Dwell

Using a dwell program is a way to "click" the mouse and is especially useful for use with mouse emulators, like joysticks and head or eye tracking.

Recently in working with a young adult who has some significant issues with touching a touch screen or clicking a mouse to make choices (it seems to be a psychological issue along the lines of learned helplessness or desire to avoid displeasing others) a dwell option seemed to be a possible way to circumvent the issue.

There are various free options for using dwell to replace a mouse click that can be downloaded:

• Point N Click
• Sensory Software's Dwell Clicker
• ClickNoMo (for Mac)Back to site
• Mouse Tool 

There are also a variety of paid dwell programs, sometimes these products have extra features to steady the mouse or contain mouse movement:

• Dragger and Dragger Kid
• Gus! Dwell Cursor $125 
• Magic Cursor  $196
• Smart Click $119

Finally a number of software programs have built in dwell settings (some programs disable dwell for everything but head and mouse tracking, limiting usefulness):

• Smart Nav (head tracker)
• Clicker 5
• Darwin's Basic Skills
• Windows XP OSK free
• Click N Type free
• The Grid
• Tobii, Dynavox and PRC all have some version of dwell on their devices (but check first it may be only for eye tracking)