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Response time and display rate in human performance with computers

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ACM Computing Surveys (CSUR) archive
Volume 16 , Issue 3 (September 1984) table of contents

Pages: 265 - 285

Year of Publication: 1984

ISSN:0360-0300

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Ben Shneiderman

University of Maryland, College Park

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ACM New York, NY, USA

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