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A comparison of the use of text and multimedia interfaces to provide information to the elderly

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Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems archive
Proceedings of the SIGCHI conference on Human factors in computing systems: celebrating interdependence table of contents

Boston, Massachusetts, United States

Pages: 65 - 71

Year of Publication: 1994

ISBN:0-89791-650-6

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Virginia Z. Ogozalek

Computer Science Department, Worcester State College, Worcester, Massachusetts

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SIGCAPH: ACM SIGCAPH Computers and the Physically Handicapped
SIGGRAPH: ACM Special Interest Group on Computer Graphics and Interactive Techniques
SIGGROUP: ACM Special Interest Group on Supporting Group Work
SIGCHI: ACM Special Interest Group on Computer-Human Interaction

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ACM New York, NY, USA

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