Looking to cinema for direction: Incorporating motion into on-screen presentations of technical information

Technical Communication

Volumn 52, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 138-155

  Gillette, David ^a  

^a CALIFORNIA POLYTECHNIC STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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