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Proceedings of the third international ACM conference on Assistive technologies table of contents

Marina del Rey, California, United States

Pages: 92 - 99

Year of Publication: 1998

ISBN:1-58113-020-1

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Chetz Colwell	Department of Psychology, University of Hertfordshire, Hatfield, Hertfordshire AL10 9AB UK
Helen Petrie	Department of Psychology, University of Hertfordshire, Hatfield, Hertfordshire AL10 9AB UK
Diana Kornbrot	Department of Psychology, University of Hertfordshire, Hatfield, Hertfordshire AL10 9AB UK
Andrew Hardwick	British Telecommunications plc, Research Laboratories, Martlesham Heath, Ipswich, Suffolk IP5 7RE UK
Stephen Furner	British Telecommunications plc, Research Laboratories, Martlesham Heath, Ipswich, Suffolk IP5 7RE UK

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SIGCAPH: ACM SIGCAPH Computers and the Physically Handicapped

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ACM New York, NY, USA

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