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TouchPoints: an exertion game with strategy

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TouchPoints: an exertion game with strategy. / Heshimian, Yasaman; Wang, Ding.
CHI PLAY '14 Proceedings of the first ACM SIGCHI annual symposium on Computer-human interaction in play. New York: ACM, 2014. p. 419-420.

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Heshimian, Y & Wang, D 2014, TouchPoints: an exertion game with strategy. in CHI PLAY '14 Proceedings of the first ACM SIGCHI annual symposium on Computer-human interaction in play. ACM, New York, pp. 419-420. https://doi.org/10.1145/2658537.2661313

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Heshimian, Y., & Wang, D. (2014). TouchPoints: an exertion game with strategy. In CHI PLAY '14 Proceedings of the first ACM SIGCHI annual symposium on Computer-human interaction in play (pp. 419-420). ACM. https://doi.org/10.1145/2658537.2661313

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Heshimian Y, Wang D. TouchPoints: an exertion game with strategy. In CHI PLAY '14 Proceedings of the first ACM SIGCHI annual symposium on Computer-human interaction in play. New York: ACM. 2014. p. 419-420 doi: 10.1145/2658537.2661313

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Heshimian, Yasaman ; Wang, Ding. / TouchPoints : an exertion game with strategy. CHI PLAY '14 Proceedings of the first ACM SIGCHI annual symposium on Computer-human interaction in play. New York : ACM, 2014. pp. 419-420

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