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The alphaslider: a compact and rapid selector

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CHI '94: Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

Pages 365 - 371

https://doi.org/10.1145/191666.191790

Published: 24 April 1994 Publication History

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DOI:10.1145/191666

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