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A comparison of input devices in element pointing and dragging tasks

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I. Scott MacKenzie,

Abigail Sellen,

William A. S. BuxtonAuthors Info & Claims

CHI '91: Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

Pages 161 - 166

https://doi.org/10.1145/108844.108868

Published: 01 March 1991 Publication History

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