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Providing both physical and perceived affordances using physical games pieces on touch based tablets

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Providing both physical and perceived affordances using physical games pieces on touch based tablets. / Burnett, Daniel; Coulton, Paul; Lewis, Adam.
IE '12 Proceedings of The 8th Australasian Conference on Interactive Entertainment: Playing the System. New York: ACM Press, 2012.

Research output: Contribution in Book/Report/Proceedings - With ISBN/ISSN › Conference contribution/Paper › peer-review

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Burnett, D, Coulton, P & Lewis, A 2012, Providing both physical and perceived affordances using physical games pieces on touch based tablets. in IE '12 Proceedings of The 8th Australasian Conference on Interactive Entertainment: Playing the System. ACM Press, New York. https://doi.org/10.1145/2336727.2336735

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Burnett, D., Coulton, P., & Lewis, A. (2012). Providing both physical and perceived affordances using physical games pieces on touch based tablets. In IE '12 Proceedings of The 8th Australasian Conference on Interactive Entertainment: Playing the System ACM Press. https://doi.org/10.1145/2336727.2336735

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Burnett D, Coulton P, Lewis A. Providing both physical and perceived affordances using physical games pieces on touch based tablets. In IE '12 Proceedings of The 8th Australasian Conference on Interactive Entertainment: Playing the System. New York: ACM Press. 2012 doi: 10.1145/2336727.2336735

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Burnett, Daniel ; Coulton, Paul ; Lewis, Adam. / Providing both physical and perceived affordances using physical games pieces on touch based tablets. IE '12 Proceedings of The 8th Australasian Conference on Interactive Entertainment: Playing the System. New York : ACM Press, 2012.

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