browser of all Internet addresses showing pages that you have visited during your computer session. www.articledashboard.com /computers   (2104 words)

Grasping more of the vi editor Frequently the software used for a remote log in to your main computer is set to emulate a different terminal type, or the software is incorrectly configured so that you lose some of your keys. A $ moves the cursor to the end of the current line, and ^ moves it to the beginning of the current line. The w character will move the cursor to the beginning of the next word, and the b character will move it to the beginning of the current word if the cursor is within a word, or the previous word if it not. www.kingcomputerservices.com /unix_101/grasping_the_vi_editor.htm   (1728 words)

Performance Tuning SQL Server Database Cursors This is because cursors use the tempdb for temporary storage of cursor data. LOCAL cursors are more secure as they cannot be referenced outside the procedure or trigger unless they are passed back to the calling procedure or trigger, or by using an output parameter. By not closing or deallocating the cursor until the whole process is finished, a fair amount of time will be saved, as the cursor and the data contained will already be defined, ready for you to use. www.sql-server-performance.com /cursors.asp   (1615 words)

CEA: Switched On! Computers - Portable Computers But computers now exist that are as small as pocket calculators and as powerful as many large desktops were just a few years ago. A laptop's cursor control is either a track button or a "scratch pad" - a flat surface you run your finger across to move the cursor. The primary differences between notebook computers and hand-held computers are not their size but the way the cursor is manipulated and the operating software they run on. www.ce.org /Press/651.asp   (1134 words)

Xanga Web Search In computing, a cursor is an indicator used to show the position on a computer... This property specifies the type of cursor to be displayed for the pointing device. Cursor was also the name of an early computer-based "magazine" that was... search.xanga.com /searchweb.aspx?q=cursor   (254 words)

LiveScience.com - Brain Power: Mind Control of External Devices   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-09) A person moving mouse cursor on a computer screen is an insignificant accomplishment. The patients had some difficulty at first, but each was able to control the cursor with their thoughts and with over 70 percent accuracy after a few minutes. They trained the monkey with a joystick that moved a cursor on a screen, and, once the monkey had mastered that task, the robotic limb was added to the feedback loop. www.livescience.com /humanbiology/050317_brain_interface.html   (1587 words)

Would you like to participate in Computers for Learning?   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-09) Older computers, like the ones frequently donated through Computers for Learning effectively run smaller programs, like web browsers, word processing programs, spreadsheets, etc. Accepting the donation of an older computer can free newer computers to run the more complex programs. Also, be wary of receiving older donated computers with the idea of upgrading the hardware. Unless you are a very experienced computer expert, upgrading the hardware on a machine can be a costly and time-consuming process without any guarantee of success. www.computers.fed.gov /public/schools.asp   (826 words)

What is cursor? - A Word Definition From the Webopedia Computer Dictionary If you are running a graphics-based program, the cursor may appear as a small arrow, called a pointer. (The terms cursor and pointer are often used interchangeably.) In text processing, a cursor sometimes appears as an I-beam pointer, a special type of pointer that always appears between two characters. Note also that programs that support a mouse may use two cursors: a text cursor, which indicates where characters from the keyboard will be entered, and a mouse cursor for selecting items with the mouse. www.webopedia.com /TERM/C/cursor.html   (209 words)

Create Your Own Cursor Be careful not to use the background color, or the cursor won't be visible. As written, the cursor is a thin underline. The cursor is Player Two, and its data is stored in Page Six, to avoid reserving an additional chunk of RAM for Player/Missile memory. www.atarimagazines.com /v3n7/Create_Cursor.html   (509 words)

Activecursor - what you see is what you feel. From a sensorial point of view, desktop computers are extremely limited machines with hardly any physicality to it. The cursor is displaced as if there are real forces working on the mouse. Due to these cursor displacements a hole becomes an easily accessible part of the screen whereas a hill area is hard to access. www.koert.com /work/activecursor   (702 words)

