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Cognitive overheads and prostheses: some issues in evaluating hypertexts

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Conference on Hypertext and Hypermedia archive
Proceedings of the third annual ACM conference on Hypertext table of contents

San Antonio, Texas, United States

Pages: 1 - 12

Year of Publication: 1991

ISBN:0-89791-461-9

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Patricia Wright

Medical Research Council Applied Psychology Unit, 15 Chaucer Road, Cambridge CB2 2EF, England

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SIGCHI: ACM Special Interest Group on Computer-Human Interaction
SIGIR: ACM Special Interest Group on Information Retrieval
SIGLINK: Hypertext, Hypermedia, and Web
SIGWEB: ACM Special Interest Group on Hypertext, Hypermedia, and Web
SIGGROUP: ACM Special Interest Group on Supporting Group Work

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ACM New York, NY, USA

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