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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: 125 - 130

Year of Publication: 1991

ISBN:0-89791-383-3

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Jürgen Koenemann	Department of Psychology, Rutgers - The State University of New Jersey, New Brunswick, NJ
Scott P. Robertson	Department of Psychology, Rutgers - The State University of New Jersey, New Brunswick, NJ

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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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