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Transparent layered user interfaces: an evaluation of a display design to enhance focused and divided attention

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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

Denver, Colorado, United States

Pages: 317 - 324

Year of Publication: 1995

ISBN:0-201-84705-1

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Beverly L. Harrison	Dept. of Industrial Engineering, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, M5S 1A4 and Alias Research Ltd., 110 Richmond St. East, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, M5C 1P1
Hiroshi Ishii	NTT Human Interface Lab, 1-2356 Take, Yokosuka-Shi, Kanagawa, 238-03 Japan
Kim J. Vicente	Dept. of Industrial Engineering, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, M5S 1A4
William A. S. Buxton	Alias Research Ltd., 110 Richmond St. East, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, M5C 1P1 and Dept. of Computer Science, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, M5S 1A4

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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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