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:
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)
