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

Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Pages: 142 - 149

Year of Publication: 1996

ISBN:0-89791-777-4

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Rudolph P. Darken	Naval Research Laboratory, Washington, D.C.
John L. Sibert	Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, The George Washington University, Washington, D.C.

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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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