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The “prince” technique: Fitts' law and selection using area cursors

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CHI '95: Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

Pages 273 - 279

https://doi.org/10.1145/223904.223939

Published: 01 May 1995 Publication History

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The “prince” technique: Fitts' law and selection using area cursors
1. Computing methodologies
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