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Stretching the rubber sheet: a metaphor for viewing large layouts on small screens

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Manojit Sarkar,

Scott S. Snibbe,

Oren J. Tversky,

Steven P. ReissAuthors Info & Claims

UIST '93: Proceedings of the 6th annual ACM symposium on User interface software and technology

Pages 81 - 91

https://doi.org/10.1145/168642.168650

Published: 01 December 1993 Publication History

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UIST '93: Proceedings of the 6th annual ACM symposium on User interface software and technology

December 1993

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DOI:10.1145/168642

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