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Pointing device
A trackball is a pointing device consisting of a ball held by a socket containing sensors to detect a rotation of the ball about two axes—like an upside-down ball mouse with an exposed protruding ball. Users roll the ball to position the on-screen pointer, using their thumb, fingers, or the palm of the hand, while using the fingertips to press the buttons. Wikipedia →
🧭 Start here: a 6-step reading path
- Read the overview: TrackballA 5-minute orientation
- Skim a recent paper: Using a Low‐Cost Trackball System to Assess Repeatability of Movement in Small AnimalsInfluential work since 2022
- Pick up a classic book: PC Hardware in a NutshellThe most-reprinted book on the subject
- Read the landmark paper: Mechanisms underlying phonotactic steering in the cricketGryllus bimaculatusrevealed with a fast trackball systemCited 76 times
- Go sideways: Input deviceA closely related topic
- Go sideways: Scroll wheelA closely related topic
📖 Definitions
Noun A pointing device consisting of a ball housed in a socket
🗂️ The subject at a glance
🏆 Landmark papers (most cited)
Mechanisms underlying phonotactic steering in the cricketGryllus bimaculatusrevealed with a fast trackball system
Assisting Two Children with Multiple Disabilities and Minimal Motor Skills Control Environmental Stimuli with Thumb Poke Through a Trackball
The search for intelligent quantitation in echocardiography: “Eyeball,” “trackball” and beyond
Insects modify their behaviour depending on the feedback sensor used when walking on a trackball in virtual-reality
Improved efficiency through I- and E-feedback: a trackball with contextual force feedback
Effects of Key Size and Spacing on the Completion Time and Accuracy of Input Tasks on Soft Keypads Using Trackball and Touch Input
The effects of platform motion and target orientation on the performance of trackball manipulation
Assessing mouse, trackball, touchscreen and leap motion in ship vibration conditions: A comparison of task performance, upper limb muscle activity and perceived fatigue and usability
🆕 Influential since 2022
Using a Low‐Cost Trackball System to Assess Repeatability of Movement in Small Animals
Still room for improvement in traditional 3D interaction: selecting the fixed axis in the virtual trackball
A mobile trackball system for studying phonotaxis of insects in the field
Meningkatkan Kemampuan Motorik Halus Pada Anak Usia Dini Melalui Permainan Trackball Di Kelompok A RA PERSIS 55 Pangatikan Kabupaten Garut
The spheroidal trackball: generalising the fixed trackball for virtual camera navigation
📚 Books worth reading
PC Hardware in a NutshellRobert Bruce Thompson, Barbara Fritchman Thompson · 2000
Input devicesSol Sherr · 1988
Discovering Computers 2018Misty E. Vermaat, Susan Sebok · 2017- 📕TRACKBALL FOR ARKENSTONE STATION [SYL OSD EQUIPMENT] [CAS OSD EQUIPMENT]
- 📕ADA Mouse, touch pad, trackball
- 📕An evaluation of a trackball as an ergonomic intervention in the workplaceBarbara Margaret Haward
- 📕Application of information processing theoryDiana C. Fong · 1990
Programmieren für den BlackBerryKlaus Löwenhagen · 2012
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