Performance differences in the fingers, wrist, and forearm in computer input control

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Performance differences in the fingers, wrist, and forearm in computer input control

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Atlanta, Georgia, United States

Pages: 303 - 310

Year of Publication: 1997

ISBN:0-89791-802-9

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Ravin Balakrishnan	Dept. of Computer Science, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada M5S 1A1 and Alias/Wavefront, 110 Richmond Street East, Toronto, Ontario, Canada M5C 1P1
I. Scott MacKenzie	Dept. of Computing & Information Science, University of Guelph, Guelph, Ontario, Canada N1G 2W1

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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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