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Proceedings of the SIGCHI conference on Human factors in computing systems: Reaching through technology table of contents

New Orleans, Louisiana, United States

Pages: 79 - 84

Year of Publication: 1991

ISBN:0-89791-383-3

Author

William W. Gaver

Rank Xerox Cambridge EuroPARC, 61 Regent Street, Cambridge CB2 1AB, U.K.

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Human Factors Soc : Human Factors Society
IEEE-CS : Computer Society
SIGCHI: ACM Special Interest Group on Computer-Human Interaction

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ACM New York, NY, USA

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