Towards a Playful User Interface for Home Entertainment Systems

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Towards a Playful User Interface for Home Entertainment Systems. / Block, Florian; Schmidt, Albrecht; Villar, Nicolas et al.
Proceedings of the European Symposium on Ambient Intelligence 2004. Springer-Verlag, 2004. p. 207-217.

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Block, F, Schmidt, A, Villar, N & Gellersen, H 2004, Towards a Playful User Interface for Home Entertainment Systems. in Proceedings of the European Symposium on Ambient Intelligence 2004. Springer-Verlag, pp. 207-217, Proceedings of the European Symposium on Ambient Intelligence 2004, Eindhoven, The Netherlands, 8/11/04. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-30473-9_20

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Block, F., Schmidt, A., Villar, N., & Gellersen, H. (2004). Towards a Playful User Interface for Home Entertainment Systems. In Proceedings of the European Symposium on Ambient Intelligence 2004 (pp. 207-217). Springer-Verlag,. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-30473-9_20

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Block F, Schmidt A, Villar N, Gellersen H. Towards a Playful User Interface for Home Entertainment Systems. In Proceedings of the European Symposium on Ambient Intelligence 2004. Springer-Verlag,. 2004. p. 207-217 doi: 10.1007/978-3-540-30473-9_20

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Block, Florian ; Schmidt, Albrecht ; Villar, Nicolas et al. / Towards a Playful User Interface for Home Entertainment Systems. Proceedings of the European Symposium on Ambient Intelligence 2004. Springer-Verlag, 2004. pp. 207-217

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