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The “Silk Cursor”: investigating transparency for 3D target acquisition

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Proceedings of the SIGCHI conference on Human factors in computing systems: celebrating interdependence table of contents

Boston, Massachusetts, United States

Pages: 459 - 464

Year of Publication: 1994

ISBN:0-89791-650-6

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Shumin Zhai	Department of Industrial Engineering, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, M5S 1A4, Canada
William Buxton	University of Toronto & Xerox PARC, c/o CSRI, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, M5S 1A4, Canada
Paul Milgram	ATR Communication System Research Laboratories, Kyoto, Japan and Department of Industrial Engineering, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, M5S 1A4, Canada

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SIGCAPH: ACM SIGCAPH Computers and the Physically Handicapped
SIGGRAPH: ACM Special Interest Group on Computer Graphics and Interactive Techniques
SIGGROUP: ACM Special Interest Group on Supporting Group Work
SIGCHI: ACM Special Interest Group on Computer-Human Interaction

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ACM New York, NY, USA

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