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Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States

Pages: 285 - 292

Year of Publication: 1998

ISBN:0-89791-983-1

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John Collins	Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Minnesota
Ben Youngdahl	Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Minnesota
Scott Jamison	Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Minnesota
Bamshad Mobasher	Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Minnesota
Maria Gini	Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Minnesota

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IEEE : Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
SIGGRAPH: ACM Special Interest Group on Computer Graphics and Interactive Techniques
SIGART: ACM Special Interest Group on Artificial Intelligence
SIGCHI: ACM Special Interest Group on Computer-Human Interaction

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ACM New York, NY, USA

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