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Half-QWERTY: a one-handed keyboard facilitating skill transfer from QWERTY

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Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems archive
Proceedings of the INTERACT '93 and CHI '93 conference on Human factors in computing systems table of contents

Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Pages: 88 - 94

Year of Publication: 1993

ISBN:0-89791-575-5

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Edgar Matias	The Matias Corporation, 178 Thistledown Boulevard, Rexdale, Ontario, Canada M9V 1K1
I. Scott MacKenzie	Dept. of Computing and Information Science, University of Guelph, Guelph, Ontario, Canada N1G 2W1
William Buxton	University of Toronto & Xerox PARC, c/o Computer Systems Research Institute, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada M5S 1A4

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NGI : Dutch Computer Soc - Nederlands Genoostschapvoor Informatica
Human Factors Soc : Human Factors Society
IEEE-CS : Computer Society
IFIP : International Federation for Information Processing
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
Austrian Comp Soc : Austrian Computer Society
SIGCHI: ACM Special Interest Group on Computer-Human Interaction

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ACM New York, NY, USA

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