Retrieving symbols from a database by their graphic characteristics: Are users consistent?

Journal of Visual Languages and Computing

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 85-107

  Dyson, M C ^a   Box, H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF READING   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 0031068782     PISSN: 1045926X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/jvlc.1996.0029     Document Type: Article

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