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Making computers easier for older adults to use: area cursors and sticky icons

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

Atlanta, Georgia, United States

Pages: 266 - 271

Year of Publication: 1997

ISBN:0-89791-802-9

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Aileen Worden	Psychology, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia
Nef Walker	Psychology, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia
Krishna Bharat	GVR, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia
Scott Hudson	GVR, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia

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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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