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Aesthetics and apparent usability: empirically assessing cultural and methodological issues

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Proceedings of the SIGCHI conference on Human factors in computing systems table of contents

Atlanta, Georgia, United States

Pages: 115 - 122

Year of Publication: 1997

ISBN:0-89791-802-9

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Noam Tractinsky

Industrial Engineering and Management, Ben Gurion University of the Negev, P.O. Box 653, Beer Sheva, 84105, Israel

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SIGCHI: ACM Special Interest Group on Computer-Human Interaction

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ACM New York, NY, USA

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