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CHI '98: Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

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https://doi.org/10.1145/274644.274684

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CHI '98: Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

January 1998

650 pages

ISBN:0201309874

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Michael E. Atwood
Bell Atlantic Science and Technology
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Clare-Marie Karat
IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, NY
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Arnold Lund
US West Advanced Technologies
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Joëlle Coutaz
CLIPS-IMAG
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IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, NY

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