Human-Computer Interaction – INTERACT 2015
Lecture notes in computer sciencePublished 1 January 2015Open access
Julio Abascal, Simone Diniz Junqueira Barbosa, Mirko Fetter, Tom Gross, Philippe Palanque, Marco Winckler
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The ebook Human-Computer Interaction INTERACT 2015: 15th IFIP TC 13 International Conference, Bamberg, Germany, September 14-18, 2015, Proceedings, Part III (Lecture Notes in Computer Science) in pdf form is presented.
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