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A mobile geo-wand enabling gesture based POI search an user generated directional POI photography

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A mobile geo-wand enabling gesture based POI search an user generated directional POI photography. / Zhang, Lei; Coulton, Paul.
ACE '09 Proceedings of the International Conference on Advances in Computer Enterntainment Technology. New York: ACM, 2009. p. 392-395.

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Zhang, L & Coulton, P 2009, A mobile geo-wand enabling gesture based POI search an user generated directional POI photography. in ACE '09 Proceedings of the International Conference on Advances in Computer Enterntainment Technology. ACM, New York, pp. 392-395, 5th International Conference on Advances in Computer Enterntainment Technology , Athens, Greece, 29/10/09. https://doi.org/10.1145/1690388.1690469

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Zhang, L., & Coulton, P. (2009). A mobile geo-wand enabling gesture based POI search an user generated directional POI photography. In ACE '09 Proceedings of the International Conference on Advances in Computer Enterntainment Technology (pp. 392-395). ACM. https://doi.org/10.1145/1690388.1690469

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Zhang L, Coulton P. A mobile geo-wand enabling gesture based POI search an user generated directional POI photography. In ACE '09 Proceedings of the International Conference on Advances in Computer Enterntainment Technology. New York: ACM. 2009. p. 392-395 doi: 10.1145/1690388.1690469

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Zhang, Lei ; Coulton, Paul. / A mobile geo-wand enabling gesture based POI search an user generated directional POI photography. ACE '09 Proceedings of the International Conference on Advances in Computer Enterntainment Technology. New York : ACM, 2009. pp. 392-395

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