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Ultra-tangibles: creating movable tangible objects on interactive tables

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Ultra-tangibles: creating movable tangible objects on interactive tables. / Marshall, Mark; Carter, Thomas; Alexander, Jason et al.
CHI '12 Proceedings of the 2012 ACM annual conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. New York: ACM, 2012. p. 2185-2188 (CHI '12).

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Marshall, M, Carter, T, Alexander, J & Subramanian, S 2012, Ultra-tangibles: creating movable tangible objects on interactive tables. in CHI '12 Proceedings of the 2012 ACM annual conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. CHI '12, ACM, New York, pp. 2185-2188. https://doi.org/10.1145/2208276.2208370

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Marshall, M., Carter, T., Alexander, J., & Subramanian, S. (2012). Ultra-tangibles: creating movable tangible objects on interactive tables. In CHI '12 Proceedings of the 2012 ACM annual conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (pp. 2185-2188). (CHI '12). ACM. https://doi.org/10.1145/2208276.2208370

Vancouver

Marshall M, Carter T, Alexander J, Subramanian S. Ultra-tangibles: creating movable tangible objects on interactive tables. In CHI '12 Proceedings of the 2012 ACM annual conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. New York: ACM. 2012. p. 2185-2188. (CHI '12). doi: 10.1145/2208276.2208370

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Marshall, Mark ; Carter, Thomas ; Alexander, Jason et al. / Ultra-tangibles: creating movable tangible objects on interactive tables. CHI '12 Proceedings of the 2012 ACM annual conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. New York : ACM, 2012. pp. 2185-2188 (CHI '12).

Bibtex

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