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

Los Angeles, California, United States

Pages: 360 - 367

Year of Publication: 1998

ISBN:0-201-30987-4

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Teresa L. Roberts

Sun Microsystems, Inc., 901 San Antonio Road, M.S. MPK 16-107, Palo Alto, CA

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SIGCHI: ACM Special Interest Group on Computer-Human Interaction

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ACM Press/Addison-Wesley Publishing Co. New York, NY, USA

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