International Business Machines Corporation

Caroline Church

Dominic John Storey

Mark Peter Frost

John Frederick Wesley

Lakshman S B Yatawara

Lakshman Sarathchandra Bandara Yatawara

A tap associated with an active area on a user interface of a touchscreen device is received at a first time. The active area is associated with an origination time. It is determined that a period of time between the origination time and the first time is within a specified period of time. In response to the determining, an action associated with the active area is not performed.

User interface tap selection on touchscreen device

A tool for detecting potential impairment in an electronic device. The tool classifies the user input into various categories and determines some measurement, typically a rate of input per user or per time, for determining average use statistics of the electronic device. The tool then determines if a calculated measurement based on user inputs deviates from the average use statistics past some threshold level of deviation. In response to surpassing the threshold level of deviation, the tool identifies the electronic device as potentially impaired.

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Romsey, United Kingdom

Caroline Church