[No title] Instead, a static cursor will be restored that shows a single frame of the animated cursor. This is commonly the case when the cursor passes over a text or image link on a Web page. The cursor changes into an hourglass image while the system is launching a requested program, or while a Web page is loading after the user has clicked on a link. www.lycos.com /info/cursor--users.html   (337 words)

A Brief History of Computing   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-09) Fourth generation computers were developed, using a microprocessor to locate much of the computer's processing abilities on a single (small) chip. The first such personal computer was the MITS Altair 8800, released at the end of 1974, but it was followed by computers such as the Apple I and II, Commodore PET and eventually the original IBM PC in 1981. Before this the only computers connected were at Universities and other large organisations that could afford to hire cables between each other to transfer the data over - but now anyone could use the internet and it evolved into the 'Information Superhighway' that we know and (possibly) love today. www.ox.compsoc.net /~swhite/history   (2242 words)

[No title] Input/Output Options A good first step in looking into computer equipment is to focus on whether someone needs help inputting information into a computer, or receiving output from a computer, or both. General Input Interfaces These devices/software provide an alternative means of controlling the cursor on the computer screen. Voice Input Computers and cursor movement can also be controlled by using one's voice. www.abledata.com /abledata_docs/compute.txt   (1565 words)

Keyboard Basics Although a computer keyboard is based on the old typewriter layout, there are some major differences in the ways that keys are used. This key is used to enter commands or to move the cursor to the beginning of the next line. Some computer keyboards have a light or indicator that shows when the Caps Lock is on and when it is off. www.aarp.org /computers-howto/Articles/a2002-07-15-keyboardbasics   (1802 words)

Vi: A Unix text editor Insert mode "drops" the cursor at a specific point in the buffer, allowing you to insert text. If the error is in a different line than the cursor, press ESC to return to edit mode and then reposition the cursor at the error, and press i to get back to insert mode. Colon mode moves the cursor to the command line, allowing you to invoke program commands such as write to file (:w) and quit (:q). www.indiana.edu /~uitspubs/b104   (1659 words)

php-deluxe.net - description Vi vi is a Mode (computer interface) editor and assigns different meanings to buttons or keystrokes depending on the active editing mode. In command mode, multiple editing operations can be performed in a row with simple keystrokes, without having to hold down the,, or other special modifier keys. More complicated editing operations are strung together from simple primitives (for example, dw to delete a word, or c2fa to change text from the cursor until finding the second a). www.php-deluxe.net /encyclopedia,index.page,vi.htm   (867 words)

Cursor Control Also, you can specify a cursor position that might be occluded by windows higher up in the display stack. The cursor is actually a displayable character taken from the currently active font. Attempting to turn the cursor on when no font is active results in an error. docs.hp.com /en/B2355-90097/ch02s04.html   (279 words)

Documentation The cursor should be located underneath your finger or pen when you touch the screen. Adjust the cursor movement on the horizontal axis. Thereafter, the cursor is positioned above your finger or pen by a distance equal to the offset distance. support.dell.com /support/edocs/monitors/E153FPTc/English/touchwr.htm   (6304 words)

[No title] There is no need to worry about setting the cursor back because when the routine goes out of scope the class will destroy itself and the cursor will be back to normal. When you have a command that lasts more than a second or two, you'd better change the mouse cursor to an hourglass, until the command is done. When you press the second one, the busy cursor is displayed briefly, and when you press the third one, the busy cursor is displayed for half a second. www.lycos.com /info/cursor--miscellaneous.html?page=2   (319 words)

Holland Computers - Elyria - Lorain Ohio Think of us as your technology solutions provider, from computer products and integration, to remote managed services and websites. Holland Computers gives you the support of a worldwide technology solutions company, with the personal touch and responsiveness of your own IT staff. Cursor flaw gives Vista security a fl eye www.hollandcomputers.com   (171 words)

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