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MixFab: a mixed-reality environment for personal fabrication

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MixFab: a mixed-reality environment for personal fabrication. / Weichel, Christian; Lau, Manfred; Kim, David et al.
CHI '14 Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. New York: ACM, 2014. p. 3855-3864.

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Weichel, C, Lau, M, Kim, D, Villar, N & Gellersen, H 2014, MixFab: a mixed-reality environment for personal fabrication. in CHI '14 Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. ACM, New York, pp. 3855-3864. https://doi.org/10.1145/2556288.2557090

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Weichel, C., Lau, M., Kim, D., Villar, N., & Gellersen, H. (2014). MixFab: a mixed-reality environment for personal fabrication. In CHI '14 Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (pp. 3855-3864). ACM. https://doi.org/10.1145/2556288.2557090

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Weichel C, Lau M, Kim D, Villar N, Gellersen H. MixFab: a mixed-reality environment for personal fabrication. In CHI '14 Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. New York: ACM. 2014. p. 3855-3864 doi: 10.1145/2556288.2557090

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Weichel, Christian ; Lau, Manfred ; Kim, David et al. / MixFab: a mixed-reality environment for personal fabrication. CHI '14 Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. New York : ACM, 2014. pp. 3855-3864

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